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Angia Devices is a Delhi-based electronic music hardware company founded by Aditya Ghosh in 2025, that makes Eurorack modules and other sound synthesis equipment, helping Indian musicians access modular synthesizers without the high costs of importing hardware. Drawing on his own journey from DIY electronics to building a synth company, Aditya is also leading a hands-on workshop in New Delhi on November 1, 2026, introducing participants to the fundamentals of sound synthesis.
Aditya Ghosh, founder of Angia Devices, has been into electronic music his whole life, one way or another, having started producing electronic music and DJing while he was still in school. However, it was during his education in audio engineering that he came across sound synthesis specifically, mostly due to his teachers as well as the first time he attended Synthfarm, a residency programme about sound synthesis in West Bengal, in 2019.
“The proverbial bug bit me, and I tried to get my hands on some modular synth equipment, only to then realise that importing a single module and power supply was enough to drain all my Money,” shares Aditya, who had never been a decent student in terms of maths and science, but it was at that moment that he decided to start learning electronics and started off building kits, then DIY designs, mostly so he could grow his own collection on a reasonable budget. This turned into making a few things for others to fund his own gear collection, which then snowballed over the years into the founding of Angia Devices in 2025.
Based in Delhi, Angia Devices makes Eurorack modules and other sound synthesis equipment like modules for generating, shaping and mixing sound, alongside controllers and the components needed to build a modular system. The company also works with open-source designs, making synthesizer hardware that musicians can use to experiment with electronic sound. By manufacturing and supplying equipment locally, Angia is working within a market where importing synthesizers and individual modules can be prohibitively expensive.
Aditya believes that most of the challenges unique to doing this in India are also most of the advantages. It is extra challenging to do this in India given things like import duties and navigating manufacturing and supply chains, but that is also what gives him a competitive edge for end customers, as he can compete directly on price-per-quality compared to other options which have to be imported into the country.
Modular synthesis, Aditya tells us, is arguably the oldest form of electronic sound and music synthesis, dating back to the designs of Bob Moog and Don Buchla in the early to mid-1960s. “For all its complicated, intimidating, and to some, appealing looks, with racks of modules and cables and lights and jargon everywhere, modular synthesis relies on an extremely simple principle: one cable, one signal,” he notes.
He highlights how It offers a direct connection with electronic music that is ephemeral and fleeting in ways nothing other than a real instrument can be, allowing one to have an understanding, and hopefully a connection, that expands from the core outwards of the music and sound itself. Modular synths are linear, meaning what is played is played, unlike a DAW. They are performative and expressive in a way that using them feels like an exercise in emergent conversation between the performer and the machine. “Plus, who doesn't like doodads with sparkling lights, messy cables, and twiddly knobs everywhere?” he shares.
Aditya is now leading an upcoming synth-making workshop, with which the artist hopes to impart a knowledge of sound synthesis itself that is removed from the layers of abstraction present in the digital, DAW-based world.
“Those layers of abstraction, be they digital quantization or the UI of a DAW and its plugins, exist for good reasons in both professional and hobbyist settings,” he shares, “but they also sometimes add to a disconnect between the sound and the producer that I hope to reconnect with this in-depth, hands-on experience that lets participants go directly from pure electricity to familiar analogue tones and learn every step in between, both in theory and practice.”
The workshop takes place on Sunday, 1 November 2026, from 12 pm onwards at W.I.P Adda in Lado Sarai, New Delhi. The fee is ₹3,500 per participant and registrations close on 28 October 28.
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