"Two hands clap and there is a sound; what is the sound of one hand?"  Kōan

Welcome to

THE BENEVOLENT DRONE project

Composed & performed by Gopi

Drafts & sketches for a 
forthcoming suite in C# minor 
are presented here

Work in progress

When I am not working as a Professor and being a science nerd, I like to escape to my music

And my cat Figaro, he is the freaking best little pal.

All of these songs are recorded on my cell phone. I am broke and cannot afford classy stuff. 

View my early works at https://soundcloud.com/chosen-grace

“If it is a language, music is a language of feeling. Musical rhythms are life rhythms, and music with tensions, resolutions, crescendos and diminuendos, major and minor keys, delays and silent interludes, with a temporal unfolding of events, does not present us with a logical language, but, it ‘reveals the nature of feelings with a detail and truth that language cannot approach’”(Langer, 1951, p. 199, original emphasis)

Kate Eveline's language is music. Her need to express complex feelings spontaneously led her to the creation of piano pieces, which gave her the possibility to communicate everything that seems otherwise inexpressible.

Contact: kateevelinemusic@gmail.com 

Kate's alter ego Katnada: https://soundcloud.com/katnada

Now on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/5Dl6PQQZrTkGXpWXUxCUTe?si=FQ3pazirRxy_pPT2xHyaJA

https://www.youtube.com/user/KatN92

Welcome mates!
Please do visit my other projects too.
Check out links below.


* * *

As the tears of a weeping fish is not seen in the creek
and the flight of a crane renders no footprints across the sky
thus the coming and going of the mystic is not known


* * *

My quest is the unspoken, the timeless tacit phrases, the inherent and the inherited.

I am collecting the eternal dust of passed days and the imprints of wayfarers, rambling through the age-old deserts of inner search.

Gathering the resounding tunes of the parched wadis, where the ancient creeks with their greenery are now latent, and the remote landscapes where the rivers were once filled with rejoicing swimmers.

Picking the archetypal sprouting nomadic tones like dormant blossoms beneath sand and rocks.

Seeking out the caves of the ascetic minimal, the simplistic modal, the vibrant and sober longing and ecstasy, still resonant with the songs of our spinal flute.

Pursuing the archaic value of every individual note, the microtonal fragments and the spaces of silence roaming in-between.


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I'm an autodidact, having no formal education or knowledge of music theory.

Born in Sweden, I've spent most of my life on the road throughout the orient and India.
As a hindu monk I hitchhiked between Sweden and India - crossing the Orient by all sorts of vehicles ranging from dromedary carts to lorries - whenever I needed to travel during those eleven years.
Though mainly I was rambling around India.
Anyhow, the Orient has made some impressions in my mind.

Never had a camera back then.
Never wrote any music.
All my impressions just piled up.
Now I'm tapping a few humble drops out of the barrel...

Gopi

The sounds of biodiversity. Natural soundscapes and wildlife sounds from around the world.

Interested in lots of different kinds of music. Compositions of my own are usually microtonal experiments, often in a pseudo-classical style.

I play the parts using combinations of four guitars and an electric bass: Gibson L5, Fender Telecaster, classical nylon from a luthier named Nakade, steel-string acoustic from a luthier named Sauve, and a Fender Jazz Bass.  Any of my original tunes are freely available for download with the Creative Commons license.  If I didn't write the tune, I didn't make it available for download -- I want to respect intellectual property.  

I'm also active in photography.  The link to my photos is tomhealy.smugmug.com.  

I’ve had the good fortune to study in the past with some excellent teachers: Don Mock (one of the original Guitar Institute of Technology, GIT, instructors); Jay Roberts (son of GIT founder Howard Roberts; GIT is now the Musicians Institute in LA); and, Rich Falco (Rich joined the music faculty of Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1979; Director of Jazz Studies.).

And, I've been able to attend some terrific clinics from guitar masters such as: Jim Hall, Pat Martino, John Schofield, Larry Coryell, Ulf Wakenius, Howard Alden, Frank Vignola, John Pisano, John Pizzarelli, Vic Juris, Corey Christiansen, Kevin Eubanks, and others.

Here's a list of only some of the guitar players I greatly admire: 
Barney Kessel
Bucky Pizzarelli
Charlie Christian
Django Reinhardt
Eddie Lang
Emily Remler
Freddie Green
George Barnes
George Benson
George Van-Eps
Grant Green
Herb Ellis
Howard Alden
Howard Roberts
Jim Hall
Jimmy Bruno
Jimmy Raney
Joe Beck
Joe Pass
John McLaughlin
John Scofield
Johnny Smith
Kenny Burrell
Kevin Eubanks
Larry Carlton
Larry Coryell
Lee Ritenour
Lenny Breau
Les Paul
Martin Taylor
Mike Stern
Pat Martino
Pat Metheny
Ralph Towner
Robben Ford
Tal Farlow
Ted Greene
Tuck Andress
Wes Montgomery

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Highly recommended -- Bassist Victor Wooten's book "The Music Lesson."  The book explores the following concepts and gives great insight.
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