Ami Dang is a South-Asian American musician and multimedia artist born and raised in Glen Arm, Maryland. Her work shifts between electronic and acoustic music, installation, movement, video, and various intermedia forms.  Currently, she is focused on solo performance that combines experimental music notions with North Indian classical sentiments to create a unique one-woman show. Having studied North Indian classical vocals and sitar for over ten years in the United States and Delhi, India, she conjures a 21st century spell of sounds further influenced by ambient, noise, and minimal musics.  In 2005, she became a disciple (for sitar) of Dr. Anupam Mahajan of the Senia Ghurana.  A year later she graduated from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music with a bachelor’s degree in technology in music and related arts.

In 2005 and 2006, she completed two multimedia performance productions.  She directed, composed, and choreographed Unee Sau Churaasee, a one-act performance for video installation, music, and six dancers about the 1984 anti-Sikh riots of Delhi, India. She also created a performance about consumption in contemporary society entitled Reception, a show for viewer-interactive installation using MIDI sensors and five music video shorts.  Last year, shereleased a tour-only EP Because You Rained On Me, and she is currently working on a full-length album.

Ami is often thinking about Sikh spirituality and performance, how children become adults, the sounds of the body, hair, perceptions of the self and the other, translation of information, the public vs. the private, brown identities, beauty, otherness, and good beats.