Yeah I remember that interview. Was searching for that online and landed upon this interview. An interesting one for sureQuote:
Originally Posted by eagle
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Yeah I remember that interview. Was searching for that online and landed upon this interview. An interesting one for sureQuote:
Originally Posted by eagle
Geniuses are mostly quirky and RAJA takes the cake for "foot in the mouth" syndrome . Anyways his music is sweeter and that should be the sole reason for us to celebrate him
I think the tamil translation of what he wanted to say would be "naa solliya ivanga munnera poraanga?", which is not so bad.
Another interesting interview is the one that appeared on bbc tamil long time ago. I also feel that IR basically has a few ideas/answers for certain things/questions, and says the same thing in every interview (his answer for choosing raagas for songs, for instance, has been repeated several times).
and that 'Paravai parakrathu' anecdote is also oft repeated :)Quote:
Originally Posted by ananth222
Audio of Bhagyadevata likely to release in first week of April:
http://entertainment.in.msn.com/sout...mentid=2372149
thanks,
Krishnan
You cant call that "anecdote". Its is his concept of how music should evolve...he says music should happen as naturally as the bird flies... of course he repeats that often...Quote:
Originally Posted by rajasaranam
Also its a matter of contradiction that a person who believes natural, spontaneous outcome and not conscious about the process makes music which is often rigid in structure almost like a mathematical formula....
eagle,
I agree with you on the mathematical precision of his music. I wouldn't call it a contradiction. I would probably call it a paradox. By all the available evidence Raja does seem to compose every song spontaneously yet his mind is able devise everything according to certain precision. No clue on how he is able to do that.
I am neither a musician nor a someone who learns music but still I am able to feel the precision in his work. The thought that comes to my mind whenever I hear any of his songs is the word 'mathematical precision'. Even in his works which we may not like or appreciate much, I see a lot of precision. There is something either in the way he thinks or in the way things come to him spontaneously, which this precision to the fore. Very difficult to explain what I mean.
Probably music also follows some laws of nature - only certain sequence of notes seem to be considered music and the really good ones stay in your head..just like numbers ..if you can see a pattern in them you remember. The trajectory of an object thrown up in the air is a parabola. When matter disappears energy created in mc**2 and the list goes on..If IR is mathematical..think about the guys who devised the mElakartha system of raagams !!!
I think IR just starts of with some swaras from a given raagam and then probably for him the composition "just falls into place". In the recorded version of a compositional exercise...kaRRil varum geethamE..as soon as IR sings the tune..vaali says ha..kalyani ..and IR responds .."aamaam annE". So the man is BSing when he says he does not pick a raagam..or maybe he start on a few notes..then he probably corrects course to certain swaras etc..which happens to be in a raagam..the fact that he knows the raagams well gives him no alibi..or maybe these things happen so fast in his head..he claims he is not consciously doing it..
Hi Kiru,
Howdy. I was thinking abt the same thing.. But could it be that he creates the peice and then realizes the structure/Raaga and formulates the rest of it based on that.. I remember when i met him several years ago and we asked him about the rare raaga's that he has ventured, he said the same thing .." Ithellam nan pre-meditate pannni pannathilla.or something to that effect."
Also when he composes, he only does the first few lines for the lyricist to pen the words right.. So the pattern evolves first, then the recognition about the pattern/raaga and then he composes/improvises the rest of the song to fit that structure .. again this is my guess.. i have not seen a complete composing session...
maybe..i do not know..but very interesting topic and it will be curious to understand how this progress works..
many of the songs he has done, the raaga fits so well to the situation..It cannot be sheer coincidence every time.. probability does not work that way..
Cheers
MSK
To a guy like me who does not know anything about raaga or western musical systems (I remember subbudu once said raaja is real raaja in western music) how his music appears mathematical? Mostly his interlude arrangements makes me think so... It never fails to impress me albeit bad lyrics(the ones that creates a sudden desire :hammer: to meet the lyricist) , repeated situations...Quote:
Originally Posted by kiru
(BTW can interludes also follow a particular raaga? )
I agree with you music nature analogy.. but in a different way..many people have told and i also experienced that even the most boisterous of his compositions never disturbs you. it just becomes part of the environment and at times you are almost unaware of it.
Sometime back i read a book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" The central idea in that book is inquiring two aspects of human nature romantic and rational. Romantic (not the romanticism charu is accusing raaja of :) ) in the sense the wholesome experiences.. zen like .. rational in the sense the inner workings, mechanics analysis of everything... he tries to see whether both can co exist at a moment and concludes that highest quality is possible when it does.
All the artists, writers, musicians falls into either of this two qualities or inclined to be either too romantic or too ratioanl... this applies to even ordinary mortals like us...
I know one guy :wink: achieved a perfect combination of the two thus brought a highest quality in his creations...