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Template:Infobox musical artist creative technologist
Ayan De is an Indian record producer, audio engineer specialising in mix and mastering, sound designer and a technology entrepreneur based in Mumbai. He is well known as a record producer for independent artists, and releases electronic music under the moniker Paralights.[1][2] He also works in advertising, television and film sound, including Dolby Atmos mixing, in creative technology, and as the founder of several music-technology companies.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]De studied sound engineering at the SAE Institute, Mumbai, enrolling at the age of 20.[1] Before focusing on production and engineering he was a trained classical pianist. He started by producing local bands in mumbai such as descarta, GoddessGagged and worked out of his bedroom studio.
Career
[edit]Paralights
[edit]De adopted the moniker Paralights in 2012 and released the five-track electronica EP Scores for Your Background.[1][2][3] His Paralights work has been described as blending emotive grooves with textural grit and glitch, moving between minimal and maximal electronic production.[2] He began performing the project live in the early 2010s and has collaborated with the Mumbai producer Sandunes.[2][4] He continued working with other well known artists as a producer and songwriter under this moniker , however never followed up with a record beyond the debut 2012 record.
Production, mixing and engineering
[edit]De is a sought-after producer, mixing and mastering engineer for independent Indian artists but has also worked as a ghost producer and as a music educator in schools like true school of music and bombay university .[1][5] His collaborators include Siddharth Basrur, The Lightyears Explode, BLEK, Unohu, Saachi, Joshua Singh, Your Chin, Sandunes and Zokhuma.[1] The credits database muso.ai lists several hundred credits for him, chiefly in mixing, mastering and immersive (Dolby Atmos) audio.[6] He is credited as an engineer or assistant engineer on international pop releases, including recordings by Ariana Grande, Dua Lipa, Charlie Puth, Joji and Ali Sethi.[6]
In 2016 he worked front-of-house sound on playback singer Arijit Singh's United Kingdom tour, including a performance at Wembley.[1] He has also worked on commercial projects including advertising and television — among them the talent show The Voice — and on sound design and Dolby Atmos mixing for a movies tv shows and streaming series.[1]
Creative technology and Beyond
[edit]Alongside music production, De works as a sound designer, mixer and audio-tool developer for advertising and film, including uncredited contributions.[1] He leads creative technology and user-interface design at Goongoonalo, and has developed several audio codecs and audio playback algorithms for several music related start ups. He dabbled in the NFT with the swaraaj project , which was india's only NFT project which was music focused.
Companies
[edit]De is the founder of several technology companies. These include Silo, a music workflow and rights/ownership platform;[7] Cleared Sound, which develops audio provenance , a part of the silo company , which develops cutting edge digital watermarking and forensic-analysis ; and NAItive, which builds local (on-premises) artificial intelligence system. He also co owns and operates the only composer focused audio facility in mumbai, focused on [[dolby atmos, Stitch Audio.
Discography
[edit]- As Paralights
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Britto, David (20 November 2019). "Music Producer Ayan De: 'No One Can Teach You How to Listen'". Rolling Stone India. Retrieved 14 July 2026.
- ^ a b c d e "Wild City #058: Paralights". Wild City. 27 May 2013. Retrieved 14 July 2026.
- ^ "Making music for life's background score". The New Indian Express. Chennai. 4 December 2012. Retrieved 14 July 2026.
- ^ "Photos: Bomb Thursdays ft. Jeepers Creepers, Spud in the Box, The Lightyears Explode and Paralights". Rolling Stone India. Retrieved 14 July 2026.
- ^ "Indian Indies: 10 Go-To Producers Whose Work You Should Know". Rolling Stone India. Retrieved 14 July 2026.
- ^ a b "Ayan De – Credits". muso.ai. Retrieved 14 July 2026.
- ^ "Silo". Retrieved 14 July 2026.
External links
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Category:Living people Category:Indian record producers Category:Indian audio engineers Category:Indian sound designers Category:Musicians from Mumbai Category:Electronic musicians
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