MUMBAI: After bringing down the iconic New York-based party and label, The Bunker to India in January this year, Red Bull Music have a treat for the synthesizer community, and dance music fans in May.

French synthstress Stellar OM Source, known for her trademark lush and evocative synth-heavy productions, will tour India for three shows in May, visiting Mumbai (23-24 May ), Hyderabad (26 May) and Bangalore (27 May ). Stellar OM Source will also interact with Indian synth heads and artists on the 23rd International Synth Day on 23 May at a day-long programme organised at the True School of Music, Mumbai.

Among a handful of synth musicians making a fun, feminized form of techno, Stellar OM Source, who is known as Christelle Gualdi when not making music is an artist that manages to, make music that sounds new and timeless at the same time.

Spirituality is central to Christelle’s identity as a musician her artist name is fittingly inspired in part by the pathway to higher consciousness and cosmos via one’s own voice and refers to clubs being places of some kind of a spiritual gathering.

Christelle is also no stranger to India, having spent time in the country in the past to learn Hatha yoga. She is also one of the few musicians to have played alongside Indian producer and proclaimed father of acid house, Charanjit Singh in Antwerp in 2012, and is keen to interact with Indian electronic music fans and artists on her first trip to India as a performing artist.

Speaking on her upcoming trip to India, Christelle says, “Most of what I do is to reach people, coming in a state of exchange. This trip to India is such an incredible chance to bring my experience, knowledge and learn from people having similar interests,”

“I am definitely curious about how Indians approach electronic music today. I’m only aware of Charanjit Singh (RIP) with whom I played in Antwerp, so I’m very eager to know more, hear exciting music and make great discoveries as well as open some doors for people,” she adds.

The classically trained musician who studied music theory after earning an architecture degree turned to making experimental electronic music by dreamingly evocative synthesizer pieces of the Krautrock (cosmic music) scene in the early 2000s. While her early work was characterized by free, vibrant synth play, her most recent productions are more structured and beat-driven; making music that is firmly in the techno terrain and highly danceable perfected night after night playing live in dark and sweaty rooms across the world.

Stellar OM Source will travel to Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bangalore from 24 May to 2 May . Their troop will perform a live set in all three cities, and will also hold a workshop on International Synthesizer Day for local synth nerds on May 23 at True School of Music, Mumbai. The programme will also feature a Geardo meetup and jam with other synth enthusiasts from Mumbai.