Tyagaraja The Activist
A preponderance of lyrics praising the glory of Rama reveals the peerless RAma bhakti of TyAgarAja. Did you also know that his activist mentality shines through in many of his compositions? As I was looking up some of the kritis I have learned...
Two weeks in a pentatonic milieu
Spending two weeks in Indonesia as a cultural tourist entails repeated exposure to Balinese music, especially gamelan. Gamelan music is played at museums, restaurants, hotel lobbies and airports, either live or recorded.
Computational Carnatic Music
IBM’s Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1996, and Watson handily won Jeopardy in 2011. Watson BEAT, their newest machine, generates Western music scores and inspires musicians with creative ideas. Can the days of auto generation of Carnatic Music (hereafter referred to as CM) be far away?