Vinthya Perinpanathan (b. 1998, Emmen) is an interdisciplinary artist who in her PhD combines the Sinhalese and Tamil music traditions of her heritage in the contemporary European context of her musical upbringing. This project is supervised by Professor Camden Reeves at the University of Manchester and is funded by the AHRC NWCDTP Postgraduate Research Studentship. She also performs under the alias ‘Vindya’, DJing and producing dark, fast and groove-driven techno.

Vinthya began her doctoral compositional practice with a keen focus on bringing Sri Lankan music to European concert halls to expose Western audiences to sounds they might not have otherwise been familiar with. This is her intended contribution as a composer to the deconstruction of Eurocentric ideas of non-‘Western’ music. 

There is a satisfying parallel to be drawn between the ancient, ritualistic music from Vinthya’s heritage, and the techno sub-genre within which Vindya has been operating for the last few years. Both are highly repetitive, richly percussive, and deeply hypnotic. They are both also celebratory, participatory, and they blur the line between performer and audience. 

Vinthya's compositions have been performed internationally. Most notably, her string quartet ‘Flight UL505’, performed across numerous concert halls throughout Europe by the Sonoro Quartet during their ECHO Rising Stars tour. Her most recent commission comes from Elisabeth Hetherington and the ADAM Quartet, which will be premiered at the String Quartet Biennale 2026 held in Amsterdam’s Muziekgebouw; a piece in which she will finally and officially intertwine her acoustic and electronic worlds.

As an electronic musician, her current project brings together the oral tradition of konnakol and her techno sound through both performing with a live vocalist, and through sampling that sound in her productions. Newer creative ventures include integrating her first musical love, the violin, with her work as an electronic musician where she brings the instrument that started it all with her into the booth.