Amirtha Kidambi Vocalist Brooklyn, NYC Amirtha Kidambi is invested in the performance and creation of exploratory musics, ranging from South Indian Carnatic, Improvisation, Experimental Rock, Early Music, New Music and the Avant-Garde. As a soloist, collaborator and ensemble member in groups such as, the experimental Medieval gothic-folk band Seaven Teares, the percussion and analog electronics group Ashcan Orchestra, and vocal quartet Elizabeth-Caroline Unit, Amirtha has performed in a variety of venues from DIY spaces to concert halls including Carnegie Hall, ISSUE Project Room, Roulette,Clocktower Gallery, Zebulon, Death by Audio, Silent Barn, Le Poisson Rouge and The Kitchen. Her band Seaven Teares released their debut album Power Ballads in 2013 on Northern Spy Records. Recent projects include Apollo's Accidental Answer a chamber opera with the Pat Spadine's Ashcan Orchestra, the premiere of AACM founder and legendary composer/pianist Muhal Richard Abrams’ Dialogue Social, and The Oversoul Manual by Darius Jones with an album on Aum Fidelity released in October 2014. Amirtha is fortunate to have had the great honor of working with Robert Ashley since 2011 in That Morning Thing and the premiere of WWW III (Just the Highlights). Amirtha and the Varispeed Collective premiered Robert Ashley’s final opera CRASH shortly after his passing, for the Whitney Biennial in 2014. She is also the recipient of the Jerome Foundation's Emerging Artist Commission for Roulette in the 2014-2015 season.
