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mukul: summer 2004
Mukul is artistic codirector of ambientTV.NET (www.ambientTV.NET), where he collaborates across media including film, live performance and the internet. Much of his work is concerned with the creation and transmission of sound; informed by a background in science and Indian music, it plays along the borders between music and noise, rule-bound forms and chance, and technology and tradition.

Some of his practice involves community media projects such as the East End Net (a self-organising wireless network infrastructure for independent media in East London), Bow Space (a multimedia memory map of Bow made with older residents), and Suvara (a project uniting refugee and second genetration immigrant musicians in Linz, Austria). He also works with text, and intends to further explore the combination of sound, text and the body in the future.

Mukul has worked extensively with dance in a range of environments, from underground electronic clubs in the 1990s (notably, in London: Talvin Singh’s Anokha and Calcutta Cyber Café), through to more formal settings by contemporary choreographers such as Russell Maliphant and Akram Khan.

selected recent work

live/installations
*foliage creep — live multi-channel sound for dance installation by Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Co., to inaugurate Hendon Artsdepot (November 2004)
*tryptichon/myriorama — a surround audio-visual environment and narrative structure, employing dance and psychogeographical drifting (London 2003–04 / Helsinki 2004 for Pixelache and ISEA)
*England Expects — for 7 ghettoblasters and a megaphone, commissioned for Summer in the Square (Trafalgar Square, London, May 2004)
*Diaspora.In.Synchro.City — for 8 ghettoblasters (Århus Festege, Denmark, August 2003).
*AV DINNERS — live and multi-channel streaming gastronomic event with an emphasis on the erotic (July 2003).
*music for Armadillo for your show (Oleg Kulik at Tate Modern, London, 2003)
*The Spy School — investigating the post 9/11 surveillance society through exercises at Hull Time-Based Arts, UK (2003) and at the Tel Aviv International Video Festival (2002)
*Stealth Waltz — commissioned for Kingdom of Piracy net art exhibition (Taiwan / presented at Ars Electronica 2002)
*Telejam — series of streaming audio/video “jam sessions” exploring transmission delays and feedback over the internet (since 2001)
*Acoustic Space Lab — investigating the acoustic and musical possibilites of radiotelescopes (Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre, Latvia, since 2001)

music for dance and film

*twelvetwentyone music for Lyon Opéra Ballet, chor. Russell Maliphant, (11ème Biennale de la Danse, Lyon, 2004)
*Faceless (science fiction/social faction thriller that exclusively uses surveillance camera footage, by Manu Luksch, in production)
*Virtual Borders (feature length documentary on the Akha people of the Mekong Quadrangle, by Manu Luksch, 2004)
*Skin music for Vena Ramphal / Vitafilms (2004)
*Choice music for Russell Maliphant Company (2003)
*Critics Choice***** music for The Ballet Boyz (choreographed by Akram Khan, London 2003)
*DNAsia sound/video installation for Shobana Jeyasingh (2003)
*Housed multiroom sound and dance installation based on Conrad’s Heart of Darkness for Prised Open (London, 2002)

interpretations…

*7 Sky 7 Ground (9 and 6/8 mix for drum.FM, forthcoming)
*Suvara the Afghani remix project for Rafi Hanif, with Radio FRO 105.0 FM (Linz, Austria, 2002)
*Storm (the enchanted castle, for Sarah Sarhandi, 2002)
*Home (acid lullaby, for Karsh Kale, Six Degrees Records, 2002)
*Maro Jailo (tempo caravan dub, for Rajasthani gypsy musicians Maharaja, 2002)
*Music for 8mm (mi-x for Ivor Guest & Sarah Sarhandi, 2001)

education

2000-2001 Berkeley Fellowship (University of California)
1989-1992 Natural and Social & Political Sciences (King’s College, Cambridge)

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