Midnight.
The time of the day when even the surya bulb sets. The time when gurkhas and Djs and Ten pointers rule the place. The time best suited to listen to some music! On this cold, "Extremely-bone-chilling" vellore christmas night, I shot a glance at one of my passions - Carnatic music.
Ah, That divine south indian soul, singing strange sanskrit verses...God, She ruled the world's carnatic scene with those two initials: Emm and Ess. It was a medieval classic, one of her best High-CD-stereo-quality recordings. The song progressed. Perfect frequencies everywhere. Any mistake would either mean that the recording was faulty, or that the robust semiconductor chip in my cellphone that houses few of the world's best trance compositions (Yes, The world's BEST!) is corrupt, or contains a virus.
The song progressed. I had always envied the African Djembe, but these trditional indian percussions that go along with carnatic music, especially, were so damn perfect, that with a little flange, they could be looped and mixed into any experimental-commercial-trance track! (Slightly conventionist, but yes !)
The song progressed. The vocal modulations came to an end. Now came the part where the three or four different percussions in the concert played a first-percussionist-initialized rhythm, adding their own "glamour and panache" to it.
I had originally been working on trance music production, which, is usually based on the most unique of the effects your creativity can acheive, to give your composition a feeling of "Trance".
Surround sound.
Precisely what the Idol-ically old, silent carnatic song suggested. Each of the instruments in the climax of the song, sounded as though the were being played from a different place, although, it wasn't all that "crystal-clear" for a novice listener to notice.
Whether the effect was accidental or on purpose, I do not know, but this concept of splitting a CARNATIC song into many channels and inducing surround-ity in them, I guess, will provide a better approach to popularising this ancient, stereotype-Indian, endangered (I better not say that!) form of music and also the newly emerging genre - "Carnatic-Trance".
