Abhinav K Jayan

Abhinav
K Jayan

Sound Designer, Immersive Mixer and Composer for film, installation and games.

FTII-trained, now completing the Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters in Sound (ReSound) at IADT Dublin, Universidade Lusófona Lisbon and LMTA Vilnius. Dolby Atmos certified, with credits on festival-winning films and a creative practice that explores where science, philosophy and sound meet.

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Recognition

We Heard the World Looks Beautiful

Festival record of the film. Credited as composer, additional sound designer and mix engineer.

  • Winner, Jyoti Filmato National Short Film Festival
  • Special Jury Award, Drishyam Film Festival
  • Winner, Arunachal Film Festival
  • Official Selection, IFF Delhi
  • Screened at the 19th MIFF, Indifferent Bandra, Flame FirstCut and Travancore Matinee

FilmEU Imagination Challenge, 2026

Co-created LOFTA Fair with a team, judged the best proposal for drawing young audiences to the Dublin International Film Festival.

Film Sound

Location recording, sound design, original scores and final mixes. Press play and the bar at the bottom takes you through every piece in turn.

We Heard the World Looks Beautiful

Composer | Additional Sound Designer | Mix Engineer

FTII | Short Fiction | April 2025

Scored with the household objects of the film's own world, so each instrument carries symbolic weight in a story about patriarchy.

Designed the suspense and horror sequences and delivered the final 5.1 mix with full deliverable QC.

A Story and A Song

Sound Recordist | Sound Designer | Composer

FTII | Short Fiction | June 2025

Full sync-sound setup with a Sound Devices 888, Shure ADX wireless and Sennheiser MKH 8000 series mics.

Contrasting soundscapes for two merging realities, and an organic folk score rooted in rural Maharashtra.

Under the Jackfruit Tree

Sound Recordist | Sound Designer | Composer

FTII | Documentary | February 2025

Recorded on location across eight multilingual stories and shaped seamless transitions between them.

Super Mario Bros Trailer: Sound Redesign Study

Sound Designer | Foley | Composer | Mix Engineer

Trailer | December 2025

The trailer's soundtrack replaced end to end with original Foley, sound design, score and final mix.

Also: live mixing engineer on Tulasi Dalamulache, a 15-input analog broadcast mix for an FTII multicamera concert (2024). Associate recordist and music mix engineer on Trigger. Assistant sound recordist on In Pursuit of Purple.

Research and Installation

Work where sound is the subject, not only the soundtrack.

Master's Thesis Film

Director | Sound Designer | Composer

ReSound Thesis | In Development | 2026–2027

An audio-first visual experience for introspection, 15 to 20 minutes long, where sound leads and image follows.

It moves between the sounds of the world at every scale, from the molecular to the cosmological, drawing on entropy, emergence and non-dual philosophy. Mixed in Dolby Atmos 7.1.4 with binaural versions. A companion installation opens in December 2026.

SPAN

Creator | Systems Design

Spatial Positional Audio Network | Ongoing R&D

A sensor-based system that turns real-time position data from performers and microphones into spatial audio.

Designed for film production, game audio and mocap stages, Dolby Atmos mixing and music production.

Antara: Between the Notes

Researcher | Sound Designer

Installation | Carnegie Library, Dún Laoghaire | May 2026

An audio-visual installation on how microtonal ornamentation shapes raga identity, using Darbari Kanada, Jog and Kafi, with Carnatic guitarist Abhay Nayampally and sitarist Paulson K J.

Includes a research paper, musician interviews and audience response data. Visit the Antara site

Electronic Music

Producing as HavinBae since 2019, across many genres, plus records for independent hip-hop and R&B artists.

Radio Police

Producer | Mix Engineer | HavinBae | October 2026

Dubstep and techno hybrid built for the club.

Demons Are Here

Producer | Atmos Mix Engineer | IADT Dublin | December 2025

A 4:30 experimental piece across five genres, co-created with Olivia Soenarto and mixed in Dolby Atmos.

Psyghori

Producer | Mix Engineer | HavinBae | July 2020

A minute-long flip for the TuneCore x Ritviz #FlipTheBeat challenge.

About

Listening for the pulse underneath the story.

I don't follow a single school of thought. My philosophy is still being built, out of art, everyday life, the cultures I have lived in, the people I meet and, above all, science. I studied physics before I studied sound, and the two keep meeting. A molecule, a forest, a city and a galaxy all swing between order and disorder, and sound, which is vibration and nothing else, is the most honest way I know to feel that.

I make work in a deeply personal way and then let it go. While a piece is being made, everything I am goes into it. Once it is finished, it belongs to whoever is listening, and I try not to hold on to what it should mean.

I want the same piece to reach everyone. Someone who has never thought about sound should simply be able to enjoy it. Someone who keeps coming back should find another layer each time, and then another. That is why, in my films, the sound leads and the image follows, and why I mix in Dolby Atmos for closeness rather than spectacle, so the listener sits inside a space instead of in front of it.

Trained at the Film and Television Institute of India, with a background in computer science, physics and mathematics.

Experience and Education

Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters in Sound (ReSound, FilmEU)
IADT Dublin, Universidade Lusófona Lisbon and LMTA Vilnius. September 2025 to June 2027
Postgraduate Certificate in Sound Recording and Television Engineering, FTII
Pune, April 2024 to August 2025. Ranked first in the cohort.
Sound Designer, Dubbing and Mixing Engineer, ND9 Studios, Pune
Films and songs in a Dolby-certified 5.1 mixing studio. November 2022 to November 2023
Music Producer, HavinBae and Mehfil Studios, Nagpur
30+ releases, from beat to vocal production and final master. 2019 to present

Tools and Skills

Sound. Location and sync sound, boom, field recording, Foley, ADR, dialogue editing, restoration, 5.1 and Dolby Atmos mixing, live broadcast mixing.

Music. Scoring, orchestration, electronic and acoustic production. Guitar, synths and flute.

Software. Pro Tools, Logic Pro, FL Studio, iZotope RX, Melodyne, Dolby Atmos Renderer.

Interactive. Wwise (in progress), plugdata and Pure Data, Csound, Bela, sensor-driven spatial audio.

Certified. Dolby Atmos, Audinate Dante.

Languages. English, Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam and Tamil, with basic Spanish.

Let's Work Together

abhinavkjayan005@gmail.com

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