Some Music
The mid-1970s saw me be a semi-professional bass guitarist, freelancing part-time with various Delhi bands through the period when I was studying Journalism.
The mid-1990s saw me get back to music primarily because I sort of wanted to pass that on to my son before he reached adolescence.
And then, I got even deeper into music as I began to network artists and musicians all over India and the world, in response to what I recognized to be a viral spread of creative empowerment of individuals being wrought by the burgeoning spread of personal computers and other digital technologies everywhere around the world.
Since then, my music has been variously featured in creative video-works, arts festivals, and the internet. And I also performed live a few times too, the last presently being in the last edition of Disquiet@Bakheda, in New Delhi 2015. However, after suffering a stroke early-2016, which left me paralyzed down my left side for almost 2 months, I am yet to recover full functioning of the fingers of my left hand, which leaves my guitar playing unacceptably compromised for now.
As with many of my other creative works, my music archives too are scattered and incomplete.
As such, the short list of tracks below is a somewhat random selection intended to represent just some of the variety of my music work.
*The 2 videos under the music track-list, in turn, are from experimental live performances.
The mid-1990s saw me get back to music primarily because I sort of wanted to pass that on to my son before he reached adolescence.
And then, I got even deeper into music as I began to network artists and musicians all over India and the world, in response to what I recognized to be a viral spread of creative empowerment of individuals being wrought by the burgeoning spread of personal computers and other digital technologies everywhere around the world.
Since then, my music has been variously featured in creative video-works, arts festivals, and the internet. And I also performed live a few times too, the last presently being in the last edition of Disquiet@Bakheda, in New Delhi 2015. However, after suffering a stroke early-2016, which left me paralyzed down my left side for almost 2 months, I am yet to recover full functioning of the fingers of my left hand, which leaves my guitar playing unacceptably compromised for now.
As with many of my other creative works, my music archives too are scattered and incomplete.
As such, the short list of tracks below is a somewhat random selection intended to represent just some of the variety of my music work.
*The 2 videos under the music track-list, in turn, are from experimental live performances.
performing live audio for an extemporaneously collaborative experimental dance by Olive Lopez, with Shazeb Shaikh doing live video
Below ~ a 'live' performance within the Pure Data software