A multi-instrumental performer of new and improvised music, Qasim has toured and collaborated with artists such as Reggie Workman, Don Byron, Lawrence D. Butch Morris, Vernon Reid, Brandon Ross, Carl Hancock Rux, Roswell Rudd, Charlie Burnham, and Buster Williams. He has performed with the New York based avant-rock group, Elysian Fields, Electrical Secrets, and, the Burnt Sugar Arkestra Chamber, a 21-piece ensemble for electro-acoustic improvisers. Qasim has also composed and arranged music for the BBC, Discovery Health, PBS, NBC, The Sundance Channel and the HBO Undercover Series. He has produced original dance works for the Israeli choreographer Yael Caravan, Tai Jiminez (Prima Ballerina for Dance Theater of Harlem), Gabri Christa and Berlin's Ten Pin Chi Bhuto. His works have premiered in London, Berlin, Paris, Boudreaux, Amsterdam, Sapporo and Lahore. Qasim has completed residencies and fellowships at the Studio for Electro Instrumental Music in Amsterdam, Harvest Works Digital Media Labs in New York, Art OMI, and is recently completed a Master of Fine Arts in composition and performance in percussion at the California Institute of the Arts.

Robin brings a diverse range of management expertise and world music performance, production and composition experience to the Creative Director position at Astral Audio Design. Recently completing a Master in Fine Arts at the California Institute of the Arts, Robin has been studying tabla (classical south Asian drums) under Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri at CalArts and the Ali Akbar College of Music in San Rafael, California for the past six years. His special focus on the musical traditions and rhythms of south Asia informs his approach to musical arrangement and composition on a wide range of concert, film and album productions. For the past 5 years, Robin has travelled internationally on behalf of Project Ahimsa, an organization committed to empowering impoverished youth through music education. In addition, Robin works closely with the organization to produce tours and concerts featuring children impacted by the organization's work as well as headlining acts such as Maestro Ali Akbar Khan, Zakir Hussain, Nitin Sawhney, Bobby Friction, Black Eyed Peas, Lal Singh Bhatti, and more. In 2005, Robin arranged and produced a concert in partnership with Carnegie Hall's Global Encounters series to bring world class North Indian classical musicans to high school students across all NYC buroughs. Robin's writings on music education and the creative process have appeared in Hyphen Magazine, India Currents, the Subcontinental, and Saathee Magazine.