An award-winning media-arts institute
A boutique institute for sound engineering and music production, founded in Mumbai in 2012.
An award-winning media-arts institute
The Media Tribe is an award-winning institute offering courses in sound engineering and music production, set up under Ashish Manchanda, a four-time IRAA Award winner and protégé of multi-Grammy-winning Michael Jackson engineer Bruce Swedien. Our objective is to raise the bar of music and entertainment education in India, giving you the vision, experience and expertise to fulfil your dreams in the music industry.
Over the last decade we've built a legacy of producing highly talented, successful professionals. A defining feature is real-world experience — students work on actual projects while still studying, interacting with industry professionals even before they graduate.
“The truth is there aren't any secrets for success. But you have to go through the journey yourself.”— Ashish Manchanda, Founder · 4× IRAA · Full Sail Hall of Fame · Recording Academy (Grammy) Voting Member
Learn. And create.
Education at The Media Tribe blends two methods — formal classroom education and the Guru–Shishya Parampara, the classic Indian tradition of learning the arts. By integrating theory and practice with access to real industry projects, our vocational approach means you don't just learn, you create — transitioning into the working world seamlessly.
Real industry projects
Hands-on training on live projects, so you work on industry projects before you finish.
World-class equipment and technology
Students train on world-class equipment and technology. We bring exposure on world-class facilities, in the studio and on set, to practise, collaborate and create.
Award-winning
Recipients of the Dewang Mehta Award for Industry Interface and the Lokmat / Loksatta Education Leadership Award.
Individualised mentoring
A nurturing environment where each student's creativity and intellect can blossom.
Led from the studio floor
The Media Tribe is run by working producers and engineers whose credits are current. Aman Moroney leads the institute day to day; the founding members set its standard and remain closely involved in its direction.
Aman Moroney
Aman leads The Media Tribe day to day: the classes and workshops, the travel, and the doors that open for students onto real projects. Raised in a musical household in Nagpur and trained in music technology at the University of South Wales in Cardiff, he came into the group in 2013 from the floor of Coke Studio and built his career inside it: Coke Studio, MTV Unplugged, The Dewarists, The Stage and India's Rawstar; Vice-President of Labels at Boon Castle and lead producer at Flying Carpet Productions; long-time producer for Alif; and, from Los Angeles, records with Rihanna and Coldplay and four songs for Paramount's The Smurfs. He has run Media Tribe cohorts at IIT Bombay and leads the institute's workshops across India. What he teaches comes from the work he is doing now.
Founded by industry masters
Ashish Manchanda
A founding member of The Media Tribe and founder of Flying Carpet Productions, Ashish set out to raise the bar of music and entertainment education in India. A Full Sail University valedictorian (1997) and Hall of Fame inductee, he began in New York with Effanel Music and worked with Bruce Swedien, contributing to Swedien's book In the Studio with Michael Jackson. In India he was Audio Technical Director and Producer on Coke Studio and technical director and chief engineer on MTV Unplugged, produced Mihir Joshi Band's Mumbai Blues (GIMA Award, Best Rock Album, 2015), and has served as live FOH mix engineer for A R Rahman. He is a four-time IRAA Award winner and a voting member of the Recording Academy.
Ujjla Manchanda
A founding member, Ujjla built The Media Tribe to elevate music education in India and bridge Eastern and Western creative values, an ecosystem for content, production and talent. A Chartered Accountant with a career across strategy, finance and luxury at Arthur Andersen, Bank of America and Lakmé Fashion Week, she brings the institute its structure, its finance and its long view; she is the principal editor of For the Love of Quirk and, with Ashish, served on the artistic jury of the 2019 International Music Showcase Festival in Jerusalem.