Dr. Shrikaanth K Murthy

Suji Ram · Post by **Suji Ram** » 05 Dec 2006, 01:06

Nice Sriram,
You brought back memories of my practice session with this rItigowla.

ramakriya · Post by **ramakriya** » 05 Dec 2006, 01:19

Good rendition Sriram; Can you post the notation if you have?

Thanks,

-Ramakrita

mnsriram · Post by **mnsriram** » 05 Dec 2006, 01:36

Thanks Suji, Ramakriya.

Notation available at

http://www.rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=4602#p4602

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 05 Dec 2006, 01:53

Though I am away from home and tiedup I could not resist the sweet voice of Sriram! Thanks for the majestic treat! Keep it up!

sridevi · Post by **sridevi** » 05 Dec 2006, 02:01

Sriram,

Well done...
I should give this a try along with the kalyani varna.

Sridevi

drshrikaanth · Post by **drshrikaanth** » 05 Dec 2006, 02:04

Very well done Sriram- no hitches in rAga or tALa. Good

Sridevi, awaiting your rendering.

mnsriram · Post by **mnsriram** » 05 Dec 2006, 03:55

CML, thank for your ever encouraging words.

Thanks Sridevi, DRS.

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 07 Dec 2006, 10:46

mnsriram
your track was wonderful .feel sorry for having missed all your earlier efforts , when I did not have a good net connection.

Would love to hear those early attempts at DRS's Compositions.
Kansen , that I am, these compositions are coming to Life for me only now ,after such renderings .Thank you so much.

Suji Ram · Post by **Suji Ram** » 08 Jan 2007, 00:49

http://www.rogepost.com/n/2702804997

Here's my attempt of ranjani varNa. Appreciate your feedback.

Tried my best to nail M2 as much as possible. Recorded it after a sumptuous meal of bisibelebath on New Year Day.

This is recorded with my ipod.

DRS, this is an improved version.

drshrikaanth · Post by **drshrikaanth** » 08 Jan 2007, 01:20

Suji
keep it up. Yes, the madhyama has come out better in this attempt. My mother has endorsed this too. Also, the continuity is there and the flow is much smoother. The volume is good too (both versions). You ought to have played each line of the pUrvAnga twice too. That gives better control and helps to correct mistakes the second time around.

ettugaDe pallavi- slight error. the "-dIya" (end of pUrvAnga of tALa and arudi). You must play "S,RG,S;;,". You have consistently played "SRG,". ANd in the last ettugaDe swara, first line, you have played "R;;, SN ND DM MGRSR;;," It is wrong. It should be "MGGS" only.

The gamakas have come pretty well. Good work. Congrats.

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 08 Jan 2007, 03:14

Suji
Just got back! First thing I am doing is to listen to you and I love it! Of course DRS is the ultimate arbiter. In my view you have done an excellent job; the varnam is coming alive!

Suji Ram · Post by **Suji Ram** » 08 Jan 2007, 11:31

Thanks DRS,
Will work on the points you made. Namaskarams to your Mother.

CML, Thanks

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 08 Jan 2007, 12:00

Suji,
To my completely kAnsEn ears, it sounded wonderful! Thanks for your efforts.

Suji Ram wrote:This is recorded with my ipod.

Did you get a Tune-Talk for your iPod?

mnsriram · Post by **mnsriram** » 08 Jan 2007, 18:10

Suji, very nice.

mnsriram · Post by **mnsriram** » 08 Jan 2007, 18:15

coolkarni wrote:mnsriram
your track was wonderful .feel sorry for having missed all your earlier efforts , when I did not have a good net connection.

Would love to hear those early attempts at DRS's Compositions.
Kansen , that I am, these compositions are coming to Life for me only now ,after such renderings .Thank you so much.

Dear Sri Kulkarni, thanks for listening. Sorry missed your post as I wasn't following the forum very regularly the last month. I will post the recordings this week.

Suji Ram · Post by **Suji Ram** » 08 Jan 2007, 23:52

Ravi, Sriram
Thanks,
I got Belkins for recording into ipod.

arunk · Post by **arunk** » 09 Jan 2007, 00:10

This is for some of the mac-heads in this forum.

If you have a recent imac (or a mac notebook), making a fairly good *multi-track* seems quite easy with GarageBand even with the built-in mic. Of course for amateur recordings, multi-track would mean tampura in a separate track, vocal in another for starters.

The built-in mic for imac is really really good (for a built-in mic

). Very sensitive, and also in garageband there are some built-in effects, one of which can remove most of the ambient noise which come with built-in mics.

Arun

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 09 Jan 2007, 01:03

'dEkhO uLTE srOt sIdhE kis tarah behnE lagE' I love it when confirmed PC users are seduced by macs!

arunk · Post by **arunk** » 09 Jan 2007, 01:25

although some of us can see past our love, to see that our new love has pimples too

(but still is a stunner

;))

Arun

mohan · Post by **mohan** » 15 Jan 2007, 09:20

Dear Dr Shrikaanth - hearty congratulations on receiving the first annual Rasikapriya award from the Sangeethapriya group!

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 15 Jan 2007, 09:34

True ! Is it.
A real Sankranthi gift.

meena · Post by **meena** » 15 Jan 2007, 11:40

Congrats DRS

Suji Ram · Post by **Suji Ram** » 15 Jan 2007, 13:33

Clap, Clap, Clap,!!

drshrikaanth · Post by **drshrikaanth** » 15 Jan 2007, 14:01

Thank You friends for making this possible.

mnsriram · Post by **mnsriram** » 15 Jan 2007, 14:48

Congratulations DRS

laxmiv · Post by **laxmiv** » 15 Jan 2007, 20:20

Congratulations DRS.

Suji Ram · Post by **Suji Ram** » 09 Feb 2007, 00:08

It is one year since I registered on the Forum...

There is no better way for me to appreciate CM than to try it out myself.

I am presenting a composition of DRS which I am still learning. I am posting only the pUrvAnga in two speeds. A tough one but my favorite rAga.

DRS, please do corrections for the slower speed.

http://www.rogepost.com/n/2218277017

Also, I am posting the notations in telugu and kannada using Arun's transliterator. I added AkAram/EkAram etc to sAhitya to help me with bowing. I did spend more time making these documents than practising

Any corrections let me know

http://www.rogepost.com/n/8396879795

Feed back appreciated.

arunk · Post by **arunk** » 09 Feb 2007, 02:29

Nice attempt suji! sahana? If you dont mind saying, perhaps try for more "asaippu" as in shake/lattitude to certain gamakas. But tough raga alright

!

I added AkAram/EkAram etc to sAhitya to help me with bowing. I did spend more time making these documents than practising smile

:lol!

arunk · Post by **arunk** » 09 Feb 2007, 02:48

suji,

the notation link takes to a varna.rar file (i expected a pdf/doc etc.)?

Arun

Suji Ram · Post by **Suji Ram** » 09 Feb 2007, 02:53

arunk wrote:suji,

the notation link takes to a varna.rar file (i expected a pdf/doc etc.)?

Arun

I zipped the 2 pdf's. I could open it.
If you can't then Ill post them again separately.
Do you need a word file? I can send that too.

arunk · Post by **arunk** » 09 Feb 2007, 02:58

you used winrar? (for rar format). Isnt zip better as it is widely accessible?

In any case, i just wanted to see how it looks. I wont be able to read it anyway

Arun

ramakriya · Post by **ramakriya** » 09 Feb 2007, 03:03

Suji Ram, arunk,

uploaded a pdf standalone

http://www.rogepost.com/n/9111132300

Good job

In the phrase r.. g r s n# s.. in the second line, the g is going a bit lower than required and ni is going a bit higher I think. DRS can clarify if I am correct or not.

-Ramakriya

Suji Ram · Post by **Suji Ram** » 09 Feb 2007, 03:04

Here are the individual pdfs

http://www.rogepost.com/n/4636391437

http://www.rogepost.com/n/5791381018

here is the word document in English

http://www.rogepost.com/n/5062456057

I was making one in tamizh, but the letters were too big to format correctly so gave up.

drshrikaanth · Post by **drshrikaanth** » 09 Feb 2007, 03:10

Suji
Good attempt. The swaras you have got ir right. The gamakas will have to be polished and that practice alone can do. Good job Suji

Notations- nice work. Some spelling mistakes though- it should be vAggEyakAra, has come as vaggeyakAra. For Dr show as "DA||" rather than as "Dar"

1st word is oraku not Oraku. 3rd line "avhALa" (The h sound shoud come in pronunciation)

arunk · Post by **arunk** » 09 Feb 2007, 03:10

cool! I think you should be able to control the header/footer in your browser setup. That reminds me to see if that is specifiable from the editor itself i.e. the web-page (although i vaguely remember reading this wasnt possible and browsers are yet to catch up to their intended use).

Arun

drshrikaanth · Post by **drshrikaanth** » 09 Feb 2007, 03:11

One more thing, mUrti shows up correctly in telugu but looks like mArti in kannaDa. Maybe thats the way mU shows up? Its not strictly correct.

ramakriya · Post by **ramakriya** » 09 Feb 2007, 03:14

drshrikaanth wrote:One more thing, mUrti shows up correctly in telugu but looks like mArti in kannaDa. Maybe thats the way mU shows up? Its not strictly correct.

This is a known problem of windows xp implementation of kannada unicode, unfortunately.

see the following link:

http://www.baraha.com/web_docs/unicode_issues.htm

-Ramakriya

arunk · Post by **arunk** » 09 Feb 2007, 03:55

that sucks. This points out one of the severe flaws in Microsoft's internationalization support - where language rules are embedded into the system. While their intent was good (they wanted every font developer not to rack his/her brains about language rules - particularly for complex scripts like Indic), but the( big) downside is you are limited by what the system can do. Bugs in system for a certain language affect every font fpr that language and you cannot make extensions for new languages (like sanketi). The irony is the font specification (open-type) is powerful enough for a font to allow it, but Microsoft's font renderer ignores it all

.

Not very good foresight.

Arun

arunk · Post by **arunk** » 09 Feb 2007, 03:58

BTW, now that transl. editor is in decent shape (although malayalam needs to be completed), i should move back to the notation editor project

. Lot of work left there for even the basic version. Then need to add support for Indic scripts there. That is going to be tough (as letters within words would be split across the lyric line.

Arun

drshrikaanth · Post by **drshrikaanth** » 09 Feb 2007, 04:04

arunk wrote:Bugs in system for a certain language affect every font fpr that language and you cannot make extensions for new languages (like sanketi).

Suji Ram · Post by **Suji Ram** » 09 Feb 2007, 04:06

arunk wrote:i should move back to the notation editor project . Lot of work left there for even the basic version. Then need to add support for Indic scripts there. That is going to be tough (as letters within words would be split across the lyric line.

Arun

It will be very useful. Can imagine the work it takes to get that.
One line of notation-next line sAhitya- that will be tough I guess

ramakriya · Post by **ramakriya** » 09 Feb 2007, 04:08

arun

BTW, I finally tested the export to docuwiki feature

Works neat

http://www.rasikas.org/wiki/mangala

-Ramakriya

arunk · Post by **arunk** » 09 Feb 2007, 04:12

Cool!

Arun

arunk · Post by **arunk** » 09 Feb 2007, 04:15

Sanskrit is showing anuswara for nanninda. That doesnt seem right. If i try it now, it is नन्निन्द

Arun

Suji Ram · Post by **Suji Ram** » 09 Feb 2007, 04:18

Thank you for listening and feed back- DRS, Arun, Ramakriya

As for gamakas I have to practice more. I needed corrections early on, otherwise mistakes are "die hard" kind.

Now the uttarAnga..that's a tougher part. I am looking for sequences and patterns in the swaras and cannot grasp all of it. Ill have to find a way to spilt and memorize.

ramakriya wrote:Suji Ram,
Good job In the phrase r.. g r s n# s.. in the second line, the g is going a bit lower than required and ni is going a bit higher I think. DRS can clarify if I am correct or not.

-Ramakriya

Im not sure about G.
Now is N kaisika or kAkali

arunk · Post by **arunk** » 09 Feb 2007, 04:20

Suji Ram wrote:I needed corrections early on, otherwise mistakes are "die hard" kind

oh yes!

Arun

ramakriya · Post by **ramakriya** » 09 Feb 2007, 04:21

Suji Ram wrote:Im not sure about G.
Now is N kaisika or kAkali

ni is kaiSiki

if it does not trouble you can you upload the uttarAnga notation as well?

-Ramakriya

drshrikaanth · Post by **drshrikaanth** » 09 Feb 2007, 04:23

Suji Ram wrote:I am looking for sequences and patterns in the swaras and cannot grasp all of it. Ill have to find a way to spilt and memorize.

Suji- I have already shown the patterns and splits. Please follow that. Dont try to split them yourself. I have shown the splits by using hyphens in the notation, as I always do.

ramakriya · Post by **ramakriya** » 09 Feb 2007, 04:25

arunk wrote:Sanskrit is showing anuswara for nanninda. That doesnt seem right. If i try it now, it is नन्निन्द

Arun

I still get नन्निंद

- But that hardly worries me

-Ramakriya

arunk · Post by **arunk** » 09 Feb 2007, 04:31

perhaps your browser is using previous version from cache? Do you see a choice for anuswara word endings under sanskrit tab?

Sorry for this diversion. Drs - if possible can you (or someone else) pl. post your rendition of sahana varnam (old link obviously deleted from rapidshare) and also notation pl?

Arun