Few weeks ago I had a long conversation with Sandesh Shandilya on the nature of Western and Indian music . On Orchestration and Jugalbandi . I love understanding how different minds and beings work. Aseem/Ashim the soul of Indian Ocean had once told me that Hum musician aise hi hote hain, dimag hi alag wired hota hai , kehte hain mathematician bhi kucch aise hi hote hain . How does a musical culture built on a classical system where one instrument is taken to a multi-hour performance with only accompaniments and on the other hand few folk instruments of various cultures adapt to a written note system ? Where there may be a hundred musicians so its essential to read from the same page ! In India there is no writing , no notation, you learn live with a Guru or under a tradition . We are about person to person, they are about someone writing it down for others . For us , every performance will have flexibility there its about keeping attuned to the spirit of composer but putting your intensity and passion to the script .Sandesh took basic training of music from maestro Ustad Sultan Khan who was a noted Sarangi player too. One thing is clear , that there are many systems of music and we in India learn to listen to all . Sandesh is making a new experiment with Indian and Western systems which will be performed in Germany in collaboration with Bola, House of the Culture, Training and Media in Bochum, Essen . In the autumn of 2011, Rechungpa Reinhard Kreckel, producer and artistic director of the Academy, met Sandesh Shandilya in Mumbai . Together with Rechungpa he developed the theme “Light of Buddha” as a world opera / musical with dance, light and visual performance. “It is about the possibility of progress for all of us on the way to fortune: a way full of the joys of life with inspiring, profound and timeless aspects.” Sandesh has given music for almost 20 films. He gave music for five compositions in K3G with the diversity of You are my Sonia to Vande Mataram . Chameli is one of my loved soundtracks with music by Sandesh while the lyrics are by Irshad Kamil. Bhage re mann and Sajna ve sajna are my favourites from Chameli . On Saturday I was at the Premiere of Rang Rasiya , where Ketan has tried to get the colours and aesthetic history of India together with its sounds . The movie is on Raja Ravi Varma on whom is based the majority of our calendar art and visual imagery of our Gods in the 20th century . Ravi Varma set up the first multi-colour printing press with a German printer .Dadasaheb Phalke worked with him and was also funded by him to start making films . The song Anhad Naad Jaga De , which is the background to the search and discovery of Raja Ravi Varma for his idiom of a contemporary art from Indian sculptural and folk art traditions after being patronised by the Maharaja of Baroda , has stayed with me. The Tagore brothers and the Bengalis called him a copy of the western European artists and their art more authentic Indian ! They were influenced by the look east philosophy and Japanese art . That is India , always has been . There will be a thousand schools , heterodoxies and orthodoxies . Some purely indigenous , some influenced by this, some by that . From Khadi to handloom to mill, from hand painted to hand printed to screen printed to rotary to digital printing . We have everything and more . We have the people and the diversity . I love it . Only in the tension between perpetual hybridisation and in perpetual purity will there be dynamism . And all have a reason to be there . I love the jati system. I love the joint family. I love single hood . I love the nuclear family . I love the LGBTI communities. Be what you want . Or a combination . And let there be a thousand kinds of music and hybrids and experimentation. prokulturgut.net/buddhalight.html?&L=1 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandesh_Shandilya https://youtube/watch?v=z2dJJYnyYS4
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