Composer, designer, technologist and educator
2024
In and Out of Phase
Composer and system designer
An improvised work exploring systems composition through feedback and live processing with a contrabass and two transducers. The performers dynamically expand and limit the scope of each other’s sonic palette by modifying their output and feeding it back into the sound producing system. The piece has been presented at EMPAC Reembodied Sound 2024, Rensselaer and NIME 2024, Utrecht. Performed by James Ilgenfritz and Teerath Majumder.
Lines that Divide, Lines that Connect
Composer
A piece for open instrumentation where performers read from a procedurally generated graphic score. Premiered by Anirudh Bhat and Theo Nabicht at Sonic Borderlines 2024: Swara, Berlin.
stereo_nature_prototype_2.1
Composer and software designer
A humorous provocation to reflect on the fetishization and commodification of nature through a work of sound art that procedurally synthesizes nature sounds. Presented at ICMC 2024, Seoul.
2023
A Shot in the Dark
Composer and sound designer
A theatrical immersive multimedia piece written by Qianru Li critically examining Asian- American identity through a personal and intellectual engagement with the killing of Akai Gurley in 2014 and the racially motivated tensions that ensued.
2022
Space Within
Producer, composer, and sound, interface and software designer
A concert of interactive music challenging and reshaping conventional roles in a concert setting; audience members interact with ‘interactive objects’ that guide the actions of featured performers and shape sonic timbres through live processing. Performed by JoVia Armstrong, Matthew Nelson, Prawit Siriwat, Teerath Majumder, and audience members.
Underwater
Composer and producer
A fixed media electronic piece for choreographed movement exploring polyrhythmic texture formation in sync with movement parts, and game-like narrative development. Choreography by Kelly McGill.
2021
Mouno Shonchar
Producer, arranger, programmer, and recordist
An album of interpretations of traditional Bangla songs exploring cross-cultural approaches in recontextualizing their text and using creative sound design as a mode of word-painting. Performed by Jiryis Ballan, Sabrin Kriti, and Niloufar Shiri.
Mothership Calling
Software and sound designer
An immersive sound installation conceptualized by Nicole Mitchell exploring Black Joy through an Afrofuturist lens. Exhibited in the Mothership: Voyage into Afrofuturism exhibit at the Oakland Museum of California.
Repeat After Me
Composer and producer
A piece exploring electronic dance music in the context of contemporary movement.
2020
Crossroads
Composer and software designer
A piece commissioned by the bass clarinet-marimba duo Transient Canvas exploring electronic cross-modulation. Performed by Transient Canvas.
Confluence
Composer and software designer
A piece for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and electronics exploring electronic cross-modulation. Performed by Hub New Music.
Panchil Topke
Composer, producer, and programmer
A project with Bangladeshi artist Taraga exploring modes of collaboration through electronic manipulation of each other's sound materials. Performed by Taraga and Teerath Majumder.
2019
Intonation
Composer, and software and sound designer
A system of virtual instruments designed and tuned to the body and movement of a dancer to allow them to initiate and affect sonic events using Mugic® sensor along with a musician.
Walk Through Eden
Composer, producer, and software designer
A generative piece investigating degeneration and the perception of distance in both space and time.
2017
GB
Composer
A piece of guided improvisation for double bass and electronics. Performed by Sebastian Gramss and Teerath Majumder.
Striae
Composer and producer
Fixed media electronic piece for choreographed movement. An attempt to draw contours consisting of straight lines through sound and movement. Choreography by Himangini Puri.
Glitter and Be Lit
Composer and producer
Original score for an experimental short film written and directed by Charlotte van de Graaff examining the aesthetics and politics of makeup tutorial videos.
2016
Entropy and the Absurdity of the Universe
Composer and producer
Fixed media electronic piece for choreographed movement examining perception of time through linear and non-linear arrangement of recorded events passed through electronic effects-processing. Choreography by Himangini Puri.