Shruti Nagaraj

Digital Direction (MA)

Ridley's live experimental food sounds and improvised piano and violin performance at Ridley Road Market. To highlight the intermingling of cultures and communities at the market, I collaborated with Roland Erijo (chef), Cenk Esen (keys) and Julia Brüssel (violin).

Eye of the Storm, an ambisonic audio-visual installation linking sudden changes in improvised violin performance (Julia Brüssel) to London's weather patterns visualised using live wind data. Presented at Cesure Paris, IRCAM Forum 2024

Ridley: Multisensorial 2 screen installation at Festival of Communication, RCA 2024.

Ridley: Roland Erijo grilling Nigerian Suya, traders at the market, 3D scan of Ridley Road Market's iconic mural.

About

Shruti Nagaraj is a multimedia designer and photographer originally from Bangalore, India, now based in London. Her work blends sonic and visual art, focusing on documenting communities and ecological themes to create immersive experiences. Her project, “Eye of the Storm,” exhibited at the IRCAM Forum 2024, explores the unpredictability and spontaneous similarities in improvised violin performance and wind patterns through the use of ambisonics, film, and creative coding.

Shruti’s graduate project, “Ridley,” maps and documents food and gentrification in Dalston’s multicultural Ridley Road Market with support from Hackney Council. This project employs a multisensorial blend of live performance, field recordings, film, photography, and 3D scans. Additionally, Shruti has been recognized as an emerging talent, being selected for Diversify Photo’s “Up Next” roster of up-and-coming photographers.

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