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2025- A Year in Music

This one’s for y’all who’ve have had an impact on me this year, small or big. 2025 has been a remarkable year for me musically- it’s stopped being just about what notes to play, I’ve started connecting ideas together and it’s starting to make more sense. A musical toddler, I’ve started making my first sounds and putting them together into sputtering and hopefully intelligible phrases. Here’s to making more intelligible noise in the coming year.

And now, an invocation to the sonic gods, to grant us the discipline to come to our instruments so we may gain control and mastery of our form, and also the suppleness to let the muses take us where they may. May we step boldly into uncharted waters in 2026, and collectively push the bar.

Stay sexy y’all,

Siddarth

PS. Some extra reading for the nerds in the room

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And now for something completely different

This art/freelance life can be a lonely one, there are few people who I can relate with and can talk at length and intelligently with me about the sort of things I’m going through on a regular basis. I haven’t found much community for art perhaps because I haven’t been going out much, because I’m in Chennai, or because art is a niche and it’s acolytes tend to be like cats- they’re shy, socially awkward and can only be found when they want to be found.

I’ve also noticed that it’s hard to find any in depth interviews with Indian creators. If you want to know what brush pen Kim Jung-Gi you’ll find no dearth of resources but for inspiration closer to home, the internet comes up with a giant blank.

My cousin gave me a suggestion a few weeks ago- if you can’t find community, build it yourself! So that’s what I’m going to try out. I want to do an interview series with artists as an excuse to meet and nerd out with these elusive figures. This wasn’t something I ever thought I’d be doing, and I’m figuring out as I go. I’d love some feedback- guests you’d like to see, thoughts about the format, etc. Much excite!

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I’m still here

Minus the scruff

Err…it’s been a while since you last heard from me. Yes, I’m alive and well. I quit my corporate job in Austin, TX about this time last year and moved back to India for good shortly after. What have I been doing you ask? Prepare for an entirely more detailed answer than you were hoping for

  • Went on the Jayamoorthy Fam’s All American Summer Vacation of ’22. Austin, Colorado, New Mexico, New Orleans, New York and San Diego in 3 weeks!
  • Moved back to Chennai and stayed with my family
  • I travelled to Kochi and Bangalore for about a month and made some new artist friends
  • I was briefly in a relationship
  • I did a Vipassana 10 day silent meditation course.
  • Made friends with an outdoor cat called Ashi. Nursed her back from a nasty fracture and got her back into the wild
  • I moved into an apartment by the beach in Chennai and set up my art studio/office space
  • I’m done with the bum life and am now ready to work
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