Varun Kishore is a guitarist and composer from Kolkata, India. His work draws on music technology, literature, and visual art, with a focus on designing frameworks for composition, improvisation, and performance as part of a “maximalist” creative practice—one rooted in an expansive approach to material, process, and interdisciplinary influences. Varun's recent work has been performed by LINÜ, Tokyo Gen’on Project, Popebama, and Hypercube, and has been presented at SEAMUS, the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Performing Media Festival, Third Practice Festival, Ars Electronica, Spaceout Ambisonics Music Festival, CUBE Fest (upcoming), and others. His current areas of interest include drone and experimental electronic music, maximalism, digital instrument and interface design, alternative notation, and video. Varun holds a PhD in Composition and Computer Technologies from the University of Virginia, as well as degrees from Goldsmiths, University of London (MMus Creative Practice, 2019) and the University of West London (BMus Popular Music Performance, 2012). Starting in Fall 2026, Varun will begin a three-year appointment as the Joseph E. and Grace W. Valentine Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Amherst College.