Debashis Sinha
musician, composer and sound designer

Driven by a deep commitment to the primacy of sound in creative expression, Debashis Sinha has created numerous audio-centred solo and collaborative projects across Canada and internationally. Sound design and composition credits include works for contemporary dance, video, film, and award-winning productions with many of Canada’s premiere stage companies, including longstanding artistic relationships with Peggy Baker Dance Projects, the Stratford Festival, Soulpepper Theatre Company, and others. His speculative mythology-driven sound practice has led to live appearances at MUTEK Japan, NeurIPS, the Guelph Jazz Festival, the Banff Centre, ISEA, Akademie der Künste, FILE Festival and others with exhibitions online, on recordings and in gallery spaces. Sinha is a committed educator, having taught sound and sonic arts at Canada’s National Theatre School, York University, University of Toronto, and other schools at all levels from wee ones to graduate students and professionals. He is on faculty at Toronto Metropolitan University’s The Creative School.

For Peggy Baker Dance Projects: Deb created (and largely performed live or recorded) the scores for Beautiful Renegades, Choreographic Gems (Lily Eng’s Withheld), her body as words, unmoored, The Perfect Word, Night Garden, Are You Okay, armour, coalesce, earthling, and move. He was invited by Peggy to learn Sanctum as part of The Choreographer’s Trust in 2003.

For more information visit debsinha.com.