tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7813749.post2834882000999970418..comments2024-03-24T12:52:31.153+05:30Comments on Shadow Warrior: krishna nee begane baaro...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7813749.post-51286395465668396002012-06-08T21:25:57.704+05:302012-06-08T21:25:57.704+05:30There's a lot of math in Carnatic music, so it...There's a lot of math in Carnatic music, so it should appeal to the comp scientist/elec engr in you.<br />The Katapayadi system of naming raagas is a neat example. (More generally the system uses letters to represent numbers and serves as both a mnemonic aid and a coding mechanism. Maadhava used it in his work.)<br />Here is a delightful corollary of its use in raaga naming: based on the system the raaga Simhendramadhyamam should really be written Sihmendramadhyamam- Fred Damerau redux.OverTheHillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05420173191316836334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7813749.post-31850184760508626822012-06-08T10:14:51.320+05:302012-06-08T10:14:51.320+05:30thank you, overthehill. i am, alas, totally ignora...thank you, overthehill. i am, alas, totally ignorant about carnatic music, but as i age, i find it to be more appealing. i will try and find the versions from the great singers you have mentioned. <br /><br />i wonder if rajan parrikar is reading this, and can give us some insight too.<br /><br />ignorant as i am about classical music, i find that sometimes it is amazingly evocative. i once listened to a thumri, and i had never even heard the word thumri before, and it affected me greatly emotionally -- i suppose this is what 'rasa' means: the evocation of emotion in the viewer/listener.<br /><br />i also find that certain saxophone riffs -- there is one in pink floyd 'shine on you crazy diamond part IX' and another in phil collins' 'one more time' -- affect me deeply.nizhal yoddhahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05902296946297938832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7813749.post-6503936472750875622012-06-06T21:58:03.974+05:302012-06-06T21:58:03.974+05:30Going backward in time, try
...Palghat K V Narayan...Going backward in time, try<br />...Palghat K V Narayanaswamy (The man with the silken voice)<br />...M S Subbalakshmi (channeling the divine)<br />and, harking back to an almost forgotten era<br />...B S Raja Iyengar, who used to sing at in a voice that would go through the roof, a full octave higher than us lesser mortals, a sort of male soprano.<br />BTW if you visit Bangalore, watch the show dAsa vANI on Sankara Channel, it's all about PurandaradAsa and his compositions and done in a folksy conversational style by a first-rate expositor accompanied by a vocalist with violin and tabla/mridangam support.OverTheHillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05420173191316836334noreply@blogger.com