Rajivan Ayyappan

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article or section does not cite its references or sources.
Please help improve this article by introducing appropriate citations. (help, get involved!) This article has been tagged since July 2006.

Rajivan Ayyappan works independently as a sound artist, composer for dance, and sound designer for film and multi-media. His work primarily moves around and explores the contemporary realms of music, sound and auditory experiences. Performance, installation and design are the avenues through which he applies and practices his musical thinking. Recent projects include: The Air Around – a global network/real-time performance installation with 213 sound artists from around the world and Signals untitled – an installation based on travel maps from Bangalore.

Other projects include sound design for Bollywood productions including, The Rising made by Ketan Mehta, 15 Park Avenue by Aparna Sen, and Itself – commissioned by the Snagged and Clored choreographic project at the Royal Opera House and choreographed by Saju Hari. In 1998 he received an award from the Indian Foundation of Arts for a performing arts exploration project with contemporary dancers from India and in 2001, and for another work entitled upside down singing – a mixed media performance created in collaboration with the Bauls of Bengal.

As a composer, Ayyappan draws on diverse musical and visual art cultures as points of reference. He was born in Kerala, lives a nomadic life.

more details: RAJIVAN AYYAPPAN. SOUND ARTIST/COMPOSER

Nationality: INDIAN Date of birth: 02|March|1965 Postal address: Fireflys Post Sound, 307 Golden Chambers, New Link Rd., Andheri west, Bombay 5600053 E-mail: rajivan.ayyappan@gmail.com

Design Education: Design methodology Visual communication design (1984-1990) National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India. Music education: South Indian music (Vocal/ percussion.1970-1982) Studied under Sri.Ithittanam Kuttappan Bhagavadar, Kerala. North Indian music (Vocal.1984-1986) Studied under Pdt. Atul Desai, Ahmedabad. Self taught Instruments: Sarod, Guitars and percussion instruments

SOUND INSTALLATIONS/ PERFORMANCES

Telescapes (Audio elf): 5.1 composition based on Soccer. Scorecologn light screen instalation. Museum für Angewandte Kunst. Koln 2006. Dusting off: Transitory sound installation. Openhouse project. Town house gallery. Cairo, Egypt 2006. The Air Around: Soundscape installation based on Global Networked performance with 213 sound artists. World information.org., Bangalore. 2005. Signals untitled: Soundscape installation. Mapping spaces from Bangalore. Srishti school of Arts and Design. Bangalore. 2004. Metro-scapes: Soundscape compositions from the Paris Metro. Self funded. Bomaby. 2004. Found sound: Pre-fabricated interactive sound objects based on a number of found objects from the travels. Net-art forum. 2003. Subsequent hearing: Sound scape compositions from Urban India. Funded by Sarai, Delhi. 2003. Notebook 45 mnts: Site specific mix-media performance. Funded by India foundation for the arts, Bangalore. 2001. Whistle tree: Site-specific installation. Funded by Radiodrum electroacoustic, Bangalore. 2001.

FILMSOUND AND VIDEO Printed Rainbow: 13mnts. Animation Film. Made by Gitanjali Rao. Mumbai-2005 Straight 8: 18mnts. A compilation of 8mm Films. Made by Ayisha Abraham. Bangalore. 2005. The Rising (Mangal Pandey): 120mnts. Feature Film. Made by Ketan Mehta. Kaleidoscope productions. Bombay. 2005. 15 Park Avenue: I20mnts. Feature Film. Made by Aparna Sen. SPS productions. Calcutta. 2005. My Wife’s Murder: I20mnts. Feature Film. Made by Jiji Philip. Ram Gopal Verma productions. Calcutta. 2005. Gram-vikas 100%: 60mnts. Video. Made by Mamta Moorthy. Bombay. 2003. Turtle People (Aamakkar): 75mnts. Video. Made by Surabhi Sharma. Crysallis productions. Bombay. 2002. Child Play: 10mnts. Animation Film. Made by Monali Sadanan. National Institute Of Design, Ahmedabad. 2001. Naja goes to School: 20mnts. Film. Made by Chilpa Ranade. Produced by channel 4. UK. 1999. Thatchusastram: 60mnts. Film. Made by Sasibhooshan. Doordarsan. Trivandrum. 1995. VK Krishnamenon: 60mnts. Film. Made by Ramu Aravindan. Film division, India. 1993.

CHOREOGRAPHIC COMPOSITIONS/ PERFORMANCES Permanent Impermanent: Choregrapher/ performer: Emanuela Iacopini Atelier Tapas dance. dance works. London. 2006. Itself: Choregrapher/ performer: Saju Hari. Snagged and Clored choreographic project. Royal Opera House. London. 2005. Moner manush: Choregrapher/ performer: Khalid Tyabji. Theatre trust. Bangalore. 2002. Inaugural music: Choreographer: Jaychandran P., Attakkalari. Contemporary dance festival. Cochin. 1999. Far yest too close: Choreographer: Jaychandran. Imlata dance company. London. 1998. 120 footsteps: 14 mnts. Choreographer: Tripura Kasyap. Apporva Dance company. Bangalore. 1997. Spin: 2 mnts. Choreograoher/ performer: Viswakant Sinha. New Delhi. 1997.

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../r/a/j/Rajivan_Ayyappan_953c.html"