Spiralynk is the alias of Kolkata-based interdisciplinary artist and creative technologist Ankit Malik, who designs performable systems where experimental electronic music, computation, and human gesture interact in real time.

Drawing from ambient, drum & bass, experimental bass, glitch, halftime, and IDM, his work combines hardware sequencing, algorithmic composition, machine listening, neural audio, generative processing, and custom software. His performances move between club music, experimental sound art, and research-led system design, treating these contexts as parts of a shared artistic language rather than separate areas of practice.

Organised chaos sits at the centre of this work. By balancing structure with instability and control with emergence, Spiralynk explores how computational systems can contribute behaviour without removing human agency. Rather than producing only fixed outcomes, he creates playable environments in which patterns can be disrupted, processes redirected, and relationships between rhythm, texture, visuals, computation, and gesture reshaped live.

At Slingshot Festival, he premiered the commissioned live audiovisual work Discrete Continuum and contributed music to Resona, a responsive audiovisual installation. Other recent work includes F-AI-rytale, an interactive performance developed collaboratively at Sónar+D. His work has been presented across India, the UK, and Europe at festivals and institutions including Sónar+D, Slingshot Festival, Magnetic Fields Festival, Algorave India, the Goethe-Institut, and Reset Networks. His releases include Liminal Rift on Antariksh Records, Nerve 5 – Spiralynk Remix via Electromantica, and compilation work with Social Isolation Records.

Alongside his artistic practice, Ankit teaches Max/MSP, generative sound, machine listening, neural audio, hardware integration, and performance-oriented system design through workshops, residencies, mentorship, and academic engagements at Berklee Valencia, SynthFarm, and Slingshot Festival. His systems-based approach also extends into applied sonic research and interaction design, including work across procedural audio, embedded sound, Acoustic Vehicle Alerting Systems, and sonic interaction design.

Ankit holds a Master of Music in Music Production, Technology, and Innovation from Berklee Valencia, where he graduated magna cum laude, alongside degrees in Creative Music Technology from Anglia Ruskin University and Mass Communication and Videography from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata.

Across performance, research, education, and applied sound design, his work is driven by the belief that computation is most expressive when it can be performed with rather than simply performed by.