Description
Join us for intimate performances in the Freer courtyard on Tuesday afternoons. Explore the newly renovated courtyard and the nearby galleries while music drifts through the building. Join us each day for a different artist and performance.
RSVP recommended
About Arushi Jain
Arushi Jain is a modular synthesist, singer, producer, radio host, and engineer with an unorthodox vision of a centuries-old tradition—one that’s electronic and resolutely DIY. Her compositions are inspired by Hindustani classical ragas, explored in an aesthetic that is contemporary and current. Her music is a unique reinterpretation of her two contrasting worlds colliding. Arushi grew up in Delhi, where she was exposed to Indian classical and other regional music from a young age. Later, Arushi moved to California to study computer science at Stanford University, where she was introduced to computer-generated sounds and synthesis at the Centre for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). In her music, ancient ragas from North India are reimagined with the tools and technologies she learned as a synthesist and technologist in the Bay Area. Her last album, Under the Lilac Sky, was released by Leaving Records in July 2021 and was named the The Guardian’s global album of the month. Her work has been featured on Pitchfork, Bandcamp, Boiler Room, Ableton, Resident Advisor, FACT Magazine, Crack, DJMag, and more. Arushi is the founder of GHUNGHRU, a radio series and record label, and is a resident at NTS Radio and boxout.fm. She is popularly known by her online moniker @modularprincess.
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This performance is presented in collaboration with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. Arushi Jain appears on Bravespace, a compilation of original songs, sounds and meditations created by Asian American women and non-binary artists and musicians.
