known for his engaging performances on stage violinist aneesh vidyashankar says that he cannot wait to perform in front of a crowd again all set to release tracks from his latest work the musician is keen on collaborating with different artistes once the strain of the pandemic recedes in a quick chat with us aneesh talks about his music the learnings from the past few months of confinement and more excerpts you seem to have been experimenting with different genres of music tell us about itcurrently i am working on fusion music though my forte is live performances i felt the need to try something new and different and what better time to do that than now i began dabbling in genres like trap edm and rock i wanted to take elements from these genres and see how we can use indian music with that to create a new sound and i am happy with the outcomewhat has performing online taught you that a stage event hasnt yetthe whole online situation was new to me but i must say that this medium has taught me a lot i feel that certain things like the sound of my music and the mixing are the same both offline and online in the online world however the idea is to give the audiences the best results both in terms of video and audio this aspect becomes a challenge at times although i had my audio bit sorted i realised the importance of video in this medium and how lighting background visual angle and the camera play a key role in an online performance i went in depth about broadcasting videos and that helped my online performances your kannada music and covers are quite popular is there a collaboration happening anytime sooni had a great start to 2020 as i performed along with rappermusic composer chandan shetty in canada our stage collaboration there and in the us turned out to be a big hit i would love to collaborate with other artistes as well there are a few things that i have in mind just waiting for the current crisis to ease a bit more recently you even judged a show online how was the experienceoh it was so good i miss doing all this live and offline i was part of the judges panel for the show madras got talent theres a lot of talent out there it was more than being just about music and dance for instance we had an architecture student who made a sculpture and began playing music on it i thoroughly enjoyed the experience albeit i miss the energy and the audience of a physical performance do you think the pandemic has been a learning experiencei feel the pandemic has taught us a lot to take a step back and see where we are right now earlier i used to burn off all my calories through my stage performances but now i began cycling and i love it