Nirantar Yakthumba is a musician and composer from Nepal, based in the Hague, the Netherlands. He is the artistic director of the Kali Ensemble, a collective of musicians and composers based in The Hague which focuses on cultivating long-term collaborations and diverse collective practices. He holds a Bachelor of Music in Music Composition at the Royal Conservatoire the Hague, graduating with distinction, and a Master of Music at the Institute of Sonology, also awarded with distinction. For his master’s project, he was awarded the Konrad Boehmer prize for an outstanding and original final presentation, which included his artistic work and his written thesis. In his research, he investigated the production and organization of tone, questioned the material-discursive boundaries of ‘instrumentality’, and explored the implications of information theory in collective musical practice. In his current work, Nirantar continues exploring his interests in tone, instrument building, and collective practice from an information oriented perspective. In particular, he explores how variations in informational constraints—structure, redundancy, noise, (in)determinacy—are articulated with and within a work, and how such a practice of variation can be a technology for prompting transindividual introspection, challenging preconceived notions, and making space for difference in relational configurations.