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The studio · est. 2019

SR Pro Audio is an independent music-technology studio founded by Shaji Rizvi. We compose and produce music, build tools and listening systems, and publish research from inside the practice of sound.

Our work moves between recorded music, software, broadcast, catalog and education. The common thread is a belief that sound deserves both emotional attention and technical rigor, whether it becomes a song, an interface, a global station map or a book.

Working principles

01

We listen before we build.

Every engagement — a song, a tool, a catalog — begins with attention to what already exists and what it is trying to say. The brief is written by ear before it is written in words.

02

The standard is set at the desk.

Arrangement, mix and master are held against real references before anything is called finished. Where the studio has not yet done something well, it says so instead of claiming otherwise.

03

Tools are instruments, not products.

We build software the way instruments are built: around the hands that will play it, tested in our own sessions first, and retired when it stops earning its place.

04

The catalog is part of the work.

Credits, metadata, sequencing and context are not administration after the music. They decide whether a body of work can be found, understood and trusted years later.

05

Every credit is real.

Roles and relationships are stated exactly — original project, production, prototype, affiliated venture. Nothing published by the studio claims work it did not do.

The studio and its affiliations

SR Pro Audio sits inside a small family of affiliated ventures rather than a client roster. DLM Media and DLM Zone are ventures founded and led by Shaji Rizvi, and Spinn Radio is a product he designed and built — they are never presented here as clients, and wherever the studio's work appears in them, its exact role is stated. Poppy Seed Music is the studio's own label, where its catalog thinking is practiced on ghazal, Sufi and raga-based repertoire. We believe this transparency makes the work more credible, not less: every project on this site carries a relationship label that says precisely what the studio did.

Where the studio stands

The studio works between its Melbourne training and an international practice, and treats South Asian musical traditions as living repertoire rather than heritage material. A 700-year-old Khusrau text and a browser-based mastering chain belong to the same conversation here: forms are studied, credited and produced with the same seriousness whether they arrive from a classical lineage or from a session last week. That double perspective — inside a tradition, inside the technology — is the studio's position in the field.

Bring us the part of the project that needs to be heard differently.