What do you mean by sound, nada, or Dhwani? How do we generate a voice? What do you mean by correct and incorrect breathing? How can you control voice with help of breathing? Who defined phonetics in the Devanagari script? What is the significance of vowels and consonants in music, breathing, and practical life?
Month: June 2017
Understanding motorcycle design
What is motorcycle design and how can one get into it? What does one need to learn to become a motorcycle designer? What are the design goals while making a bike? What are the stages when you are designing a bike? Structure of the team, iterations, process, etc.. What are a few considerations while designing […]
Understanding 22 Shrutis – Part 2
Introduction and emergence of Harmonium in India and when and how did it come to India or Indian classical music? How can a technically wrong instrument which was banned, be more popular? What exactly is the problem in a Harmonium or Piano? How are harmony and melody connected in Indian classical music? Were you the […]
Understanding 22 Shrutis – Part 1
What is Shruti? Why is it the most important aspect of music? What do we use in our Music, ‘Shrutis’ or ‘Nadas’? How can we practically differentiate between Shrutis and Nadas? How a Raga is formed? Can we ‘measure’ a Shruti? Why are Shrutis 22 only? Who fixed them? Can anyone not create new Shrutis?
Resurgence of Marathi poetry in Mumbai
Your connection with poetry and what does poetry mean to you? The poetry scene in Mumbai. Why is a poetry reading growing again? Do the new poems have depth? Are these poets mature to articulate their thoughts? Are the poems contextual to the current social, political structure? Where is it heading? What’s the future of […]
Understanding fonts and typefaces
What is the difference between a font-family and a typeface? Is comic sans really an ugly font? How does one define/gauge/comment that a particular font is bad and good? Every typeface has a particular emotion. Is there any other way to feel the mood of that typeface? A lot of times, in a given context […]