now: new double release on establishment records // brahmaputra here and adeva_v000_04 here //
now: ds launches the archive of silences // home for various research projects incl. sshrc-funded podcast ontologies of silence, a series of 1-on-1 conversations with a wide variety of researchers in the arts and sciences about the how silence – auditory, visual, political, social – manifests in their research
now: field recording, autoethnography, and the entanglements of the heard // new audio essay in performance matters journal, vol 9, issue 1-2 // link to essay and author’s note // link to full issue //
oct 3: ds speaks on music and technology at the music publishers of canada music tech summit // info here
nov 10-dec 3: sound design and music for “letters from max, a ritual” // more info here //
nov 30: new performance work “A possible path of the Elephant Headed God Ganesh” and “in the house’s endeepened wide gracious flow” streaming at convocatoria radial festival tsonami 2023 // listen here
ONGOING / NEWS
ds is the 2023 louis applebaum composer’s award laureate //
book chapter in progress: “zehn tage im april: a conversation on listening through/to/with the environment” – with berlin musician robert lippok // to be published in an upcoming volume on mcgill-queen’s university press //
now: what fools these mortals be // the circle project is a partnership between formerly incarcerated women and artists creating projects that incorporate indigenous modalities of community based justice // ds contributes music to the dreaming chapter
now: ds part of a mix of south asian ambient/drone/experimental artists, alongside an essay by shrey kathuria // listen and read here //
new research project with visualcodepoetry exploring new technologies in playable object manufacture supported with a seed grant from tmu’s design and technology lab //
ds part of “anthology of exploratory music from india” on the unexplained sounds label //
“in the city the body rests” // article in “entanglements: experiments in multimodal ethnography” on sound and multimodal ethnographic practice //
ds feature article in johns hopkins university’s theatre journal special issue on AI and theatre // covering ds’ work with sound, storytelling, ethnographic practice and AI tools //
adeva (version000_01) // livestream machine learning-driven AV performance co-presented by new adventures in sound art, charles street video and toronto media arts centre // excerpts here // full concert documentation and post show discussion on NAISAtube here //
“rig_veda000_03” is a featured artwork at neurIPS 2020, the 34th conference on neural information processing systems // browse all artworks here //
ds contributes to acoustic cameras // “cathedral” and the related webcam feed here //
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all releases at bandcamp //