Amirtha Kidambi & Music Research Strategies at Waterworks 2026: Festival of Experimental Sound

Night Two, April 25, 2026 | Presented by Non-Event Metropolitan Waterworks Museum, Boston Amirtha Kidambi is invested in the creation and performance of subversive, anti-hegemonic music, from free improvisation and avant-jazz, to Indian carnatic and devotional, experimental bands, electronic music, noise and new music. She is an educator, activist and organizer working to challenge systems of white supremacist, colonial, capitalist, patriarchy, and is co-founder and co-organizer of South Asian Artists in Diaspora and Musicians Against Police Brutality. As a bandleader and composer, she is the creative force behind the incendiary protest group Elder Ones and has received critical praise for her albums Holy Science (2016) and From Untruth (2019) on Northern Spy records from the New York Times, Pitchfork, Wire Magazine and Downbeat among others. Marshall Trammell (Black Spirituals, Music Research Strategies) has created a voluminous body of work spanning a broad range of disciplines and approaches including solo works for drum set and electroacoustic processing, large chorale inter-media performance recitations, installations and digital archive visual score network databases. These works have been presented in concert halls, theaters, and gallery exhibition spaces in North America and Europe. He is also a member of White People Killed Them, a trio consisting of Trammell, Raven Chacon and John Dieterich. Audio recording and mix by Matthew Azevedo Video production by Jack Amadon and Veronica Wood Video edit by Jack Amadon