Ludwig wrote to me, and I quote here for everyone's benifit and information:
I am just back from a long stay in India which before which I participated in the international music education conference ISME 2006 at Kuala Lumpur. For a glimpse of my ISME workshop session, please see
http://www.sam.mimemo.net/ISME_slideshow.html
In response to a number of inquiries, I have just provided the following information which may also be of interest to you and your circle of fellow music lovers in and outside India:
The course titled "Music of South India" is designed to be self-paced and covers a great diversity of subjects including all the major areas of Carnatic music. Dependent on a participant's individual situation, available time and special interests, he or she can explore some areas in greater depth than others without disturbance to or from other participants with different interests or levels of musical experience.
Participation in this not-for-profit course can be extended for those who don't find the time to complete all assignments within the tree months period from October. Some earlier participants have continued to enroll several times out of personal interest rather than ambition with all freedom to participate in discussions whenever they wish.
I also welcome contributions from guests with limited time to actively participate right now as professional server costs are on the high side and considering that Indian participants only give a voluntary contribution to an Indian educational fund (see also
http://www.carnaticstudent.org/course/e ... dians.html).
Cooperation and exchange of ideas and experiences are the keys to an enjoyable and fruitful way of participating, be it among participants themselves, with your course tutor (myself) and some of the many Indian contributors and experts in and outside India.
The course library is accessible in the form of a CD-Rom as broadband internet access is not available to all participants all the time. All the rest is done via the browser while privacy is assured by the way the course system works (internal messaging for the forum responses to your discussion postings or those by others to which you subscribe).