Pin Rada is a World music producer and multi-instrumentalist performer based in Melbourne, Australia who, as a migrant from Chile, regularly collaborates in studio work and on stage with other musicians from diverse cultural backgrounds. He specialises in unique Eastern bowed and wind instruments and has a passion for modal composition and improvisation. He produces recordings from his home studio in Eltham, Victoria 'Telluric Music' and is gaining a growing reputation for his characteristic versatillity across a wide range of instrumenation.
Locally in Australia he has worked with an enourmous variety of other migrant and ethnic Australian musicians including; Croatian multi-instrumentalist Mark Planigale, Mosambique vocalist Kobya (a.k.a Carlos Panguana), Moroccan Oud player Brahim Benhim, The Western Thrace Sufi Music Ensemble, Vietnamese horn player Tai Jordan, Bosnian vocalist Amela Usanovic, Turkish percussionist Ugur Serpinli, Samoan/New Zealand harpist Natalia Mann, Italian singer songwriter Kavisha Mazzella, Indonesian vocalist Ria Soemardjo, Sudanese singer Ajak Kwai, and Russian singer Zulya Kamalova.
He also regularly travels and collaborates overseas with musicians from Turkey, India, and Thailand and has worked extensively in Istanbul with a variety of musicians including; Armenian duduk virtuoso Suren Asaduryan, fretless guitarist Cenk Erdogan, percussionist Izzet Kizil, multi-instrumentalist Erkan Ogur, Baykus Music producer Sinan Sakizli, and the group Unified Gecko.
He specialises particularly in Eastern bowed and wind instruments, namely North Indian Sarangi, Turkish Ney, and Creten Lyra, but also performs Didjeridoo, Turkish saz, Dulcimer, Indian Basuri flute, and various western stringed instruments. He has also studied music extensively in Turkey, Greece, and India and is presently a student to Indian sarangi virtuoso Pandit Santosh Misra.
As a Music Producer and Sound Engineer he travels with laptop and recording equipment and has recorded music projects throughout Australia, Turkey, and Thailand. His latest CD "The Melbourne-Istanbul Sessions" brings together collaborations with top musicians from both places. Presently plans are underway to record his next CD in collaboration with musicians from Varanasi, India and should be released in mid 2009.