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The Salim Nair Band: Our Rig
Being one of the early adopters of digital music in Indian context, we’re often asked about our methods and devices. From Ableton Live to Linnstrument, here’s all that you need to know.
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Space between notes
Indian music is about the space between notes. It’s also about the space within. For over twenty years, every one of my attempts at resolving the problem of expressing my musical ideas digitally hit the wall of above realization. Indian music is fundamentally monophonic. If mono-melodic is a word, that might be more apt. It…
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0, 1, infinity: a digital art music tour
It is only recently digital music production capabilities start to provide means for expressing nuances of Indian music. This is true with software and tools, virtual instruments and the means of human-computer interaction. The most commonly used music creation tools, viz., sequencers/daws provide an interface and workflow that suites creation of orchestral compositions using western…
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Monsanto and the Farmers’ Suicide
Over at discover magazine, Keth Kloor has a post about the BT Cotton suicide narrative in India (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/collideascape/2014/01/07/selling-suicide-seeds-narrative/). The blog is announcing a much longer article about this problem (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/collideascape/files/2014/01/GMOsuicidemyth.pdf). I am a very big proponent of genetic engineering and believe that genetically modified crops and livestock will help us in a big way to…
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Pixie Flux theory of Quantum Consciousness
In a video by Sixty Symbols (see below), Prof. Moriarty while giving a dress down of Dr. Lanza and his theory of quantum woo mentions that one could postulate pixies coming in and out of existence to create spooky effects. I think this is a serious proposition. One could come up with a hypothesis without…
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Scienciness
I was watching this video of Richard Dawkins debating Deepak Chopra. It is an interesting watch. While watching it and responding to the comments I was trying to find the right word for what Deepak Chopra does with science. Something that expresses the manipulation and dismemberment of scientific ideas that Chopra does. Then I remembered.…
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Storm!
My visit to India after a year was, as always filled with situations very close to what Tim Minhin, inimitably showing in this video. Enjoy Tim Minchin: STORM
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