Tarun Balani and Parizad D
2° is a live audio-visual performance by drummer–composer Tarun Balani and visual artist Parizad D that shares stories and messages about the artists’ experience of climate change.
The performance unfolds through shifting sonic textures, experimental ambient sounds and immersive visual worlds inviting the audiences to deeply listen and inhabit these worlds. As a part of the performance audiences are encouraged to reflect, share and contribute their own climate change stories and messages on postcards —linking sound and touch—creating a sensory dialogue.
2° serves as a reminder that every story and every voice matters and our individual stories have the power to begin conversations about climate equity, justice, and our shared responsibility to reimagine the future of our world.
Tarun Balani is a multi-disciplinary artist, musician, and educator known for crafting immersive sonic experiences that blend improvisation, composition, performance, and technology. Regarded as one of India’s finest musicians and composers, Balani’s work spans contemporary jazz, ambient electronic music, and sonic storytelling, exploring themes of climate change, migration, and identity.
As bandleader of his boundary-pushing quartet, Balani collaborates with forward-thinking jazz artists to reimagine the genre through their cross-cultural influences. Their latest album, ڪڏهن ملنداسين Kadahin Milandaasin (2025), traces his Sindhi heritage, weaving traditional folk elements with modern jazz.
Balani’s music has been featured on WNYC, BBC, GQ, and Rolling Stone India, and he has performed at Roskilde, Jazz Ahead, Magnetic Fields, NH7 Weekender, Serendipity Arts Festival, and London’s Jazz Café.
With a practice that bridges past and future, personal and universal, Balani continues to evolve as a sonic storyteller, shaping new narratives through music.
Parizad D is an interdisciplinary visual artist. Her works span from commercial photography to contemporary art. She has worked with clients such as included Meta, Netflix, Rolling Stone, and more; and featured as an emerging talent on the cover of Asian Photography. Her current practice includes video-art, scan-art, x-ray imaging, analog photography, alternative print-making and poetry.
Her debut photobook dear melancholy, published by Method ArtSpace was longlisted for Toto Funds the Arts Award. She has participated in multiple residencies across India and Europe, and exhibited her work in spaces such as Gallery Espace, STIR Gallery, Offset Projects and more.
She combines art, music and technology by collaborating with musicians to create live- audio-visual performances at venues such as NMACC, G5A Foundation, BIC; festivals like Magnetic Fields, Serendipity Arts Festival, and Lollapalooza. She has been invited to speak at events such as All About Music, IFP Festival, EyeMyth Festival, Spotify’s culture workshop, and more.
Most recently she was creative consultant with Sony Music India, crafting visual identities for musicians; and premiered her audio-visual project “rise and fall” a global collaboration between Indian and Polish cultures, slated for it’s international premier at Adelaide Fringe Festival 2026.
Alliance Française de Bangalore, French Institute in India, Consulat général de France à Bangalore
Vipasha Devi Tilak
Futures Hubba originated as an ideas-festival at BLR Hubba, where some of the brightest national and international minds play Nostradamus to connect the dots of a likely future for humanity. It is a gathering designed to hold space for contradictions and uncertainty in this technology-shifting era, and to explore what new forms of meaning can emerge between the known and the unknown.
Futures is a space for collective imagination: it’s a space that holds tension between art and algorithm, ethics and innovation, intuition and data. It resists the safety of linear silos and instead operates at the intersections, where new ways of thinking are born from friction. Each session inside Futures is a deliberate provocation: a chance to expand what we consider knowledge, and to explore how interdisciplinary thinking might co-create more conscious futures.
All ages
English
Futures Hubba originated as an ideas-festival at BLR Hubba, where some of the brightest national and international minds play Nostradamus to connect the dots of a likely future for humanity. It is a gathering designed to hold space for contradictions and uncertainty in this technology-shifting era, and to explore what new forms of meaning can emerge between the known and the unknown.
Futures is a space for collective imagination: it’s a space that holds tension between art and algorithm, ethics and innovation, intuition and data. It resists the safety of linear silos and instead operates at the intersections, where new ways of thinking are born from friction. Each session inside Futures is a deliberate provocation: a chance to expand what we consider knowledge, and to explore how interdisciplinary thinking might co-create more conscious futures.
All ages
English
Tarun Balani is a multi-disciplinary artist, musician, and educator known for crafting immersive sonic experiences that blend improvisation, composition, performance, and technology. Regarded as one of India’s finest musicians and composers, Balani’s work spans contemporary jazz, ambient electronic music, and sonic storytelling, exploring themes of climate change, migration, and identity.
As bandleader of his boundary-pushing quartet, Balani collaborates with forward-thinking jazz artists to reimagine the genre through their cross-cultural influences. Their latest album, ڪڏهن ملنداسين Kadahin Milandaasin (2025), traces his Sindhi heritage, weaving traditional folk elements with modern jazz.
Balani’s music has been featured on WNYC, BBC, GQ, and Rolling Stone India, and he has performed at Roskilde, Jazz Ahead, Magnetic Fields, NH7 Weekender, Serendipity Arts Festival, and London’s Jazz Café.
With a practice that bridges past and future, personal and universal, Balani continues to evolve as a sonic storyteller, shaping new narratives through music.
Parizad D is an interdisciplinary visual artist. Her works span from commercial photography to contemporary art. She has worked with clients such as included Meta, Netflix, Rolling Stone, and more; and featured as an emerging talent on the cover of Asian Photography. Her current practice includes video-art, scan-art, x-ray imaging, analog photography, alternative print-making and poetry.
Her debut photobook dear melancholy, published by Method ArtSpace was longlisted for Toto Funds the Arts Award. She has participated in multiple residencies across India and Europe, and exhibited her work in spaces such as Gallery Espace, STIR Gallery, Offset Projects and more.
She combines art, music and technology by collaborating with musicians to create live- audio-visual performances at venues such as NMACC, G5A Foundation, BIC; festivals like Magnetic Fields, Serendipity Arts Festival, and Lollapalooza. She has been invited to speak at events such as All About Music, IFP Festival, EyeMyth Festival, Spotify’s culture workshop, and more.
Most recently she was creative consultant with Sony Music India, crafting visual identities for musicians; and premiered her audio-visual project “rise and fall” a global collaboration between Indian and Polish cultures, slated for it’s international premier at Adelaide Fringe Festival 2026.
Alliance Française de Bangalore, French Institute in India, Consulat général de France à Bangalore
Vipasha Devi Tilak