Audio-Visual Artists Murthovic and Thiruda Unveil New Project Elsewhere In India

Following its first show at Magnetic Fields Festival, the duo will head on to a variety of performances, finessing "transmedia" performance as they go along

- ANURAG TAGAT

FOLLOWING COLLABORATIONS that ranged from a videogame called Antara to a Bharatnatyam dance opera like Antariksha Sanchar, producer Murthovic aka M.S.R. Murthy and visual artist Thiruda aka Avinash Kumar have now emerged with a third thread to their universe, an audio-visual performance project called Elsewhere In India.

HWith the debut performance taking place at Magnetic Fields Festival in Rajasthan this week, Elsewhere In India pulls together ideas of decolonization, Indian heritage as well as artificial intelligence and Carnatic-electronic fusion, among other concepts. Thiruda credits their dive into vast topics around Indian cultural heritage and working with gaming engines as reasons why every project is so multi-faceted. “I think with both Murthy and my projects, we have multiple interests in the work that we do which allow for all kinds of musical genres, audiovisual kind of work and different mediums,” he adds.