What is Carnatic Music? : It is the classical music of Southern India. The basic form is a monophonic song with improvised variations. There are 72 basic scales on the octave, and a rich variety of melodic motion. Both melodic and rhythmic structures are varied and compelling. This is one of the world's oldest & richest musical traditions. Why Carnatic Music? "...I [Todd M. McComb] value Carnatic music first for the effectiveness with which it can build positive mental discipline. It helps me to focus and organize my thoughts, and it helps to eliminate negative mental habits..." - (details)
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soul cleansing at the glass hall

August 23rd, 2009

Alapana has organized a series of concerts to celebrate their tenth anniversary and also in memory of Dr S. Ramanathan, a great scholar musician and musicologist

R. Banumathy, Daughter & disciple of Dr S. Ramanathan is the Founder-Director of alapana, Singapore

Today is by Neyveli Santhanagopalan accompanied by T.R.Vijayakumar on Violin, V.Raghuraman on Mridangam and S.Selvapandian on the Kanjira.

Venue: SAM Glass Hall • 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm • $10 (at the door) • Sunday, 23 August 2009

‘Soul Cleansing’ is the word that one reminiscences when one hears the melodious strains of Neyveli Santhanagopalan’s music that is drenched in bhakti and bhava. This has come with his concerted and dedicated efforts to go back to his roots, empathise with the feelings of composers, emulate their lives for brief spells, gain from the music of the great yester-year artistes and then internalise to sing, as it may seem, with the tremendous well-wishes of all these ancestors hailing from the grand music lineage.

Sabaapathikku Lyrics

We look forward to the places he will take us today

live updates from the concert planned at friendfeed

btw – Neyveli Santhanam’s home is named “Periyava Pichai” (Kanchi Periyava is his spiritual guru)

meditative music

August 18th, 2009

Swami Nithyananda in one of the many videos on youtube : “inner music is meditation – outer meditation is music”

which music is meditative to you?

L. Subramaniam

L Subramaniam Youtube Videos

qna with ordinal priority

January 5th, 2008

visit the new carnatic.com forum @ qna with ordinal priority

Switched to WordPress 2.3.2

December 30th, 2007

the latest post on the wordpress.org blog is stay warm, wordpress hoodie

update: wordpress 2.3.2

collatodo

December 11th, 2007

collatodo is a service to reduce email overload and can be used to maintain todolist (private), email (1to1), mailing list (1to many) and FYI/blog/wiki (1toall)

All feedback most appreciated

Switched from WordPress 2.3 to 2.3.1

October 27th, 2007

Switched from 2.3 to WordPress 2.3.1

carnatic podcast

October 21st, 2007

Know of any carnatic podcast sites ?

Favorite sites with non carnatic podcast welcome too

  1. TED.com: Ideas Worth Spreading – Favorite is Sirena Huang: Dazzling set by 11-year-old violinist
  2. IT Conversations

Hello world!

October 5th, 2007

Installed

  1. WordPress 2.3 via subversion
  2. plugin FeedSmith for FeedBurner