An evening of music at the cafe
‘Returning Sound’ is a specially curated series of music programmes presented every month at the institute. The programme is curated focusing on unconventional music written by independent electronic music producers.
The series is curated by Varun Desai who says:
2022 marks the return of public music events but few of them are meant to process what has happened to humanity over the last few years. ‘Returning Sound’ has been curated to restore a sense of community using electronic music to help reintegrate group listening, reflect on our collective experiences and navigate into an incalculable future.
Varun Desai
The second programme of the series will feature SPIRALYNK from India and a guest performance by sound artist Ignaz Schick from Germany.
Details about the curator:
© Varun Desai
VARUN DESAI
Varun Desai is a multi-disciplinary artist and an electronic musician as well as a computer engineer working in the field of music production and arts management. He’s been a teacher and lecturer for both hardware and software platforms, as well as a graphic designer, creative coder, video artist and instrument maker. He is the founder of Synthfarm, an annual music and technology residency and is the Director of the Kolkata Jazzfest. His company Littlei has been producing music events in Kolkata since 2007 and encourages the development of new art and music traditions.
Details about the featured artists:
© Spiralynk
SPIRALYNK (India)
Spiralynk is a vehicle for audiovisual exploration. It is the brainchild of Ankit Malik, an interdisciplinary artist exploring organised chaos with a multimodal approach. His multidisciplinary work investigates the relationship between space, time, and the human psyche through algorithmic composition, brain-controlled interfaces, immersive audio, and transmission art. He has delivered several audiovisual performances in the United Kingdom, Europe, and India, using bespoke digital systems interfaced with hardware synthesisers. He has composed music for theatre productions that have premiered in Cambridge, Prague, and Kolkata. Having recently been featured as a spotlight musician on the WazirX NFT marketplace, Spiralynk is working towards bringing audio DSP to the blockchain. He has co-founded Bonafide Seven, an artist-led collective and media production house, with fellow Berklee College of Music alumni, focusing on uplifting fellow artists and creators. Artists supported by Bonafide Seven have been featured in publications such as Rolling Stone India, The Wild City, and Rock Street Journal.
© Ignaz Schick
IGNAS SCHICK (Germany)
Ignaz Schick is a Berlin based sound and visual artist, composer/performer, turntablist/saxophonist and a curator festivals/events. He also performs as an instrumentalist on turntables, objects, live-electronics, alto saxophone and flutes. In his youth he studied the saxophone and since his teenage days he performed in free jazz and avant rock bands. His passion and interest in multitrack tape machines, record players and effect boxes drove him to start experimenting with different electro-acoustic set-ups and sound making devices. After college he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and worked for several years as an assistant for the contemporary composer Josef Anton Riedl. Since 1995 he lives & works in Berlin where he is an active and an integral force of the so-called "Berlin Nouvelle Vague" and the blossoming "experimental" music scene. Along with his experimental music and performance practice, he has been making sound installations, experimental objects, visual collages, text scores, concrete poetry, graphic scores and drawings.
This programme is open to all.
Entry to the programme will be on a first come first served basis till seats are full. Due to COVID situation limited seats are available.
COVID protocols will be maintained. Please wear a mask. Temperature, official ID and your final vaccination certificate (digital or otherwise) will be checked at the entrance to ensure everyone's safety.
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