About BISHI
BISHI is an artist, composer and producer born in London of Bengali heritage. As a multi-instrumentalist, she has been trained in both Hindustani and Western Classical styles and studied the sitar under Gaurav Mazumdar, a senior disciple of Ravi Shankar. BISHI has independently released three albums and several EPs on her own label Gryphon Records to critical acclaim. She co-produced her third album ‘Let My Country Awake,’ released in October 2021. Part-inspired by groundbreaking essay collection, ‘The Good Immigrant’ and Tagore’s Nobel-winning poem exploring borderless identity, ‘Let My Country Awake’ features revolutionary use of BISHI’s trademark electric sitar and four-octave vocal range alongside sampled interviews from Nikesh Shukla, Salena Godden, and Darren Chetty. The album’s themes focus on dual identities, anti-racism, and a call to find empathy in a divided world ★★★★★ - The New Internationalist
“Bishi is Art” - Miranda Sawyer
BISHI has recorded work with Tony Visconti, Sean Ono Lennon, Jarvis Cocker, and Daphne Guinness. Her collaborations and commissions for the stage include; The London Symphony Orchestra, The Kronos Quartet, Yoko Ono’s ‘Meltdown’, a film collaboration with fashion designer Manish Arora, and the City of London Sinfonia as a Tanpura soloist on Jonny Greenwood’s ‘Water. BISHI’s compositions have been placed in both film (Tropique dir Eduoard Salier (2023) and TV (Disney+, Channel 4). She produced LANDR’s first-ever Sitar Sample pack and has recently worked with Real World Studios, Spitfire Audio, Spitalfields Music, Ableton and Delic. BISHI's first sound art installation 'Reflektions,' sold out the Random String Festival at Coventry City of Culture 2021, has been exhibited internationally and in 2022 became the first artist’s work to be project-mapped across UNESCO World Heritage sites, The Queen’s House & Royal Naval College, London.
In 2023, BISHI composed and produced her first original score for VR experience ‘Maya, The Birth of a Superhero’ receiving Special Jury Mention at TriBeCa Film Festival. She has composed choral music for Trans Voices, the UK’s first professional trans+ choir and in 2023 become part of a team developing an AI composer tool with the University of Sheffield. In 2024, BISHI composed the original score for her first TV series, 'Defiance - Fighting the Far Right' for Channel 4.
BISHI is celebrated for the use of ground breaking technology in her live performances, from interactive bodysuits, controlling sound & vision live onstage to live coded audiovisual environments. She recently performed live-coded AV shows at Southbank Centre, London and Elbphilharmie Hamburg along with mixed reality online performances for Amazon Twitch. Her latest music video Language Is An Ocean in collaboration with acclaimed director Shruti Ganguly was premiered on Wonderland and exhibited at ASVOFF 2021.
A passionate advocate for inclusivity in the music industry & the gender equality, BISHI is the founder of WITCiH (Women in Tech Creative Industries Hub), a platform elevating women, trans and non-binary creative practitioners in tech. She recently curated ‘WITCiH Digital Festival’ starring Laurie Anderson, Ana Matronic and Hannah Peel and the Creative Women In Tech podcast featuring Anna Meredith, Gazelle Twin, Nwando Ebizie, Adah Parris, Alex Box. BISHI has been a broadcaster on BBC Radio 4, and is currently an ambassador for Imogen Heap's Creative Passport. She is also on the board of directors for the Featured Artists Coalition and The F-List for Music. BISHI was a Keychange Innovator (2022)
BISHI is supported by PRS Foundation’s The Open Fund
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James Egelhofer
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Elise Brown