About
ASHISH DHA is a music teacher, performer-composer, sound designer and spoken-word artiste. His specialty is cross-genre experimental music, often based on Hindustaanee raags, but drawing on influences ranging from Wasifuddin Dagar to Avril Lavigne. His latest passion is 'Musical Meditations' on hammered dulcimer, piano and voice. He has given many concerts of his original experimental music, 'Hindustaanee 2.0', as well as lecture-demonstrations and workshops, in music, sound, spoken word, phonetics and acoustics. He has performed around the world, including in USA, UK, Ireland, France, India and Pakistan. His formal training has been in Hindustaanee raagdaaree singing - both qhayaal and dhrupad fundamentals. After freelancing in India and getting an MFA degree in Sound Design from California Institute of the Arts, USA, he is now based in Dublin, Ireland, where he teaches online and runs his sound studio cum music learning and performance center, Naadaalay.