Sandeep Bhagwati is a multiple award-winning composer, poet, theatre-maker and media artist. His compositions and comprovisations in many genres, including 6 operas, music theatre works are performed worldwide. He has curated several international festivals and long-term inter-traditional projects with Asian musicians. His work is characterized by sustained engagements with musicians from a large variety of musical traditions. Since 2000, he was a Prof. of Composition at Karlsruhe Music University, before he became a Canada Research Chair for Inter-X Art at Concordia University Montréal in 2006, where he directs matralab, a research, creation node for live arts. Since 2013, he is an artistic director of the trans-traditional ensembles Extrakte Berlin and Sangeet Prayog Pune, India, leads TENOR, an international research network for novel notation technologies, and is co-editor of TURBA – The Journal for Global Practices in Live Arts Curation. His ground-breaking essays have made him a leading voice in current debates on the provincialization and decolonization of euro logical concert music.