https://www.youtube.com/embed/Qd6DRL-2XkY Gudu Gudu makes wonderful listening, time and again. A rendition by Sreevidhya Chandramouli along with her husband and son as part of their ongoing KaraikudiVoyage. This song encapsulates the healing power of music waiting to be brought into practice on a more regular base for being rooted in tradition at its very best. Translation …
Category archives: New ideas
A music that connects amidst multiple crises: “Joyful subtle insights”
The most rewarding task for teachers and performers may well be to convey Tyagaraja’s last message to his disciples and the world, one that may liberate us by letting go of artificially separatist views of culture, creed and nature as well (given the multiple crises humankind is faced with on a daily basis): Paramātma is brightly shining …
Continue reading “A music that connects amidst multiple crises: “Joyful subtle insights””
How prehistoric societies were transformed by the sound of music
Amidst lively debates within and beyond India these perspectives on our shared legacy make interesting reading: Vainika Savithri Rajan who believed that Tyagaraja, like other great men, was always meditating, but his medium of expression was nādam, “sound”. In the introduction to his unfinished yet voluminous magnum opus Karunamirtha Sagaram, titled “The Dignity and Origin …
Continue reading “How prehistoric societies were transformed by the sound of music”
Flow | Moods, feelings and colours
Colours, moods and feelings have been favourite subjects in the context of raga, literally “colour, beauty, pleasure, passion and compassion”.1 We … Continue reading “Flow | Moods, feelings and colours”To learn more about the association of sound with colour, search the internet using the term “synesthesia”; according to a source cited on Wikipedia “individuals rarely …
Flow | Combine exercises & vocal ranges
7 notes: Any sampurna (melakarta) raga6 notes: ragas Sriranjani & Hamsanandi5 notes: raga Hamsadhvani5 notes: raga Mohana5 notes: raga Valaji5/\7 notes: ragas Bilahari & Mohana Kalyani5/\6 notes: Vasanta6 notes: raga Kuntalavarali << swipe >> to try another exerciseFlow | Exercises, related resources & tips >>