Chitravenu - Lecture Demonstration

uday_shankar · Post by **uday_shankar** » 22 Feb 2013, 21:23

Dear Rasikas,

I am pleased to invite those of you attending the Cleveland Tyagaraja Festival to attend my lecture-demonstration of the chitravenu, a new kind wind instrument I've been developing for the last few years. As the name implies, the chitravenu brings in chitravina-like continuity to a flute(i.e., "venu")-like soundscape and draws on the playing skills of both.

I was inspired to embark on this project from my interactions with the maestro Chitravina Ravikiran.

If there's a webscast, I will post a link here. The lec-dem is at the Waetjen Auditorium on Sunday March 31st 2013 at 1:00 PM. Look forward to seeing you

. Here's the schedule:

http://www.aradhana.org/schedule.html#sun1

Needless to say, I am engaged in patenting the key distinguishing features of the chitravenu in several countries including India and the United States.

My time is extremely tight over the next month but I will be happy to respond to any questions in April.

Rsachi · Post by **Rsachi** » 22 Feb 2013, 22:06

Good luck!

arunk · Post by **arunk** » 23 Feb 2013, 01:33

Congrats Uday!

mahavishnu · Post by **mahavishnu** » 23 Feb 2013, 01:57

Excellent Uday. Look forward to it.
I hope to be there (work schedule permitting).

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 23 Feb 2013, 02:39

So the quick-preview non-disclosure agreement can be torn up on 31 March?

Congratulations and best wishes for the event. Wish I could be there.

thanjavooran · Post by **thanjavooran** » 23 Feb 2013, 03:43

Congratulations! Shri Uday_shankar Avl.
Good luck to you
with wishes,
Thanjavooran
22 02 2013

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 23 Feb 2013, 05:29

Congratulations and best wishes.

sukumar · Post by **sukumar** » 23 Feb 2013, 10:05

all d best!

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 23 Feb 2013, 10:23

Good luck uday, nice place to kick off your creation.

harimau · Post by **harimau** » 23 Feb 2013, 14:54

I think you should hire a hot-shot lawyer and file the patent in general terms covering all wind instruments. Then you can have all musical instrument makers paying you royalty.

Don't you want to collect royalties on every tuba, French horn, trumpet, trombone, clarinet, recorder, flute, kazoo, digiridoo, nagaswaram and a few other instruments whose names escape me right now?

A certain mridangist and his dad may be of help to you in this matter of selecting the right lawyer.

uday_shankar · Post by **uday_shankar** » 23 Feb 2013, 19:57

Thanks everyone. Let's see how it goes.

Nick,
You're off the hook starting now

.

harimau wrote:covering all wind instruments.

That would be a lot of hot air and a symptom of legal flatulence

.

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 23 Feb 2013, 20:33

Dear Uday:
Sorry for the delay.
Let me wish you my blessings and prayers for outstanding success with your invention.
I eagerly look forward to your demo if not in person but al least through webcast.
Pl provide the link.
Do let me know if I can be of any assistance....

bilahari · Post by **bilahari** » 23 Feb 2013, 21:29

Looking forward to reading about this, Uday. Best wishes. Alas, the Aradhana never coincides with spring break...

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 23 Feb 2013, 22:18

Congratulations Uday. All the best on the lec-dem.

alai pAyudE kaNNA en manam migha alai pAyudE
un Ananda mOhana chitravEnugAnamadil

mahavishnu · Post by **mahavishnu** » 24 Feb 2013, 01:56

Uday, how about a picture of this instrument for now...

S.NAGESWARAN · Post by **S.NAGESWARAN** » 24 Feb 2013, 18:42

Best wishes about the lec-dem in the new instrument.

S.NAGESWARAN.
24.02.2013

uday_shankar · Post by **uday_shankar** » 25 Feb 2013, 20:52

Again, thanks everyone for the good wishes.

cmlover, I am touched by your offer of support. Will call you when I am stateside

.

mahavishnu, I have a motley collection of garage/engineering prototypes..I have to sanitize this before the demo. Please hold on

.

RKrishnamurthy · Post by **RKrishnamurthy** » 27 Feb 2013, 01:56

Just saw your thread.Congratulations on your entrepreneurship.This is a good example for music practitioners where performance alone is insufficient. Could you at least post a picture?
Dr Krishnamurthy

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 27 Feb 2013, 23:35

Uday - congratulations, and best wishes! Slay them!

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 28 Feb 2013, 05:01

Uday,
Mighty proud of you!
Good luck with it all

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 28 Feb 2013, 13:52

Probably others here have had "sneak previews" of Uday's invention. When he invited me in, after a lift home in my car, and I sat chatting to him in his home office, I had registered the presence of a few musical instruments, and quite a heap of technical bits and pieces which I guessed to be related to his work. Then came the time for the demonstration, and he picked up something from the side of the room that I had never guessed could belong to the musical-instrument category amongst the miscellany of engineering. In fact, I could not guess until the moment he started to play it.

Then there was no doubt whatsoever. Technically fascinating ...and sweet on the ears

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 28 Feb 2013, 21:53

I am sure Uday has registered and Patented his device before the Public Demonstration.
I know he has been working on it for more than past 5 years..
As the desciple of ChitravINa Ravikiran it is appropriate he calls it ChitraveNu..

uday_shankar · Post by **uday_shankar** » 14 Mar 2013, 14:53

cmlover wrote:I am sure Uday has registered and Patented his device before the Public Demonstration. I know he has been working on it for more than past 5 years..

Yes sir, I have

. Here's the link to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), where my invention is registered for the international phase of the PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty):

http://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/d ... &recNum=54

The above link also has my line drawing of a player operating the instrument. So that's kind of how it looks (Mahavishnu, is that good for a preview

?).

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 14 Mar 2013, 18:05

Ramasubramanian M.K · Post by **Ramasubramanian M.K** » 14 Mar 2013, 18:17

Congrats Uday!! Regret I cannot make it to Cleveland because of some pressing engagements that weekend--frankly your demo was the only incentive for me to undertake the arduos trek--these days driving 1100 miles RT seems like a journey to the Moon!!!

I am sure I would get the Buzz this far!!
Good Luck on your demo!!

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 15 Mar 2013, 00:26

Uday
Quite technically impressive.
I am speculating what song(s) you will be playing.
They have to be ones which truly show-case your invention.

In the interest of progress in CM the Music Academy should consider honoring inventions that promote
CM innovatively. You are the prime candidate!

uday_shankar · Post by **uday_shankar** » 26 Mar 2013, 16:30

I checked with icarnatic and indeed my program will be webcast for free at:

http://www.icarnatic.org/liveconcert.aspx

Go to the bottom of the page and register for the FREE channel.

My program is on Sunday 31st March 2013 at 1:00 PM EST.

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 26 Mar 2013, 19:43

Good news! will be watching along with all our Rasika friends.
जय विजयी भव।

Ramasubramanian M.K · Post by **Ramasubramanian M.K** » 27 Mar 2013, 07:16

Hey! Udhay!! Best of Luck!! Would be watching on TV?

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 27 Mar 2013, 08:25

Uday,
We will listen to you, though you will not see the cheering lot who are from here there and everywhere

mahavishnu · Post by **mahavishnu** » 27 Mar 2013, 09:16

Uday, Sorry I don't think I'm going to be able to make it to Cleveland this weekend.
I will be sure to tune in on iCarnatic though.

Best wishes for the demo!

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 27 Mar 2013, 12:00

Uday, all the best. I'll watch it live.

maduraimini · Post by **maduraimini** » 29 Mar 2013, 07:32

Congratulations on your new invention. Best of luck!

venkatpv · Post by **venkatpv** » 31 Mar 2013, 23:42

Just watched Uday's lecdem. Wonderful stuff!

nadhasudha · Post by **nadhasudha** » 31 Mar 2013, 23:49

Just watched Uday's lecdem. Congratulations! The sound emanating from the instrument is almost flute like. The one hand available to keep tala while playing the chitravenu is an advantage. It was hard to see the full instrument clearly on the webcast. Look forward to checking it out on your website!

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 31 Mar 2013, 23:59

Well done, Uday!. Awesome demo. Congratulations on the debut!

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 01 Apr 2013, 00:49

Well done Uday!
Fascinating invention!
You have delivered the baby; and done the naamakaraNam
the CM world has to bring up and mature the child to adulthood.
It has great potential and room for innovations that will add merit to CM!
Congratulations and ThankQ

mahavishnu · Post by **mahavishnu** » 01 Apr 2013, 03:41

Very nice, Uday! Congratulations on the successful demo.

Ramasubramanian M.K · Post by **Ramasubramanian M.K** » 01 Apr 2013, 04:50

Udhay: Congrats--could not see the demo in Icarnatic.org--some technical difficulty-is there a video you can post on you tube or on your web site? Sounded so good when you demonstrated over the phone last week.

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 01 Apr 2013, 05:13

Those of you who missed Uday's demo here is my attempt to capture the demo.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/1uq6eg
checkout and comment!

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 01 Apr 2013, 15:13

Thank you, CML. Due to problems with undersea cables having strange names like see-me-wee ]

downloading anything is slow here just now --- but it just takes a little patience, and I look forward to the dem later today.

S.NAGESWARAN · Post by **S.NAGESWARAN** » 06 Apr 2013, 00:33

Well done Uday!
Fascinating invention!

I request you to kindly arrange a lec-dem of the chitravenu
at Ragasuda hall in months time.
The duration of the lec dem may be about 90 minutes so that you can cover a more informations of your innovation.

I will be sending a mail shortly.

S.NAGESWARAN.
05.04.2013.

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 06 Apr 2013, 05:20

Folks
a better quality of Uday's Cleveland demo is available @
http://chitravenu.com/
I would love to hear from flautists about their views on Chitravenu.
It is the new kid on the block and requires training and experimentaton from both experts and learners.
We of course will have to wait for Uday to start manufacturing it in quantity for us to get our hands on it.
But feel free to offer suggestions for improvement/enhancement and new features appropriate for CM...

uday_shankar · Post by **uday_shankar** » 07 Apr 2013, 20:07

Thanks everybody for the good wishes and complements.

I was a little disappointed with the demo for 2 reasons a) I barely got started when it was time to wrap up

b) Couldn't hear the shruti box well on stage so had to "wing" it, resulting in misjudgments in the upper sthayi.

Anyways, we have to let the chips fall where they may

. Perhaps the next demo will be a better one. The response from professional flautists was very warm and positive.

Hopefully there will emerge great players on this instrument in the years to come.

Ramasubramanian M.K · Post by **Ramasubramanian M.K** » 07 Apr 2013, 21:36

Hey Udhay!! No need to apologise--the design is ingenious and what you played certainly offers great potential--the only limitation with such new innovtions is always the competency of the player!!(present company excerpted!!!.

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 07 Apr 2013, 22:06

>the only limitation with such new innovtions is always the competency of the player

I also fear the built it in bias by the CM ecosystem in looking at anything new with suspicion and doubt even before taking the time to understand it. That anti-present attitude comes from this stifling thinking that it did not come to us from centuries back and it does not have any of that authenticity. I am glad Uday got the opportunity to demo it to a wider audience and that the response from the professional flutists is positive. If a professional flutist uses it for a song or two in a concert ( just to start with ), that would sow the seeds for the general audience to take notice. Congratulations Uday and all the best.

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 08 Apr 2013, 00:49

Caught up with the demo today. Congratulations on the launch!

I know you know that what VK says is true, but now ...it's out there, and what happens is what happens.

Are you going to be able to take up the idea of the Chennai demo?

uday_shankar · Post by **uday_shankar** » 08 Apr 2013, 04:32

Of course Nick...Will keep you posted.

It was really nice and a great moral support to have forumites Arunk and Cienu at the demo

. Arun and I go back a long way, although we didn't know that until recently

. It's a pity I had to miss Aishwarya Cienu's concert due to some volunteering commitments. I heard it went off very well.

Ranganayaki · Post by **Ranganayaki** » 08 Apr 2013, 16:07

Congratulations, Uday, and my best wishes for the future of this instrument.