IndiEarth XChange 2018 - Chennai, India

DELEGATES
Professionals and creative minds from across the global music, film and media industries come together at XChange to network with other delegates, discover and book artists, and explore business opportunities beyond borders.
IndiEarth XChange brings together forward thinking individuals to build vital bridges between the Indian and international creative industries.
ABOUT
Shakthisree Gopalan
Musician
India

Shakthi is also a singer-songwriter, and has been performing her original music for several years. Being an avid collaborator with a love for experimenting, Shakthi has been producing & releasing original music independently - as a solo artist and in collaboration with musicians in the independent music scene.
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Yanto Browning
Q Music
Australia

Yanto Browning is a Brisbane-based academic, record producer, and musician, with a strong background in technology in music performance and production. With twenty years of studio experience, Yanto has produced several hundred records for a broad range of Australian bands and artists, and has also worked as a composer and producer of music for film and contemporary dance. Yanto has researched, developed, designed and produced several interactive musical spaces, investigating gestural control of electronic instruments and concepts of play, centered around the creation of active musical spaces that incorporate audience participation. This work has included performances and installations at events such as the 2017 Ars Electronica festival. As an educator, Yanto has coordinated the music production program at the Queensland University of Technology for the past several years, whilst continuing his research and personal practice around technology in music. He is currently a lecturer in music and a PhD candidate at the Queensland University of Technology.
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Amrit Rao
Musician

Amrit is an independent music professional, a composer, singer/songwriter and the frontman of his new Tamil Rock ensemble from Chennai, Amrit Rao & The Madrascals. The band showcased their music through the first of its kind rock musical in the country, conceived by Amrit and based on their recently released debut album ‘Baemaani’. He also collaborates with musicians from the country and overseas on their projects, the latest one being ‘Spicy Frog’, an Indo-French collaboration. Amrit believes in social change through art and music and has collaborated with the legendary Carnatic musician T. M. Krishna on a recent environmental project. He’s also known for his flamboyant stage act with his former Bangalore based band ‘Live Banned’ which he co-founded. Amrit debuted as a Music Director for the critically acclaimed Tamil Feature Film ‘Maalai Nerathu Mayakkam’.
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Molly Jackson
QUT
Australia

Molly Jackson is a 21 year-old aspiring music professional from Brisbane, Australia with vast experience in both the performance, and music business sectors. A flutist from ten years of age, with passions for contemporary singing and DJing, Molly has performed in many venues and competitions in Brisbane. She has just completed her Bachelor of Music at the Queensland University of Technology and throughout this time has intensely integrated her interests of business management and journalism into her degree. Hosting her own music-specific radio program on 4ZZZ 102.1FM, co-founding events/marketing/management business RADAR Entertainment, and working on emerging Brisbane student-run record label Vermilion Records are just a few of her achievements. Molly is passionate about the current progressions of all things ‘music industry’, and is an obsessive live-music attendee in her free time.
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Antoine Hefti
Jazz à Tours
France

Antoine Hefti is a drummer, percussionist, composer & teacher. Born in 1986, Antoine started his musical journey with percussion. After a few attempts in the world of French classical music, he decided to return to his teenage love - the drums - and in 2011 he was admitted to Jazz à Tours. He is now teacher in this school, has co-created the Capsul Collectif with drummer Etienne Ziemniak in 2011, is composer for 'Gran Capsul', and drummer/percussionist in 'La Compagnie Du Coin', 'RAnK-O', and 'Bûche'.
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Manojna Yeluri
Artistik License
India

Manojna Yeluri is the founder and principal legal consultant of Artistik License. A legal professional with a deep appreciation for creative entrepreneurship and the arts, Manojna enjoys discussions on the interplay between creativity, law, innovation and socio-political identities.
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Jai Undurti
Syenagiri
India

Jai Undurti is Creative Director of Syenagiri. He has a background in journalism and writes for leading publications on travel and popular culture. Undurti started Every City is a Story – a unique city-centric graphic storytelling initiative. His current projects include "The Cities Beneath" with artist Fabian Stoltz and "The Game" with artist Kishore Mohan.
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Pavithra Chari
Musician
India

Pavithra Chari is an accomplished Hindustani classical and cross-genre vocalist and composer from New Delhi, India. A disciple of Smt. Shubha Mudgal, she is also an expressive arts based therapist and a trained Bharatnatyam dancer. She currently works with organizations that address life skills and music education, trauma, sexual health and self expression in at-risk children across India. As one half of the contemporary - classical duo Shadow and Light, Pavithra has written and released three studio albums to critical acclaim and has toured within India, Sri Lanka and the United States of America as a performing artist. She is a recipient of the coveted OneBeat fellowship (2018), a U.S Department of State initiative that aims to create a global network of civically engaged music projects.
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Anindo Bose
Musician
India

Anindo Bose is a composer, arranger and sound engineer from New Delhi, India. With over 15 years of experience in the independent music industry, Anindo is one of the founder members of the famed fusion octet Advaita and one half of the acclaimed contemporary - classical duo Shadow and Light. A completely self taught musician, Anindo has also been a member of various bands of repute such as Artistes Unlimited, Think Floyd and Classic Collective and has over 8 studio albums to his credit, as an arranger/composer. He owns and operates Plug ‘n’ Play, one of the most sought out recording studios in New Delhi and has recorded/produced several independent acts, musicals and commercial projects. As a live sound engineer he has worked extensively for festivals like the Jaipur Literature festival, Chandigarh Jazz festival, SAARC bands festival.
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Sonya Mazumdar
EarthSync / IndiEarth XChange
India

Sonya Mazumdar is the Founder/CEO of EarthSync, a music production house, award-winning documentary film producer, and a global, cross-cultural artistic collaborator. EarthSync's initiative IndiEarth Project was created to build a multi-country collective of professional, cultural, educational and economic collaborations for the development of the independent music, film and media industry infrastructure in India. IndiEarth XChange is the annual trade event in India for independent music, film and media with a focus on networking India, Asia-Pacific and the Indian Ocean region. Avid traveler and writer, Sonya has over 20 years experience in project management and social responsibility in the infrastructure and content industries in India, West Africa and Asia.
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Matthieu Roger
La Belle Orange
France

Since 2015 Matthieu Roger has been the director of La Belle Orange, a French organisation primarily devoted to developing the projects of contemporary choregraphers and dancers. He supports their artistic missions - from production and distribution to administration, communication and artistic education.
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Harold Monfils
Monfils Pictures
New Zealand

Monfils is a multi-disciplinary filmmaker, with a 30-year career of international exposure working on commercials, documentaries and features. Through the years his love for travel led him to shoots in over 20 countries and 5 continents, working with a wide diversity of cultures and people as director and/or producer. He has received international recognition and a wallpaper of awards for his advertising works. In 2006, he directed award-winning feature documentary ‘Laya Project’, a visual musical journey through the 2004 Asian tsunami-affected countries. His film ‘A Good Day to Die, Hoka Hey’ documents the life story and extraordinary adventures of British conflict photographer Jason P. Howe and was selected to showcase in Cannes-France at Marche du Film in May 2016, then was screened at the Los Angeles Film Festival (LAFF) United Nations Event on June 7th 2016. The World Premiere was held at Biografilm Festival in Italy, on June 14th 2016.
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Tarun Jain
Filmmaker
India

Apart from assisting, researching, writing for other professionals, Tarun Jain has produced and directed three short films. Aakhir (At Last) - his first short film which - has been screened in over 42 international film festivals worldwide, won seven awards, and five nominations. Amma Meri (Mother) is his second short film as a writer, producer and director. His stories are mostly inspired by his own observations, politically influenced and sometimes draw from personal experience.
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Koel Sen
Filmmaker
India

Koel Sen completed her Masters Diploma in Film Direction from the Film & Television Institute of India (FTII) with her diploma film VALAY, a 25 minute Marathi short fiction. In 2017, her student film, a short documentary BAHAVA, won the Emerging Talent Award at the International Association of Women in Film, Radio and Television (IAWRT). Her student short film ADHAR (Stasis) was screened at many Indian short film festivals and in 2016, she won a scholarship to study French documentary cinema at La Fémis, (Institut des hautes études cinématographiques, IDHEC) Paris. Koel Sen is currently faculty of film direction at the Whistling Woods International, Mumbai. She is also working on her first feature film script.
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Nitesh Mohanty
The Root
India

Nitesh Mohanty is a visual artist who graduated from Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay & acquired post graduation education from NID, Ahmedabad, specializing in Textile Design. He has been a design consultant to various brands within the retail, fashion, media, publishing & hospitality industry. He’s also the co-founder of “The Root” - a platform initiated to propagate various social, cultural, political & ecological concerns through various literary and creative mediums. He curates “The Root Reel” which showcases independent features, documentaries, world cinema & animation films from India and around the world. He is also a visiting faculty member at the School of Media and Culture Studies.
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Sameet Sharma
VP & Business Head - Live IPs, VIACOM18
India

With a career spanning 16+ years in the Live entertainment & Media Industry, Sameet Sharma has gone from building experiential campaigns & large format events for various brands while working with Geometry Global Encompass, to launching more than 30 Award winning IPs (national & regional) while heading the IP division at Reliance Broadcast Network Ltd. Currently, as a Vice President and Product Head at Viacom18, in the last 5 years he has built the Live IP portfolio extravagantly - creating IPs across Music, Comedy & Kids Entertainment clusters. He took over Vh1 Supersonic as a brand in 2015 and has shaped the predominantly EDM festival into the large-scale multi-genre spectacle, that it is today.
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V.S. Kundu
India

V S Kundu is a cinema buff from Chandigarh. He is a career bureaucrat, belonging to the 1986 batch of Indian Administrative Service in the Haryana Cadre. From 2012 to 2015 he headed the Films Division of India, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India, the State department that promotes documentaries in India. During his tenure, many new initiatives were taken to mainstream Indian documentary. He loves Documentary filmmakers, Indie artists both in cinema and other fields, adventure sports and travel.
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Ashley Turing
Live Tree
United Kingdom

Ashley Turing is the founder of LiveTree, a rewards-based social crowdfunding site for developing and marketing creative video content. In the 2 years since its inception the company has funded over 150 projects and has secured 5% of the entertainment crowdfunding market. LiveTree ADEPT is the next generation blockchain based platform. Turing worked for Credit Suisse, RBS and UBS in the areas of artificial intelligence for regulatory compliance through trade surveillance. Having acquired an acute understanding of the weaknesses in the current global economy first hand, Ashley launched LiveTree as an alternative sustainable model for economic development within media. Ashley studied computer science in Seattle before starting his career at Microsoft. Upon his return to Europe, Ashley became the chief technology officer at an online charitable lottery gaming company. Turing is responsible for the overall vision, culture and delivery of LiveTree, guiding its strategic objectives, architecture and expansion into the market.
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Krishnamurthy Ramesh
Ableton Certified Trainer
India

Krishnamurthy Ramesh is an audio engineer and music producer based in Chennai, India. Having a sharp ear for music and a passion for music technology, he has gathered invaluable experience by performing live and working in studios over the last decade.
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Nikhil Udupa
4/4 Experiences
India

Nikhil Udupa is a metalhead who happens to be in the entertainment business. A Marine Engineer by education and entertainment industry professional by passion. He has over 9 years of experience in building brands, creating content, developing experience based IP's and pushing the independent music scene . With stints at OML and MTV he now runs his own company 4/4 Experiences which works to create memorable subculture experiences for brands and networks. He also runs the acclaimed non-profit crowdsourced music movement - Control ALT Delete with his partner Himanshu Vaswani. 4/4 Experiences is a subculture think tank offering consultancy and turn key execution solutions in the fields of music, art, dance, urban street culture, comedy and more.
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Himanshu Vaswani
4/4 Experiences
India

Himanshu was the former Business Head at India's largest online music store Bajaao.com's events division 'BAJAAO Entertainment' for over 4 years. He started his career handling marketing and activations at Rolling Stone India. He is also the co-founder of Control ALT Delete, the country’s largest crowdsourced, crowdfunded live gathering of music. Himanshu has 10+ years experience and expertise across producing and executing large scale music, entertainment and brand events.
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Sreerag Raghavan
VR Technologist
India

Born and raised in Dubai, Sreerag Raghavan has always been interested telling stories and making music, while having a parallel flair for technology. Being self taught in the realm of visual media, he immersed himself in photography, making videos, graphic design, 3D animation and visual effects while pursuing an engineering degree in Computer Science from the National Institute of Technology, Calicut. A meeting with music maestro A.R. Rahman led to his current designation - working as a VR Technologist for "Le Musk", a cinematic VR experience directed by A.R. Rahman under his production banner YM Movies.
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Aditya Nandwana
Animal Factory Amplification
India

An unlikely newcomer in the space of modular synthesis and effect pedals, Mumbai's Animal Factory Amplification has been quietly (and very noisily) carving out a name for itself internationally. While AFA may count a number of leading producers and musicians as users today, the founder is quick to acknowledge the DIY path that paved the way.
www.animalfactoryamps.com
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Bhaskar Pal
Dolby
India

Bhaskar Pal is a graduate of the Film and Television Institute of Pune, India, having specialised in Sound Recording and Sound Engineering. His experience spans two decades in the film and television industry in various capacities as location sound engineer, sound-designer, audio-post supervisor, acoustic designer and system-design engineer. He joined Dolby in the year 2000 as sound consultant. As a Dolby cinema sound consultant and engineer he has extended his expertise and support to the film sound community. He is presently engaged in supporting surround sound content creation in the broadcast and online digital ecosystem using Dolby technology and in conducting training workshops for content creators across India, SEA & MENA.
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Kristina Kelman
Queensland University of Technology
Australia

Dr Kristina Kelman is an academic, teacher, community music facilitator and jazz musician. Her research interests include the education of the aspiring musician. In 2014 she completed her PhD, From music student to industry professional: An entrepreneurial learning design, producing an experiential music curriculum model for student-run enterprise. Kristina’s work also takes place in community music settings, most recently she collaborated with Australian ARIA award winner, David Bridie and First Languages Australia on a language project through original song, Yamani: Voices of an Ancient Land. Since 2015, Kristina has coordinated an intensive recording program and music education project in Chennai, India, producing an album of original music by emerging independent artists each year, distributed and promoted internationally. Kristina is a Brisbane based jazz singer who has 20 years experience both nationally and internationally. She has performed with artists such as Don Burrows, and Tommy Tycho and the Qld Symphony Orchestra. She has supported Tina Arena, James Morrison, Grace Knight, Marcia Hines, Vince Jones and Glen Shorrock. Most recently Kristina was commissioned by Rhondalay Music (USA) to release a Christmas Album – One Bright Star, in tribute to the late Frank Pooler (Producer – The Carpenters). Kristina currently lectures at the Queensland University of Technology with a focus on music industry.
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Dan Pratt
Queensland University of Technology
Australia

Dan Pratt is an Australian producer and PhD student. He has a reputation for recording and mixing psychedelic art rock and has toured internationally with his band Drawn From Bees, playing in such iconic venues as the Whisky a Gogo in Los Angeles and the Bowery Ballroom in New York as well as London, Hong Kong, and Canada. Dan also works as a production instructor and a researcher at the Queensland University of Technology and runs modern rock and electronica music programs for aspiring artists in high schools. As an educator, Daniel has set up a youth rock band platform for high school students to write, record, and release their music. He also runs youth based songwriting competitions with award-winning songwriters from the broader Australian community. He is passionate about finding the art in the music and transforming musicians into empowered dramatic performers who put on amazing shows. In his limited spare time, Dan is an avid DIY recording enthusiast, addicted to building rare and unusual recording equipment.
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Dr Adam Greig
KM Music Conservatory
India

An active performer, researcher and musicologist who specializes in performing early 20th Century French repertoire as well as contemporary electro-acoustic music.
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Bastien Picot
Musician
Reunion Island

Bastien Picot is a polymorphic singer-songwriter from La Reunion. He lives between his bewitching island and Paris, the frenetic city of light, and collaborates with many national and international artists around the globe. He has been a backing singer for Stevie Wonder, Fred Wesley, Charles Aznavour or even Yael Naïm with his project 3somesisters, and has recently recorded as lead singer on a jazz album directed by Richard Bona, with André Ceccarelli, Sylvain Luc and Hadrien Feraud. At the intersection of English and Creole, his multi-ethnic roots conveyed by Maloya’s traditional instruments meet a modern orchestration, in a tribal pop shell that is reminiscent of Woodkid, Bon Iver or Alt-J.
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Aditya Balani
Global Music Institute
India

Aditya Balani is a multi-faceted guitarist, singer-songwriter, music producer and educator from New Delhi, India. He is the co-founder and director at Global Music Institute (GMI), one of the leading music colleges in the country. He is an Ableton Certified Trainer and he constantly strives to bring innovate teaching methodologies for his harmony, songwriting, music production and guitar courses. Aditya's work has transcended stylistic and international borders and has been featured on BBC Asia Beats, MTV Coke Studio, Pepsi MTV Indies, and BBC Radio to name a few. Constants and Variables (EP) won him Best Pop Artist at the Radio City Freedom Awards ’15 and has been listed among the Top 10 EP’s of 2015 by Rolling Stone India.
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Vishal J Singh
Musician
India

Vishal J.Singh is a renowned guitarist, music composer/producer/arranger and mixing engineer from Duliajan, Assam who has collaborated with musicians from different corners of the globe, commercially as well as non-commercially in the realms of experimental music, progressive rock, electronic music, jazz and metal. He is popularly known as founder member and guitarist of multi-national avant-jazz/soundtrack/experimental act Amogh Symphony.
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Yoav Rosenthal
Earthsync
India/Israel

Yoav Rosenthal is a musician and music producer who has played and toured around the world with various acts and bands. His second love, the digital world led him to head the technical team of ‘LiveDNS’ – a leading company in Internet solutions, web application and information architecture. In 2011 Yoav decided to combine both his passions - Music and Technology - to join EarthSync. Starting out as the development manager of the IndiEarth project, his touring musician experience contributed vastly to the project. Apart from being a project development manager for many EarthSync projects and on the programming team for IndiEarth XChange, Yoav is also an integral part of EarthMoments – a boutique samples project that creates tools and virtual instruments for musicians and music producers.
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Eric Xavier
DJ Xirex/Promusicals
India

"Xirex" is the solo project brought to life by Eric Xavier from New Delhi, India. Filled with overwhelming passion and commitment, Eric strives to surpass set standards with a vision of innovation and creativity in music. Known for his edits and mash ups, Xirex is a talented upcoming DJ in the city who is also a product specialist at ProMusicals, which led him to touring with the NATIVE INSTRUMENTS team across India on the product launch tour, 2018.
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Yash Pathak
India

Yash Pathak is an accomplished music composer/producer, Percusssionist, Sound Engineer and Musicologist from Chennai. He has been part of A.R.Rahman’s band since 10 years performing at Coke Studio, TED Talks, United Nations, IIFA, Amazon Prime series, SonyTV’s Jammin, etc and also he is a faculty at A.R. Rahman’s College - KM Music Conservatory.
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Shubha Mudgal
Artist
India

Born in Allahabad to a family that embraced literature as well as Indian and western music, Shubha Mudgal was trained initially as a Khayal singer by Pandit Ram Ashreya Jha. Later, she received the guidance of Pandit Vinay Chandra Maudgalya, Pandit Vasant Thakar, Smt. Naina Devi and legendary maestro Pt. Kumar Gandharva, becoming one of the most versatile and popular performers of the new generation of Hindustani musicians. She started performing as a classical singer in the 80s and gained a certain reputation as a talented singer who started experimenting with other forms of music, including pop and fusion. As a composer, her mystical poems from the Muslim Sufi-tradition and of rare Hindu texts have been highly praised by critics. She has received the National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film Music Direction in 1996, the 1998 Gold Plaque Award for Special Achievement in Music and the Padma Shri, one of the highest civilian awards in the Republic of India.
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Vaishna Roy
The Hindu
India

Vaishna Roy has been a journalist for 30-odd years, wandering in and out of various publications. At present, she edits the Sunday Magazine and Literary Review for The Hindu besides writing features, book reviews and interviews. She also authors a fortnightly column for The Hindu's Weekend edition on Saturdays. Called Speech Melba, the column is a semi-serious, semi-snarky look at society from the lens of feminism, art, culture and mores. But mostly it's a space that articulates her abiding belief that life is not black or white but just a lovely shade of dove grey.
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Samson Ezekiel
India

Samson Ezekiel has been singing with a Delhi based music ensemble called Artistes Unlimited for eleven years and has performed at various shows with them, and has also been a part of musical-theatre productions produced by the Yellow Brick Project. He has shared the stage with bands like Advaita and Them Clones, has been actively involved in conducting music workshops for students of Delhi University and has also judged many inter-college music competitions. Samson produces and performs experimental-electronic music under the moniker Irulil and was selected for Indie100 in 2017 and got to showcase his music at the IndiEarth XChange. He is also one-half of a downtempo-electronic duo called Vol and recently had their debut performance at the Humming Tree, Bangalore. He has also composed music for a short-film called REM, which was screened at the New York Film Academy.
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Samira Kanwar
VICE
India

After her stint in advertising and music television across 6 years, Samira Kanwar joined OML and started their video division (then called Babble Fish Productions) back in 2008. For 11 years, she was instrumental to its growth as one of the leading content companies in India. Like all start-ups, she took on multiple roles of producer, director, script-writer, editor, head cook and bottle washer at OML and has been a part of the digital revolution, content has gone through in the past couple of years. She is currently the Head of Content, VICE India.
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Paul Jacob
Bodhimuzzik
India

Paul Jacob is a critically acclaimed musician from Chennai who has travelled the world with his music. Having started out playing the bass guitar with his school band aged 12 Paul went on to be a part of several rock bands before joining “Nemesis Avenue”, which featured future Oscar winner A. R. Rahman on keyboard. His music for The Square Circle, a docudrama by Timeri Murari, won the Best Documentary Music Award at the Cannes Film festival in 1998. With Bodhimuzzik, Paul has produced several collaborative folk and classical music projects working with award-winning producers and artists including Thione Seck (Senegal), Francois Breant (France), Susheela Raman (UK), Oikyotaan (India), Yogeswaran Manickam (UK), Laya Project (India), Fantazio (France), and the Hungarian Gypsy Orchestra.
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Sakti Poinen
Mauritius

Radiohost, DJ and music curator from Mauritius. Currently based in Chennai attending KM Music College. Inspiring music label creator.
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Vishnu Prasad
Musician
India

I studied in Km Music college .Now i'm doing music for a tamil movie.
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Sanjay Shankar
Sangeetha Mane
India

I'm Sanjay Shankar Sound Engineer,Record Producer, from Mysore. Passionately Active in the independent Film and Music Industry.
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Niranjan Arcot
Creative Consultant
India

Film maker specializing in films for non-profits that manifest compassion and love on this planet. Organizations that range from rescuing abandoned babies to running old age homes…work that’s acquainted me with many noble souls
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Til Groeger
Germany

I am Student and just completed a Semester abroad at IITM. I am an open minded person and always look for new ideas.
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Navneeth Krishnan
The Sounds Within
India

I am a multi-instrumentalist, primarily a percussionist/drummer and i have studying the tabla for the past 12 years and teaching the same for the last 4/5 years. I am a music technology enthusiast and a self taught producer. I have been dabbling in the fields of recording and performing arts for almost 5 years or so now. I have produced for many artists in the city (hyderabad) and also various solo projects including ones that were lead by myself. I am yet to debut as a solo artist. My first releases are in line and my first Ep is being produced, predominantly in the lines of global fusion/world music. I can't wait to put it out into the world and give it all in. I have been fortunate enough to be working for/along The Sounds Within for 3 years now. I have been helping my business partner and the company as a collective to spread our unique catalog across this plethora of a waking industry and we have been quite successful in whatever we've tried to do so far. Our wave has not risen, but we are looking forward to our projects in the the future and the company's distinctive direction.
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ANAIS RAMBAUD
Yanai Lab
France

Anaïs lived in India three years ago. She engaged strong partnerships to involve cultural exchanges between France and India. Now, she lives in France and develop her own company, called Yanai Lab.
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DUPAS FRANCOISE
Le Petit faucheux
France

Since 2009 : director of Le Petit faucheux, a venue in Tours (France), specialized in jazz and improvision music. 2001-2008 : director of Le Grand Mix, a venue in Tourcoing (France)
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NIVOLLET CAMILLE
Le Petit faucheux
France

since 2015 : community manager for Le Petit faucheux and relationship manager with students
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Cary Stewart
American International School Chennai
India

Cary Stewart is a conductor, arranger, educator and percussionist whose interests span art music, jazz, rock and world music. He has performed and recorded in dozens of countries on four continents. Cary's classical training in wind, brass and percussion informs his clean, organic, contoured, multilayered interpretations of jazz, Latin, metal, and other genres. Cary's signature sound as an arranger and producer involves meaningfully sculpted transitions and rich emotional peaks within a tangibly human aesthetic.
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Vasanthy Hariram
India

Vasanthy Hariram is a musician and has been teaching Piano and Recorder for 15 years, and also launched a Music Therapy Program for a hospital in India. Hariram also organises periodic "Musical Evenings" for artists.
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Sandhya Surendran
Rainbow Bridge
India

An independent legal practitioner, specifically dealing with startups and companies in the ad-tech, media and music industry. Apart from her corporate legal practice, she is actively involved in the music industry as an artist manager and is also involved in creating and building rights awareness among musicians, with respect to intellectual property laws applicable to music.
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Maya Bajaj
India

I'm a vocalist currently studying at the KM Music Conservatory. I'm passionate about Indian classical forms of music and have been performing the above and other genres like pop, jazz, r&b, fusion forms etc since the past couple of years across multiple cities in India. When it comes to creation in music, my belief is to use minimal resources to create a piece.
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Pranav Nahar
Infinite Leadership Academy
India

Pranav an Alchemist and a Maverick Coach. He wears many hats and one amongst is a Leadership, Life Coach and Facilitator. He conducts multiple workshops- “Infinite Leadership” being the flagship format. For his workshops he uses innovative unlearning contexts to create space for exploration creativity and self realisation. He studied at London Business School and Columbia Business School , New York with graduating with Deans List Honors & a Chevening Scholarship & Chazen Fellowship. He was a serial entrepreneur including starting Indian offices of an LSE Listed 200mn Euro carbon finance firm and had more than 700 million USD worth of transactions under his belt. His was a Asia Head of Grassroots Business Fund, a Social Enterprise, Private Equity outfit based out of Washington DC.
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Jemma Jose
India

Hello! I am a digital artist based in Chennai. I specialise in character design, children's book illustration, 2D animation and comics. I graduated from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad in 2015 and currently work as a full-time freelancer.
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Sreedevi Thekkedath
India

I am here for music, music, and more music.
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Devika Natarajan
independent brand consultant
India

An independent brand and advertising professional working in Bangalore.
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Pradvay Sivashankar
Music Mixing Engineer and Producer
India

Pradvay is a freelance music mixing engineer and music producer based in Chennai, India. A graduate in Music Composition from KM Music Conservatory, Chennai, and Middlesex University, London, he completed a fellowship with ROLI Ltd., the inventors of the popular MPE controllers- Seaboard RISE and Lightpad Blocks, and was actively involved in the creation of their "Colours of India" Sound Library. Pradvay has been regularly involved in projects of Academy Award-winning Music Composer Dr. A. R. Rahman, from sharing the screen with him in Coke Studio, to handling the post production of his live concerts, and mixing the music of his Original Soundtracks for feature film "Beyond the Clouds" and Amazon Prime Exclusive web series "Harmony with A. R. Rahman".
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Sachin M S
India

An engineer who works 9 - 5 in a family owned automobile industry and post 5 freelances as an Events Curator, DJ and MC.
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Fievre Arnaud
Capsul Collectif
France

Arnaud Fièvre is in charge of production, administration, public relations, international mobility and cultural outreach for Compagny Capsul Collectif
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Jeff CADET
BISIK
France

Jeff CADET is ACTER (Acting for Culture and Tourism in the East of Reunion island) director. He created and is managing the BISIK, the first Music Venue in Saint-Benoit, capital of The East of the Island. He’s also booking for several artists from both Reunion and Mauritius Islands.
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Aamna Javeed
Commutatus
India

I'm a young, enthusiastic learner who is interested in improving my knowledge and scope in various fields. I aim to acquire exposure to multiple fields and improve my core skills along the way. I love music the most and have a vast taste in the various genres. Understanding how music can connect everyone is a concept I've always believed in and in future, I'd like to research on various personalities adapting to different genres. How moods and emotions are heavily influenced by tunes is something I'd love to understand with everyone's opinions and exposure to such thoughts.
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Anirudh Bharadwaj
L&T Construction, Chennai
India

Traveller, Art, Music, Culture, Photography I document the hidden cultures of the India, I travel in search for some amazing talents and hidden cultures of India. Explored into the depths of culture in Karnataka. I search of Independent artists who deliver the best in class music. Listen Promote and Share
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Shilpa Ivaturi
India

Actor, teacher and psychology student looking to engage in dialogue with experts in creative fields.
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Buyun Zhao
LiveTree Limited
United Kingdom

Buyun is the Chief Operating Officer of LiveTree where he heads the strategic development arm of the company. Prior to this, he was mentored by partners at McKinsey & Co. in strategy consultancy and was an advisor to several leading private equity firms and hedge funds. Buyun is a trained neuroscientist at the MRC in Cambridge and holds four degrees from Cambridge University.
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Andrew Wilson
Electronic Music Production student
India

I'm an aspiring artist, music producer and a student at KM Music Conservatory. My primary goal is to become the best musician I can be and a pioneering artist of the Indian independent music scene. Ableton Live 10 suite is my DAW of choice and Kanye West inspires me to work harder better faster stronger (Yes, I'm aware of it being a Daft Punk sample). Looking forward to interacting with professionals and enthusiasts alike at this event!
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Aditya kiran
India

Im a human
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Akshay Baheti
India

Training in Classical Vocals and Western Classical Piano. Have an affection for Rock , Soft Jazz And Sufi. Completing my Diploma in Audio Engineering from K.M Conservatory Chennai.
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Sooraj Sivadas
The Inventory
India

As distributors and dealers of the best brands in the world of music technology, we provide the most cutting edge tools for music production, sound engineering and live performance. Our team consists of professional DJs, producers and sound engineers with years of experience at the forefront, constantly pushing the boundaries of music technology and electronic music production in India. As expert users and passionate critiques of music technology products, we are able to provide objective insights about these products to our dealers and customers, helping them make informed decisions and purchases. We also provide the support our customers and dealers require to truly get the most out of the experience of using these world class products.
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Ayman Hamzaki
India

I'm a 22 year old short film maker from Bangalore.
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Roy Dipankar
Content Curator / Filmmaker
India

Through more than a decade, Roy has worked in advertising, a magazine, a vineyard, a cafe and record labels. For a better part he has dealt with branding, creation and marketing of music, film & video art, as an oft non-conforming artistically debauch A&R (artist & repertoire professional) and a compulsive anthropologist. Roy curates film screenings of independent cinema and makes films that convey compelling stories of our times. He is an active contributor to the music subculture eco-system.
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Sujay Kulkarni
VICE India
India

Sujay Kulkarni is an associate producer at VICE India.
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AMJATH MEERAN
Meeran Theatres
India

Over the last 15 years Amjath has been producing more than a dozen film-content as a film writer. He has written all his scripts, line-produced and done complete Production of three of his works. Amjath Meeran is a Film Director, Writer, lyricist, Proprietor of a Film Production Company and An Artist - Both Performing & Visual. Overall he has 18 years of experience in Film Making. He started his journey in the year 2001 and went on to introduce a new genre called Short Feature Films. These Short features have earned many accolades. So technically his current feature film is not a debut, it is his 5th Directorial venture. The film is under development. He has played various roles in the mainstream films for more than a decade. During his evolution as a filmmaker he has worked as an Assistant Director, Co-Director, Technician, Creative Consultant for 5 gen of filmmakers.
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Sreekar Suravajhala
Qube Cinemas Pvt. Ltd.
India

An avid Moviebuff who switched lanes from Accounting to Media.
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Ishaan Ahluwalia
Vh1 Supersonic, LIVE Viacom18
India

Over 12 years of experience in Talent & Programming Head of artist bookings & programming for Sunburn Festival – 2007 – 2013 Head of artist bookings & programming for Vh1 Supersonic Festival – 2014 to present Some of the artists booked & toured India – Skrillex, SHM, Avicii, Deadmau5, Eric Prydz, Zedd, Disclosure, Major Lazer, Marshmello, Sean Paul, Alt- J, Incubus, Adam Beyer, Carl Craig, Joseph Capriati, Magda, Josh Wink etc.
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Solomon Nesaraj
The inventory
India

I am a musician and sound engineer, Always looking forward to learn and explore more in sound and music.
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Rajesh Kanagasabai
India

Filmmaker and an Actor
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Aakash L
India

I am a guitarist by passion and software engineer by profession. I have been playing guitar for the past 4 years and am a part of bands called Sattva and unison.
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Anuj Dimri

Musician, singer ,performer, music producer The Anuj Dimri Live “The Soul Experience” is led by Anuj Dimri and also features some of the country’s most talented independent artists. ‘Anuj Dimri Live’ presents a perfect blend of popular Indian film music and innovating timeless classic melodies with modern music arrangements and sensibilities. The vocals, the lyrics, the melodies – are all brought back without being re-hashed but with our unique rendition.
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Arnav Singhal
Vh1 Supersonic, LIVE Viacom18
India

Arnav Singhal has been working in the Music & Entertainment Industry for just over ten years. He began his career as an artist manager and booking agent for artists like Nucleya, Indigo Children/Superfuzz, Advaita, Kohra etc. at the Delhi based management & bookings agency; Music Gets Me High. In 2010, he took over the prestigious Escape Festival of Arts & Music in Uttarakhand, as the Festival Head/Curator and drove the multi-genre destination festival up-till 2014. Between 2009 & 2015, he also worked closely with the legacy brand; Rock Street Journal, with two stints as their Events & Programming Head. Earlier in 2010, he co-founded; Noosphere - a bookings & events agency, which further branched out into a digital record label - representing independent Indian musicians - in 2015. Currently, he works at Viacom18 as part of their experiential marketing division; LIVE Viacom18, INS (Integrated Network Solutions), working on entertainment IPs like Vh1 Supersonic, MTV Xtreme, Emerge etc.

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