Dr Tejaswinee Kelkar

Tejaswinee Kelkar is a music technologist, teacher and vocalist. She is an associate professor in music technology at the University of Oslo. She teaches in the the Music, Communication and Technology masters program, and for bachelors in musicology. Her research interests are melodic cognition, motion-capture and musical-cultural analysis. Her doctoral thesis is here. Her research focus is on how aspects of melodic perception are illustrated through multimodality, and linguistic prosody.

Previously, she worked as a data analyst at Universal Music Norway, working with programming tools for business intelligence for Norway and reporting solutions for other territories. She also worked in the creation and development of an online virtual lab for teaching concepts of north indian music through the use of web audio, developing pedagogical tools and exercises for the web with the VLabs project. Her masters thesis was about gesturing and body movement in NICM, and clustering based spatial algorithms for raga display.

As a musician, she focuses on integrating her musical background with electronic at every stage from composing new material to developing actuated materials to amplify a disembodied voice. She is interested in understanding the use of the voice as a disembodied, and distorted object.

She trained in north indian classical singing from a young age, and later, western classical composition. In addition to being a vocalist, she plays the harmonium and other instruments.

News – Upcoming talks / concerts

29. February: dScience Lunch Seminar “Studying Melodic Embodiment: Computational Approaches”
https://www.uio.no/dscience/english/news-and-events/events/24-ls-feb29.html

18. March: AR@K24

5. April: Playing with Marianna Sangitas Gjestehus
Tickets: https://www.riksscenen.no/marianna-sangitas-gjestehus.6635987-515567.html

13. April: Raga-Bad Tøyen Biblioteket

4. May: Nyege Nyege Remix – Melahuset Oslo

30. May: Nattjazz Bergen
https://www.nattjazz.no/mirathuchelvam-vnje

8. June: Raga-Bad Tøyen Biblioteket m/ Sanskriti Srestha

12 August: OsloJazz m/ Mira Thiruchelvam & Vestnorsk Jazzensemble