Vinthya Perinpanathan (b. 1998, Emmen) is an interdisciplinary artist and doctoral researcher, combining the now ethnicised traditions of her Sri Lankan heritage in the contemporary context of her musical upbringing. Her research 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’, producing and mixing dark, rhythmic and soulful electronic music, especially influenced by 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. These musical characteristics are continued sources of inspiration for her next piece, a perai melam drumming ritual reimagined for full orchestra with harmonies constructed using the mode of the sengoti yazh (an ancient Tamil harp).

Vinthya's compositions have been heard internationally. Most notably, her first string quartet ‘Flight UL505’, performed across numerous concert halls throughout Europe by the Sonoro Quartet during their ECHO Rising Stars tour, with continuing performances from the ADAM and Kyan Quartets. Her most recent public premiere concluded Elisabeth Hetherington and the ADAM Quartet’s Future Echoes concert at the String Quartet Biennale 2026 held in Amsterdam’s Muziekgebouw; a piece in which she finally and officially intertwined her acoustic and electronic worlds and has since been performed across the Netherlands.

As a producer, her current project ‘Monkey’ brings together her multifaceted sound-world; an experimental track shining spot lights onto Sri Lanka’s rainforests and conch shell performer Nuwan Gunawardhana. And, this summer she debuted a new creative venture 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.