Memory as Method
Memory is not a place he visits. It is the instrument he plays. He does not compose from memory so much as with it - shaping sound the way memory itself works: incomplete, insistent, returning changed each time it's called upon. To improvise is to let the past speak in real time.
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I am a musician, acoustic and electric bassist, composer and improviser. Born (1965) and raised in India, I moved to Boston, USA in 1991 to study jazz and pursue a career in that. For the past 25 years my work has been exploring and existing in the intersections of composed and contemporary improvised music, in an effort to synthesize traditional musical elements alongside experimental music processes with my own lived experience and memory. To put this into creative practice since 2001, I have had several ongoing collaborative musical ensembles ranging from trios, quartets, and quintets, which performed in Boston and beyond, and have been documented through several formal studio recordings.
My current work extends and brings together the body of accumulated knowledge and experience of the past 25 years to function in a context much larger than previous ensembles.
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