LEC-DEM ABOUT GAMAKA BOX

[S.NAGESWARAN]

THERE WILL BE A LEG DEM ABOUT THE GAMAKA BOX
INVENTED BY SRI RAMESH VINAYAKAM AT MY HOME.

DATE; 16.04.2017. SUNDAY FROM 6.00 PM ON WORDS.

MY HOME ADDRESS WILL BE;
" KANDANKUTIL",
12,SRINIVASA PILLAI STREET,
WEST MAMBALAM,
CHENNAI - 600 033.

KINDLY BRING YOUR MUSIC LEARNING CHILDREN ALSO

S.NAGESWSRAN.
12.04.2017.

[thanjavooran]

Ramesh Vinayakam's efforts are to be placed on records.
Wishing Lec Dem a grand success.
Thanjavooran
13 04 2017

[S.NAGESWARAN]

Dear RASIKAS,
The lec-dem programme will start from 5.30 PM ON WORDS and for about 2 hours duration.

The many links about the gamaka box are given below.
1.https://vimeo.com/197679939
2.http://www.thehindu.com/ features/friday-review/ interview-with-ramesh- vinayakam-on-ramanujan/ article6639741.ece

http://www.thehindu.com/ todays-paper/tp-features/tp- fridayreview/serenades- innovates/article517580.ece

http://milliblog.com/2014/06/ 11/ramanujan-music-review- tamil-ramesh-vinayagam/


http://milliblog.com/2014/12/ 13/milliblog-annual-music- round-up-2014/
musictempleacademy.com
http://www.thehindu.com/life- and-style/money-and-careers/ music-out-of-the-box/ article2101188.ece

http://timesofindia. indiatimes.com/others/news- interviews/Ramesh-Vinayakam- unlocks-the-gamaka/ articleshow/8814474.cms

http://www.newindianexpress. com/cities/chennai/Curves-and- Lines-of-Carnatic-Music-in-a- Box/2016/02/20/article3286320. ece

http://getnewnews.com/ decoding-gamakas-elusive- musical-notes-now-put-on- paper/

http://www.thehindu.com/ features/friday-review/music/ perfect-oscillations/ article5425499.ece

https://twitter.com/ singersrinivas/status/ 732040052352684034

http://www.thehindu.com/ features/friday-review/music/ evocative-notes/ article5660210.ece

http://www.thehindu.com/ features/friday-review/music/ serenades-innovate/ article518641.ece

S.NAGESWARAN.
13.04.2017.

[Sachi_R]

Sri Nageswaran,
Namaskaram! Another great initiative from you to serve the cause of music and its innovators. God bless.

I found the following article very useful:
http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/ ... 94560.html

Gamaka Box seems to be a method of writing music with Carnatic gamakas diagrammatically in a series of box shapes with curves showing the gamakas. Interesting!

[Sachi_R]

Sri Nageswaran,
Namaskaram! Another great initiative from you to serve the cause of music and its innovators. God bless.

I found the following article very useful:
http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/ ... 94560.html

Gamaka Box seems to be a method of writing music with Carnatic gamakas diagrammatically in a series of box shapes with curves showing the gamakas. Interesting!

[Sivaramakrishnan]

Gamaka Box is a highly innovative facility for musicians to understand and apply gamakas in carnatic music with total fidelity to the swaras/swarastaanas of scales. Gamaka connotes much more than the commonly used term 'oscillation' and Ramesh Vinayakam has painstakingly developed a system of notating gamakas ( if I can put it so) which will be sort of a graphic representation of the swaras involved.

On 16.04.2017, the lecdem was well presented by Ramesh (who is thorough with different genres of music) with audio visual aids. It would have been great if more number of forumites could turn up. Perhaps the presence of noted violinist VS Narasimhan more than compensated for this. The Nagewarans, Vidwan R Suryaprakash, myself ,CRama and a coupleof dedicated members of RV's team constituted the rest.

Sri Nageswaran introduced Sri RV in the beginning. VSN gave expert comments at the end. The interaction session was naturally taken over by Suryaprakash and me with RV explaining the finer points in detail.

Video clippings of a group of foreigners playing Vaataapi ganapatim with the aid of the new concept (they had the notations in gamaka box form in front of them) proved interesting.

For the benefit of rasikas forumites I have requested RV to provide a link to be attached in this thread for better understanding of the innovation.