Our Team

Meet the people behind Fieldworks — passionate creatives building the future of digital arts education in India.

Sahej Bakshi

Sahej Bakshi is an artist, creative entrepreneur and educator who has spent over 15 years at the forefront of India’s electronic music landscape. Known professionally as Dualist Inquiry, he has built an enduring and respected career over the past 15 years. His work has earned him accolades such as Forbes India's 30 Under 30, the cover of Rolling Stone India and GQ's "50 Most Influential Young Indians", while his performances have taken him to major festivals such as Berlin Music Week, The Great Escape UK, Ultra Seoul, Wonderfruit Thailand, SXSW Sydney, Lollapalooza Mumbai, Magnetic Fields and many more. After starting his musical journey at the Doon School, Sahej graduated from the Thornton School of Music at USC in Los Angeles with dual degrees in Music Industry and Business Administration. He returned to India to pursue a career as an artist at the age of 22, and shortly thereafter released the landmark album Doppelganger (2013), which is now seen as a turning point not only for Sahej but also for the Indian Independent music landscape. Beyond his personal artistry, Bakshi’s has always been focused on creative education and fostering community. As co-founder of boxout.fm, one of India's leading independent online community radios, creative agency, artist management, record label and event promoter, Sahej has helped create essential infrastructure for emerging artists across the country since 2017. Today, he is the founder and CEO of Fieldworks, an education platform dedicated to educating and mentoring India’s next generation of creatives. By bridging the gap between technical mastery and artistic vision, Bakshi leverages his experience in music production, filmmaking, and industry to empower students. Whether through his work as an artist or through Fieldworks, his work now centers on building the educational frameworks to support the next generation of creatives.

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Krishna Jhaveri

Co-Founder

Krishna Jhaveri is an Indian sound artist, musician and mix engineer. His sonic journey has spanned progressive metal, experimental ambient soundscapes, film sound, and explorations in field recordings, acoustic ecology, and radio art. His background includes a Law Degree and an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College in Oakland, California. He has also toured the globe extensively with the metal band Skyharbor, acclaimed Indian hip hop artist Divine, and legendary Indian rock stalwarts – Indus Creed. The central tenet of his current artistic practice is activated listening – informed by soundscapes studies, interspecies communication, field work, mixing, and traditional meditation practices. His work is inspired by his interests in culture, climate, community building, and mentorship. In 2020, he co-founded Ears to the Ground with Sanaya Ardeshir – a transmedia project that seeks to investigate how our changing soundscapes reflect climate change through installation art, performance and community sharing. Alongside his passion for the potentialities of sound, Krishna's interests extend to pedagogy, and knowledge sharing as a means to build robust communities. Krishna’s passion isn't just for making music — it is for sharing knowledge and building community around the Arts. As cofounder, Fieldworks will be the container through which he will share his passion for teaching, guiding and facilitating young creative minds.

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Vaibhav Chhabra

Founding Partner

Vaibhav Chhabra is a Mechanical Engineer turned Carpenter and Educator. With a degree from Boston University, Vaibhav spent his early career at EyeNetra, a startup from MIT Media Labs, building portable Virtual Reality-based eye diagnostic devices. During his time in India for the eye diagnostic prototype, he recognized the need for accessible makerspaces and founded Makers Asylum in 2013 out of a small garage in Mumbai. Maker's Asylum is India's first community Makerspace in India, equipped with various co-located labs that facilitate prototyping of interdisciplinary ideas. The key focus of this space is to share the joy of making, empowering community members to develop critical thinking, problem-solving, and creative skills. Through Makers Asylum, Vaibhav has been driving open innovation and hands-on education. He is also a visiting faculty at IDC - IIT Bombay, Judge school at Cambridge university, Advisor to the Museum of Solutions, Chair for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Young Indians – Confederation of Indian Industries, a Global Shaper at the World Economic Forum, and a member of the French President's Young Leaders Club. These roles have allowed him to contribute to driving innovation, education, and community development globally.

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Darren D'Souza

Lead Designer

Darren D’Souza is a Goa-based visual and graphic designer, musician, and music producer whose practice sits at the intersection of sound, space, and sensory experience. Growing up in Goa, and shaped early on by school and church choirs, his relationship with sound has been both intuitive and deeply rooted in place. As a member of the band Feathers in Space, and through his solo project Bérod, his music reflects an atmospheric and textured approach to composition. Alongside his music practice, he has spent the past four years working as a visual designer, creating immersive experiences that allow participants to realise and explore alternative realities through space, sound, and form. Darren’s work extends into sound installations that delve into the relationship between human interaction and ecology, an inquiry shaped by the evolving landscapes of his native Goa. Motivated by questions around our relationships with our environment and the resulting transformations, his multi-channel sound installation, “Present Sense”, echoed similar themes using responsive soundscapes. Largely self-taught in both music production and design, Darren later pursued a Masters Diploma in Creative Music Production from Catalyst Institute, Berlin, further refining his interdisciplinary approach. At the heart of his practice is a simple belief: that artistic expression is accessible to all, given the right tools, knowledge, and space to explore.

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Zainab Wani

Music Lead & Program Facilitator

Born in Kashmir, raised in Chiangmai, Thailand, and currently based in New Delhi, Zainab is an electronic music producer, educator, DJ and all round lover of music. Producing and DJ’ing as Zequenx since 2018, she relies on her many cultural influences to accentuate her tastes and guide her through the expression of self as an artist and educator, sculpting a space for those who want to explore the sonic realm. Zainab played the violin classically in her youth, and today, carries her musical knowledge, creative energy and quest for learning into her lessons and performances. Her philosophy is to create a journey that allows the listener to step outside of their mind for a moment and traverse through dark, yet musical, psychedelic soundscapes. She has been a part of the Indian alternative music industry for over 6 years, working with record labels, online community radio and having co-founded collectives that empower and train women and queer individuals in music production, DJ’ing and other aspects of events and nightlife. Her productions have been released on a variety of renowned labels in India, and she’s working her way to release her music internationally in the coming year. Zequenx has a discernible sound, although it morphs to various genres such as electro, techno, acid, and experimental ambient. She has been working with students on a 1-on-1 basis to teach them the ropes of electronic music production on Ableton Live, as well as presented at Ableton User Group meet-ups. Her goal is to make music production accessible to everyone, and guide them to actualising their production dreams.

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