niram (niram- tamil, ‘colour’) is a sound artist and musician from the Tamil diaspora and part of the trio babycurls & the band Sirens of Lesbos. She moves from electro-acoustic niches to pop and club music and experiments with visual, text-based and auditory components.

She deals with political discourses and tries to embed and unite them, as well as her own back-to-foreground, in her artistic practice. In addition to this, ‘listening’ and ‘listening of listening’ play a major role in her work. Inspired by Pauline Oliveros' “Deep Listening” and “Quantum Listening”, she explores the effects of listening as a political, philosophical, resisting and/or collective act.

niram's latest solo project was created as part of her bachelor's thesis. A timeless ‘dream tent’ that gives an insight into her brain and creates auditory access to her childhood memories.

The diasporic identity, as well as political & societal intersections that arise with being Tamil are processed together with neurological studies and identitarian thoughts in multimedia. Listening as an outsider is transformed into inward and outward listening. A headspace that not only belongs to niram, but by necessity to all participants.