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Hello again. Here I am, blogging away. Again, I don't have a clue as to what to blog about, but I'm going to generally blabber in the hope that some form of sense will emerge somewhere in the middle. I know I'm hoping in vain...but anyway...where was I? It doesn't really matter, does it? Since I'm generally going to blabber anyway. But if you think about it, you need some sort of a topic, even to blabber about. Hmm...what to write now?Ok..well...my audition went quite badly yesterday...as in I didn't sing extrordinarily badly or anything, but there was no mic and there was a mridangam and a violin and all that, so I really don't know if the judging lady heard me, with my great volume. Anyways, we'll see...otherwise...major music mood today...i practiced a lot...
Hmmm...guess what else?? My dad's coming!!!! = D On June 24th...I can hardly wait...!! And...my mom's off to Manglore tomorrow, so I'm staying at DC mostly. It's the last week of the holidays and I'm depressed. So everyone had better plan something and we had better meet up and do something fun before school.
Nothing else. Actually, Dhruva was somewhat right about carnatic musicians. I think carnatic music is really awesome stuff but I do listen to...non-carnatic music, but many many people I meet that are really INTO carnatic music are pretty much closed toward other kinds of music...or at least western music. Its quite weird. I don't understand how people who call themselves musicians can just dismiss other forms of music like that. Many of them haven't even heard the slightest bit of anything thats not Indian Classical music. Maybe they don't think its inferior or anything, but I guess it just doesn't appeal to them. I suppose they are quite put off by the kind of stuff one sees on MTV and the like...music videos and all that.
At the function that was held at the end of my music camp, we were given a talk about how we should behave as 'upcoming carnatic musicians', most of which was extremely valuable information about what kind of practice we should do and stuff like that. However, there was this bit about how as carnatic singers, we should not wear 'jeans-pant' and 'ooru sutthu-fy', and how we should not waste our time listening to 'vendaadha english paatu'.
I really don't know. Maybe they are right, maybe too much western music does prevent one from doing well in classical music. But I, for one, genuinely like a lot of western music, and I find it as worthy of appreciation as any classical music. This does not mean that I love classical music any less.
So there it is...another (successful ???) blog. Please comment and tell me what u think ok?? Though I have a feeling i pretty much suck at this blogging buisness.
ok bye!!!
blabbered by Aditi @ 6:45 PM
5 Comments:
Listening to one form of music can certainly affect another, but only towards improvement. It can't become bad if you listen to another form of music, but if you broaden your scope, you will definitely do better in any field, music or otherwise.
Whoever said that carnatic music should not be sung with jeans-pant is an aayabugger. Culture should not be something static. It should by dynamic, continuously changing, giving and taking things from other cultures. However, since this is classical music, there is a limit to how much the music form itself can change from here, although I don't see why it can't be sung with "jeans-pant"
Kaushik
I was going through the "this-kind-of-music-vs-that-kind-of-music" clash too, since I was training in both Carnatic and Western music. And one thing I noticed that being able to sing in one style really helped me sing in the other style more easily. Like after I went through some real intensive training in my Western music, my voice really opened up and my Carnatic music teacher realised that it was just what I had been needing all along. And the people in my Western music class were also quite happy that I was doing Carnatic because that was helping me reach the higher notes. So I really don't get why some people think that you just shouldn't put the two together. And I don't know why they think you shouldn't ooru-suthu-fy and not wear jeans-pant and not listen to vandaadha-english-paatu. They're so biased.
This anonymous guy really said it all. When I am really searching for music on my guitar, you can hear me addng a couple of arabian or indian scales to my playing. And it excites me a great deal - that I'm willing & able to experiment with music. If I just stuck with rock music all my life, how would I have evr been able to say anythng about carnatic music. I cann;t comment on something i do not understand. The same thing applies to acrnatic musicians. They might be talented in their own feel. But they have no right to talk of rock music if they don't know what the hell it's about. There are no assumptions when it comes to music. No carnatic musician can just say that western-freestyle music is all about attitude, or classify it under 'vendatha paattu'.
Sorry about some of the typing errors in my previous comment. I'm sure you can see through most of them.Note - I accidentally typed 'feel' instead of 'field'
seriously aditi dam the jeans pant i mean ppl look at ure voice ure talent not ure clothes and the vadhadhu english pattu poda whoc ares if ure a musician and if u claim to luv music then u have to luv it as a whole as a univeral thingie coz music is universal hello reality check - sags (rmeember me )
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