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Shaji Rizvi is a music technologist, sound engineer, producer and author. Trained at SAE Melbourne, he has spent more than a decade working across recorded music, audio systems, intelligent production tools and publishing.

Illustrated panorama of Shaji Rizvi in the studio archive — threading a signal-yellow tape reel onto a reel-to-reel machine, shelves of tapes and books running behind him
Shaji Rizvi — founderIllustration

Biography

Shaji Rizvi trained at SAE Melbourne and founded SR Pro Audio in 2019. His work since has moved across recorded music, audio systems, production tools, broadcast and publishing — the breadth that later became the studio's three practices.

He is the author of two books. Foundations of Music Technology is an educational reference covering the fundamentals of recording, production and audio engineering — bridging classical music theory with digital workflows. A Concise History of Eastern Music is an illustrated survey of Eastern musical traditions — forms, instruments and lineages — written from inside the practice of production rather than from the archive alone.

He is the founder of Poppy Seed Music, the studio's label setting ghazal, Sufi and raga-based repertoire in contemporary production, and the designer and builder of Spinn Radio, a global listening product launched in 2026. Across all of it his roles are the working ones — producing, engineering, building and writing — rather than directing from a distance.

Index

  • 2019SR Pro Audio founded
  • 2023 —Poppy Seed Music — label founded, catalog ongoing
  • 2026Spinn Radio launched
  • SR–P01Foundations of Music Technology — published
  • SR–P02A Concise History of Eastern Music — published

Selected roles

  • ProductionOriginal music, sound design and artist-led releases
  • MasteringFinishing for streaming and broadcast delivery
  • Systems designAudio software, broadcast and catalog infrastructure
  • WritingBooks, essays and field notes from the practice

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