2026
NTS RADIO
‘STARRING: SHAH RUKH KHAN’
Radio Mix
Mixed and Selected by Ojasvani Dahiya
Created for NTS Radio’s Supporter Radio: Your Specialist Subject II call for submissions and accepted for broadcast during Spring 2026.
Listen back on the NTS website here
Tracklist:
Anu Malik, Abhijeet, Javed Akhtar, Sameer Anjaan - Badshah O Badshah
Pritam, Sukhwinder Singh, Sunidhi Chauhan, Gulzar - Marjaani
Uttam Singh, Lata Mangeshkar, Udit Narayan, Anand Bakshi - Koi Ladki Hai
Jatin-Lalit, Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik - Yeh Ladka Hai Allah
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Sadhana Sargam, Sujata Bhattacharya, Udit Narayan, Sonu Nigam - Maahi Ve
Vishal-Shekhar, Akon, Hamsika Iyer, Vishal Dadlani, Niranjan Iyengar - Chammak Challo
Anu Malik, Abhijeet, Shreya Ghoshal - Tumhe Jo Maine Dekha
A.R. Rahman, Udit Narayan, Hariharan, Kailash Kher - Yun Hi Chala Chal
Shiv Hari, Udit Narayan, Anand Bakshi - Jaadu Teri Nazar
Anu Malik, Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik - Hai Mera Dil
Salim-Sulaiman, Sukhwinder Singh, Jaideep Sahni - Haule Haule
Vishal-Shekhar, Sonu Nigam, Shreya Ghoshal, Javed Akhtar - Main Agar Kahoon
Madan Mohan, Lata Mangeshkar, Sonu Nigam, Javed Akhtar - Do Pal
A.R. Rahman, Shreya Ghoshal, Mohit Chauhan, Gulzar - Saans
A.R. Rahman, Anuradha, Chandralekha Annupamaa - Dil Se Re
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Shankar Mahadevan, Caralisa Monteiro, Shafqat Amanat Ali - Mitwa
2025
OBSERVATORY STATION, FEEL THE SOUND
Field Recording
Stereo audio, 10:46 minutes
Recorded by Ojasvani Dahiya
Exhibition:
“Observatory Station”, Feel The Sound, Barbican Center, London, UK
“Observatory Station is a global collaborative project that reflects on the relationship between sound and place, between reality and imagination – using sound to collect snapshots of places and times all over the world as part of a unique new sound installation”.
This piece is an evolving archive of field recordings that explores how sound connects people, places, and time. Each sound used in the work includes metadata such as the location and recorded time, which are essential to how the piece invites listeners to imagine the world through listening.
[The] recording is a part of a system that spatially maps and plays sounds from around the globe through a twelve-channel speaker setup. It appears alongside other sounds contributed by artists and recordists from all over the world.
This work will continue to grow and change. Over the next five years, it will travel internationally as part of a world tour. At each location, new recordings will be added — but this sound will always remain part of the original core of the piece [as a form of sonic archive].
For more information, visit Cities & Memory
NTS RADIO ‘DREAMS OF JOY’
Radio Mix
Mixed and Selected by Ojasvani Dahiya
Created for NTS Radio’s Supporter Radio: Joy call for submissions and accepted for broadcast during Spring 2025.
Listen back on the NTS website here
Tracklist:
King Geedorah - Fazers
Sade - Paradise
The Rah Band - Perfumed Garden
MED, Blu, Madlib, MF DOOM - Knock Knock
Sinkane - Favorite Song
Bappi Lahiri, S. Janaki - Yaar Bina Chain Kanha Re
Sharon, Musarrat - Chal Disco Chal
Bas Noir - My Love Is Magic (Club Mix)
Brenda Fassie - Eloyi Lamasabathani
Letta Mbulu, Hugh Masakela - Mahlalela
Hamid Al Shaeri - Ayonha
Fat Freddy's Drop - Cortina Motors
MF DOOM - Vomitspit
Full audio available on request
FLUX
Audio Documentary
Multichannel audio, 1 channel video, 15:21 minutes
Created by Kristina Kapilin & Ojasvani Dahiya
Field Recordings & Sound Design by Kristina Kapilin
Visuals by Ojasvani Dahiya
Taking a hydro-feminist approach, FLUX highlights the interconnectedness of bodies of water through the use of hydrophone recordings, documentary storytelling and spatial sound.
Led by the interviewees’ discussions of their lived experiences, FLUX addresses the nostalgic view of rivers in childhood memories in juxtaposition to ecological crisis, colonial history, national identity and religious rituals, providing insight into the significance of rivers in communities worldwide.
Exhibitions and Broadcasts:
Radiophrenia Glasgow Radio Arts Festival, Scotland
‘Present Voices’, Electro Studios Project Space, St Leonards on Sea, UK
‘Winter School Symposium’, Association of Sound Designers and Production, Central School of Speech and Drama, London, UK
‘Audio Spatialisation’, IRCAM FORUM, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
‘Sound Kitchen’, Prague Quadrennial Festival of Performance Design and Space, Divadlo Inspirace, Prague, Czech Republic
‘Degradation’, White Noise album launch, Iklectik, London, UK
‘Temporal-Space-Spatial-Time’, Iklectik, London, UK
‘Intertwine’, Royal College of Art, London, UK
An excerpt of FLUX has been released on tape with White Noise Recordings.
A digital download is available here.
Sheher Mein
Experimental Docufiction (Work In Progress)
As a work of experimental docufiction, “Sheher Mein” seeks to highlight the striations of marginalization in a specific urban context and setting.
● What does agency look like in a developing urban landscape – across a varied range of lived experiences across the Indian subcontinent?
● How can the format of experimental docufiction lend itself to adapting emerging echnologies as methods of dissemination?
● How can the lens of Rhythmanalysis be used to illustrate the after effects of colonisation and subsequent capitalist ideals developing landscapes are beheld to?
This is a work in progress, the process video can be found on the left.
Exhibitions:
‘Intertwine’, Royal College of Art, London, UK
‘Who Owns The Truth’, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
spacetime
Interactive Experience - Video Walkthrough presented here
Final BFA project
When I visited the Charminar for the first time to film my creative sample for my collegeapplications, I was frankly ashamed that despite living in the city of Hyderabad for almost three years then, I hadn’t seen it sooner. Visiting monuments that are hundreds of years old is the most viable form of time travel present at this point in time. Now, at the end of my college career, the virtual exploration of the Charminar and its hypothesized future space brings this connection full circle.
The sheer amount of history that is contained within architectural wonders such as the Charminar is something to be shared with the world. Hence, my project presents a creation of an interactive environment where you have the opportunity to experience these lesser known stories and the rich history behind them. There are so many discrepancies in education about the same topics around the world. Some of us don’t know that Japan was a colonial power, while the other half doesn’t know about the genocide of millions and geographical displacement of a million others in India.
If an interactive experience that anyone can experience from around the globe, maybe around the solar system one day, can somehow broaden someone’s horizons of just what the world encompasses, create in their mind an awareness of these kinds of stories and the experiences of these people that inhabit this same world and be better for it, then I am content with what I have created.
This is what I seek to do with spacetime – provide a rich interactive narrative that opens up a person’s horizons to increase an awareness of the similarities in our differences My view of this potential future might seem a bit grim but is rooted in the seeds of what has already begun sprouting for what the future might come to be. A future where government surveillance is rampant, even more obvious and normalized and one where progress is signified only by urbanization in the name of development, where history is left behind and forgotten. So now you are stretched between two extreme moments in time, the distant future and the very very distant past – while you endure the present in real time.
Commercial Globalization vs Independent Localization in 21st Century Hindi Cinema
Essay
An analytical essay tracking the success of two specific demarcations of Hindi films – commercial ‘masala’ films and independent cinema – specifically in the context of increased access to such films among an international audience through targeted distribution as well as streaming services.
Films analysed:
Kal Ho Naa Ho directed by Nikkhil Advani (2003)
Masaan directed by Neeraj Ghaywan (2015)
Lipstick Under My Burkha directed by Alankrita Shrivastava (2016)
A Brief History of House Music
Video Documentary
A short teaser of a longer project tracking the origins of house music.