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A request to amateur composers who visit this page

Topic started by Vijay (@ 212.137.205.127) on Thu Nov 16 16:58:22 EST 2000.
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I'd like to request amateur composers who visit this page to tell me if they've uploaded any of their work onto the internet and if they have, please tell me where I can listen to it. Thank You.

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Some composers to check out (in no particular order): Jay, Srikanth, Ganesh, Eswar, Sridhar Seetharaman, Kumar, Rjay. Vishwesh Obla

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• From: cosmician (@ 194.170.127.161) on: Tue Jul 2 06:51:39 EDT 2002
  
  Esawar...the Sound Blaster is a earlier version on the Creative series of sound cards. I checked out Audigy here, still a bit high priced for me. Will have to think of that later.
  
  
• From: an info. (@ 151.201.26.98) on: Tue Jul 2 07:19:25 EDT 2002
  
  guys, if you are looking for good multi track audio recorder with professional quality try protools-free, it can record up to 8 tracks of audio with a pc sound card and comes with 10-12 efx plug ins also., however Protools has a learning curve, once you master it, it is a very good mulitrack recorder and it is the industry std. works with sb, sblive or any card...one more catch, it works with only windows me, win98.
  and it is FREE!.
  
  www.protools.com
  
  
• From: cosmician (@ 194.170.127.161) on: Wed Jul 3 01:38:57 EDT 2002
  
  an info
  
  >>it works with only windows me, win98<<
  
  That's the very reason I avoided Pro Tools. I had Windows 2000 earlier and now I have Xp. Does Protools run on XP ?
  
  
• From: an info (@ 151.201.26.207) on: Wed Jul 3 06:29:13 EDT 2002
  
  yes, 5.3.1 works on xp, but you need to pay for this version. however it does work with w2k.
  check if the free version has been upgraded to xp. I doubt it as PT is the top of the line software today, you are better off buying it.
  Lower end two track usb interface is only $500. It is not too much, for the quality.
  
  
  
  
  
• From: Jay (@ 209.10.124.134) on: Wed Jul 3 10:42:05 EDT 2002
  
  M-Audio Audiophile is a well respected affordable card. It will work with ProTools free edition and all other software.
  Quick question: Who are you "an info"?
  
  
• From: Harsh (@ 61.11.20.2) on: Wed Jul 3 11:18:09 EDT 2002
  
  FOOLS U WANT TO TRACK ME DOWN HEY U EESHWAR OR WHOEVER THE HELL YOU ARE--CALL ME ON MY CELL 09823147874-I AM IN PUNE,INDIA
  
  
• From: HARSH (@ 61.11.20.2) on: Wed Jul 3 11:19:11 EDT 2002
  
  IF U HAVE GUTS
  
  
• From: kiru (@ 192.138.150.249) on: Wed Jul 3 13:11:19 EDT 2002
  
  Guys..check out Roland UA-1,3 or 5 ..I dont remember the exact number. I was planning to get an outboard processor so that I can get good sound output(without much noise). I came across these as part of my research. I suggested this to Naveen (our piano guru), he bought it and seems to be happy.
  
  
• From: Eswar (@ 65.129.28.207) on: Fri Jul 5 23:28:44 EDT 2002
  
  Guys,
  
  I rest my case. I have decided to stop posting in this forum, until somebody starts moderating it. Meanwhile if any of you guys wanna contact me, you have my e-mail address.
  
  Thanks,
  Eswar
  
  
• From: cosmician (@ 194.170.127.161) on: Sat Jul 6 03:08:42 EDT 2002
  
  Eswar relax...just ignore..we have better things to do than to get affected by such u know what !
  
  
• From: RS (@ 64.171.254.115) on: Mon Jul 8 13:51:08 EDT 2002
  
  A small Digression :
  
  Here is a link to an article by Douglas Hofstadter.
  
  http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20020715&fname=Douglas+Hofstadter&sid=1
  
  I cudnt think of a more appropriate thread to post it . Hope u guys dont mind :)
  
  
• From: Vishvesh Obla (@ 64.158.72.132) on: Sat Jul 13 14:09:47 EDT 2002
  
  Wow... Thanks to the administrators of this forum to have included my music page among the list of amateur composers to check out.
  
  Jeyan,
  Glad to see you here again and glad that you liked those songs.
  
  SR,
  I read that article a little. My mind refuses to believe that a software can emulate the creative patterns of a great composer like Chopin. But then when the author says that a large number of classical music audience weren't able to differentiate them, I can only get disturbed. Creativity, I guess, is something even apart from the creator's own whims and fancies. It is given shape mostly by the unconscious urge of the creative mind. A original work is something which cannot be "exhausted" and ought to provide various levels of experience in various occasions. I dont know if the author is a trained musician himself to have had the real experience of a creative masterpiece. We do differentiate, in Carnatic music, the subtle nuances in emphasizing even something like a semi tone and that gives the difference and life itself in a creative rendering of a same song by two artists of different calibres. In Western classical music, though its structure is comparitively rigid, the movement is something which you cannot define as hand and thumb rules for a machine to emulate. We only recognize such patterns and I am not sure if it could be really defined at all. Even such recognition is only by association with other experiences and not mechanical at all. Well whatever, an interesting article to read...
  
  
  
• From: MUSIC LOVER (@ 194.54.238.10) on: Sat Jul 13 17:34:12 EDT 2002
  
  ALL U NEW MUSIC DIRECTORS READ THIS ITLL HELP U BECOME SUCCESSFULIlayaraaja - Musical Mission
  Part One
  
  
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  Presenting the phenomenon of Ilayaraaja : one of the best professional composers the Indian film world has produced. The country's most prolific composer, he is extraordinarily versatile and has an unorthodox approach to music. A musician working in the cinematic medium much ahead of his time, with unusual gifts. Insights into the man and his music, with an interview by A.S.Panneerselvan.
  
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  "It is a treat to watch him working. I must say that he is the only complete music director in the film industry. He does everything - composing, orchestration, arrangement of instruments, writing notations, conducting and, in a few instances, even sound recording and balancing of tracks. He is a master composer and a brilliant orchestrator. His non- filmi album 'How to name it ' stands as a testimony for my observations."
  ---- Flute Maestro HariPrasad Chaurasia
  
  "This young man has achieved a hundred times more than any one else in the profession. Only time can tell the quantum of his achievements and his contributions. To be frank, I have a lot to learn from this genius."
  ---- Composer Naushad
  
  
  "He is as good as any top ranking composer in any part of the world. His prolificity is something phenomenal. He richly deserves both the national awards he has bagged so far."
  ---- Violinist L.Subramaniam
  
  
  The praise showered is on the phenomenon of Ilayaraaja. And for those who had the opportunity to move with him closely, the admiration for the person runs ahead of that for his music.
  
  
  In just over a decade, Ilayaraaja has scored music for more than 400 films in five languages-Tamil,Telugu, Malayalam,Kannada and Hindi. He has been commissioned to score music for the next English venture of the Metro Film Corporation. Acknowledged as one of the best professional composers India has produced, he is rated as a musician much ahead of his time. It might take some time to understand the changes he brought in tonal quality and sound quality. Says his former guru G.K.Venkatesh : "He is so modern and simultaneously ahead of his time. He is not one who loves his own creation or is spellbound by it. That is the secret of his success. An Ilayaraaja number is overshadowed only by another Ilayaraaja number"
  
  
  The Ilayaraaja story is a story of hard and dedicated work by a man of unusual gifts. Born in the little hamlet of Pannaipuram in Madurai district, Ilayaraaja went to school in the nearby Kombai village. When he was in the eight standard, two astrologers, Palaniswamy and Santhanam, predicted that he would not study beyond that. In 1958, he enrolled himself in Thevaram High School for the ninth standard and felt that he had disproved the prediction. But owing to certain unforeseen circumstances, Ilayaraaja was forced to accompany his elder brother, Paavalar Varadarajan, a propaganda musician for the undivided Communist Party of India, to give concerts.
  
  
  This musical mission proved the predictions right. " Between 1958 and 1968 ", he recalls in his book 'Sangeetha Kanavugal'(Musical Dreams) ," we travelled all over Tamil Nadu. There is not a single town or village in this State which hasn't listened to our music."
  
  
  In 1968, he moved to Madras along with his other elder brother Bhaskar and younger brother Gangai Amaran ( who is also now a lyricist, composer and director). Despite the nagging poverty and starvation, he pursued his musical mission. He enrolled himself as a student of Western Classical music under "Master" Dhanraj. 'Master" was able immediately to spot Ilayaraaja's extraordinary gift and did not accept any fee from him. It was inhis master's room in Luz, Madras, that he was initiated to the various nuances of classical music. "Bach, Beethoven, Mozart , Schubert,Haydn and Brahms used to visit our lodge everyday, you know," says Ilayaraaja smilingly. This training made him take up an examination of the Trinity College of Music, London, in which he emerged a gold medallist in classical guitar. Then Ilayaraaja joined G.K.Venkatesh as his assistant. His role as an assistant was so significant that the lyricist_cum_producer Panchu Arunachalam decided to have him as the music director for "Annakkili". Ilayaraaja recorded six songs for that film in folk style. And the rest is cinema history.
  
  
  Ilayaraaja's modus operandi is unique in more than one sense. He writes down the tune in the form of notations ; he doesn't hum it or play it on his harmonium.The tune seems to flow spontaneously from his head. One has not at any time seen him worked up to produce a tune. It comes so naturally and effortlessly to him that an onlooker feels that composing might be the easiest profession in the world. As he writes the tune, he writes down the orchestration to the last detail. He does not miss even a single obbligato. When he goes recording, he embellishes his work by taking on the spot decisions which are " precise and flawless." Ilayaraaja approaches music in a most unorthodox manner. He is not cowed down by the dogmatic rules prescribed by self-styled guardians of "pure music ". He declares : " Music is nothing but sound and there is no place for value judgement among various sounds. " He adds : " I am not a musician. For a musician, raga is a hurdle ;tala is a hurdle; his musical training is a hurdle. Since I am not a musician, I have no parameters to restrict myself. Whatever comes to my mind, I have no hesitation in doing it. I am able to compose a song in aarohanam alone, while the whole spectrum of music vidwans believed for centuries that a song should essentially comprise aarohanam and avarohanam. This is because I have no bonds. "
  
  
  He is india's most prolific composer, yet there is no question of his music sounding stale or repetitive. This is a function of his extraordinary versatility. Most people in the field would acknowledge that film music has become richer after his entry. Ilayaraaja, who has firm roots in the soil in which he was born, has made folk music popular. The respectability he brought to the simple soul-stirring folk and tribal music is much more, in terms of both quality and quantity, than the results of several festivals put together.
  
  
  Despite two ( three, now ) national awards for the best music direction and a highly acclaimed non-verbal instrumental compact disc titled " How to name it, " released internationally by Oriental Label, U.S ( the first such for an Indian film composer ) to his credit, little has been written about him and his music. The reason for this is Ilayaraaja's self-imposed exile from the media glare.
  
  
  source: The Frontline (1989)
  
  
  
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• From: UV (@ 151.200.46.191) on: Sat Jul 13 17:44:02 EDT 2002
  
  music lover
  we all have read that,anything new ?
  Hi guys i am back after vacation
  Jey,Srikanth,aditya how are you folks
  
  

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