Rolf Killius, – consultancy and services in South Asian arts
websites: http://www.rolfkillius.com http://www.youtube.com/user/RolfKillius
Rolf Killius, a German-born British resident, has lived in Germany, Switzerland and India and presently divides his time between London, UK and India.
At present Rolf works as Curator and Media Producer for the Indian Music Experience (IME) at Brigade - India's first experiential music museum in Bangalore. In this role he is responsible for researching, populating and curating the Indian musical instrument collection and creating all the media files for the Indian Musical Cultures area.
Until recently Rolf worked as a consultant for the Musical Instrument Museum (MIM), 'the first truly global musical instrument museum' in Phoenix, Arizona (USA) where he is responsible for collection, research and documentation in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
Recently he co-curated the exhibitions:
Indian Strings & Dances at the Museum of Croydon, London (April - August 2009)
Utsavam - Music from India at the Horniman Museum, London (February - November 2008)
British Library Sound Archive, Music from India (from April 2009) (provided text and music)
Rolf facilitated the documentation and construction of a Bhunga dessert farm, from the Rann of Kutch in Gujarat, Western India on the premises of the anthropological Grassi Museum in Leipzig, Germany.
For more than ten years Rolf has been a regular producer and writer of radio broadcasts and articles about Indian, Romanian and Arabic music for different Swiss, German and UK radio stations and publications. He has also recorded, produced and mastered seven CDs in the UK, Switzerland, France and the Netherlands and written the book Ritual Music and Hindu Rituals of Kerala, which was published by BR Rhythms in Delhi 2006.
In 1996/7 he spent 18 months in Kerala and parts of Northeast India, where he recorded and documented numerous ritual and folk music traditions. Since 1996 he has worked with the British Library Sound Archive on a project - TMI (Traditional Music in India) - to record, document and research folk, devotional and ritual music in India. Part of this project is to collect and document more than 100 musical instruments for the Horniman Museum in London.