Liminal Rift
Liminal Rift emerged at a moment when I needed to break through musically, emotionally, and spiritually. The Lions Gate Portal in 2024 provided that initial jolt, not in a cosmic woo-woo way, but as a symbolic reminder: there are moments when the universe feels cracked open. I used that as the spark.
The first track, 'Lions Gate Portal', is assertive and angular. It mirrors the feeling of standing at a cosmic threshold, your nervous system tuned to celestial rhythm, your breath syncing to the gravitational hum of something larger than yourself. It’s the sonic equivalent of stepping into an unknown space.
Then comes 'Lysergic Effect'. It’s liquid and elastic, like a thought slipping through consciousness. It’s immersive, slippery, and difficult to grasp. Like a rapidly unfolding lucid dream. It reflects my fascination with perception, altered states, and the architecture of the mind.
Together, the tracks form a sonic diptych. An outward expansion followed by deep inner fragmentation.
Liminal Rift is about the in-between spaces. It’s where the most profound shifts happen, and sound becomes a vessel for transformation.
The EP isn’t just something to listen to; it’s something to traverse.
DataMind Audio Residency
Audio outputs from the residency at DataMind Audio demonstrating the capabilities of their plugin, Combobulator, using various “Artist Brains”.
The Combobulator resynthesises an audio input signal by performing a timbral “style-transfer” on it. Combobulator uses a revolutionary new synthesis method, neural synthesis, to reinterpret your real-time audio through a selected “Artist Brain” (AKA Model, AKA Neural Network). The neural synthesis engine synthesises the output from scratch, based on what each model has “learnt” about sound during model training.
Each model is trained by in-house specialists, working directly with each artist to curate and refine the training data, to create high-quality, ethically sourced models. DataMind ensures that with each purchase of a model, the artist makes 50% of the gross profit from each sale!
City Sound Kolkata
In January 2023, I had the privilege of performing as part of the City Sound Project in Kolkata, a sonic portrait of the city told through its layers of sound.
Berlin-based composer Ignaz Schick brought together seven local musicians: Dr. Subir Ray, Sukanya Chattopadhyay, Dibyokamal Mitra, Varun Desai, Debjit Mahalanobis, Somnath Roy, and myself to create a piece that blurred lines between field recordings, electroacoustics, Indian classical, jazz, and improvisation.
Over two four-hour concerts at Max Mueller Bhavan, we performed a conduction-driven audiovisual work combining the textures of Kolkata’s streets with the voices of its musicians. The rehearsals themselves were a rare experience. Ignaz’s sign-based conducting opened up a different kind of freedom, letting us improvise within a shared pulse rather than fixed notation.
The recordings from those performances are now out as a five-volume album compilation on Bandcamp. This project is more than a document. It is a memory of a city listening to itself.