Vivek Renjen Bald is a New York-based film/videomaker committed to small format and digital documentary. Bald completed a Masters degree in International Media and Communications at Columbia University in 1991, and produced his first documentary, Taxi-vala/Auto-biography, in 1994. Shot entirely on Hi-8 video and Super-8 film, Taxi-vala chronicled the lives of South Asian immigrant taxi drivers in New York. It premiered at the Whitney Museum of American Art, was broadcast on WNET's series "Reel NY" in 1996, and has screened at festivals and conferences throughout the US, and in Canada, India, and Japan.

Bald is also one of the major forces behind the rise of new South Asian music in New York City. Over the past five years, he has built ties across the South Asian second generation with British Asian artists such as Asian Dub Foundation, Talvin Singh, State of Bengal, Fun Da Mental and others, documenting the development of the British Asian music scene in his second full-length documentary, Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music and helping bring British Asian artists to US audiences through the Mutiny club nights.

Founded in 1997 by Bald and DJ Rekha as a series of fundraisers for the documentary, the club Mutiny has developed into a force of its own on the NYC music scene, drawing on both British artists and local South Asian DJs and musicians, and bringing together drum 'n bass and hip-hop with the sounds of Indian classical, folk, and film music. Bald DJs and produces music under the name DJ Siraiki, creating a powerful mix of deep drones and dub basslines, rapid-fire breakbeats, and soaring Indian strings and vocals. He is currently collaborating with Asian Dub Foundation's Chandrasonic on a series of original tracks, while the documentary, "Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music" is set for completion later this year.

You can find out more about both the Mutiny club-night and the documentary at www.mutinysounds.com.