This musical venture was created at an Electronic Music Workshop in Chennai called SoundLabs in early December, 2013, under the expert guidance of Robert Koch and T.L.Mazumdar. My teammate Arun Varghese and I were given certain sound samples from the environment around us to make a track. These samples consisted of Elevator doors, Plastic sounds, Chennai Traffic and some simple flute melodies. The final track was themed to be a cultural tour of Chennai made by processing many of these sounds and layering our own influences tracks over them. 

This track aims to transport the listener into an elevator that moves all around this city and captures the essence of its varied sounds. Whether it be religious chants or funeral processions, noisy traffic jams or the calming sounds of Indian Classical music in the rain. These sounds that characterize the vibrant heritage of this city is have been glued together using the various elements of contemporary Electronic Music. 

Many thanks to the SoundLabs team for the opportunity to perform this at IndieEarth 2013, Chennai!

Sound Design Collaboration : Arun Varghese

Chennai - An Elevator Journey

Here is something I had recorded a couple of years back - a song that is close to my heart. This was my first attempt at recording myself singing. So, hope you like it.

Arrangement, Recording and Mixing : Kalyan G
Vocals : Kalyan G

Nindiya Re - Cover Version

1960 Radio City

There are strings attached; therefore you....!
Strings of Life is written for the Allegri string quartet to be performed at Middlesex University, London. 
The web of microtonal melodic threads and aleatoric counterpoint depicts the humanity's search for the answer, which is in themselves yet disregarded.

Strings Of Life

What is waltz was an Indian dance? 
The sonic landscape dwells into the composers imagination where the devadasis waltz in the great courts.

Visual inspiration: Emilio Merlina's 'Dancing Angels' (oil painting)

Indian Waltz

Let the fiddle say the story!

A ringtone composed for the Nokia ringtone composition. Out of hundreds of entries this made to into the finals with it's charming fiddle.

Contributing artists: Ganesh (fiddle)

The Severed Fiddle

One of my two interpretations for U.K. Artist Olivia Broadfield's lovely song for the Reason remix contest. Don't know if this one could be categorised as a remix per say. 

Olivia Broadfield: Lead Vocals
T.L. Mazumdar: Rhodes piano, Backing Vocals, Finger-snaps.

Words and Melody: Olivia Broadfield.

'Say' (Acoustic Rhodes Version): Olivia Broadfield (Feat. T.L. Mazumdar)

Multi-instrumentalist/ Composer/  Electronic/Jazz/Pop Singer-Songwriter/ Sound Designer/ Engineer based in London, India. He has associated with many eminent Indian musicians for film soundtracks and live performances.

The Severed Fiddle

Varkey (Arun Varghese)

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