“Exploring the Edge of Experimental Creativity”
[Data Visualization || Virtual Reality || Augmented Reality || Live-Coding || Music with Technology]
India International Centre, Main Auditorium
January 5 (Sunday), 2020
2:30-5:30pm || 6:30-8:30pm
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[Data Visualization || Virtual Reality || Augmented Reality || Live-Coding || Music with Technology]
India International Centre, Main Auditorium
January 5 (Sunday), 2020
2:30-5:30pm || 6:30-8:30pm
~~~
EtE 2020 || Post Incident Report
[scroll down to read About the Performers]
ETE-2020 began - as so many such wonderful incidents in my life have done - the moment Ms. Lalsawmliani “Teteii” Tochhawng kindly agreed to have India International Centre (IIC) partner The AeA on playing it out together in their main auditorium though the first Sunday of the year, some months before that date, which allowed us plenty of time to once again aim high, as we have luckily always been able to do for quite the same reason.
What we targeted this time then, was Performative Explorations through Data Visualization, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Live-Coding, and, Music with Technology
At the same time though, by pure serendipity, the timing of the incident itself coincided quite exactly with the 20th anniversary since I launched the first of what eventually went on to become 7 CD-gazettes of The IDEA (Indian Documentary of Electronic Arts), January 2000. And so, my old ‘Dizard’ was resurrected for the incident badge and poster, and a framed collection of all 7 CDs was placed at the entrance of the auditorium through the day. (The IDEA is now mirrored online at http://retiary.org/idea)
What we targeted this time was Performative Explorations through Data Visualization, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Live-Coding, and, Music with Technology
The morning of Sunday, January 05, 2020, was given over to set-up and testing in the IIC Main Auditorium, together with the excellent in-house technical crew, as usual. However, quite unusually this time, we hit a snag that we eventually had to ride right through the day. in that the HDMI link to the main projector did not work properly for any of the many MacBooks assembled. Luckily though, it eventually did not seem to matter very much to most of the Performer-Presenters,.. other than myself, which obliged me to work with a peculiarly partial screen-view of my Pure Data window, in presenting the first performance, which in turn found me make a booboo that I would otherwise have ascribed to just my usual tensions as Curator and first Performer. LoL!
Afternoon Session:
Shankar Barua As usual with almost all of these incidents I have done over the years, I went first, partly to take up some of the slack of latecomers in the audience, and also partly so as to set an appropriately experimental tone to the proceedings. In this instance, my unrehearsed performance simple segued from a semi-automated presentation through a few minutes with a slightly complicated Pure Data patch, with audio out subjected to auto-shutoff at 10 minutes.
Natasha Singh & Mike CJ
Presenting a profile of some of their work with TimeBlur, Natasha and Mike delivered an extraordinary performance that touched upon improvisational music, visual programming, and data visualizatio married to live yoga.
Anirudh Gautam
Speaking of the work he’s been doing with his 7-year old company Morph in Bangalore, which has now branched out to Dubai too, Anirudh spoke of modifying experiences across different situations with virtual reality, all the way through to work they’ve begun on automation directed via brain signals.
Soham Sarcar
Leading much of the way that India’s been going over the past few years with virtual and augmented reality via his company Transhuman Collective, Soham spoke of how they’ve been transforming gargantuan public events as well as intimate consumer and live-viewer experiences with projected live video as well as immersive virtual environments.
Abhinay Khoparzi
Abhinay’s been at the forefront of driving the Algorave movement in India for some years now as an aspect of his work across several media, including video, music and web technologies. In line with that, his performance was a pretty funky live-coding essay projecting entirely improvised audio and video simultaneously.
Chintan Kalra
Being an eminent music professional of long standing, alongside his work with experimental other media ranged from video and virtual reality through mobile app-design,, Chintan was unsurprisingly hardly unnerved that his audio interface blew a gasket as soon as it was plugged into power during set up and testing in the morning. After somehow jury-rigging a solution to the disaster, he took the stage with a MacBook, two iPads, and a smartphone serving as a controller-via-live-video, to launch a masterclass of live audio & video that flowed from, to, and between pure aesthetics and musicality, all the way through pure abstraction.
Saurabh Babbar Having begun his music career as a guitarist with a quite successful band in Delhi, Saurabh has also been doing a range of solo music work over the past few years, including studio stuff, live shows, and teaching. His performance brought a lot of that into play, with a quite unusual range and routing of equipment, using all of which he performed a series of his original music compositions along with a live-controlled stream of video clips.
Arsh Sharma
Arsh moved from Delhi to Mumbai a couple of years ago, after the success that his live and studio music work arrived at a point from which he yearned for greater challenges upon a new canvas. He’s since then been essaying creative forays into cinema and advertising, and working with musicians of all genres he can find, while still continuing to work as an independent session-guitarist and performing musician. What he brought to his performance then was a range of influences moulded into brief set of unreleased experimental tracks that demanded more of the auditorium’s sound system than any other of the acts of the day.
[scroll down to read About the Performers]
ETE-2020 began - as so many such wonderful incidents in my life have done - the moment Ms. Lalsawmliani “Teteii” Tochhawng kindly agreed to have India International Centre (IIC) partner The AeA on playing it out together in their main auditorium though the first Sunday of the year, some months before that date, which allowed us plenty of time to once again aim high, as we have luckily always been able to do for quite the same reason.
What we targeted this time then, was Performative Explorations through Data Visualization, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Live-Coding, and, Music with Technology
At the same time though, by pure serendipity, the timing of the incident itself coincided quite exactly with the 20th anniversary since I launched the first of what eventually went on to become 7 CD-gazettes of The IDEA (Indian Documentary of Electronic Arts), January 2000. And so, my old ‘Dizard’ was resurrected for the incident badge and poster, and a framed collection of all 7 CDs was placed at the entrance of the auditorium through the day. (The IDEA is now mirrored online at http://retiary.org/idea)
What we targeted this time was Performative Explorations through Data Visualization, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Live-Coding, and, Music with Technology
The morning of Sunday, January 05, 2020, was given over to set-up and testing in the IIC Main Auditorium, together with the excellent in-house technical crew, as usual. However, quite unusually this time, we hit a snag that we eventually had to ride right through the day. in that the HDMI link to the main projector did not work properly for any of the many MacBooks assembled. Luckily though, it eventually did not seem to matter very much to most of the Performer-Presenters,.. other than myself, which obliged me to work with a peculiarly partial screen-view of my Pure Data window, in presenting the first performance, which in turn found me make a booboo that I would otherwise have ascribed to just my usual tensions as Curator and first Performer. LoL!
Afternoon Session:
Shankar Barua As usual with almost all of these incidents I have done over the years, I went first, partly to take up some of the slack of latecomers in the audience, and also partly so as to set an appropriately experimental tone to the proceedings. In this instance, my unrehearsed performance simple segued from a semi-automated presentation through a few minutes with a slightly complicated Pure Data patch, with audio out subjected to auto-shutoff at 10 minutes.
Natasha Singh & Mike CJ
Presenting a profile of some of their work with TimeBlur, Natasha and Mike delivered an extraordinary performance that touched upon improvisational music, visual programming, and data visualizatio married to live yoga.
Anirudh Gautam
Speaking of the work he’s been doing with his 7-year old company Morph in Bangalore, which has now branched out to Dubai too, Anirudh spoke of modifying experiences across different situations with virtual reality, all the way through to work they’ve begun on automation directed via brain signals.
Soham Sarcar
Leading much of the way that India’s been going over the past few years with virtual and augmented reality via his company Transhuman Collective, Soham spoke of how they’ve been transforming gargantuan public events as well as intimate consumer and live-viewer experiences with projected live video as well as immersive virtual environments.
Abhinay Khoparzi
Abhinay’s been at the forefront of driving the Algorave movement in India for some years now as an aspect of his work across several media, including video, music and web technologies. In line with that, his performance was a pretty funky live-coding essay projecting entirely improvised audio and video simultaneously.
Chintan Kalra
Being an eminent music professional of long standing, alongside his work with experimental other media ranged from video and virtual reality through mobile app-design,, Chintan was unsurprisingly hardly unnerved that his audio interface blew a gasket as soon as it was plugged into power during set up and testing in the morning. After somehow jury-rigging a solution to the disaster, he took the stage with a MacBook, two iPads, and a smartphone serving as a controller-via-live-video, to launch a masterclass of live audio & video that flowed from, to, and between pure aesthetics and musicality, all the way through pure abstraction.
Saurabh Babbar Having begun his music career as a guitarist with a quite successful band in Delhi, Saurabh has also been doing a range of solo music work over the past few years, including studio stuff, live shows, and teaching. His performance brought a lot of that into play, with a quite unusual range and routing of equipment, using all of which he performed a series of his original music compositions along with a live-controlled stream of video clips.
Arsh Sharma
Arsh moved from Delhi to Mumbai a couple of years ago, after the success that his live and studio music work arrived at a point from which he yearned for greater challenges upon a new canvas. He’s since then been essaying creative forays into cinema and advertising, and working with musicians of all genres he can find, while still continuing to work as an independent session-guitarist and performing musician. What he brought to his performance then was a range of influences moulded into brief set of unreleased experimental tracks that demanded more of the auditorium’s sound system than any other of the acts of the day.
EtE 2020 || About the Performers:
(random list sequence)
~.~
Chintan Kalra
(chintankalra.in)
Internationally acclaimed musician and a co-founder of indie band Parikrama, among many other successful music and visual arts projects over the last three decades. Has performed live in venues across India and the world.
Offstage, Chintan is a multiple-media design & technology expert who manages and motivates his media lab with a motley mix of professional projects, production design, and ongoing experimentation with various technologies.
Current projects ~ Think Floyd, Kuru Circus & Orchestra, IMFL, Contra Band, and Shabdkoshish, among others.
~~~~~~~~
Abhinay Khoparzi
(khoparzi.com) Abhinay Khoparzi is a multidisciplinary creative technologist who maintains a practice across film, video, music and web technologies. He has had a long relationship with the experimental electronic music scene in Mumbai with performances at venues and events like The Indian Electronica Festival, (Blue Frog), 6 Foot Oscillator in a 4 foot Room (Zenzi Mills). Abhinay co-founded the pioneering but now defunct web platform ‘netlabel’, and publishing company ‘3rd Thought Entertainment’ in the early 2000’s where he organised collaborative performances with experimental IDM artists like Kargo Pluggy, Sadahnmo and others from a varied roster.
In the past year Khoparzi has performed live coded music and visuals with TidalCycles and Hydra at Fat Finger Mayhem (Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai, 2018 and 2019), Algorave Sheffield (UK, 2018), International Conference of Live Coding (Madrid, 2019), Algorave Bangalore, and Pune (2019). He now organises/conducts live coding workshops in collaboration with various maker spaces and artist collectives across India and has been curating and organising Algorave events all over the country.
~~~~~~~~
Anirudh Goutham
(getmorph.com)
Anirudh Goutham started Morph Digital Solutions in 2008, along with his wife Preethi Sriram, in a garage with 1 employee. Having delivered animated content for brands and enterprises since its inception, Morph entered the domain of web and mobile in 2012 to increase its offerings. Since the last 2 years, with capabilities in content creation and development, Morph has been delivering experiences using technology across AR, VR, Holography, Projection Mapping, IoT and AI. It work with brands, enterprises and agencies to deliver stories to their customers using technology and design.
Morph’s recent works include an experience centre with Business Sweden at the Swedish Embassy in Delhi; a smart nebulisation centre for a children’s hospital in Sharjah; 3D and interactive content for Wipro’s Silicon Valley Innovation Centre in California, and; multiple experiences delivered to 4 clients at the recently concluded GITEX 2019 at the Dubai World Trade Centre.
With a 35 member team and offices in Bangalore and Dubai, Morph is working on various IP related content and experiences, and looking to enter newer geographies.
~~~~~~~~
Soham Sarcar
(transhuman.in)
Soham Sarcar is the Co-Founder of Transhuman Collective - a collaborative multidisciplinary think tank coalescing traditional mediums and new frontier technologies to weave a gripping Transmedia story. Transhuman Collective has created some of the most spectacular immersive experiences around the world.
A communications designer by education, Soham has spearheaded the New Media movement in India since 2008, experimenting continuously with cutting edge immersive technologies such as Live Video Art, 3D Projection Mapping, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, AI, and other interactive technologies, as well as curating and creating public art installations.
~~~~~~~~
Natasha Singh & Mike CJ
(timeblur.io)
Natasha Singh is the Creative Head behind TimeBlur, a Digital Experience Studio. She finished her masters in Communication Design from UAL. Her work has explored art installations with neurofeedback, body kinetics in Yoga, and Generative Culture. As a Design Researcher and Creative programmer, she likes to dwell in the unpredictability of Generative art systems and complexity of nonlinear systems. Through Timeblur, she is pursuing her dreams, to bring Culture, Art and Technology together.
&
Mike Cj is a technocrat from Bangalore, with a graduate degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering. He works primarily with electronic hardware, Signal Processing and computer graphics, across interdisciplinary fields such as Music, Software arts, and Data Visualization. He loves being in the complexity of computer algorithms to generate beautiful artforms. The passion for making art lead to starting Timeblur Studio.
~~~~~~~~
Saurabh Babbar
(ikigaiproduction.com)
Oversoul Sky is a psytrance project by Saurabh Babbar from New Delhi, India. aka Jimmy Syrup.
Self taught singer/guitarist made his first debut in 2008 with band Bhairav with Indian classical riffs and old school metal won many competitions. His journey to Electronic music begin with a project Apocalypse meow where he understood synthesis and never looked back since then. It was his first trip to Goa 2014 that struck the light on psychedelic trance. He loves playing live sets, mixing and experimenting with sounds, and working hard in the studio.
His goal with his music is to give spiritual and ecstatic experience to the audience and deep connection to mother earth with progressive psychedelic trance.
~~~~~~~~
Arsh Sharma
(https://lnkfi.re/ETWYW & https://youtu.be/T9u3VVoGhWE)
Arsh Sharma is a multi-faceted Producer, Composer, Arranger and Songwriter who has dabbled in a variety of media including TV, Films and Advertising since 2011. Originally a musician at his solo electronica outfit Fuzzculture, Arsh has created custom music and sounds for brands and artists, in addition to his services for mixing and mastering. Some of his acclaimed work includes music for PVR pictures's M Cream, scoring for the award-winning short film Mast Qalandar, music for AAP Government's 'Odd-Even' Scheme and 'Clean Delhi' campaigns amongst many other projects for brands such as Netlfix, Micromax, BMW, Budweiser, Allen Solly, Discovery Channel, H&M, Naaptol, Thumbs Up , Cinema TV etc.
~~~~~~~~
Shankar Barua
(ShankarBaba.com)
As curator of this incident, Shankar will exercise his privilege - as is usual with this work of his - to deliver the first experimental presentation/performance of the program, partly as a ‘responsibility’, and, partly also to make some point specifically relevant to the occasion.
In keeping with this practice, his very few live performances over the past few years have variously included a Hindustani classical vocalist, a B-boy dancer, homemade electronics and instruments, including a robotic drummer, as well as several instances of self-written software for audio-video synthesis, processing, and signal control. He is known to have lost control of one of his software patches in a live performance on at least one occasion, and also once upon a time actually had a hardware project sort of blow up on stage.
(random list sequence)
~.~
Chintan Kalra
(chintankalra.in)
Internationally acclaimed musician and a co-founder of indie band Parikrama, among many other successful music and visual arts projects over the last three decades. Has performed live in venues across India and the world.
Offstage, Chintan is a multiple-media design & technology expert who manages and motivates his media lab with a motley mix of professional projects, production design, and ongoing experimentation with various technologies.
Current projects ~ Think Floyd, Kuru Circus & Orchestra, IMFL, Contra Band, and Shabdkoshish, among others.
~~~~~~~~
Abhinay Khoparzi
(khoparzi.com) Abhinay Khoparzi is a multidisciplinary creative technologist who maintains a practice across film, video, music and web technologies. He has had a long relationship with the experimental electronic music scene in Mumbai with performances at venues and events like The Indian Electronica Festival, (Blue Frog), 6 Foot Oscillator in a 4 foot Room (Zenzi Mills). Abhinay co-founded the pioneering but now defunct web platform ‘netlabel’, and publishing company ‘3rd Thought Entertainment’ in the early 2000’s where he organised collaborative performances with experimental IDM artists like Kargo Pluggy, Sadahnmo and others from a varied roster.
In the past year Khoparzi has performed live coded music and visuals with TidalCycles and Hydra at Fat Finger Mayhem (Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai, 2018 and 2019), Algorave Sheffield (UK, 2018), International Conference of Live Coding (Madrid, 2019), Algorave Bangalore, and Pune (2019). He now organises/conducts live coding workshops in collaboration with various maker spaces and artist collectives across India and has been curating and organising Algorave events all over the country.
~~~~~~~~
Anirudh Goutham
(getmorph.com)
Anirudh Goutham started Morph Digital Solutions in 2008, along with his wife Preethi Sriram, in a garage with 1 employee. Having delivered animated content for brands and enterprises since its inception, Morph entered the domain of web and mobile in 2012 to increase its offerings. Since the last 2 years, with capabilities in content creation and development, Morph has been delivering experiences using technology across AR, VR, Holography, Projection Mapping, IoT and AI. It work with brands, enterprises and agencies to deliver stories to their customers using technology and design.
Morph’s recent works include an experience centre with Business Sweden at the Swedish Embassy in Delhi; a smart nebulisation centre for a children’s hospital in Sharjah; 3D and interactive content for Wipro’s Silicon Valley Innovation Centre in California, and; multiple experiences delivered to 4 clients at the recently concluded GITEX 2019 at the Dubai World Trade Centre.
With a 35 member team and offices in Bangalore and Dubai, Morph is working on various IP related content and experiences, and looking to enter newer geographies.
~~~~~~~~
Soham Sarcar
(transhuman.in)
Soham Sarcar is the Co-Founder of Transhuman Collective - a collaborative multidisciplinary think tank coalescing traditional mediums and new frontier technologies to weave a gripping Transmedia story. Transhuman Collective has created some of the most spectacular immersive experiences around the world.
A communications designer by education, Soham has spearheaded the New Media movement in India since 2008, experimenting continuously with cutting edge immersive technologies such as Live Video Art, 3D Projection Mapping, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, AI, and other interactive technologies, as well as curating and creating public art installations.
~~~~~~~~
Natasha Singh & Mike CJ
(timeblur.io)
Natasha Singh is the Creative Head behind TimeBlur, a Digital Experience Studio. She finished her masters in Communication Design from UAL. Her work has explored art installations with neurofeedback, body kinetics in Yoga, and Generative Culture. As a Design Researcher and Creative programmer, she likes to dwell in the unpredictability of Generative art systems and complexity of nonlinear systems. Through Timeblur, she is pursuing her dreams, to bring Culture, Art and Technology together.
&
Mike Cj is a technocrat from Bangalore, with a graduate degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering. He works primarily with electronic hardware, Signal Processing and computer graphics, across interdisciplinary fields such as Music, Software arts, and Data Visualization. He loves being in the complexity of computer algorithms to generate beautiful artforms. The passion for making art lead to starting Timeblur Studio.
~~~~~~~~
Saurabh Babbar
(ikigaiproduction.com)
Oversoul Sky is a psytrance project by Saurabh Babbar from New Delhi, India. aka Jimmy Syrup.
Self taught singer/guitarist made his first debut in 2008 with band Bhairav with Indian classical riffs and old school metal won many competitions. His journey to Electronic music begin with a project Apocalypse meow where he understood synthesis and never looked back since then. It was his first trip to Goa 2014 that struck the light on psychedelic trance. He loves playing live sets, mixing and experimenting with sounds, and working hard in the studio.
His goal with his music is to give spiritual and ecstatic experience to the audience and deep connection to mother earth with progressive psychedelic trance.
~~~~~~~~
Arsh Sharma
(https://lnkfi.re/ETWYW & https://youtu.be/T9u3VVoGhWE)
Arsh Sharma is a multi-faceted Producer, Composer, Arranger and Songwriter who has dabbled in a variety of media including TV, Films and Advertising since 2011. Originally a musician at his solo electronica outfit Fuzzculture, Arsh has created custom music and sounds for brands and artists, in addition to his services for mixing and mastering. Some of his acclaimed work includes music for PVR pictures's M Cream, scoring for the award-winning short film Mast Qalandar, music for AAP Government's 'Odd-Even' Scheme and 'Clean Delhi' campaigns amongst many other projects for brands such as Netlfix, Micromax, BMW, Budweiser, Allen Solly, Discovery Channel, H&M, Naaptol, Thumbs Up , Cinema TV etc.
~~~~~~~~
Shankar Barua
(ShankarBaba.com)
As curator of this incident, Shankar will exercise his privilege - as is usual with this work of his - to deliver the first experimental presentation/performance of the program, partly as a ‘responsibility’, and, partly also to make some point specifically relevant to the occasion.
In keeping with this practice, his very few live performances over the past few years have variously included a Hindustani classical vocalist, a B-boy dancer, homemade electronics and instruments, including a robotic drummer, as well as several instances of self-written software for audio-video synthesis, processing, and signal control. He is known to have lost control of one of his software patches in a live performance on at least one occasion, and also once upon a time actually had a hardware project sort of blow up on stage.
Organizers
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The Academy of Electronic Arts is a Private Entity that serves as a learning, sharing, mentoring, networking, benchmarking, empowering and broadly inclusive, but non-educational, institution.
Incident-Director: Shankar Barua
India International Centre (since 1962) is a forum for the exposition of the cultural patterns prevailing in different parts of the world, by men and women competent to speak on the subjects. The emphasis is neither on the study of particular cultures, nor on the promotion of particular ideologies. The Centre is entirely non-official in character, non-aligned in its motivation and approach, and uncommitted to any particular form of governmental, political, economic or religious affiliation.
Incident Co-Director: Lalsawmliani "Teteii" Tochhawng
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~.~
The Academy of Electronic Arts is a Private Entity that serves as a learning, sharing, mentoring, networking, benchmarking, empowering and broadly inclusive, but non-educational, institution.
Incident-Director: Shankar Barua
India International Centre (since 1962) is a forum for the exposition of the cultural patterns prevailing in different parts of the world, by men and women competent to speak on the subjects. The emphasis is neither on the study of particular cultures, nor on the promotion of particular ideologies. The Centre is entirely non-official in character, non-aligned in its motivation and approach, and uncommitted to any particular form of governmental, political, economic or religious affiliation.
Incident Co-Director: Lalsawmliani "Teteii" Tochhawng
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