Dhanish Krishnan: Artist · Producer · Engineer

Brand Shoot · for Vivek Karunagaran

Artist · Creative Director · Engineer · Systems Builder

DHANISH KRISHNAN

Music Producer Dancer Percussionist Choreographer Instructor Recording Engineer

Music Producer Dancer Percussionist Choreographer Recording Engineer Instructor

A multidisciplinary creative shaping music, movement, culture, technology, and arts education. Building systems and shipping creative work across India and the UAE.

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The Stack

Tools I work in.

A working toolkit across audio, video, design, engineering, and AI, chosen for the job, not the brand.

Avid Pro Tools

Ableton Live

Logic Pro

FL Studio

Final Cut Pro

DaVinci Resolve

Adobe Premiere

Photoshop

Illustrator

Lightroom

CorelDraw

Canva

Figma

ChatGPT

Claude

Gemini Runway Veo Flow Antigravity

AutoCAD

SolidWorks CATIA

ANSYS

AWS CloudPanel

Cloudflare

Google Play Console

Firebase

Google Analytics

Search Console

GitHub

Notion

MS Word

MS Excel

PowerPoint

Google Docs

Google Sheets

Slack

Zoom

WordPress

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About

Many disciplines. One mind.

From stage to studio to steel, the through-line is making the next thing land. A child's first jathi. A brand campaign. A track signed off by a music director. A CAD assembly that ships. A soundproof panel that absorbs what it's supposed to. A CRM that keeps a 35-year-old school running. The medium changes; the obsession with shipping the work doesn't.

Polytechnic

Mechanical Engineer

Coimbatore · India

Recording

Sound Engineer

Chennai · India

Music Production

Live · Studio

Dubai · Germany · India

Building Now

CRM · Web · Apps

Per requirement

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Music · Audio · Studio

· Recording engineer, formally trained · Chennai, India
· Music production across Dubai, Germany & India
· Music production · Logic Pro X, Pro Tools, Ableton, FL Studio
· Sound engineering for short films, full-project
· Experimental sound design, soundscapes for a contemporary artist's installation/event work
· Audio sample-pack production & sales, original packs for producers worldwide
· A&R for budding artists, placing tracks with music directors
· Studio singing technique for school students · live jamming

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Direction & Acting

· Acting in television advertisements
· Directing & composing music videos
· Sound engineering for a full short film
· Stage performance & choreography

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Education & Training

· Training kids' dance batches at Kairali
· Studio singing & production teaching
· Kairali Digital Academy, online programmes
· Mentorship for budding artists

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Brand · Marketing · Strategy

· Social-media strategist for students, personalities, companies
· Marketing copywriting
· Consultancy & advisory for early-stage companies
· Event organisation & production
· Designing, graphic, social, print
· Brand direction for Kairali Arts Music Consultants Centre

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Engineering & CAD

· Polytechnic mechanical engineer, Coimbatore, India
· SolidWorks 3D modelling for companies
· AutoCAD 3D drawing & documentation
· Soundproofing panel design, acoustic treatment for studios & live spaces
· Testing engineer certifications
· Industrial design support

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Systems & Ownership

· Owner, Kairali Arts Music Consultants Centre
· Founder, experienceindianarts.com (registered in India)
· Built kairaliartscentre.com (current & legacy versions)
· Free Student Toolkit at app.kairaliartscentre.com
· CRM, web & apps built per requirement, school ops, attendance, payments, transport, comms
· Catalog & portfolio design as deliverables

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Selected Work

Where art, technology, and culture meet.

Main Site · 2026

Kairali Arts Centre

The current kairaliartscentre.com, full creative direction, brand system, and 100+ pages of dance/music programme content.

Visit site →

v1 First Kairali Site

Legacy · Archive

First Kairali Site

The original Kairali web presence, built in-house, kept as a reference for what the brand grew out of.

Archived

CRM

Operations · Workflow

Kairali CRM

Custom school operations system, students, attendance, payments, transport, comms, built per the school's actual workflow.

Internal tool

Practice tools.
Free, forever.

Education Tech · Free

Free Student Toolkit

Ad-free music tools, pitch finder, shruti, metronome, for musicians worldwide.

Open toolkit →

Print · Catalog

Catalog & Print Design

Customer-facing programme catalog, season brochures and printed collateral, designed in-house, dispatched to families and partners.

Design system

Portfolios · Editorial

Other Portfolios

Personal-brand sites, artist portfolios and editorial campaigns, including the Vivek Karunagaran brand shoot.

Editorial · Web

Many Worlds.

Personal · Manifesto

Many Worlds

Stage to studio to steel, 15+ years of creative experience across dance, music, engineering, and brand work.

See the journey ↑

Music · Studio · Sample Packs

Sound · Rhythm · Production

Recording engineering, original music production, and original sample packs produced and sold to producers worldwide. Dubai · Germany · India.

Music section →

Education · Stage

On Stage with the Kids

Training kids' dance batches at Kairali, choreographing for school championships, running the live show in real production.

Teaching · Choreography

YouTube · TV

Acting · Direction

YouTube & TV

Television advertisement work, music video direction, and the organ-donation public-service spot directed by Vijay.

Watch the spot →

Print · Voqzi · Studio9696

Monk Story & Other Editorial

Studio9696 · Voqzi Mag salt-flat spread and other editorial features.

Magazine feature

Nirtholsavam 1998: Kairali Arts Centre Sharjah classical dance performance archive

One Journey

Many Worlds.

From the stage to the studio. From rhythm to systems. Every path led here, to create, build, and leave a mark that matters.

15+

Years of Creative Experience

10K+

Students Impacted Through Kairali

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Passion for Excellence

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Editorial Feature

Monk Story.

Voqzi Magazine · Brand: Abhi Jain, Nilesh Jain · Wardrobe: Studio9696 · Photographer: Vinoth Kannan

A salt-flat editorial built around silence, scale, and stillness, printed in Voqzi and shot for Studio9696's Monk Story. The brief was to feel weightless against an empty horizon. The execution was about presence over performance.

Brand

Abhi · Nilesh Jain

Studio

9696

Outlet

Voqzi Mag

Voqzi · Editorial

CCD · Brand Shoot

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Brand Campaign

A lot can happen over coffee.

Lifestyle direction for Café Coffee Day, shot top-down on cobblestone, leather and denim, the cup of the moment in hand. A campaign about the small ritual hidden inside the everyday.

Discipline

Lifestyle / Brand

Output

Print + Digital

Frame

Top-down lifestyle

Year

2018

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Stage

On stage, with the kids.

A short film of a rehearsal-into-stage moment with Kairali students, the kind of evening every instructor lives for.

Live · with Students

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Creative Direction

Faces of a year.

Selected portraits from brand work, editorial spreads, and creative-direction series. Different palettes, same instinct: presence first, polish after.

Editorial

Pattern · Pose · Plate

Creative direction portrait, pink hair / teal beard styling

Art Direction

Color · Confrontation · Character

Studio

Cinema

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A Second Venture · India-Registered

experienceindianarts.com

A second baby of mine, registered in India, built to put serious foreign students directly inside the lineage of an Indian art form. Not a tour. Not a workshop. A residency with a guru.

The premise is simple: you can not really learn a classical Indian art from a screen. You learn it by living with the teacher, eating the food they eat, watching them practise at five in the morning, and slowly absorbing the culture the discipline came out of. We connect students from anywhere in the world to the right master in the right city, and we plan the entire stay around their learning.

A Guardian Angel · per city

Every visiting student is paired with a vetted local host, a guardian angel who handles everything they need on the ground, from arrival to departure.

Stay · Food · Travel · Learning

Accommodation, meals on request, intercity travel, and the actual structured study under the guru, planned and supported as one journey.

Lineage · Not Tourism

Students live with the guru's family or close to the studio, the way classical Indian arts have always been transmitted.

Two-Way Exchange

Foreign students learn from the best of India. We learn enormously from them too, that mutual exchange is the point.

Visit experienceindianarts.com Become a Host City

experienceindianarts.com, foreign students living with Indian art gurus

India · Registered · Live with the Guru

Face of the Year

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Recognition

Face of the Year.

Featured as a Face of the Year, a portrait-and-profile recognition built around character, presence, and the through-line between performance, production and brand work. The kind of feature that exists because the work travels.

Discipline

Editorial Portrait

Recognition

Faces of the Year

Output

Print + Digital

It is also the reminder that none of this is a single discipline, recognitions like this one show up because the music, the engineering, the brand work, and the teaching all sit on the same person.

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Direction · Acting · Production

On the other side of the lens, too.

Acting in television advertisements. Directing and composing for music videos. Sound engineering for full short films. The work crosses from creator to performer to crew, depending on what the project asks for.

Television · Public-Service Organ-donation campaign · Tamil · directed by Vijay Open on YouTube ↗

Television · Government Campaign MOI UAE · “Abu Dhabi, Safest City” · with Vishnu Baburaj · cast by Miranda Davidson Open on YouTube ↗

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Music

Sound. Rhythm. Production.

Production

Music production shaped by rhythm, cinematic instinct, South Indian roots, and modern sound design.

Rhythm Programming

Percussion knowledge translated into groove, structure, and production detail.

Studio

A space where performance, sound, and technology meet.

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Talent creates energy.
Systems create impact.

The future belongs to creatives who can perform, produce, communicate, build, and scale.

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Contact

Let's build something with rhythm, culture, and systems.

Available for creative direction, music production, digital systems, arts education projects, and cultural brand development.

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