Photograph by Pierre Langlois, 2023

Ananya Ganesh (b. 1997) is an improviser from Madras based in North America. Her idiosyncratically simultaneous improvisation of piano and voice lies between the unrealizable and what could be. Playing with the limits of the embodied ear, her work unfurls as expressions of indeterminacy, spontaneity, and the joys of dissonance and (in)access. Live performances—improvised from and with disregard for “maps” created for each venue—consist of modular short-form vignettes and long-form pieces. Ganesh sculpts these open forms through the explorations of dynamics, texture, density, registral color, imbricated lines, and sparseness. Her mentors and collaborators include John McDonald, Jacob Hiser, Domenic Hutchins (Mme Sand), Alex Fournier, Raphael Roter (Unbleak Trio), Amber Wolfe Rounds, and others.

Ganesh’s debut EP, precis-loving, was re-released on Worried Songs in 2023. Listen to it / order a tape here. Read about it here and here. Artwork by M P Landis. Mixed and mastered by Peter Atkinson.