A reimagined musical score for The Song of Ceylon (1934), Basil Wright’s landmark documentary, this live performance at the Rio Cinema sets contemporary electronic music against the film’s meticulously composed colonial gaze, placing modern sound in direct tension with images of early 20th-Century Ceylon: Kandyan drumming and dance by N. Ukkuva and R.W.G. Surambe, railway lines carving through mountains, plantation labour, coastal livelihoods, and cycles of ritual and festivity. Electronic musicians Asvajit Boyle and Nigel Perera, alongside several other musicians, respond to these scenes with a newly composed sonic landscape—one that resists illustration and instead introduces hints of friction, dissonance, and temporal rupture. Originally produced by John Grierson under the patronage of the Ceylon Tea Board, the film stands as a carefully constructed artefact of imperial observation and mercantile ambition. Nearly 90 years on, Walter Leigh’s original score is displaced by contemporary electronic sound, allowing the images to be unsettled, re-read, and haunted—opening space for post-colonial reflection, sonic intervention, and the reclamation of presence. With special thanks to the British Film Institute (BFI) (@britishfilminstitute) This venue is semi abandonned, entry at your own risk. Limited street parking / hired ride preferable.