Hindustani
Vocalist: Khyal, Gwalior Gayaki // shagird
of Laxman Krishnarao Pandit
Improviser: Voice, movement, analog synthesizers, improvised conduction
Composer: Event scores, electroacoustic environments, virtual spaces, experimental phenomenology, anthropocene collage
Scholar:
Professor of Music at the University of Minnesota in
the division of Creative Studies and Media. History and
ethnography of South Asian
music; speculative musical philosophy; voice
studies, practices of listening, intonation theory,
musical ethics, metaphysics, relationality.
recordings
Spotify Link
Rag Komal Rishabh
Asavari (2020)
Rag Bhimpalasi (2021)
Rag Puriya (2023)
Microviolet: Accident Party (2022)
Misi-Ziibi Song #1 (2023)
Blessed Inconstant Moon (2023)
Surkh Hai Aahan (2023)
books and articles
Musicking Bodies: Gesture and
Voice in Hindustani Music (2012)
Ways of Voice: Vocal Striving
and Moral Contestation in North India and Beyond (2021)
[[ Ways of Voice Companion Website ]]
"Not Just
One, Not Just Now: Relational Voices in Time" (2021)
"Authority,
Critique, and Revision in the Sanskrit
Music-Theoretic Tradition: Re-Reading the Svara-Mela-Kalānidhi." (2015)
"Object,
Person, Machine, or What: Practical Ontologies of
Voice" (2019)
"Otherwise Than Participation:
Unity and Alterity in Musical Encounters" (2017)
"Theories of
Participation" (2019)
"That Ban(e) of Indian Music:
Hearing Politics in the Harmonium"(2011)
Academic CV
tanpura
sound files
link
contact
University of
Minnesota Faculty Page & Office Hour Signup
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