The DAW
Generated sound at the core — played, not pressed.
An electronic fusion ensemble
Live I/O · No backing tracks
Mumbai · Twenty years in the making
Binary Notes
Ones and zeros. And everything they can’t compute.
Ghazal. Qawwali. Bandish. Live hands. Generated sound at the core. One foundry, two outputs — the stage, and the screen.
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01 — The Idea
The name is the
whole philosophy.
Binary — the computer, the ones and zeros, the electronic half of the sound. Notes — the melody, the raag, the human half. Neither is a garnish for the other.
On stage: a full band and a computer that is played, not pressed — no backing tracks, half the music triggered live, phrase by phrase.
You can’t tell where the machine ends and the musicians begin. That’s the point.
BassElectric guitarPercussionSynthPianoVocals+ The Machine
02 — Anatomy of the Sound
Four bodies,
one signal.
Where the sound comes from — and where it goes.
The Band
Live instrumentation, set against the machine.
The Raag
Ghazal, qawwali, bandish — carried in the melody.
The Room
Room-scale sensory light, drawn live with the set.
Half human
(
Half machine
)
Entirely timeless
03 — The Repertoire
The most beautiful music this part of the world has ever made — rebuilt inside the machine.
Not a party playlist. The foundry floor. Five forms, kept molten. Heard live: one unbroken arc. Cast to picture: one at a time. Rest on a form — the room turns colour. Its note sounds.
01
The Ghazal
The slow burn. Candle-light and sub-bass. A voice that waits. The couplet lands — late, on purpose. The room exhales.
02
The Qawwali
The fire. Claps like flint. Dholak at a gallop. The refrain circles — rises — catches. A machine dares to keep up. Barely.
03
The Khayal
The long line. One breath, refusing to end. Gayaki carried whole into circuitry. Nothing clipped. Nothing quantised. The meend survives the machine.
04
The Bandish
The composition. A raag with architecture. Set, phrase by phrase, against the grid. Tension. Release. The grid bends first.
05
The Golden Age
The bridge. The great film soundtracks — strings in mono, melodies a nation still hums. Where these forms first went to picture. And stayed.
ONE EVENINGBUILT AS A SINGLE ARC60 / 90 MIN
Every form above casts to picture Original score Film & screen
04 — The Experience
You don’t attend it.
You’re inside it.
Mehfils, dinners, seated concerts, launches — every point of light below is a guest.
Private home
The mehfil
An audience invited because they’ll actually listen.
Seated · unhurried
The dinner
The one beautiful evening inside a wedding week.
Seated · ticketed
The concert
A hall that listens — one unbroken arc.
By invitation
The launch
Rooms where the room is the statement.
60 / 90minute sets, one unbroken arc
0backing tracks, ever
½the music triggered live, phrase by phrase
1machine on stage — played, not pressed
05 — The Road Ahead
Now
Mehfils & concerts
Where the set is honed.
Next
Bigger rooms
Halls that choose to listen.
Then
Festival stages
India and beyond. Built to travel.
Booking — enquiries open
For the people who
came to listen.
60- and 90-minute seated sets. Mehfils. Dinners. Concerts. Brand evenings. And original score — cast to picture, by enquiry.