Portfolio of musician, performing artist, educator and writer Salil Subedi

Springtime

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Hello friends, I am offering an immersive nature education experience this spring at Shivapuri National Park. It is based on the Social Ecology course Dr. Nandini Velho and I co-created for MFA students at the Kathmandu University department of art and design (KuArt) and the Nature Education course by Dr. Pranav and Sangeeta Trivedi, respected nature educators. Now you can join in this informal education that I’ve improvised. It’s for adult participants in this edition. My mission is to help you open your sensory perceptions on breathing, listening, feeling, dreaming and connecting with nature. You may have walked the same trails dozen times, but you may not have stopped with an active intention to experience this in tiny spaces in the forest. I just want thoughtful people to get together for half a day. And it’s a free course. You have to carry notebook, pen pencils, National park fees, plenty water and snacks in tiffin boxes not polythene bags, sun protection and willingness for a full participatory course.

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The Rubin Museum of Art in New York is currently exhibiting ‘Reimagine: Himalayan Art Now‘. I have curated around 130 minutes of music from across the Himalayan Region for this exhibition.

“For Reimagine: Himalayan Art Now, Salil Subedi curated a playlist that acts as a musical caravan transporting the cultures of Nepal and Tibet, amplifying their respective musical histories across generations of musicians from the region.” – Rubin Museum

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Music Concerts

Live concerts up next. Am excited to present you my new set – a blend of electro-acoustics and sound art.

I give my audience an experience of participatory music.

I’ve been working on live looping performances for the sets curating a repertoire of music instruments I’ve collected from the places I’ve travelled over the years.

Getting to familiarize, learning to play and sample them while also understanding the historical cultural contexts has made them a part of my life.

Improvised vocals, the Australian aboriginal didgeridoo, Italian crafted hand pan, Himalayan singing bowls, bamboo folk and raga flutes, Peruvian ocarina, Romanian Fujara, and other blowing instruments inlcuding the Chinese Hulusu, hand hammered jaw harps and murchunga from Austrian, Russian, India and Nepal including percussive sound effects form my musical tapestry.

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Didgeridoo sound experience – A solo recital at Patan Museum Courtyard

Namaste, I am Salil a musician, performing artist, writer and an educator from Kathmandu. I live and work in Nepal and India and travel the world for performances and workshops.

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HilliBilli (feat. Manice Gandarva)
Ant Song (feat. Jagannath Dhaugoda)
Over the Tones
Love Light (feat. Sujata Verma)
Langtang Himal
Desert Dreams
Soul Sisters (feat. Sujina Bajracharya)
Breath and Beat (feat. Navaraj Gurung)

Nature Theatre

Telling stories through lively drama performance is a wonderful tool to bring the stakeholders together and take meaningful actions related to nature education and conservation. I have collaborated with props and costume designer, Sandeep Dangol since 2009, training youths and staging plays in Nepal and Northeast India. We have worked independently and also partnered with ZSL (London Zoo, IUCN World Conservation Congress Barcelona), WWF Nepal (National Conservation Day), NTNC (Bardia, Chitwan National Park), Aaranyak (Assam), Dept. of Forest Pakke Tiger Reserve (Arunachal).

Workshops

Workshops on nature are intense and need to be designed and conducted in a lively, doable, and meaningful manner. Each participant needs to emerge from it, carrying meaningful and deeply felt experiences. Trainers also need to consistently work on their craft and creativity. Of recent, I have taken workshops on Nature Education (with Dr. Pranav and Sangeeta Trivedi at Pakke Tiger Reserve) and on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (with Canopy Collective at Living Labs) to continue to blend education, theatre and music into my practice and pedagogy.

Seminars and Labs

Immersive labs are a great way to communicate the idea of nature and culture with students. Seminars can equally be lively. It encourages two-way knowledge building system. I’ve co-run mini labs and taken classes on subjects ranging from social ecology to creativity through the arts and presented papers in seminars on Sarangi (Nepali fiddle), singing bowls, didgeridoo, education in Nepal, creativity at different times and venues ranging from ethnomusicology department of University of Toronto, Nepal folklore society, Don Bosco Academy Kathmandu, Green Hub Assam, Nepali environmental writing seminar as such.

What people are saying

After all his adventures and experiments in sound and space, Subedi feels that people most close to nature have the ability to “accept the world for what it is.”

— Rhishav Sapkota, Nepal Live

“We followed the didgeridoo. Or rather, we followed artist Salil Subedi as he produced long, gentle thrums from the wind instrument, leading a crowd down an alley. We were in Bungamati. We had been summoned to the old Newari town that afternoon by artists from Kathmandu University’s Center for Art and Design (KU).”

— Niranjan Kunwar, The Huffington Post

The body and paint encounter each other in a later performance by Salil Subedi as well, where he characteristically smears himself with paint as he sings an invocation to a river — dredging up a queer blend of the primeval and the aesthete in us. – Kurchi Dasgupta, The Hyperallergic Mag

“On my recent visit to Nepal, Salil organised a concert for us. It was a powerful evening of didgeridoos, singing bowls, sitar, dance and folk tales. What an amazing performer. He captivated our audience of Canadians, Americans, Germans and Nepalis and blew us away. I can’t wait to see him perform here in Canada.”

— Michael Cooke

VP Emeritus George Brown College, Ontario Canada
Chief Organiser of Salil Subedi Canadian Tour, 2019