Echoes of the Forest — A Khanty musician plays the jaw harp, weaving ancient rhythms into the air with a single breath and a flick of metal. Her sound, both haunting and hypnotic, bridges tradition and technology in the heart of Siberia. In that moment, she became a conduit for whispers of ancestry—summoning echoes older than language, and reminding us that sound can carry memory across centuries, connecting forest spirits to digital futures.
September 14, 2025
Echoes of the Forest - Breath of Siberia — A single note awakens centuries.
Dr. Turrance Nandasara Senior Academic | Technologist | Pioneer in Multilingual Computing Dr. Turrance Nandasara has been a leading figure in Sri Lanka’s academic and technological landscape since 1980, serving at the University of Colombo. A trailblazer in multilingual computing, he developed the first-ever Sinhala/Tamil/English word processors and desktop publishing systems for IBM-PCs in the late 1980s—reprogramming BIOS environments to support all three languages seamlessly. His groundbreaking work extended to the digital frontier when he partnered with the Internet Research and Development Unit at the NUS in Singapore to create www.lk, Sri Lanka’s official tri-lingual web portal. Launched in July 1996 while he was a researcher on the WIDE Project at Keio University, Japan, this was the world’s first multilingual website. He has also played a pivotal role in the global standardisation of the Sinhala language. Since the mid-1980s, he has worked closely with the ISO and Unicode Consortium as Sri Lanka’s National Coordinator, helping to define the Sinhala character set for Unicode. He was an active member since 1996 of the MLIT and the AFSIT, both established by the CICC, Japan.
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