Ruhail Qaisar is an artist from Leh, Ladakh. His current practice revolves around examining threads of local memory, mythos, and poetics through sound art, compositions, and found sculptures.

Involved within various cross-genre projects since 2015, his early noise shows all over India are recalled as sonic palate-cleansers, he debuted with his concept album Fatima (2023) dubbed by The Quietus as “haunting”, released on Danse Noire featuring Dis Fig and Elvin Brandhi, with a 48-page photo book publication.

The commissioned hymnal piece for Les Urbaines written in collaboration with Gottfrid Ahman and Michael Anklin , Three Hymns of Cruelty (2022), which delved into the dynamics of Ladakhi procession music, was performed at Arsenic in Lausanne.

He has performed and shown his work at the Zurich Kunsthalle, Salts City Basel, Gesnerallee, and Toxi.

In 2024 his residency in Graz, Styria was spent, preparing a 36 channel third order ambisonic composition, Namkhay Rtsima / The Spine of the Sky, for the Musikprotokoll Festival for ORF (Österreichischer Rundfunk) and the Steirischer Herbst’ 24 at the Dom im Berg.

His latest work “Tithe: Prelude to a Curved Blade”, opens this December at the Kochi Muziris Biennale.