Month: December 2023
Indian Classical Music is all about ragas. A raga portrays a mood, a sentiment, expressed through a microtonal scale. There are a number of ragas, each with its own mood and its own corresponding microtonal scale that is based on the natural harmonic series – the natural law of vibrations.
Today, Indian Classical music is influenced by a foreign tonal system that is not based on the natural harmonic series. This is the Western tonal system that has had a big influence on Indian Classical music. Many Indian Classical musicians, nowadays, make use of Western instruments such as guitar and drums.
Most Western audiences find Indian Classical music to be quite exotic. Two major reasons are the differences between the two traditions in tuning and scales.
The subtle differences
Let’s straightaway delve into the differences between these two vast genres of music to get a better idea:
Indian Classical Music (ICM) is primarily homophonic, which means that it focuses on creating melodies using a sequence of notes, whereas Western Classical Music (WCM) is to an extent polyphonic, which means multiple notes are played/sung together, where the counterpoint, harmony, and texture created using multiple voices is very important.
WCM is composed, whereas ICM is improvised. WCM compositions are formally written using Staff Notation, and performers usually follow that. But in the case of ICM, the Teacher-Student tradition of learning leads to each performance being an improvisation.
ICM uses “Taal”, where Taal is a cycle of beats that is centered on “Sam” that repeats itself. In the case of WCM, there aren’t any complex beat cycles.
WCM is modal and so has a chord for each note of the scale. On the contrary, ICM is tonal and, hence, is based on a single scale (a single drone, chord, and key).
Fusion all the way
But then again fusion is a growing concept in India. So, their differences and some similarities make fusion music even more interesting and challenging. If we take a deeper look, we will actually find a number of similarities. Today, “guitar” has acquired prime position and popularity in Indian Classical Music with Indian Ragas being played on guitar.
There are two types of Guitars that is used for fusion in India: Spanish guitar and Hawaiian guitar.A wide variety and mix of instruments ranging from Guitar, Drums, and Saxophone to Sitar, Tabla, and Flute are used for fusion music/concerts.
My band, known as Kaivalyaa, is also a fusion band, where we fuse various western genres with Indian Classical music. The Western and Indian instruments we use include Guitar, Drums, Keyboards, Mouth Organ, Bass Guitar, Harmonium, Flute, Sarod, Tabla, and a number of percussion instruments. Some of the big names in the Indian fusion scenario are Indian Ocean, Avial, Advaita, Raghu Dixit Project, Mother Jane, Tabla Beat Science, and Bandish Fusion. With varied influences, experiments, scales, tones, and sounds, fusion is the next big thing. So, if you want to know more about the Indian Classical scales/Ragas, you are at the right place.
In all the years of brazen showing off for which Royal Ascot is so justly famous, no one can have wandered through the paddock wearing quite so little.Sales manager Charlie McEntee, 31, who paid 1,100 for her flesh-coloured, see-through lace number, declared she was ‘feeling much cooler than a lot of other people’.To see our great pictures from the first day at Ascot, click on the link in the box below.Christian Louboutin Daffodile.Miss McEntee was not the only exhibitionist yesterday among a record first-day crowd of 51,000.
There were pierced navels, hats the size of trees and visitors more suitably attired for a day at the beach than a date with the monarch.And Zara Phillips was doing a pretty good job of upstaging her own family – including a host of European royals who have been taking part in Jubilee celebrations at Windsor Castle.The royal carriage list read more like a Coronation procession than a trip to the races. And just as the crowned heads of Europe were making their way up to the Royal Box, the battery of camera lenses suddenly swivelled away and focused on a large purple feather in Miss Phillips’ hat.
It was quite obvious that the Princess Royal’s daughter – who had not been part of the royal procession – had no intention of blending in with the crowd.Her tight-fitting, lilac Elspeth Gibson hipster skirt, purple retro hat and high-heeled satin Christian Louboutin Shoes must have been the raunchiest outfit ever to appear on a member of the Royal Family at Royal Ascot.But it was not all her own work. Miss Phillips, 21, who arrived with her jockey boyfriend Richard Johnson, has acquired that celebrity essential – a personal stylist.’Zara wanted a new look and I do think she looks funky today,’ explained a proud Ceril Campbell. ‘She is wearing very high heels, though, and I was afraid she might sink into the grass.’
Although the blazing sun made the going good to firm for most people, Miss Phillips did, indeed, end up perforating the odd patch of grass as she tottered through the throng to meet her mother, who looked rather more elegant in a peppermint number.One colour was clearly out of bounds. If anyone was going to wear gold, it should be the Jubilee girl and the Queen duly arrived with a gleaming yellow band on her hat.Come the build-up to the big race, the St James’s Palace Stakes, a huge crowd had surrounded the parade ring to view the exotica on display.
Quite apart from the horseflesh on view, there was the bumper crop of royalty, plus Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood and Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson.The knife-edge finish to South Korea’s World Cup tie against Italy meant that hundreds of punters ignored the first race to cram around the handful of television screens tuned to soccer instead of horses.For those in the football-free Royal Enclosure, it meant decamping to the notably rowdier Grandstand enclosure, from where a huge roar alerted everyone to the shock result.
Ready or not, 3D technology is coming to gain its place in the world of home entertainment. Hollywood movies like Avatar or Monsters VS Aliens make this innovative technology widely accepted nowadays, and not only in cinemas but also in everyone’s living rooms!
To be able to enjoy 3D watching at your very own living room, you must have a television which is 3D capable, and of course the content source like 3D Blu-ray player and/or also a Sky+HD subscription. As one of the world’s leading television manufacturer Samsung has a very wide range of 3D ready television models you can choose with various features.
Amongst those 3D models you can find Samsung UE55C8000, a 55 inch 3D ready television with 1080p resolution which is an LCD television equipped with LED edge lights. Offered in the market with a price around 3,000 you cannot say that this is a cheap product but considering all the great features owned by this television you might find that it’s well worth it.
There could be just one word to illustrate the UE55C8000’s look: spectacular. It truly is a triumph of style and design. The shiny metal, super slim frame seems wonderful, and also the Television is actually wafer-thin, meaning it would barely bulge into your television room whatsoever should you attach it on the wall.
The handheld remote control is silver, having plain buttons that seem to be fantastic however won’t constantly react with the favourable impression which we are keen on. However, it has backlit, making it a total comfortable to operate the television when there is no light or when putting on 3D eyeglasses.
Within the rear of the television, you will discover a bunch of inputs, which includes 4 HDMI inputs, aerial and also Scart inputs, as well as an optical digital out intended for sound equipment. Since the UE55C8000 is very slim, a few of these sockets need break-out connections, however these appear to function properly, and should not give any kind of difficulties.
The UE55C8000 has lots of awesome characteristics. Including Samsung’s innovative LED LCD panel, as well as their brand new filtration systems and also image refinement technology, the television also offers many other great extras which you may never anticipate.
Both USB plugins on the Television can be utilized for various functions. Should you wish to get connected to the web wirelessly, in that case it can be done through an optional Wi-Fi dongle. You could use the USB plugins to see film, check out photographs as well as play songs too. Not like the majority of Televisions we have seen, the UE55C8000 is compatible for playing MKV files. Which is very good news for Online nerds which has a huge batch of cat videos to view.
The USB plugins in addition offer a different ability — they could be employed to allow temporary recording operation. Inserting a hard drive enables you to to save your most liked programs wthout using a standalone PVR. Files are only usable with this Television, however, therefore do not get anxious about viewing them with a notebook on your long drive to your workplace.
It also includes Samsung’s Internet @ TV system, that enables entry to internet materials such as Skype, Facebook, twitter and also YouTube. Most interesting thing is that LoveFilm as well as BBC iPlayer will also be accessible on the television.