Favorite hobby during leisure hours ?
Your favorite veena artist ? My Gurus
The recent composition you are practicing ?
Vachamagochara in Kaikavasi
Gardening Favorite cuisine ?
Indian Veg jain with lot of veggies and less oil : - )
Hindustani Music or Jazz ? - your preference ?
Both
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India to the west in the 6th century , when the Gypsies migrated from India to Iran …. And from their the journey of how the western music system evolved starts .
What made you pick up violin as an instrument in the first place ? Please share with your about your early stories and exploration to classical music .
It is like this , just like how we can ’ t choose our parents and vice versa , choosing Music as a way of life or to play a particular instrument , just happens , it is neither by choice or coercion . Good things just happen .
Your interpretation of violin is quite unique and also has influences of western counterparts , what is the inspiration behind it ?
I have always felt and maintained that Music is an individual expression . Though we learn many important compositions and many other facets of music during our formative and educational years , ultimately all this knowledge gets assimilated with in and the many hours of Upasana and analysis of various nuance brings in an experience which is very personal . This experience also has the deep input of the eco system that we live in .. All shades of swaras are ingrained In our multi dimensional music system .
Violin is a very unique instrument , though we have a strong history of it being an import from the west , there is also a equally strong and historical evidences available that , there was an instrument which resembles the present day Violin and this instrument has been in vogue in our musical space from sangam literature time which is almost like the 3rd or 4th century . It was called the Dhanur Veena . Bowed instruments have orginated from India , so to say we are getting influenced by the west in the classical music frame work is not correct .
We have something called as the Shudha Swara phrases , which are very instrumental music phrases and can be explored and expanded the best on an instrument . These should not be mistaken as an import or influence from the west . But the argument on the other side has lot of substance , since music went from
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