Dr Amit Dinesh Patel HND, BA, MA, PGCERT, FHEA PhD to HND, BA, MA, PGCERT, PHD

Academic Lead for Screen and Performance

Amit D Patel, aka Dushume, is an experimental noise and sound artist, influenced by Asian underground music and DJ culture. His work focuses on performing and improvising with purpose built do-it-yourself instruments, and recording these instruments incorporating looping, re-mixing and re-editing techniques. Lack and loss of control are central to his work. He has a PhD in Music, “Studio Bench: the DIY nomad and Noise Selector” (2019), from the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. He is a member of the Sound/Image Research group at the University of Greenwich, London, and Principal Investigator for the AHRC Research Grant "Exploring Cultural Diversity in Experimental Sound" (2021-23).

www.dushume.co.uk

Design

Responsibilities within the university
  • Academic Portfolio Leader in Screen and Performance
  • Senior Lecturer in Music and Sound
  • Programme Leader BA Music and Sound Production

Recognition

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Research / Scholarly interests
  • Noise Music
  • Performance
  • Improvisation
  • Sound Art
  • Live Electronics
  • Electroacoustic music composition
  • DJ Culture
  • Immersive Sound
  • Bass Culture
  • Electronic DIY Instrument Building
  • Diffusion and multi-channel sound installations
  • Experimental Sound
  • Black Music

Key funded projects

AHRC Research Grant (2021-23)

Recent publications

Written Outputs:

Patel, A.D., 2025. The Noise Selector. In The Routledge Handbook to Rethinking the History of Technology-based Music (pp. 210-225). Routledge

Patel, A.D., 2025. Experimental sound from the Black and South Asian diaspora- Volume 30 - Issue 1 - Organised Sound, 30/(1), pp. 1-5

Patel, A.D., 2024. How Black music record stores shaped the sound of the UK. The Conversation

Patel, A. D. and Richards, J. (2020) Pop-up for Collaborative Music-making. In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Birmingham City University, pp. 452 – 457.

Patel, A. D. (2019) Studio Bench: the DIY Nomad and Noise Selector. Thesis (PhD), De Montfort University, Leicester.

Patel, A. D. (2016) DIY Instruments and White Label Releases. eContact 18(3), Available [Online] From https://econtact.ca/18_3/patel_whitelabel.html

Bowers, J.; Richards, J.; Shaw, T.; Frieze, J.; Freeth, B.; Topley, S.; Spowage, N.; Jones, S.; Patel, A. D.; Rui, L. (2016) One knob to rule them all: reductionist interfaces for expansionist research. In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, pp. 433-438.

Patel, A.D., 2025. The Noise Selector. In The Routledge Handbook to Rethinking the History of Technology-Based Music (pp. 210-226). Routledge.

Patel, A.D., 2025. Experimental sound from the Black and South Asian diaspora. Organised Sound, 30(1), pp.1-5.

Patel, A.D., 2024. How Black music record stores shaped the sound of the UK. The Conversation

Patel, A.D., 2021. Exploring Cultural Diversity in Experimental Sound. array., (1), pp.17-22.

Patel, A. D., and Richards, J., 2020. Pop-up for Collaborative Music-making. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Birmingham City University, pp. 452 - 457.

Patel, A. D., 2019. Studio Bench: the DIY Nomad and Noise Selector. Thesis (PhD), De Montfort University, Leicester.

Patel, A.D., 2016. DIY Instruments and White Label Releases. eContact! 18.3 Sonic DIY: Repurposing the Creative Self. [Online] Available From https://econtact.ca/18_3/patel_whitelabel.html

Bowers, J., Richards, J., Shaw, T., Frieze, J., Freeth, B., Topley, S., Spowage, N., Jones, S., Patel, A. and Rui, L., 2016. One knob to rule them all: reductionist interfaces for expansionist research. In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). pp. 433-438.

Featured:

Vear, C. (2019) The Digital Score: Musicianship, Creativity and Innovation. Routledge

Couprie, P. (2017) L'humour est-il soluble dans la musique électroacoustique ? Petite quête musicale à la recherche d'un humour sonore. De l’Humour Dans La Musique De 1960 à Nos Jours. pp. 55 - 56.

Richards, J. (2017) The Music of Things. Journal of the Japanese Society for Sonic Arts, 9(2), pp.16-20.

Landy, L. and Richards, J., (2024). The Music of Sounds and the Music of Things: Sonic Creativity Within Sampling and DIY Cultures. Routledge.

Presentations

Club Nomadic w/ Dhangsha, Patric Studios, Leeds - 15th May.

Performances Cave12, Geneva, Switzerland - 17th December 2025.

REProduce London: Bass Boss (Film/ Dushume (Live) & Dhangsha (Live), Brixton, London - 2nd November 2025.

Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival (LUFF), Lausanne, Switzerland - 15th October 2025.

Music on a Whim - Bass Noise Brutalis, Zonneklopper, Brussels, Belgium - 5th September 2025.

Supernormal Festival, Oxfordshire - 1st August 2025.

Voyages @ Cuts Sark Museum [World Premier of Harsh Bass composition “Jaggered”], Greenwich, London - 25th June 2025.

Sound/Image Research Centre Tour - Intersections, Electric Springs Festival 2025, University of Huddersfield - 21 Feb,

Resonating Voices: A Listening Session on Disruptive Frequencies, KASK School of Arts, Gent, Belgium - 30th January 2025.

Dark Energy Presents… with Shamica Ruddock + Bantu + Dhangsha, Cafe Oto, London - 30th July 2024.

SOUND/IMAGE: Intersections Tour, Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, Scotland – 16th March 2024.

SOUND/IMAGE: Intersections Tour, Cambridge Festival 2024, West Road Concert Hall, University of Cambridge – 14th March 2024.

SOUND/IMAGE: Intersections Tour, MANTIS, Manchester – 2nd March 2024

SOUND/IMAGE: Intersections Tour, Bangor Music Festival, Pontio Arts Centre, Bangor – 18th February 2024.

QUORUM, Queen Mary University, London, February 2024.

SOUND/IMAGE: Intersections, De Montfort University, Leicester, [Spatial Audio Performance] February 2024.

Hackacoustic Takeover, Iklectik, London, January 2024.

Noisemas Party III, Iklectik, London, December 2023 REProduce,

LAKE @ Enclave 5, Deptford, London, November 2023

Endeavour, Deptford, London, September 2023

‘Gaumukh’ premier of Studio Work, Copped Hall, Epping, London, September 2023

SAOM, Avalon Café, Bermondsey, London, August 2023

Dark Energy Live Stream, London, August 2023

‘Chakria’ & ‘Avartan’ Disruptive Frequencies, Concert and Vinyl Launch, Kings Place, London, July 2023

Artefact, Birmingham, June 2023

Dushume, Bulkwash, Mosquito Farm, Amersham Arms, London, May 2023.

SOUND/IMAGE: Intersections, School of Arts, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, Premier of “Kiln” [Spatial Audio Performance], May 2023.

Interrogating the Noise: Preview Night w/ Dirty Electronics [Noise/ Live Electronics Installation/Performance], Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Greenwich, London, February 2023.

Undertone w/ Simon Atkinson and Dushume ‘Avartan’ Preview, Aural Diversity: Music and Performance (Workshop 5) - https://auraldiversity.org/workshop5.html, Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester, January 2023.

2023 – 2008 listings on www.dushume.co.uk