In a process of constant reinvention, Sinha unleashes his skills as a percussionist—his primary mode of expression—to apply the principles of rhythm and its transformations to creative experiments that incorporate improvisation, field recordings, music and machine learning. In works ranging from sound installations and concert performances to record releases and media art, Sinha exposes us to spiritual and cultural reflections that take us into a state of trance: the powerful and simple experiences of listening to uncover encounters with the divine in the prosaic and everyday.
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Live Performance
Machine Learning research
New Project with Visual Artist Tazeen Qayyum
Scholarly research-creation outputs
Live Performance
Using extended and traditional techniques, Sinha creates live performances that highlight the nature of listening and time. Situating his concerts within the forms integral to musical and performance practices from the Indian subcontinent – spontaneity, concentration and improvisation – Sinha reimagines this cultural heritage, filling it with contemporary content and sounds.
Find out more about Sinha’s current projects here
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Machine Learning research and performance
Sinha’s researches in machine learning and sound has put him in the forefront of researchers and activists that interrogate the imperatives of AI. Using research-creation to explore alternative expressions of algorithmic culture, his work has been featured at NeurIPS, MUTEK.MX, the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, Prefix Contemporary, and elsewhere.
Sinha’s track from the international compilation MUTUALISMX, released on Other People Records
Sinha is also part of the international artistic research group Wilding AI, which has been visiting MUTEKs and other festivals around the world to “propose – conceptually and methodologically – a wilding of generative AI to move through possibilities, junctures that are idiotic until they are not (Coleman, 2021)”.
Find out more about Sinha’s work with machine learning and AI
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New performance project with visual artist Tazeen Qayyum
Sinha and Qayyum are currently in development on a new performance duo which delves deep into the power of ritual. Performing and responding to each other in tandem and real time, Sinha and Qayyum use cyclical gestures in their respective worlds – visual art and sound – to craft an integrated and responsive performance experience that relies on the moment.
Click here to read a blog post about the project, “working in tandem, in immediacy”.
For more information and current projects, visit the home page.