Bishi

BISHI is a London-born, British-Bengali artist, composer, producer, electric sitarist
and technologist working at the intersection of sound, heritage and innovation. A cult
figure embraced by the style press, her work spans music, film, TV and immersive
media, combining sitar, a four-octave vocal range and innovative performance
technology.

She has released three albums and several EPs via her label Gryphon
Records and has collaborated with artists including Tony Visconti, Sean Ono Lennon,
Jarvis Cocker, Daphne Guinness and Manish Arora, as well as ensembles such as City
of London Sinfonia, Royal Northern Sinfonia, London Symphony Orchestra and Kronos
Quartet.

A vocalist and multi-instrumentalist trained in both Western and Hindustani
classical music, she studied sitar under Gaurav Mazumdar, a senior disciple of Ravi
Shankar. BISHI composed and produced her first full original score for MAYA: The
Birth of a Superhero.

Her first television score, Defiance: Fighting the Far Right, aired
on Channel 4 in 2024. She has also collaborated with the University of Sheffield on the
development of an AI composer tool and created a voice model with Neutone AI. Her
audiovisual installation Reflektions was commissioned for Coventry City of Culture and
exhibited internationally. BISHI was also the first artist to have her work projected
onto the Greenwich UNESCO World Heritage Site.

BISHI sits on the board of In Place Of War, Featured Artists Coalition and is a member
of Brian Eno’s Hard Art Collective. In 2025 she was Artist-in-Residence at the Pete
Townshend Studio at the University of West London, and in 2026 she serves as Module
Leader in Global Popular Music at City St George’s, University of London.