Indian sound artist Ish S to perform in Zurich and Geneva

Ish S, a sound artist and composer from India is currently in Zurich. During his Research Residency Ish will weave together a sound sculpture of the city of Zurich. [dated June 2010]

Ish S, a sound artist and composer from India is currently in Zurich. During his Research Residency Ish will weave together a sound sculpture of the city of Zurich, using field recordings and musical composition along with synthesis, where one suggests and leads the other. He will present his work at F+F Schule für Kunst und Mediendesign' in Zurich  and 'Fête de la musique' at Geneva. 
-'F+F Schule für Kunst und Mediendesign' in Zurich on 10 June 2010 
-'Fête de la musique' at Geneva on 19 June 2010
Artist's note
A Sound art project to reflect upon the City, its streets and the people who constitute it. Recorded Sound and its manipulation using electronic synthesis mixed along with Music/compositions to weave together a sound sculpture of Zurich and it's spaces. I will use of Indian classical music intervals and scales to emote upon an artist context and the personal experience and these musical interventions will be represented using contemporary tools of electronic music ans Synthesis . The overall process will also juxtapose the cities of Delhi and Zurich together as Multi-media installations and I will try to produced an Audio CD as one of the final presentation of the works.
As a sound artist/ composer I engage with sound and music more as a philosophical and social reverberant and not just as an aesthetic Object. Sound is the main element in my works and I try to use it with an expressionist angle to reflect on the times we live in. I will weave together a sound sculpture of the city of Zurich, using field recordings and Musical Composition along with synthesis, where one suggests and leads the other.
As a process I will record sounds from the city and then try to abstract the personal experience of inhabiting these spaces like parks, Zurich Lake, trams, coffee shops etc. The second electronic-synthesis and compositional process will comprise of isolating sounds, manipulating them while focusing on the small details which can be kept afloat by using additional electronics (like delay, loops). The emotive content of these sounds along with music will then depend on the context they are placed in or ideas they are juxtaposed with. Ideas will be developed on these 'activities of sounds', that is, different sounds coming from different places, producing a sonic sculpture which is sonorous. This process can also be defined as sound art and I will produce them under my experimental sound art/installation project called diF.
I will try to collaborate with a number of Swiss artists/ technicians to present my works created during the residency and I will further the collaborative process by incorporating their expert knowledge and know-how in producing our future new media art works, for example, for my future project with Saranath Banerjee which is around interactive 'building installation' we can use some of their works to build a part of the Project/Installtion. These Swiss technicians are at the top of their game in Lights, Video, Synthesizer Design etc and will provide excellent help in producing hardware and Equipment(s) the future Pro-Helvetia 'New-Media' Works.

Biography: 
Ish S is a Composer, sound artist and Producer from Delhi. He studied Classical guitar at the Delhi school of Music and then later ventured into Jazz, Latin and electronic music. He has worked with Sound Art and Video installations and while at a Residency at Sarai-CSDS released an Audio compilation called [t0]. He also formed a music label called Sound reasons Records (http://soundreasons.in) to promote the new sounds of the Avant-garde and Electro-acoustic music from around the world. He has sound designed and composed for 2 short films and plays like for the director Zuleikha Allana chaudhari. He is currently working on a Sound art project on the City of Zurich commissioned by Pro Helvetia, New Delhi. His various Music, video and sound art projects are -edGeCut, diF, 4th world Orchestra, dbase and Khayali pulao His works have been showcased and performed live at the 1st habitat Summit at the ‘Indian Habitat Center’ // School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) // ‘World Information City conference’, Bangalore , India // at 1st international art | tech | media congress // ‘SoundLAB -Edition V’ // Osian‘s Cinefan Asian Film Festival , 2009 Delhi // He will be performing Live electronic music at 'F+F Schule für Kunst und Mediendesign' in Zurich on June 7 or 8, 2010 and 'Fête de la musique' at Geneva on June 19, 2010. 
http://soundreasons.in music label 
http://soundcloud.com/i98t diF-sound art /installation 
http://www.sarai.net