Comments on: Confluence of musical streams http://blog.aneeshpradhan.com/2006/07/confluence-of-musical-streams/ My personal weblog Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:27:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: sjsheth http://blog.aneeshpradhan.com/2006/07/confluence-of-musical-streams/#comment-31 sjsheth Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:46:40 +0000 http://aneesh.underscorerecords.info/?p=8#comment-31 Re: Who is Instrumental? For those that are interested in issues that surround instrument making, the following article illustrates a similar state of affairs that we find in India. I'm sure if an inter-country study was done on the reasons for why quality instrument makers are in decline, many similarities would surface. This article was sent to me by Marc Pearlman, a scholar who has worked in Indonesia. ---------- International Herald Tribune Is Indonesia's native music fading? By Peter Gelling Wednesday, February 27, 2008 BOGOR, Indonesia: It is here, in one of Indonesia's last remaining gamelan workshops, that the complex, layered tones of the country's traditional music are shaped, fine-tuned and shipped around the world. This family-run enterprise in its smoke-filled, tin-roofed shack has been turning out the xylophones, gongs, drums and strings that make up a gamelan orchestra for nearly 200 years. All its employees are descendants of the laborers hired when it opened in 1811. Every day, a dozen of these grizzled men, shirtless, shoeless, clove cigarettes dangling from their lips, hover over a pit of fire and wait for a nascent gong to glow red. Then, almost musically, with sparks flying, they take turns pounding it into shape with the crudest of hammers. The workshop in Bogor, 48 kilometers, or 30 miles, south of Jakarta and known simply as the Gong Factory, has been one of the main suppliers of gamelan instruments in Java since the 1970s, when three of its competitors shut their doors because of a lack of demand. But over the last decade, its owner says, orders here too have been steadily decreasing. (For the rest, click below) http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/27/asia/gamelan.php Re: Who is Instrumental?

For those that are interested in issues that surround instrument making, the following article illustrates a similar state of affairs that we find in India. I’m sure if an inter-country study was done on the reasons for why quality instrument makers are in decline, many similarities would surface. This article was sent to me by Marc Pearlman, a scholar who has worked in Indonesia.

———-
International Herald Tribune
Is Indonesia’s native music fading?
By Peter Gelling
Wednesday, February 27, 2008

BOGOR, Indonesia: It is here, in one of Indonesia’s last remaining gamelan workshops, that the complex, layered tones of the country’s traditional music are shaped, fine-tuned and shipped around the world.

This family-run enterprise in its smoke-filled, tin-roofed shack has been turning out the xylophones, gongs, drums and strings that make up a gamelan orchestra for nearly 200 years. All its employees are descendants of the laborers hired when it opened in 1811.

Every day, a dozen of these grizzled men, shirtless, shoeless, clove cigarettes dangling from their lips, hover over a pit of fire and wait for a nascent gong to glow red. Then, almost musically, with sparks flying, they take turns pounding it into shape with the crudest of hammers.

The workshop in Bogor, 48 kilometers, or 30 miles, south of Jakarta and known simply as the Gong Factory, has been one of the main suppliers of gamelan instruments in Java since the 1970s, when three of its competitors shut their doors because of a lack of demand.

But over the last decade, its owner says, orders here too have been steadily decreasing. (For the rest, click below)

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/27/asia/gamelan.php

]]> By: vijal http://blog.aneeshpradhan.com/2006/07/confluence-of-musical-streams/#comment-30 vijal Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:53:04 +0000 http://aneesh.underscorerecords.info/?p=8#comment-30 sir, i want to talk to u sir. i m planning to do some project on fusion music.could u plz give me ur email id.it would be great plesure for me sir. vijal sir,
i want to talk to u sir. i m planning to do some project on fusion music.could u plz give me ur email id.it would be great plesure for me sir.
vijal

]]> By: Aneesh http://blog.aneeshpradhan.com/2006/07/confluence-of-musical-streams/#comment-29 Aneesh Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:53:06 +0000 http://aneesh.underscorerecords.info/?p=8#comment-29 I will definitely keep you informed. Regards, Aneesh I will definitely keep you informed.

Regards,

Aneesh

]]> By: vijal http://blog.aneeshpradhan.com/2006/07/confluence-of-musical-streams/#comment-28 vijal Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:23:13 +0000 http://aneesh.underscorerecords.info/?p=8#comment-28 thnk u sir... actully my interest is doing some research in fusion music... iwud not say fusion music.... but indian fusion music... so for that only i hv ask u this question..... plz do let me knw about this in future... my e-mail id is vijalrahee@gmail.com thnk u vijal thnk u sir…
actully my interest is doing some research in fusion music… iwud not say fusion music…. but indian fusion music… so for that only i hv ask u this question….. plz do let me knw about this in future… my e-mail id is vijalrahee@gmail.com
thnk u
vijal

]]> By: Aneesh http://blog.aneeshpradhan.com/2006/07/confluence-of-musical-streams/#comment-27 Aneesh Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:16:55 +0000 http://aneesh.underscorerecords.info/?p=8#comment-27 I am afraid there is no such forum, but we are hoping that the seminars will act as a forum for this and related issues. I am afraid there is no such forum, but we are hoping that the seminars will act as a forum for this and related issues.

]]> By: vijal http://blog.aneeshpradhan.com/2006/07/confluence-of-musical-streams/#comment-26 vijal Wed, 24 Oct 2007 04:54:13 +0000 http://aneesh.underscorerecords.info/?p=8#comment-26 sir , thnks for replying on my comment...if u hv any forum for this subject then i would love to take membership for that.... thnks u vijal sir ,
thnks for replying on my comment…if u hv any forum for this subject then i would love to take membership for that….
thnks u
vijal

]]> By: Aneesh http://blog.aneeshpradhan.com/2006/07/confluence-of-musical-streams/#comment-25 Aneesh Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:41:38 +0000 http://aneesh.underscorerecords.info/?p=8#comment-25 Dear Vijal, The seminar/workshop you mention, was held by Underscore Records at City Pulse in Gandhinagar, and was attended by a small group of musicians, composers and musicologists from India and abroad. The proceedings of this three-day have been recorded on video and will be made available with due permissions. We also hope to hold these seminars on a regular basis. Dear Vijal,

The seminar/workshop you mention, was held by Underscore Records at City Pulse in Gandhinagar, and was attended by a small group of musicians, composers and musicologists from India and abroad. The proceedings of this three-day have been recorded on video and will be made available with due permissions.

We also hope to hold these seminars on a regular basis.

]]> By: vijal http://blog.aneeshpradhan.com/2006/07/confluence-of-musical-streams/#comment-24 vijal Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:56:06 +0000 http://aneesh.underscorerecords.info/?p=8#comment-24 hi aneesh ji.... this article is amazing.... i like a lot....i m very much interested in doing this kind of a wrk.... i read some articles on the news paper that there was a seminar kind of a thing held in ahamdabad on fusion music..... sir i want to knw more about this.... if that kind of a programme held in mumbai do let me knw sir... and one more thing i want to ask is there in membership for that group....?????? vijal hi aneesh ji….
this article is amazing…. i like a lot….i m very much interested in doing this kind of a wrk…. i read some articles on the news paper that there was a seminar kind of a thing held in ahamdabad on fusion music….. sir i want to knw more about this…. if that kind of a programme held in mumbai do let me knw sir… and one more thing i want to ask is there in membership for that group….??????
vijal

]]> By: Aneesh http://blog.aneeshpradhan.com/2006/07/confluence-of-musical-streams/#comment-13 Aneesh Fri, 22 Sep 2006 19:51:17 +0000 http://aneesh.underscorerecords.info/?p=8#comment-13 Hi Irfan. Just for your information, Dr. Ranade conducted a series of interviews on Mumbai Doordarshan way back in the 70s in the programme entitled Pratibha Ani Pratima. This was the first time that I had an opportunity to listen to him and hear his incisive comments. I hope Mumbai Doordarshan will oblige music lovers by releasing this series on DVD at the earliest. Hi Irfan. Just for your information, Dr. Ranade conducted a series of interviews on Mumbai Doordarshan way back in the 70s in the programme entitled Pratibha Ani Pratima. This was the first time that I had an opportunity to listen to him and hear his incisive comments. I hope Mumbai Doordarshan will oblige music lovers by releasing this series on DVD at the earliest.

]]> By: Irfan http://blog.aneeshpradhan.com/2006/07/confluence-of-musical-streams/#comment-11 Irfan Fri, 22 Sep 2006 19:37:12 +0000 http://aneesh.underscorerecords.info/?p=8#comment-11 Aneesh ji, there is absolutely no doubt about the fact that Prof. Ranade has always shown the way and led the field of high-quality academic work in the field of music for over 3 decades now. Both his publications - the dictionary of concepts as well as the book on the hindi film song - have come at a very good time. You describe the approach of writings on music as being "adjectival" I couldn't agree with you more! The great theoretician and semiologist Roland Barthes wrote an incisive piece about writing on music and said that music is inevitably something which is reduced to the adjective and goes on to say that the adjective is probably the weakest part of language being approximate and vague. Prof. Ranade comes as a breath of fresh air in such a situation with clear, cogent and precise writing which always succeeds in pinning down the issue he wises to talk about. :-) Aneesh ji, there is absolutely no doubt about the fact that Prof. Ranade has always shown the way and led the field of high-quality academic work in the field of music for over 3 decades now.
Both his publications - the dictionary of concepts as well as the book on the hindi film song - have come at a very good time. You describe the approach of writings on music as being “adjectival” I couldn’t agree with you more! The great theoretician and semiologist Roland Barthes wrote an incisive piece about writing on music and said that music is inevitably something which is reduced to the adjective and goes on to say that the adjective is probably the weakest part of language being approximate and vague. Prof. Ranade comes as a breath of fresh air in such a situation with clear, cogent and precise writing which always succeeds in pinning down the issue he wises to talk about. :-)

]]>