Bamboo Dreams Archive
Days of Untruth
72 Melakarta Raga — Audio Reference
The Melakarta system is a complete grammar of Carnatic tonality — 72 parent scales, each a distinct heptatonic arrangement codified so every possible seven-note scale within the octave finds its place. This reference traces all 72 through Days of Untruth, post-classical work by Salim Nair — layered synthesis, live performance, and patient repetition carried into contemporary electronic production.
72 Melakarta Ragas
69 Audio Excerpts
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How to use this reference
Search
Jump to any raga by name or Melakarta number using the search bar above the grid.
Filter by Day
Use the day dropdown to retrace the project timeline and hear ragas in recording order.
Focused Listening
One excerpt plays at a time for direct raga comparison — built as a compact reference for composition sessions.
Texts and Process
A listening companion
Days of Untruth is not only a catalog of ragas but a long-form compositional field. Each parent scale can be heard as a distinct musical space, and the texts around the project work best as brief companions rather than explanations.
Memories are retelling of our past as new stories. When it is of a melody, it is transformed into a new song.
What returns first is not always a completed composition but a melodic trace. This project follows those traces through all 72 Melakarta ragas, letting memory, repetition, and raga structure shape the listening path.
Built through live controller performance with LinnStrument, Launchpad Pro, and a hybrid digital instrument palette.
In the void that is left, silence has fallen.
The role of the text is to sharpen the emotional contour around the music without interrupting the reference function of the page. Use the library below to compare ragas directly, then return to these notes as an alternate route into the project.
72 Melakartas