Rahul Raj at Buffalo, The State University of New York to rework and expand "Pomp and Circumstance Marches", the traditional convocation music used by them, composed by Sir Edward Elgar. In addition to expanding Edward Elgar's piece, he composed two original music pieces for the convocation, "Dance of the Gods" and "The Circumstance by Rahul Raj". In the same year he signed a project called "Mathilukalkkapuram", a sequel to Adoor Gopalakrishnan's classic "Mathilukal". The Mammootty starrer which also had Ravi K. Chandran and Resul Pookutty on board as cinematographer and sound designer respectively was subsequently shelved. In 2011, Rahul Raj made his
Composed (album) huge orchestra". After recording the instrumental parts, Bischoff then visited each of the guest vocalists to record them, apart from Caetano Veloso and David Byrne, who recorded their own parts at home. The other guest vocalists on the album are Greg Saunier (Deerhoof), Mirah Zeitlyn, Paris Hurley, Nels Cline, Craig Wedren, Carla Bozulich, Zac Pennington (Parenthetical Girls), Soko and Dawn McCarthy (Faun Fables). In a 4/5 star review, "The Guardian" describes "Composed" album as "a collection of lavishly orchestrated pop songs that throb with expressionistic drama, by turns romantic, playful and faintly sinister" adding, "occasionally Composed sounds indulgent, when Bischoff