As an artist and researcher, Rama’s work is deeply engaged with questions of symbolic representation in sonic and spatial media – working in areas of material theatre, spatial audio, and developments in computational performance of graphic scores.
During his PhD studies at the University of California, Berkeley, Rama studied composition with Franck Bedrossian and interactive computer music with David Wessel and Edmund Campion at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT). Previously, he completed studies at the Universität der Künste Berlin, Manhattan School of Music, and New York University. His pieces have been featured at Lincoln Center, MaerzMusik, SPOR, MATA, Klangwerkstatt, and other festivals.
Rama was in residence at IRCAM in 2012 studying spatial audio processes, and in 2017 developing new notation software for digital performance. 2018-2022, he was a researcher in the HfMT Hamburg “Innovative Hochschule” project. In 2022, Rama was appointed Professor of Contemporary Computer Music Practice at the ZHdK, where he teaches and pursues interdisciplinary art and technology research at the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology (ICST).