A collection of my thoughts on music, over a period of time.
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14:07 +0530 Sun. 01-Jul-2012 kaanton se khiincha ke yeh aanchal: A hindi film song that starts with an अन्तरा(stanza) instead of a conventional मुखडा(refrain).
18:50 +0530 Tue. 02-Jul-2013 Nikita is the other side of any given line in time. A memory from the the winter of 1986.
08:08 +0530 Fri. 22-Nov-2013 Electronic Vocal Polishing. Stripping out the vocals from a music track.
21:06 +0530 Mon. 06-Jan-2014 A song? or a number, a track, a cover, a single,... What’s in a name?
23:30 +0530 Wed. 25-Jan-2014 “Dry mix foldback”, and stage performance
23:20 +0530 Sat. 15-Mar-2014 Two MIDI connected keyboards
23:20 +0530 Sat. 15-Mar-2014 Soulful Saxophone. The alto saxophone makes the most wonderful seductive creamy sound -- a near human sound, so expressive of human emotions. One cannot think of the saxophone in hindi film music, without thinking of Manohari-da and his spotless gold-plated Selmer alto saxophone. Manohari Singh(1931-2010) was composer R. D. Burman’s main arranger.
14:31 +0530 Sun. 23-Mar-2014 Overtone Singing. While traveling on Bombay’s suburban local trains as a teenager in the early 1970s, I have heard beggars doing Overtone Singing just to project louder and farther than usual. The same was used by Chai wallahs on the railway platforms, for the same reason.
20:08 +0530 Wed. 11-Jun-2014 “Picha Vecha Naal”, from the movie: Puthiya Mukham[പുതിയ മുഖം] (2009). A cute love song picturized on Prithviraj Sukumaran and Meera Nandan.
20:30 +0530 Sat. 21-Jun-2014 Earth’s largest and loudest musical instrument. The 150-ton, 1932 Midmer-Losh organ in the Boardwalk Hall Auditorium in Atlantic City, NJ, USA, has a console with 7 manuals, over 33,112 pipes in 8 organ chambers, 449 ranks and 314 registers.
18:50 +0530 Fri. 05-Aug-2014 The Electronic Synthesizer
09:28 +0530 Fri. 16-Aug-2014 Noriya Noriya
22:25 +0530 Fri. 12-Sep-2014 That Happy Feeling
16:45 +0530 Sun. 14-Sep-2014 learning ornamentals through song...
22:07 +0530 Mon. 15-Sep-2014 On purity of raags and mixed raags…
06:56 +0530 Fri. 19-Sep-2014 Wind of Change -- Scorpions
09:00 +0530 Wed. 08-Oct-2014 Hala la la laiyya -- Rahbani brothers, Lebanon
09:34 +0530 Sat. 20-Dec-2014 chalaa bhii aa, aajaa rasiyaa
16:50 +0530 Sat. 03-Jan-2015 A live music orchestra in Gujarat
12:31 +0530 Sat. 08-Jan-2015 Absolute and variable pitch and temperament
19:00 +0530 Mon. 12-Jan-2015 Tumbadora (or Conga drums)
10:40 +0530 Fri. 16-Jan-2015 O. P. Nayyar
06:35 +0530 Fri. 23-Jan-2015 ye mahalon ye takhton ye taajon kii duniyaa
14:26 +0530 Mon. 26-Jan-2015 Do birds make music?
15:02 +0530 Wed. 28-Jan-2015 Sanam Puri and Vocal Harmonies
12:15 +0530 Wed. 30-Jan-2015 aap ki aankhon mein kuchh mehke hue se
18:13 +0530 Tue. 03-Feb-2015 raat bhii hai kuchh bhiigii-bhiigii
15:21 +0530 Tue. 11-Feb-2015 Gratitude! Thank the fish for the music
15:00 +0530 Tue. 16-Feb-2015 Absolute Pitch
16:55 +0530 Tue. 16-Feb-2015 Benny D’Silva and the Shigeru Kawai SK-7 semi-concert grand piano
16:55 +0530 Tue. 16-Feb-2015 parbaton ke peDon par shaam kaa baseraa hai
10:19 +0530 Sun. 31-May-2015 Baby Elephant Walk
07:21 +0530 Sat. 19-Dec-2015 Observing a hindi film song live orchestra rehearsal
10:06 -0700 Wed. 25-Dec-2015 Lovely defective chord in song for Amar Prem(1971)
21:03 +0530 Sun. 16-Apr-2017 “muurchhnaa(मूर्छना)” modulation: shifting the tonic(शड्ज) changes mode(ठाट) of the solfège(सरगम)
10:06 -0700 Wed. 18-Oct-2017 R. D. Burman and the Bossa Nova rhythm.
19:45 +0530 Mon. 16-Jul-2018 Things to avoid when singing on stage
15:44 +0530 Wed. 13-Mar-2019 Should singers memorize their songs?
23:20 +0530 Thu. 26-Dec-2019 The Ghazal form
09:18 +0530 Fri. 27-Dec-2019 The Marathi Ghazal
08:30 +0530 Fri. 22-Jan-2021 Songs from a 1965 grade-school Parents and Prize Day
17:55 +0530 Sun. 28-Mar-2021 As a good musician, don’t do these ten things
13:00 +0530 Tue. 06-Apr-2021 Why can’t we define or describe music, yet?
18:47 +0530 Sat. 10-Apr-2021 What is Musicality?
21:39 +0530 Sun. 23-May-2021 Musical Arrangement
00:08 -0400 Sun. 06-Nov-2022 International Sax Day 2022