Key details
Dr Amit Dinesh Patel
Academic Portfolio Lead - 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).
Expertise in :
- 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
- Black Music
- Experimental Sound
Responsibilities within the university
- Academic Portfolio Leader in Screen and Performance
- Senior Lecturer in Music and Sound
- Programme Leader BA Music and Sound Production
Research / Scholarly interests
Noise
Live Electronics
Noise Music
Experimental Sound
Improvisation
Performance/ Installation
Electroacoustic music practices
DJ Culture
Sound Art
Black Music
Key funded projects
AHRC Research Grant (2021-23)
Recent publications
Written Outputs:
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.
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.
Performances:
Monstrous Assemblage - Dirty Electronics - Iklectik - London, July 2021.
PhliKr - BEAST FEaST 2021 - Concert 2 - University of Birmingham [online] http://www.beast.bham.ac.uk/beast-feast-2021/, April 2021.
‘PhliKr’ [Sound Installation World Premier] @ Sound/Image Festival - located in Shop Unit 3/3a, Greenwich Market London. Nov 2020.
NottNOISE hosted by NOTTFARR in Partnership with NonClassical [online] https://www.nonclassical.co.uk/engage-1/2020/11/3/nottnoise, Nov 2020.
IKLECTIK [Off-site] Presents: Dushume – Lockdown Noise [online] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z-MdLK8WUw, June 2020.
Goarsing, Virtual Beast Feast [online] https://mixlr.com/beastmusic/showreel/beast-feast-2020-concert-8-stereo, May 2020.
Dirty Electronics Pop-up I, Haymarket Shopping Centre, Leicester, Nov 2019.
Radical Chip Tour with Dirty Electronics & Max Wainwright, Chaos Magic (Backlit Gallery), Nottingham, May 2019.
Post Paradise Featuring Dirty Electronics, Centrala, Minerva Works, Birmingham, Feb 2019.
Dushume, Iklectik, London, July 2018.
In House Press with Dirty Electronics, Punctum, Krásova 27, Praha 5, Prague, Nov 2017.
Hoerspiel for Czech Radio with Dirty Electronics, HAMU, Prague, Nov 2017.
Tse Tse Fly Night, Iklectik, London, Sep 2017.
Performing with Technology, Visconti Studios, Kingston University, London, Feb 2017.
The Construct Has No Purpose Performances and workshops, Fylkingen, Stockholm, Gothenburg and Copenhagen, Jan 2017, https://www.fylkingen.se/node/2270
Dome of Visions, Dirty Electronics with Kungliga Musikhögskolan’s Electronic Ensemble (Royal College of Music), Stockholm, Sweden, Feb 2016.
Electric Nights Festival 2016, Booze: Terminal Stage, Athens, Greece, May 2016.
REProduce Listening Room (India) – Usurp Gallery, Harrow, London, May 2016.
Yan Jun with Dirty Electronics, Centrala, Minerva Works, Birmingham, Dec 2016.
Ugly Weekender, Reactor Halls, weareprimary, Nottingham, Feb 2015.
Dushume ‘Skaratchd’ with Poulomi Desai, Noise Colloquium, University of Greenwich, Mar 2015.
Kobi Mutter (2014) World Premier, Martini Elettrico Concerts (MTI), Bologna Conservatoire, Bologna, Italy, Mar 2015.
Presentations
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. Control Voltage 16, Colchester Arts Centre, Colchester, August 2022. Iklectika 2022 [Dubplate DJ Set], Iklectik, London, July 2022.
Oscillations Label Launch w/ Dirty Electronics, Iklectik, London, July 2022.
Ealing Extranormal Vol. 7, OPEN Ealing, London, June 2022. Diverse Frequencies, Iklectik, London, June 2022 – Curated line-up Dhangsha, Nikki Sheth, NikNak, Poulomi Desai and Gary Stewart, event part of AHRC Grant. Skronktronic #38, New River Studios, London, May 2022.
Dirty Electronics Cut-Up feat. Audrey Riley, Iris Colomb - North London Tavern, Kilburn, London, April 2022.
Runt of the Litter, Hackney Wick, London, April 2022.
“Lasurnii” Dushume Live, BEAST – Centrala – Birmingham, March 2022.
Instrumentalising Spaces: The IKO Immersive Loudspeaker - Collaboration with Emma Margetson - Affix (2021) a duet of harsh noise and spatial transformations, December 2021. “Boo Su” (2021) [World Premier] as a finalist of the ‘BMS International Composition Competition’ - The Watchtower Gallery, Tweedmouth, Berwick-upon-Tweed, October 2021.
Monstrous Assemblage - Dirty Electronics - Iklectik - London - https://iklectikartlab.com/dirty-electronics-monstrous-assemblage/, July 2021.
PhliKr - BEAST FEaST 2021 - Concert 2 - University of Birmingham [online] http://www.beast.bham.ac.uk/beast-feast-2021/, April 2021. 2020 – 2008 listings on www.dushume.co.uk