photo: Zuzanna Butkiewicz
Bishi is an innovative artist that works in the field of contemporary and multi-disciplinary art which covers and incorporates forms such as music, interactive visual technologies and performance. Without a doubt, she could be categorized as a bright and powerful example of a multi-cultural approach to creating art.
Coming from a family of well-known Indian musicians, she was raised and spent her youth in London. Her experience in music started with piano and singing lessons and then continued into her teens with learning to play the guitar and discovering and exploring the world of analog synthesizers and electronic music. Later she became the face and a resident DJ of one of the most popular London parties at the beginning of the 2000s, Kash Point, which she organized with her friend – a famous London club promoter, Matthew Glamorre. Meanwhile, she was also learning to play the sitar at Ravi Shankar’s school.
Having two albums under her belt that cover her different interests and preferences like electronic, folk, classic Western and Indian music as well as choral music, Bishi also did a lot of exciting collaborations on the side like working with Shean Lennon on the soundtrack for the horror movie “Ava’s Possessions”, supporting tours by Roisin Murphy and the ex-Kraftwerk member, Wolfgang Fleur.
Bishi is also known as an artist who is always interested in using new cutting-edge technologies in her shows. She was one of the pioneers of inventing interactive mapping, a technology that is now widely used by many artists. This interest in technology recently led Bishi to be not just an artist but also an entrepreneur and a public figure that supports technological innovations in art. A couple of years ago she started a project called WITCiH – a series of workshops, public talks and a music festival dedicated to women that use these cutting-edge technologies in their art.
In her interview with All Andorra Bishi tells us how her WITCiH project has developed and is rapidly growing, her new musical plans, favourite collaborations, places where she likes to live and create art and shares her thoughts about Brexit and the political situation in the UK at the moment.
Interview: Dmitry Tolkunov
Hi Bishi! As far as I understand, besides creating music you are also very deeply involved in other activities like being a public figure behind the movement WITCiN – which is a series of workshops, public talks and a musical festival. Can you please tell more about it, what is this WITCiH all about?
Yes, of course. When I was touring with my second album “Albion Voice”, I realized that there is a big community of artists that are working in the same field as me, by integrating music, visual art and performance. For some people, it’s hard to understand how this integration and multi-disciplinary approach works. It’s becoming a more adjustable way of doing things, but still, it is complicated when it comes to technical things like booking tours for these kinds of artists or doing the right marketing.
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