Arun [...] Is: Toronto/New York-based musician, producer, instrumentalist, sometimes-soundartist [...] Plays: instruments, loops, samples, synthesizers, glitches, software and anything that makes a noise [...] Derives: influence from everything from dub to punk to ambient to hip-hop to industrial to Indian classical to dancehall to electro to bop to drum'n'bass to new wave (and more working in the unconscious) to make stuff that sounds variously like all and none of the above [...] Interests: in textures, effects, & sound manipulation, density, minimalism, ambience, funk, feedback, glitch, ethereality, fuzz, reverb, space, samples, cut-ups, audio/media/politics, anti-racist and anti-imperialist themes [...] Objects: to imperialism-racism-capitalism, identity politics, Desi Kool, white supremacist indie-rock poseurs, ethnofetishism [...] Collaborators: Prasonik for improvised loop-based electro/techno/noise/funk [...] Dave Hudson for anti-imperialist and anti-racist spoken word with sound collage of textures, samples, media cut-ups, noise [...] Farheen Beg for downtempo lush & soulful tunes [...] Sound & being in process: more to come...
