Modular synths meet drone and raga in Arushi Jain’s experimental electronic music. With a rich sonic vocabulary, she channels, celebrates, and reiterates Indian musical tradition in a dazzling digital soundscape. On the same evening, you can take a dive into Respira’s ambient soundscapes.

Respira

With Respira’s music, you can breathe out… and in. Respira explores the meeting point between the meditative and the musical. Behind the project is composer and sound designer Markus Trige Frandsen, whose work revolves around fluid ambient and a curiosity for the connection between sound and human consciousness. In his sound, ecstatic new age and minimalist drone music merge. It’s music to lean back into and feel in your body.

Arushi Jain

At 18, Indian composer and vocalist Arushi Jain moved to the U.S. to study computer science at Stanford University. There, she took a course titled “Laptop Orchestra,” where the musician trained in classical Indian singing was introduced to the world of modular synthesizers. “I was unaware of the power of making music until this phase of my life,” she has said. “I saw there was space for all cultures within electronic music, and for the creation of new cultures, third spaces, with the artform.” It is this “third space” that we are invited to journey into when Arushi Jain visits ALICE with her stunning, dreamy, and digital sound.

Arushi Jain’s debut album, ‘Under The Lilac Sky’, was hailed Experimental Album of the Year by Pitchfork and Global Album of the Month by The Guardian. Her latest record, ‘Delight’ from last year, is inspired by the traditional Indian melodic form Raga Bageshri, which is said to express the feeling of longing to be reunited with a beloved. What Arushi Jain yearns for, however, is not a person, but a feeling. Delight. On this album, she has collaborated with several acoustic musicians, which is why one can also hear the sounds of cello, guitar, marimba, flute, and saxophone alongside her signature elements: lush classical Indian vocals and modular synths. “These compositions represent Jain at her most vibrant, coaxing a cornucopia of sounds out of a single raga,” wrote Pitchfork in its glowing review of the album. We can’t wait to let Arushi Jain’s sonic landscapes fill our concert hall!