I’m thrilled to see the vast amount of educational content that Raman has amassed, and I hope that everyone subscribes to his site!Īs a student of Carnatic music and as an artist propagating the great values of flute music I would like to suggest this awesome website to all the students and artists of our south Indian classical music and dance. I often point my own students to his website to pick up some interesting pieces, gamakam, or calculation with which I may not be familiar. His video collection is comprehensive, including lessons on everything from basic introductory exercises to advanced topics on manodharma and composition. If you can feel that reverberation, we call this state as rithambara pragna.As a teacher and performer of Carnatic Classical music for over 15 years, I can personally testify to the fact that Flute Raman’s knowledge, teaching style, and performance form are second to none.
Similarly, if you look at a tree, there is a certain reverberation attached to it.
There is a certain geometry to it and there is a reverberation attached. This is because the human system is a certain design and pattern. Allowing it to happen means if you become silent – and by silent I mean not just shutting your mouth but that there is no static in your mind – you will hear the very music of life. Someone allowed it to happen within themselves. How do you get this from within? Whoever it was who first began this entire musical process did not have a tape recorder or someone to teach them. After that, it just flows like a river, depending on how much mastery you have over it. After some time, it feels like geometrical patterns. Music is an arrangement where initially, if you are learning, it feels like numbers. Otherwise it is not considered real because there is a fundamental geometry in the universe. This is why a mathematical backbone is expected for any new theory that comes up.
It is one way of interpreting physical creation. Mathematics is the backbone of creation itself. Mathematics is not something that we made up. This is what modern science is endeavoring to do. When I say a mathematical formula, we must understand the entire physical universe can be reduced to mathematical formulas. A musician is always counting, and eventually learns to count without counting because there is a mathematical formula over which the entire musical structure is built. But with Indian classical music – especially in southern India – there is so much mathematics involved. All the other forms of music are just playing it by the ear. Indian classical music is the only form of music that has a formula behind it, which can be used in many permutations and combinations. Indian classical music is a modification of mantras, where aesthetics become as important as the technical arrangement of sounds. With a mantra, the technical correctness is more important than the aesthetic enjoyment that one may have. A mantra is a technically correct arrangement of sound, but it need not necessarily be aesthetically pleasing. In this culture, we explored different patterns and came up with mantras. If you arrange sounds in a certain pattern, it has a certain kind of impact.
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