A New Jatiswara in rAga nAasAmani (70th mELa)- In time for N

ramakriya · Post by **ramakriya** » 19 Sep 2009, 05:55

I am not really sure if this is the right place to write about it. Moderators, please move/remove if you feel necessary.

I'd like to share with all rasikas a jatiswara I've composed ( that is a very big word - I guess I should say I came up with!) - My first one!

I have posted the notation, and a little background on my blogpost.

A New Jatiswara for Navaratri:http://neelanjana.wordpress.com/2009/09 ... navaratri/

Here is an audio link for this jatiswara played by Bengaluru based violinist K R Sathya Prakash (He is my cousin too

) :

http://www.esnips.com/doc/1532f301-9bab ... n-Nasamani

I request your feedback. Any and all feedback is welcome. If you do not want to post a feedback, you can write to me using the forum mail too.

If you think it is worthy of singing/playing on your instrument, and try doing so, please send me a recording, or post one here.

Wishing all rasikas a very happy Navaratri 2009

-Ramakriya

ramakriya · Post by **ramakriya** » 20 Sep 2009, 02:52

Adding an audio link for the jatiswara - Played by my cousin K R Sathya Prakash. He is a violinist based in Bengalooru.

http://www.esnips.com/doc/1532f301-9bab ... n-Nasamani

-Ramakriya

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 20 Sep 2009, 03:32

Thanks ramakriya. I tried it a bit and it sounds interesting.

(The esnips link seems to be not working currently.)

ramakriya · Post by **ramakriya** » 20 Sep 2009, 03:42

hmm, when I try the link seems to be working. Could you try again VK?

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 20 Sep 2009, 04:51

It still does not work for me, it says "Broken Link - The link you clicked on is not complete. " I tried with Firefox and IE. Can you log out of esnips and try?

Suji Ram · Post by **Suji Ram** » 20 Sep 2009, 04:57

ramakriya,
You need to load it as public. I thuinkm it is in your private folder

ramakriya · Post by **ramakriya** » 20 Sep 2009, 05:14

Thanks for the pointer Suji Ram & VK- Now I changed the folder settings - I hope it works now

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 20 Sep 2009, 06:44

The link works now.

Sounds great! Congratulations on your composition!

Sreeni Rajarao · Post by **Sreeni Rajarao** » 20 Sep 2009, 07:12

Ramakriya,
It sounds very good! Congratulations to you and Sathya Prakash!

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 20 Sep 2009, 07:33

A very nice one, and Satya Prakash's violin makes it 'sing' even more!
Many many such creative moments, Ramprasad

srinivasrgvn · Post by **srinivasrgvn** » 20 Sep 2009, 15:04

ramakriya · Post by **ramakriya** » 20 Sep 2009, 21:13

Sreeni, Arasi, Srinavasgvn, Thanks for your good words!

Srinivasgvn, Eagerly awaiting your rendition

-Ramakriya

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 21 Sep 2009, 01:51

Ramakriya: On subsequent listens I appreciate your composition and Sathya Prakash's violin better ( Are there two violins? )

I now see what you have done with the creative mixture of swaras staying in the beat boundary and crossing them in various combinations at other selected places giving the jathiswaram the ebb and flow.

Also, your notation scheme makes it easier to follow along.

A couple of questions.

1) What does '.' next to a swara signify?

2) Is Sathya Prakash's uttaranga of the 1st set slightly different from what you have notated ( especially what he plays in the first drutha )?

ramakriya · Post by **ramakriya** » 21 Sep 2009, 07:42

vk,

1. The . is sort of a natural separation between phrases - could be easily ignored;

2. I hear he has given some sort of stop - and stretched one note a bit into that (time) of the next.

-Ramakriya

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 21 Sep 2009, 08:48

Thanks Ramakriya for the info.

srinivasrgvn · Post by **srinivasrgvn** » 22 Sep 2009, 15:42

srinivasrgvn · Post by **srinivasrgvn** » 22 Sep 2009, 15:43

carnaticdasan · Post by **carnaticdasan** » 22 Sep 2009, 16:01

Can any member throw light on this ragam-Nasamani.

To me it has shades of Vachaspati and Vageshwari.Correct me if i am wrong.There is a kriti by MD in this ragam-"Sri Rama Saraswati"

srinivasrgvn · Post by **srinivasrgvn** » 22 Sep 2009, 17:18

Sreeni Rajarao · Post by **Sreeni Rajarao** » 22 Sep 2009, 19:07

srinivasrgvn,
Enjoyed your playing - Thanks for sharing!

mohan · Post by **mohan** » 22 Sep 2009, 19:09

ramakriya - its a nice catchy composition!
srinivasrgvn - good effort

srinivasrgvn · Post by **srinivasrgvn** » 22 Sep 2009, 19:32

ramakriya · Post by **ramakriya** » 22 Sep 2009, 21:39

@srinivasrvgn

Many many thanks Srinivasa Raghavan, You have played it very nicely! I'm really honored.

@carnaticdasan

I intentionally called it nAsAmaNi, rather than nasikabhAshNi, because of the vakra sancharas. Of course, in rAgas such as this, practically there is not much of a difference between the asampoorna and sampUrNa mELakartas. However, I notice that Sri BMK's kriti ambikAm upAsEham follows more of a krama sampUrna sanchAra, compared to the kritis of Tyagaraja(?) and MD.

@mohan

Thank you.

-Ramakriya.

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 23 Sep 2009, 08:52

srinivasrgvn, good job.

srinivasrgvn · Post by **srinivasrgvn** » 23 Sep 2009, 09:18

carnaticdasan · Post by **carnaticdasan** » 23 Sep 2009, 12:41

Thanks Srinivasrgvn and Ramakriya for such a detailed explanation.

veeyens · Post by **veeyens** » 30 Sep 2009, 02:33

Ramakriya, a nice effort. I enjoyed listening to it May Sri Rama bless you

ramakriya · Post by **ramakriya** » 01 Oct 2009, 11:36

veeyens, Thanks for your encouraging words!

ramakriya · Post by **ramakriya** » 13 Oct 2009, 02:46

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTMCnZS7F8o

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 13 Oct 2009, 02:52

Ramakriya - thank you for uploading it to youtube. I have issues with ensips and could not listen to it earlier. It is VERY melodious. I have a few questions on the jatisvara - 1) how is it similar/disimilar to a svarajati? 2) is this similar to the jatisvara that is the second piece in a traditional bharatanATyam mArgam?

ramakriya · Post by **ramakriya** » 13 Oct 2009, 03:27

rshankar,

Thanks for your good words.

Till very recently, I was of the understanding that a svarajati has to have a sahitya going with the svarasa (like eg: rAra vEnugOpa bAla) while a jatisvara had just svaras ; However, something I read recently is telling me that a jatisvara would have jatis (specific to dance, I guess) in addition to swaras, and a svarajati may or may not have sahtiya.

So, in that case I should call this a svarajati I guess!

-Ramakriya

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 13 Oct 2009, 05:31

ramakriya wrote: However, something I read recently is telling me that a jatisvara would have jatis (specific to dance, I guess) in addition to swaras, and a svarajati may or may not have sahtiya.

That is how I had understood it as well.

ramakriya · Post by **ramakriya** » 13 Oct 2009, 06:34

rshankar wrote:
ramakriya wrote: However, something I read recently is telling me that a jatisvara would have jatis (specific to dance, I guess) in addition to swaras, and a svarajati may or may not have sahtiya.
That is how I had understood it as well.

I will quote verbatim from the text tomorrow.

ramakriya · Post by **ramakriya** » 06 Oct 2011, 01:51

Keeping my tradition of last two years, I have posted the notation of a swarajati I composed a while back. This is in the raga Bindumalini.

Click the link to read the post http://neelanjana.wordpress.com/2011/10 ... navaratri/

I don't have a good audio now, and hope to post one soon. If any rasika here likes the composition, and tries it out, I request him/her to post a recording!

-Ramakriya

mohan · Post by **mohan** » 07 Oct 2011, 07:10

Looks good ramakriya! Just a query is the phrase R G M G permitted in Bindumalini - as would occur when the 2nd and 4th caranas join back to the pallavi?

maduraimini · Post by **maduraimini** » 07 Oct 2011, 08:59

Congratulations on your new creation. Nice listening to Sathya Prakash playing the tune.

ramakriya · Post by **ramakriya** » 07 Oct 2011, 23:25

mohan wrote:Looks good ramakriya! Just a query is the phrase R G M G permitted in Bindumalini - as would occur when the 2nd and 4th caranas join back to the pallavi?

Thanks Mohan.

I felt that it went with the flow when I sang it, but your feedback, and further analysis is welcome.

ramakriya · Post by **ramakriya** » 26 Mar 2012, 00:03

Here is (finally!) an audio track of the Bindumalini composition:

http://soundcloud.com/hamsanandi/bindumalini

played by flautist Arvind, a.k.a. Indian Music Fan @ http://www.aboutindianmusic.com/

Rasika's comments & feedback on the composition are welcome.

-Ramakriya

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 26 Mar 2012, 07:46

Excellent Ramakriya. Nicely played by Arvind. Now I see what you are getting at in connecting Ahir Bhairav to Bindu Malini .

ramakriya · Post by **ramakriya** » 26 Mar 2012, 23:12

Thanks Vasanthakokilam, for your good words!

squims · Post by **squims** » 27 Mar 2012, 00:18

Very nice composition ramakriya! Immensely enjoyed it!

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