Isobel D'Cruz Barnes

After hours, the room hosts one-off sessions, talks, and listening parties from RISING artists who you wouldn’t usually get to see up close. The lineup has been curated by Yasmine Sharaf host of Cease + Desist on Triple R and Robin Fox, co-founder and artistic director of MESS.

Isobel D'Cruz Barnes is a Malaysian-Australian musician and ethnomusicologist based between Narrm/Melbourne AU and the Lenapehoking/Philadelphia USA. She writes on race, post-colonial theory and subculture and performs/composes as Hantu. Her music is informed by her training in Western and Indian classical musics (flute, bansuri) as well as her ethnographic work in the Asia-Pacific region.