The Salim Nair Band

The first all-digital Indian Classical music project. Expansive soundscapes, exuberant dances and pensive love songs that defines a new genre Indian Postclassical.

  • 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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  • 11-11-11 11:11:11

    Yep

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  • I am afraid of superstar developers!

    I now think that choosing roman numerals to represent parts in my series of posts about agile was a bad idea. It is not very scalable! This post, while related to agile, is not part of the series anyways. A few months ago, I read blog posting about agile development. I think it was called…

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  • Being Agile… Part IV: Falsify me, please

    My reference to Adam Savage in Part III was not just incidental. I think it is a very profound one, especially in software development. Adam Savage, in a later podcast (unfortunately, I was unable to find it) explains how the phrase “Failure is always an option” represent a fundamental fact about scientific enquiry. Unlike we…

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  • Being Agile… Part III: Failure is always an option!*

    So we are TDD. We proudly announce the number of unit tests and the percentage coverage as part of the scrum achievements. We make demands on minimum coverage (for a brief while when we had TFS, it was a check-in constraint). But, what do we actually gain by testing? Is there a law of diminishing…

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