Ushara Dilrukshan

Ushara is a sonic performance artist and soprano working across expanded opera, composition, pipe organ and experimental theatre. 
She holds an MA from the Royal College of Art.

Work
  1. Triangle reshapes the O of my mouth (c. Anousha Payne)
  2. The Unattended Organ
  3. First Breath (V&A East)
  4. I am back from where I came
  5. Resonant Bodies
  6. 100 Instruction Scores to Overcome Trauma
  7. After Hunger
  8. Landscape Silence Night
  9. Guila Tofana
  10. Veilwork
  11. Weather Reports, Colomboscope
  12. Between walls and voices
  13. Celestial Conversations
  14. Sonic Relics
  15. To the shore
  16. Trembling Nearness
  17. Feedback for Three Amps and Vox
  18. Pooja
  19. Heavy is the head
  20. She’s what I smeared on the world
  21. The Light the Day Gave
  22. Even God Can’t Save You Now
  23. Empty Pipes
  24. Extensions
  25. Come Inside
  26. Fishermans Hymn
  27. Summer Solstice Drone
  28. Limbo
  29. As of Right Now
  30. Exhumation
  31. To Dunhinda Falls
  32. Mege Gerada

Curation
  1. Moments No1
  2. Yliaster
  3. Exhume

 Bandcamp
Sound Designs

Artist Statement
Instagram
She’s what I smeared on the world

Encoded Video
Strange Brew, Bristol January 2024

Experimental granular synthesised film inspired by the quote ‘She's what I smeared on the world’ from the 2108 remake of Suspiria with encoded audio expressing Western rituals of menstruation and pain.