AUDIO ART

Sinha's unique constellation of skills as a percussionist schooled in various world music traditions, performer, audio artist, composer, and improviser give rise to a broad range of sound ideas and works, ranging from composed music for fixed media to audio installations and audiovisual performance.

"The central thust of my artistic practice is a desire to consider how and where the worlds of traditional and post-traditional musical/creative practice and tools may meet. Using my training and instruments from a number of different percussion traditions, and interfacing them with electronics and laptop audio tools, I am attempting to make manifest a suspicion that the musical and artistic approaches of traditional and contemporary can inform and influence one another. I believe I am looking for something, expressing something that is part and parcel of the identity of many of my peers---a thoughtful, complex expression of who I am and what inspires me."

AUDIOVISUAL AND AUDIO PERFORMANCE:

shruti // live mix in real time of field recordings and video material collected in kolkata, india // details / audio / live video clip 1 / live 2

harmonium // remix of the fixed video piece harmonium // details / tech sheet / see also "video" page

the bell garden: live performance using harmonium, laptop, and small percussion objects // details / live excerpt 1 / excerpt 2 / full live performance

TXMC: 7 hour continuous live audio performance, beginning @ midnite // details

 

AUDIOWORKS FOR FIXED MEDIA AND INSTALLATION:

shruti (installation version) // an installation version of the shruti performances, with multiple streams of audio recorded in kolkata, india and a live mic installed in the exhibition space // details / audio

kolkata garden // audio installation created from recordings gathered in kolkata, india, installed in hidden players in a forest or garden
// details / audio

icefield // a custom designed 8 speaker audio installation designed for playback of a multi channel audio work evoking ice and snow // details / audio

where you are // an audio installation accessed via cellphone, wherein listeners dial a number to access an audio art piece created from recordings in kolkata, india. selected as a curated work in the scotiabank nuit blanche 2007 exhibition in toronto // details / audio