I am currently a PhD Student in the East-West Psychology Department at the California Institute of Integral Studies
I am working on an autoethnographic dissertation which sees the role of the musician as a nomadic agent in sono-rituals precipitating sound bodies in transindividual becomings.
Publications
• Publication for the Indian Posthumanism Network (June 2021)
Paper: Becoming Raga: North Indian Music as a Technology of Integral Becoming
• Publication in Music & Social Justice Quaran/zine: Edition 1.2 (2021)
Paper: Jazz as Brave Space: (re)Framing Technologies of Creative Becoming
Original Composition (solo for 4 saxophones): Planetary Considerations
- Publication in Journal of Dharma Studies (2020):
Book Review: Becoming Self, Becoming Cosmos: Introduction to Integral Yoga Psychology
Debashish Banerji (Ed): Integral Yoga Psychology: Metaphysics andTransformation as Taught by Sri Aurobindo. Lotus Press, 2020
- Publication in Critical Studies in Improvisation (2016):
Musical Transcendence: A Jazz musician’s journey into the heart of Indian Classical music
Conferences
• Sustainability and Contemplative Civilization: The Integral Vision of Sri Aurobindo (September 2023) Academic conference hosted by Asian Contemplative and Transcultural Studies (ACTS), co-hosted by Journal of Dharma Studies
Video Presentation: Utopian Transindividuation: Aleatory Gnosis and Spiritual-Anarchy
• East-West Psychology Department Student Symposium (May 2023)
Presentation: Sono-Fictioning: Horizons of Thought and Sound
• East-West Psychology Department Student Symposium (May 2022)
Video Presentation: Becoming-Song: Contemplative Transcultural Sono-Fictioning
• Philosophy and Mysticism (August 2021)
Video Presentation and Musical Performance: Becoming-Raga
• Indian Posthumanism Network (June 2021)
Paper: Becoming Raga: North Indian Music as a Technology of Integral Becoming
Video Presentation of Paper here.
• UCLA Ethnomusicology Department: Global Musics and Musical Communities (2019)
Is it Just Sound? Free Improvisation between New York and Kolkata
co-presented with Amandine Pras
• California Institute of Integral Studies: 1968 Revisited: Whatever Happened to Revolution, Counterculture, Pedagogy, Utopia? (2018)
Musical Performance by Reimagination Trio