http://www.asianclassicalmp3.org/Raagam-Thaanam.mp3
http://www.asianclassicalmp3.org/Pallavi.mp3
Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna performs Ragam Gamanasrama in the Ragam Thanam Pallavi (Karnatic) style. This style allows musicians to improvise to a great extent. It is one of the most complete aspects of classical music. It incorporates raga alapana, or the improvised rendering of the Raga, Tanam, the rhythmic rendering of the notes of the raga, neraval, the mathematical elaboration of the notes, Kalpanaswara, the [...]
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voice
May 15, 2008 – 8:25 pm
stories
May 11, 2008 – 8:41 pm
More story reading is going on. L. is reading Astrid Lindgren’s The Lionheart Brothers to me. We watched the film ages ago, with L., and I remember A. telling me how impressed he was by Katla, the novel’s monster/dragon. There are times I long for Nangijala myself, but L. reminds me that’s perhaps a little early. While [...]
monologue
May 10, 2008 – 7:57 pm
D. first pointed me to this, when they were first broadcast on BBC. One of the few examples when watching TV really pays off.
meter
May 10, 2008 – 8:28 am
I subscribe to the mac-voiceover list, which is made up of a number of fairly active individuals, which means list messages flood my inbox. No matter: everything is interesting, the tone is helpful and civil and everyone is keen to explain even the most arcane details of using a Mac and VoiceOver. One of the [...]
remembrance
May 3, 2008 – 7:28 pm
It’s not my day of remembrance, and the beginning of may is a period of ambiguous and painful memories. Talk to someone of my generation and you’ll hear the same stories about parents and their past. We’re all survivors’ children. D. bought Meyer Sluiser’s “Before I Forget”; which is his literary monument for Amsterdam’s jewish [...]
erasing i/eye
April 17, 2008 – 4:39 am
Stephen Kuusisto and Petra Kuppers offer this interesting text:
Auto-graphein occurs when the blind man arrives on the sidewalk with pencils forlornly arranged in a cup.
He cannot write. He does not know where to place the “I” of autobiography.
His street performance says he’s merely a self ‘acted upon’—the self arranged alongside the useless instruments of writing.
Therefore the [...]
to mr. cyriack skinner upon his blindness
April 17, 2008 – 4:17 am
Cyriack, this three years day these eys, though clear
To outward view, of blemish or of spot;
Bereft of light their seeing have forgot,
Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear
Of Sun or Moon or Starre throughout the year,
Or man or woman. Yet I argue not
Against the hand or will, nor bate a jot
Of heart or hope; [...]
vedas
April 16, 2008 – 7:49 pm
Frits Staal maintains, that the chanting of the mantrams from the vedas is very much like bird song. When I studied Sanskrit, at university, I learned the chanting technique, although, of course my accenting and pronunciation are rubbish. Once surrendered to the chanting, it does become empty of meaning, and the sound becomes a sound [...]
latcho drom
April 14, 2008 – 10:06 pm
A few years ago, Tony Gatlif made “Latcho Drom“, a film that tracks Roma history by means of dance. This clip shows Rajasthani dance, and has fantastic singing and drumming and kartals! I’m a mean kartal player myself, I love the hypnotic rhythm of these songs, bhajans…Easy to remember that Lord Krsna was a wandering [...]
