Ashok Ranade gave me a collage of Indian sounds (see other file in my account).

The title an concept is Ashok's, it means "The origin of music".

I transcribed it for chamber orchestra (no electronics) in Summer 2003 and it has been performed since by several ensembles around the world.

This recording is a live recording of the Ensemble Modern (conducted by Kasper de Roo) playing it at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam in November 2008.

Sangit Sambhav (with Ashok Ranade)

A short audio work composed for Robert Voisey's 60x60 project 2004.

The spoken text is a mash-up of a poem by Philip Larkin
The voice is that of German poet Ulrike Draesner.

This is a spin-off of "Cliff!", a 2004 production for the German Deutschlandradio 
examining a poem by Ulrike Draesner.

All Over Again

Dhruba Ghosh is a wonderful sarangi player and composer, based in Mumbai and Bruxelles.
We collaborated on this work in the context of the 'Rasalila'-Project.

"The Master's Tanpura" is an exploration of the concept of drone, the basis of all Indian music - Dhruba describes the drone as music's event horizon, from which all music comes and to which all music falls back to. 

Dhruba plays sarangi on this live recording with the Ensemble Modern at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam in November 2008.

Dhruba Ghosh (with Sandeep Bhagwati): TheMastersTanpura

Sandeep Bhagwati: Illusies van harder en zacht (version 4) movement 2

Sandeep Bhagwati: Illusies van harder and zacht (version 4) movement 3

for prepared piano (2004)

played live by Ernst Surberg

Sandeep Bhagwati  Stele I

for string quartet (1994)

played by Berne String Quartet, live at the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste München 1995

Sandeep Bhagwati:  alaam al mithral (string quartet no.2)

text by Durs Grünbein (in German) (2000)

Martina Koppelstetter
Orpheus String Quartet
Conducted by Sandeep Bhagwati
Bonn, June 2000

Sandeep Bhagwati:  Grünbeinlied 1-Unsichtbar sein

Live Recording of the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn conducted by Marc Soustrot (June 2000)

Sandeep Bhagwati:  Entrances for Orchestra

Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
SWR Symphony Orchestra
cond. Matthias Pintscher

Bhagwati:Limits&Renewals

Limits&Renewals III Apparitions

Limits&Renewals II Inscapes

Limits&Renewals I Entrances

Live Concert
April 26, 2013 at the Sonic Arts Centre Belfast

Rives & Dérives is performed from an animated score developed by Michal Seta and Sandeep Bhagwati

Rives&Derives II for five choral groups

Composer, Theatre Maker, Poet, Researcher.
Music Professor at Concordia University Montréal
Director of matralab - lab for research-creation in the live arts

Sandeep Bhagwati

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