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Aranya Khurana

Designer, Musician, Researcherat OCAD University
A smiling bespectacled Indian man with long dark hair and a van dyke beard.
Toronto,
Canada
Focus area: Computer Music, Electroacoustic Music, Sonification

Aranya Khurana is an interdisciplinary designer, artist and musician based in Toronto. He has a background in architectural design and music production which deeply influences his current work. His research focuses on the intersections between music, design and technology.
Aranya's work explores multisensory stimuli such as sound, touch and sight; interactivity, human-computer interaction, human-human interaction and facilitating creative processes and practices. His work spans the disciplines of new interfaces for musical expression, eTextiles, wearable electronics, physical computing, audiovisual installations, mixed media experiences and tangible user interface design. 
He is fascinated by all things design and digital experiences, carrying an innate drive to try and understand what makes or breaks them and how one can go about improving them. He loves taking things apart and putting them back together, finding patterns and cross-pollinating ideas between disciplines to see what emerges.