Arun Sood

Arun Sood is a Scottish-Indian writer, musician and academic working across multiple forms. He was born in Aberdeen to a West-Highland mother and a Punjabi father, and has since lived in Glasgow, Amsterdam, Washington DC, and now South Devon where he is Lecturer in Global Literatures at the University of Exeter. His critical and creative practice ranges from fiction, academic publications, sound installations, and poetry to ambient musical tapestries. His books include the 2022 novel New Skin For The Old Ceremony: A Kirtan, which explores notions of home, heritage, and memory among the South Asian diaspora. Musically, Arun’s works have been described by Elizabeth Alker (BBC3/Unclassified) as like “fragments and images conjured through sound and field recordings that ebb and swirl like the tide”; while Jude Rogers of The Guardian describes how “the spirit of sonic collage holds echoes of other Scottish works such as King Creosote and Jon Hopkins.