The Lost Synthesizer: How a Kolkata-based Computer Engineer is Redesigning the Vanishing Past of India’s Electronic Music
Introduction On August 20, 2025, at the Goethe-Institut in Kolkata, a Kolkata-based Computer Engineer and Sound Artist named Varun Desai sat down in front of a modular synthesizer to tune-in to a forgotten chapter of India’s past. Moderately bulky and thick with knobs and wiring, the instrument produced analog waves with the sustained notes of …
