Siddharth Biswas

Projects

Music made through
collaboration.

Selected collaborative, participatory and educational projects developed with artists, performers, communities and institutions.

Moving between installation, dance, education, performance and creative technology, these works grow through conversation, experimentation and shared discovery. They explore what can happen when music is shaped not by one person alone, but through relationships between bodies, spaces, technologies and the people gathered around them.

Selected projects · 2024–present

Selected work

Featured Projects

Temporary visual reference for A Body in Relay
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DANCE / RESPONSIVE PERFORMANCE

WITH YUXI JIANG

IN DEVELOPMENT

A Body in Relay

An interdisciplinary collaboration exploring how movement, live musical decision-making and responsive digital systems can shape one another.

Developed with dancer Yuxi Jiang, the project places the dancer, musician and technological system within an evolving relationship. Movement influences the musical environment, while live interventions alter the rules through which the system responds.

Rather than treating the body as a controller that simply triggers sound, A Body in Relay asks how control might move between performers, technologies and the space around them.

Dance · Improvisation · Camera tracking · Live systems

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COLLABORATIVE INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION

TINDERBOX COLLECTIVE × RAY INTERACTIVE

2026

DIVIDUAL

An interactive installation developed through Tinderbox Collective’s Room to Play programme, imagining the public showroom of a playful but increasingly sinister technology corporation.

I contributed interactive digital narratives, networked camera systems, responsive soundscapes and live magical encounters—exploring how technology can watch, address and persuade the people using it.

Tinderbox Collective · Hidden Door · Interactive installation · 2026

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PARTICIPATORY PERFORMANCE

TINDERBOX COLLECTIVE

2026

The Magic Show

A playful collaborative project built through performance, shared problem-solving and audience participation.

Developed with artists and participants through Tinderbox Collective, The Magic Show used play as both a creative process and a way of bringing people together. The work grew through workshops, experiments and collective decisions rather than following a fixed structure from the beginning.

My involvement included musical performance, creative development and contributing to the shared experience of the project.

Play · Participation · Performance · Collaboration

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Practice beyond the stage

Education & Community

Projects developed through teaching, creative exchange and engagement with young musicians and educational communities.

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MUSIC EDUCATION

ANANT SANGEET ACADEMY

2024

Musical Development at Anant Sangeet Academy

Teaching, mentoring and supporting the musical development of young performers through piano lessons, recitals and creative music-making.

From March to July 2024, I worked as a Piano Instructor at Anant Sangeet Academy. My role involved individual and group teaching, preparing students for performances and contributing to musical events organised by the academy.

The experience strengthened my interest in teaching as a creative practice—one that develops confidence, curiosity and individual musical identity alongside technical ability.

Teaching · Piano · Mentorship · Student performance

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EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH

SANSKAR SCHOOL

YEAR TO BE CONFIRMED

Returning Through Music

A creative music initiative developed for students at Sanskar School, bringing together performance, learning and personal experience.

Returning to the school as a musician and educator created an opportunity to share a journey that had once begun in the same environment. Through performance, conversation and practical musical activities, the project introduced students to different ways of learning, creating and building a life through music.

The session encouraged students to see musical practice not only as technical training, but as a space for curiosity, discipline and personal expression.

Education · Outreach · Performance · Creative practice

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Research Context

PhD · 2025–present

Creative Music Practice at the University of Edinburgh

I am currently undertaking a PhD in Creative Music Practice at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh.

My research brings together composition, performance, physical movement and creative technology. It explores how musical experiences can emerge through relationships between performers, audiences, bodies and interactive systems.

Rather than presenting the PhD as a single finished work, this section provides the wider context for a growing collection of performances, collaborations and experiments. Public outcomes will be documented individually as they develop.

PhD Creative Music Practice · Edinburgh College of Art · 2025–present

Read about my research