As a performing musician and a Technologist, I like to bring together my creative and technical skills to empower and enable performing arts in the community around me.
As a Singer…
I like to explore different styles and approaches to vocal music, viewed through the lens of an Indian Classical Vocalist.
Carnatic Music - Desh Thillana
Kaash - a Ghazal Cover
YSM
2020 Jan - PresentA/V Technical LeadAudio EngineerVideographer & EditorPerforming Vocalist
I joined YSM, one of Sydney’s leading youth forums for South Indian Classical (Carnatic) Music - a platform where I’ve previously performed - so I can put my technical skills to good use, giving back to my community.
Improv
2019 Sep - Dec 2019Improv actorFacilitator
During my short stay in Swindon (Wiltshire, UK), I spent some time working with improv sketch comedy actors and enthusiast in order to develop my stagecraft, scene and character development, and just to have a load of fun.
Promotional Videos & Audio Recording
I helped create this promotional video for ‘Stay Tuned’ in 2018.
From filming to release this entire process was done in just one week between myself and the lead videographer.
My contribution was the audio recording in studio, background music (BGM) composition, guitar, sound effects (SFX).
‘Stay Tuned’
2020 Jan - PresentAudio & Music Team LeadComposerVocalist, InstrumentalistPromo Video Filming & Editing
Staged theatre production at UNSW Science Theatre, raising over $50k AUD for Chinmaya Mission’s work in rural development and education in India.
‘Bharata Bhagya Vidata’
2018 January
Vocal Arrangement, Composition, Recording, Editing.
‘Indus Inspired’
2016 Aug - Jan 2018Music DirectorTeam LeadVocal ArrangerComposer
The idea was to bring together people with diverse backgrounds in musical styles native to India, bringing together a sense of collective musical thinking.
MAYA - ‘Still Life’
2014Vocalist & Vocal MentorPercussionist
A charity performing arts group in Sydney with a track record for sellout crowds on the National Institute for Dramatic Arts (NIDA) stage - we raised over $20k AUD for Cerebral Palsy research in Australia.
‘How I Met Your Amma’
2014Vocalist
My first major theatre production involvement - at UNSW Science theatre for Anjali Tamil Society with over 800 people in the audience.