Well if CM artistes do fall short - and HM and western artistes do provide that, why would you not be fulfilled by listening to those genres? Have you pondered over that? To ask that more deferentially - in case I sounded little harsh asking that - what other "musical" value is there that CM is going to provide if assuming all of these attributes are there in one of our musicians? Lets not get into meaning/pronunciation of lyrics, emotion, devotion etc. at this point!thenpaanan wrote: ↑18 Jul 2017, 05:07 Of all the attributes, resonance is the one in which our singers seem to fall very short (to be concrete, in comparison with Western or Hindustani singers). In my estimation this is in a big way due to the preference for the grammar of the music rather than the practice of the music. With the huge emphasis on rhythmic intricacies, compositions that habitually run up and down the octave unmindful of the constraints of the human voice, and the need for speed, the requirement of a sweet sound takes a very low priority.
To get concrete on where I am going with this:
Vijay Siva - a resonant voice you say. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbrSRaeST-c . The composer has provided kArvais galore like no other along with well positioned short syllables that could be compressed. Sometimes a composition's greatness has to be judged based on what it does to the artiste than what the artiste does with it. Almost an earthquake out there. Every kArvai is made syllabic. vara nAradAmSudDai - how much space is there to stretch , relax , savor and then catch up?!. Is this because of too much focus on diction or just the general singing style? CM gets created and destroyed like particle-anti-particle pair in vacuum.
His rendition style suits some compositions like SubramhanyO mAm rakshatu - but does not bring out the music in many others!
A voice not worth mentioning these days did justice : https://youtu.be/J2d-v5PKvvo?t=700
In this duo side by side - if you set aside the fact that one has a ringing voice and other more subdued, it is clear that one (Prasanna) has had training with a golden era teacher - just by the sheer exquisiteness of time signatures. https://youtu.be/K-xdsFCE6b0?t=958
Compositions aside even exquisiteness in Alapam left with last of the mohicans like this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0OD5ZZSXJ4