Department of Music

Varun Kishore

CCT (Composition & Computer Technologies)

Biography

Varun Kishore is a guitarist and composer from Kolkata, India. His work explores interdisciplinary approaches to music technology, literature, and the audiovisual, with a focus on designing frameworks for composition and improvisation to investigate what he sees as the ‘apocalyptic’ nature of creative practice. His recent work has been performed by the Tokyo Gen’on Project,  Popebama, and Hypercube, and has been presented at SEAMUS, the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, the South Bend Museum of Art, Performing Media Festival, and Earth Day Art Model. His current areas of interest include drone and experimental electronic music, metal studies, maximalism, digital instrument and interface design, alternative notation, and video.

Varun is a graduate of the University of West London (BMus Popular Music Performance, 2012) and Goldsmiths, University of London (MMus Creative Practice, 2019). He is currently a PhD student in the Composition & Computer Technologies program at the University of Virginia.