Come
closer and put your ear to the pumpkin bulbs. Hear how a
single stroke is sustained and extended with resonance.
Undergo the experience to know what and how you feel. This
was Dr.Chandrakant Sardeshmukh, virtuoso sitarist at Institute
of Environment, Planning and Technology (IEPT) on Friday
morning.
Living up to the name of SPIC MACAY - Society for Promotion
of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth - Dr
Sardeshmukh opened the intricacies of Hindustani Classical
music in a language well-known to budding architects. Pure
science. Experience it, feel it and then establish. Putting
ear on the pumpkin bulbs of the sitar and the tabla, Students
experienced melody and rhythm. If you don't know Ahir Bhairav,
try humming Manna De's popular 'Poocho na kaise maine rain
bitayee', it is composed int the same permutations and combinations
of the raag.
Accompanied by young Ulhas Rajhans on tabla, it seemed that
the rhythm and melody went hand in hand. At every sam, both
were found in sync and mood.
Explaining aalap, jod, taan jhala, bandish and taal; the
muse of the musician found reciprocation in claps and questions.
It was a dialogue, no debate. An instrument will not have
words but will hum and you would put the words on melody.
Later in the evening, Dr Sardeshmukh and Ulhas brought alive
the mood at Prestige Institute of Management and Research
(PIMR) with Raag Madhuvanti, followed closely by a drizzle
of Megh, Bhiravi, Sindhu Bhairav and Hemant. The tabla was
at ease and the sitar was fuller. Though the crowd thinned
by the end, those who stayed went home wearing music in
their ears.
