feb 11-22: CRASH // new production of the dora award-winning play // @ imago theatre, montreal // tickets here //
mid-feb onwards: ds composer and sound designer for the hobbit // @ stratford festival // previews start april 21 // tickets here //
current news/view/read/listen
ds has been moved to tenured faculty at toronto metropolitan university //
small gestures: generating radical sonic futures in an algorithmic world // new article in organised sound (cambridge university press) special issue “experimental sound in the Black and South Asian diaspora” // open access // read/download at https://doi.org/10.1017/S135577182500010X //
wilding AI site is now live //
algorithmic mythologies: failure as a cultural tool // audio paper published in seismograf peer //
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: ds has been named as one of the four finalists for the siminovitch prize 2024, which recognizes theatre excellence in canada // read ds’ remarks here // watch the documentary on ds’ work by videocompany here
now: also part of the siminovitch prize, ds in conversation with playwright roland schimmelpfennig // watch
now: new double release on establishment records // brahmaputra here and adeva_v000_04 here //
now: ds featured on “the creative process: celebrating canadian live performance design” video series, alongside a canada-wide roster of designers // permalink to ds
now: MUTUALISMX feature in mixmag // buy the record (vinyl/digital) on other people records here
ds part of “anthology of exploratory music from india” on the unexplained sounds label //
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
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 //
ds contributes to acoustic cameras // “cathedral” and the related webcam feed here //
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all releases at bandcamp //