Step into the sanctuary
before it exists.

The rider is approved. This is the room it describes: a circular stage with no front, at the JIO World Convention Centre, and all 25 approved backline items — the Strat, the dhol, the tabla, the CDJs, the harmonium — standing where they'll stand on November 3–6, 2026.

Every single one of them plays. Click an instrument, or open the backline list and walk to it. Put on a headset and the circle is life-size.

How to be in the circle

• 🖱️ Drag to look around · WASD or arrows to walk · Shift to hurry
• 👆 Click an instrument to play it · Space plays whatever is in the centre of your view
• ⏱️ Press and hold an instrument with a second voice: tabla → theka, dhol → bhangra, CDJs → deck B, harmonium → drone
• ☰ Backline list: tap any line item to walk to it and hear it
• 🎶 Jam starts the room breathing: drum machine, shruti drone, deck A, and hands joining in
• 🥽 Enter VR on a headset (Quest: open this page in the browser) — trigger plays what you point at, left stick walks
• ⎋ Esc stops everything

The layout follows the rider: four PA tops aimed outward from the circle, floor-seating cushions on the classical side, the DJ booth opposite the entrance, lockable overnight storage and the stage-management corner where the rider asks for them. Nothing here is decorative.