PERINPANATHAN, Vinthya

Vinthya Perinpanathan is an interdisciplinary artist who in her PhD combines the Sinhalese and Tamil music traditions of her heritage in the contemporary European context of her musical upbringing. This project is supervised by Professor Camden Reeves at the University of Manchester and is funded by the AHRC NWCDTP Postgraduate Research Studentship. She also performs under the alias ‘Vindya’, DJing and producing dark, fast and groove-driven techno.

Vinthya began her doctoral compositional practice with a keen focus on bringing Sri Lankan music to European concert halls to expose Western audiences to sounds they might not have otherwise been familiar with. This is her intended contribution as a composer to the deconstruction of Eurocentric ideas of non-‘Western’ music.