I grew up switching hobbies every few months, whether it was gymnastics, skating, western dance, classical kathak dance, harmonium, guitar, cycling and on and on—yet the one constant was never missing a weekend art class, and feeding my curiosity with science and puzzles. At six, a telescope viewing at a local planetarium of Saturn’s rings convinced me I would become an astrophysicist. I carried that dream for fifteen years, into one of the country’s most prestigious scientific institutes, until I realized I was chasing a question that wasn’t truly mine. 



I wanted to know how reality as we perceived exists for humans, same yet different. That pull led me to neuroscience, to studying the brain’s signals by day, and teaching myself to make art with the computer, by night. In Germany, while working on my thesis, I met artists who nourished a creative spirit I had long dismissed as “hobby.” I had been holding on to my childhood dream that was constantly being validated by my academic capabilities and society for way too long. I started working on an NFT project, started tinkering with ableton, did freelance graphic design projects and decided to leave behind the place that had given me the most beautiful year of my life.

I chose to leave behind certainty. I backpacked around my homeland, India for 5 months on a quest to enquire how people lived unique fulfilling lives in different pockets of the same country on the same planet. Life left limitless, and the power to choose gave me a sense of overwhelming freedom and aporia.

I received my interdisciplinary Masters degree, The NFT collection got sold out in 10 days, got accepted at the Serendipity Music Production Residency, and i succumbed to trying some conventional jobs along the way while I freelanced as a visual designer. I walked through corporate roles in funding startups and doing UX design, only to find them too narrow for the breadth of what I want to create. I now work as an AV artist, as one half of Kontrast.io, and the creative director of All Ears, an ambient deep-listening series, amidst other tinkerings.

I wish to explore the convergence of research, code, art, and sound: pursuing generative audio-visual art, scenography, sound design, and intentional experiential design in an attempt to express myself to the world.