“Amanyi” (translates directly to “power” from Luganda) by Ree, from Submerged 2021.

Beven Elankumaran

Composer, Music Producer and Multi-instrumentalist

Beven Elankumaran is an Australian composer, music producer and multi-instrumentalist with a Sri Lankan Tamil heritage. A graduate from the Berklee College of Music (2019), Beven dual majored in Film Scoring and Electronic Production and Design. He currently serves as the “Music Advisor” for Apple’s upcoming TV show “Shantaram.”

Beven Elankumaran. Photo courtesy the artist.

Artworks

Conquering The Demons by Beven Elankumaran

Beven Elankumaran

“Conquering the Demons” is the creative development of a programmatic work that is designed to musically exhibit an artist’s mental struggles in life, especially in the context of this pandemic. If the emotions of depression and anxiety were recorded and programmed as sounds, what will it sound like? Can such a narrative be portrayed musically? To what extent can Indian Classical Instruments be coerced to create sounds that depict disease, unease, uncertainty and chaos? These are the questions we seek to answer through this project.

Projects

Past project

Ahead of the Curve

Mon 19 Jul 2021 - Wed 31 Aug 2022

The Ahead of the Curve Commissions was a call out for young and emerging artists of colour living around Melbourne, to create new digital artworks that responded to social challenges, including COVID-19.

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