Pasoori Song - Veena Cover - Veena Instrumental Music - Karthik Veena

Improvising with a patch from the sound library Hacked Mythology for MYTH, available on patchpool.net - resynthesized cello harmonics in Iris 1, synth drone in Iris 2, plenty of Macro/modulation wheel action while improvising.

Fragility Cello

This piece responds to 'Flag' by Theaster Gates. I was struck by the way the artwork displays horror, as the initial reaction upon seeing the art is that it is a firehose. It is only when you look closer that you realise that it is a decommissioned firehose and probably covered in soot and ash. I really wanted to emulate the sense of horror, tension, bleakness and desolation that I think the artwork possesses.

Études No. 2

Flag

This piece began with my being woken up by a fire alarm at 5:30am. I transcribed the sound of the fire alarm as I waited outside the building, thinking it would make an interesting motif to play with. Unfortunately, after being woken up so abruptly, I struggled to get back to sleep after the fire alarm was turned off and, when I finally did fall asleep, I dreamt about a fire alarm; thus, the narrative of this piece. The piece is in three sections: the fire alarm; falling back asleep; and dreaming of the fire alarm. In the final section, in which the fire alarm invades sleep, I wanted to melt the previous sections together.

Fire Alarm

When writing this piece, I was particularly inspired by Telemann’s Twelve Fantasias for flute. As a flautist myself, I know how the fantasias weave together different simultaneous lines to allow the flute to accompany itself. This is something I wanted to experiment with myself so I began by creating multiple lines. The first line I created represents the person who is mourning, The Mourner, while the second represents the person who has passed on, The Ghost. I then decided on a narrative: beginning with a shifting, amorphous scene of The Ghost in an afterlife, we move to The Mourner, who experiences the five stages of grief. At the same time, The Ghost attempts to reach out to The Mourner and comfort them, intertwining the two themes. Because of this narrative, I decided to reserve The Mourner’s original theme for an outright statement once they reach acceptance, almost developing the theme in reverse. I also decided to represent a funeral march in the music, introducing the idea that The Mourner is plodding along almost as a second thought.

Lament for an Angel (Плач за Ангелом)

I decided to explore Irish folk music as my love for Celtic music was reignited through writing my dissertation. I focused specifically on Irish folk music as I wanted to explore sean-nós singing in particular. This is a particular genre that is used to tell stories and is sung with just the singer and a drone. It is very free-form, as singers ornament and embellish the melodies to reflect the story their ‘school’ of ornamentation, and their own personal tastes. While listening to inspiration, I observed a very common contour in the music, a rising and descending ‘mountain’ shape As well as incorporating the contour into my melodies, I decided to build it into the structure of the piece; it has a beginning with low energy and minor inflections, a middle with high energy and a major mode, and then it returns to low energy and a minor key for the ending. For me, this lent itself to a story and fitted perfectly with my exploration of sean-nós singing. The story is a simple, common story of revelry and celebration, beginning low as fans watch their favourite athletes struggle in a competition. When the athletes pull out a difficult win, the fans begin to celebrate joyously. Revelry becomes more raucous as the night carries on, until the fans finally burn through their energy. Here I was inspired by reels, a common dance in 4/4 or sometimes 8/8. The wide use of this style has produced many different variants, with some played as slow as moderato and others reaching presto. I believe this makes reels particularly suited to a section exploring mounting revelry.

Old Mountains

Composer, musician, producer, sounddesigner from Germany nowadays mainly working in the genres of orchestral and chamber music, film and theatre music, sound design, live-electronics and production music.

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With a rich musical lineage spanning three generations, N.Karthik has been enthralling audiences for 20 years now and is considered one of the most gifted veena artistes of today. He comes from a family of musicians. His grandfather Ganakalabhushana M.Cheluvarayaswamy was an eminent Musician and Musicologist. His father C.Nagaraj is an eminent Veena Vidwan. Karthik holds the Guinness World Record for most concerts in 24 hours. He has played over 160 concerts. Karthik has performed pure Carnatic as well as Film songs and fusion in Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi Languages. To satisfy requests from friends and fans around the globe, this channel will host short audio clips of his concerts. Listen, Enjoy, Share and Follow the artist on Soundcloud, YouTube, and Facebook.

Hi! My name is Ari and I'm a British artist and musician, as well as a lover of all things whimsical and fantastical. You can find my work on many parts of the internet, from Instagram to SoundCloud, but it's all collated here for your enjoyment!

I have been learning music since I was four, and it has become a way for me to express myself without words. I greatly enjoy manipulating melodies and harmonies to express what would surely otherwise take me ten or twenty words. My work is influenced by the Romantic movement, the ancient Greeks, and Gaelic musics, which I encountered at a young age, and which all left me most deeply moved. The fantasy of the Romantics, the elegance of the ancient Greeks, the harmony of the Celts; I find it all intoxicating and I endeavour to bring each into everything I do.

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