Architect of Emotion.
IIT Madras · Chennai · Bangalore · The World
Not chosen by accident.
Chosen with intent.
— Surya Srini
Each project required a different frequency.
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Music Director
Debut as Music Director for a theatrical feature backed by KRG Studios. A hybrid score blending electronic minimalism with orchestral tension — built for atmosphere, restraint, and emotional fracture.
Music Director
A restrained saxophone-led score built around silence, breath, and internal unrest. Music that doesn't explain the scene — it inhabits it.
Music Director
An industrial-organic sound palette — mechanical percussion layered with raw acoustic textures and orchestral depth. A score that earned two major international recognitions.
Associate Background Score Composer & Producer
A Tamil feature film. Contributed to orchestration and significant portions of the background score production, shaping tonal continuity and thematic weight across the film.
Music Director
A ShortFlix web series — emotionally grounded storytelling with an original score built from Tamil musical sensibilities and cinematic restraint.
Associate Music Producer & String Orchestrator
A mainstream Tamil feature demanding full orchestral presence. String arrangement and orchestration across key sequences — translating raw emotion into sweeping, precise musical architecture.
Official Composer
Official composer of the Saarang Anthem — the cultural festival of IIT Madras, one of Asia's largest. Music heard by tens of thousands. The sound of an institution.
Associate Composer & Producer
Co-composed and produced a featured track for a Telugu feature film — blending cinematic orchestration with contemporary production textures. Featured track: "Mayam Brahmanchadare".
Music Director & Composer
Sonic identity for brands. Kadak Chai brand sonic identity. Campaign scores and brand anthems — music that makes people stop scrolling. Music production and sound design for Atti Culture artist Kelethi — including tracks Vetri Vel and Olaile.
Composer, Producer & Artist
903K+ streams across platforms. Featured on Spotify Editorial: Tamil Indie, Radar Tamil, Latest Tamil. 'Nama Chennai Da' — most streamed. 'Yeno Valigal'. 'Timeless Currents'.
Music Director
5M+ views on YouTube. A web series score that found its audience. 'Yeno Valigal' became a fan-favourite track — the kind of melody that outlives the screen.
Music Director
30+ short films scored across five years for ShortFlix, Chennai Memes, Black Sheep, JumpCuts, Hari Baskar, and LV Prasad Labs. Oscar-qualifying stages, South Asian showcases, international screenings across three continents.
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“Surya Srini's genre-defying music is a fantastic accompaniment to the film's structure, which keeps changing between dreamy and harsh.”
— The Hollywood Reporter India
Competition Wins
1st Place — Instrumental Competition
2017 & 2018
1st Place
2019
Winner — Sura
2024
Winner — The Brothers
2025
International Selections
St. Louis, USA
Providence, USA
Chicago, USA
Toronto, Canada
Tokyo, Japan
10+ total festival selections
Credentials
4th Place · Italy (organised by Casio) · Special mention by Santosh Narayanan, Anil Srinivasan & Shakthisree Gopalan
Certified — 8 Grades in Music Theory
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
An IIT Madras alumnus turned composer, music producer, and pianist, Surya Srini is a rising name in the Tamil & Kannada Film Industries. Certified by Trinity College London (8 Grades in Music Theory) and trained in Western classical, Carnatic, and jazz, he has collaborated with GV Prakash, OfRo, Universal Music Group India, Tips Tamil, Black Sheep, Studio Green, Gannet Celluloid, and JumpCuts.
With over 30+ short films (as music director), 2 feature-length web series (Thadayam, Thoduvanam), and Green Girl (as Music Director) to his credit, Surya's works have been showcased at global platforms including Rhodes Island International Film Festival, Chicago South Asian Film Festival, St. Louis International Film Festival (Oscar-qualifying), and IFFSA Toronto — with wins at Smita Patil Film Festival 2024 and BISFF 2025.
People inherit identities from their environment — family, community, expectation. Some follow those paths. Others question them. Surya's journey began in a family of teachers and led to IIT Madras — but instead of continuing the expected trajectory, he chose music. Not as rebellion. As authorship. A belief that identity isn't only inherited. It can also be created.
“This isn’t a portfolio.
This is a deliberate path.
I didn’t arrive here because there was no option.
I chose this road — and walked it with intent.”
Associations
Music is built in relationship. These are some of the hands and voices this work has moved through.
Every engagement is custom. No templates, no catalog music, no approximations. If the scene demands it, the music is built for that scene—and only that scene.
Feature films, short films, and web series. Stereo & 5.1 stem delivery. Built around the narrative, not convention.
Deliverables
String writing, harmonic arrangement, and ensemble scoring. Trinity-certified, IIT-precision. Classical rigor in service of modern storytelling.
Deliverables
Textural sound design integrated with score — building worlds from scratch. For films that need music and atmosphere to be indistinguishable.
Deliverables
Sonic identity for brands that understand music carries weight. Campaign scores, product films, brand anthems.
Deliverables
Songs written from scratch — melody, lyric, arrangement, production. For artists who need a collaborator who understands the architecture beneath the emotion.
Deliverables
End-to-end music production and mix supervision. For music that demands sonic clarity without losing emotional weight.
Deliverables
Full production under your name. Your vision, fully realised, with complete confidentiality. Select clients only.
Deliverables
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