About

Music maker, tech builder, live performer.

Gad Baruch Hinkis is a musical innovator working across music production, instrument design, music technology, and live performance. His work connects genre-pushing sound with the creation of new expressive musical tools — always focused on human spontaneity, flow state, and the social side of music-making: collaboration, community, and shared creative experience. Whether producing boundary-crossing music or designing next-generation platforms and instruments, he explores how new technology can expand musical expression without losing immediacy, intuition, or soul.

2000–2007
Parvarim Refugeez

One of the first live hip-hop bands in Israel. Originating from Maccabim-Re'ut, the group helped open up space for a new generation of Israeli hip-hop artists.

Music Group Lead Artist · Producer
2004–2010
Vndrshmukin

Experimental breakcore-pop project — early statement of advanced rhythm, abrasive texture, and uncompromising sound design.

Music Group Lead Artist · Producer
2007–2012
SFTC — Shmen for the Children

Fast, satirical hardcore punk. Short songs, sharp humour, raw energy — an early willingness to move across scenes and resist categorisation.

Music Group Lead Artist · Live Performer
2004–2007
Production Credits — Hip-Hop Collective Work

Production and mixing work for leading Israeli underground hip-hop collectives, including PR Troopers and Peled & Ortega (with Yossi Fine). Influential records that helped shape the scene.

Commission Producer · Mixer
2010–present
Dirty Honkers

Retro-futurist electro-swing band — heavy electronic production meets swing references, live energy, and physical groove. Three albums. International touring act.

Music Group Lead Artist · Producer
2010s
YSL Sound Installation

Bespoke sound installation commissioned for a Yves Saint Laurent event. Spatial audio composition and interactive sound design for a high-end experiential context.

Art Project Lead Artist · Composer
2010s–present
Polyjam

Immersive and interactive art installation crew. Site-specific performances where audience participation, live sound, and spatial design intersect. Events that blur the line between stage and crowd.

Art Project Co-Founder · Lead Artist
2016–present
Jambl

Mobile music-creation app for iOS and Android. Designed to make beatmaking playful and accessible to everyone, regardless of music background.

Startup CEO · Product Head
2018–present
Voice of Gad

Solo voice-driven live performance project built around character, real-time composition, and rhythmic density. A focused, strange, and intimate live format.

Music Group Lead Artist · Live Performer
2020–present
PatchWorld / PatchXR

XR-native music-making platform for Meta Quest. Build worlds, make music, perform in virtual reality. One of the most advanced spatial audio instruments available.

Startup Product Head · Co-Founder
2020–present
Abagada

Solo music project — personal writing, contemporary production, a distinct artist identity. Koko (2024) brings the archive into the current era.

Music Group Lead Artist · Producer
2022–present
FUMU — Plugins & Tools

Label for studio instruments and MIDI tools under the FUMU name. Products include WaveRider (VST/AU), ChordMaster, SuperScaler, LiveQuantizer, and ChopTube.

Startup Lead Developer · Producer

Four ways to work together.

Workshops for schools, festivals, cultural institutions, and forward-looking studios. Each one can be adapted in length and depth to fit the context — from a focused seminar to a multi-day immersive programme.

01
Seminar · 2–3 hours

Human Creativity in Music After AI

An exploration of the role of the human musician in the age of AI music — why creativity, risk, taste, and presence matter more than ever. Alongside the discussion, a hands-on presentation of existing tools (some developed here, others from across the field) that help artists push beyond their current habits and technical limits, opening up new ways of making music that feel more personal, inventive, and unmistakably human.

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02
Intro workshop · Half-day

Music Creation in VR with PatchWorld

An introductory workshop where participants discover how XR can expand the studio they already know into a far more flexible and expressive music-making environment. Using PatchWorld, the session explores how mixed reality can work alongside existing gear and software through MIDI and OSC — creating with virtual instruments, controlling hardware from VR, controlling VR from hardware, and accessing an effectively infinite studio where instruments and tools can be modified down to the oscillator level. It also introduces the social dimension of next-generation music production: multiplayer virtual studios, shared live performance stages, and collaborative creative environments where music-making becomes immersive and deeply connected.

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03
Intensive · 2–4 days

From Music Track to Immersive Audiovisual Experience

A multi-day workshop on transforming music from a static product into an immersive, evolving, interactive audiovisual experience using PatchWorld. Participants explore how sound, visuals, space, and interaction can come together to create installations and experiential works suitable for museums, exhibitions, or cultural contexts — with the potential to be developed into productised formats. The workshop also opens up multiplayer exploration and collaborative creation: environments and instruments that can be experienced or performed by several people simultaneously from different locations around the world.

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04
Long-term project · Technology-free

Co-Creating Counter-Technology Music Rituals

In the age of AI, human connection through music becomes not less important but essential: music must return from commodity to communion, from content to ritual, from passive consumption to lived collective experience. This is a powerful, technology-free exploration of voice, body, rhythm, presence, and consciousness — a counter-practice to screens, automation, and digital overstimulation — where participants develop new ways of connecting, creating, listening, and entering shared musical states that support well-being, mindfulness, inspiration, and deep collective expression.

More than a standalone workshop, this is conceived as the beginning of a long-term artistic and social project. Together, the participants and I invent a new form of communal musical expression — something genuinely new that can continue, deepen, and evolve over time. Through collective vocal and physical practice, the group helps shape an emerging language of ritual, improvisation, and collaboration: a living system for making music that is meditative, performative, healing, and radically human.

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Bookings

Live shows, DJ sets, and festival appearances for Dirty Honkers, DJ Patchy, and Voice of Gad.

gbhinkis@gmail.com

Workshops & Education

Seminars, masterclasses, and multi-day immersive programmes — see the four formats above.

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Collaborations

Production credits, art installations, and creative collaborations.

gbhinkis@gmail.com

Press & Media

Interview requests, EPK, and press materials.

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