Aishwarya Vidya Raghunath @ Raga Sudha, Apr 17 2017

[sureshvv]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaIdsQlOQi0

Brilliant concert all around. Amazing amalgam of influences. Proof that Carnatic Music procreates by meiosis.

Can someone (@bilahari ?) check out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaIdsQl ... .be&t=8191

and elucidate what is going on? This feels like deja vu all over again

[CRama]

First time heard this vidushi in this yt concert. Really she sings well. Thanks Suresh for introducing her to me.

[sureshvv]

Did you listen to the padam in "mohanam" (2nd link)? Seems to stray into some unchartered territories.

[bilahari]

Suresh, I thought it sounded like mOhanam only? Maybe she touches the nishAdam? My best guess is that she's sometimes oscillating D2 with N2.

[sureshvv]

Yes. Almost straying into kambodhi/yadukulakambodhi territory momentarily.

[MaheshS]

Suresh, I thought it sounded like mOhanam only? Maybe she touches the nishAdam? My best guess is that she's sometimes oscillating D2 with N2.

Artistic license with Mohanam? Didn't Maharajapuram Santhanam do this as well, the oscillation of D2 with N2? I remember a lec dem where Ravikiran points out that the D2 should never go near N2 in Mohanam and demostrates on Chirtaveena.

Notwithstanding the grammatical mishap I quite like it ....

[srikant1987]

It sounds like regular mOhanam to me.

I also thought the pgdp sounds a little like pmdp. There's a pdr,s which reminds of yk. The g sounds like m in some other places as well.

[sureshvv]

Not necessarily because of anya swaras. Could also be because certain swaras are oscillated that are not usual for Mohanam. I did get a little bit of vertigo feeling of being too close to the edge for half a minute after 2:22:45

[Sivaramakrishnan]

Well, padams employ tricky prayogas and may be it's the reason for the perceived minor aberrations in Mohanam. Excuse it happily! Moreover I am amazed at the vidushi's adherence to the style of rendering wherein the phrases 'end with a dip'. This again affirms the fact that 'all throats lead to Brinda-Mukta' when it comes to rendering of Padams & Javalis with the permitted liberties in the scales!

[srikant1987]

Could also be because certain swaras are oscillated that are not usual for Mohanam.

I don't much subscribe to the idea that you oscillate this note like this and it's mOhanam and like that and it's kalyANi. Of course, it's even cruder to say srgpds sdpgrs is mOhanam and srgmpdns sndpmgrs is shankarAbharaNam. It is, as Sivaramakrishnan says, "prayogas". And just as importantly, jIvasvaras and nyAsa svaras and grha svaras.

[sureshvv]

Well, padams employ tricky prayogas and may be it's the reason for the perceived minor aberrations in Mohanam. Excuse it happily!

No need to "excuse". Revel in it, I say!

This again affirms the fact that 'all throats lead to Brinda-Mukta' when it comes to rendering of Padams & Javalis with the permitted liberties in the scales!

I think such licentiousness is demanded rather than permitted.

[Sivaramakrishnan]

There you are, sureshvv!