Hindustani
Vocalist: Khyal, Gwalior Gayaki // shagird
of Laxman Krishnarao Pandit
Improviser: voice and analog synthesizers
Composer: conceptual performance pieces, both
in-person and in virtual spaces (zoom, VR, hubs, etc.)
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 and metaphysics. I am strongly
committed to teaching, experimentation, and
scholarship in the liberal arts tradition.
recordings
Rag Komal Rishabh
Asavari (2020)
Rag Bhimpalasi (2021)
Microviolet: Accident Party (2022)
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
mushroom jokes
link
contact
University of
Minnesota Faculty Page & Office Hour Signup
Sheet (in person or zoom)

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