Ganesh Anandan
Improvised & composed music, built instruments, shruti/micro-tonal instruments
3
songs
130
plays
Hey You Hey You
A quintet influenced by Rock/blues/jazz/Karnatic music. Original compositions by Ganesh Anandan and Alex Cattaneo.
How accidental How accidental
Played on a built 12 string electric instrument with preperations. I am using finger drumming techniques as well as thin sticks.
Do things happen for a reason? Do things happen for a reason?
Played on an electric, 12 string instrument called Shruti Stick of my design. It can be tuned to the 22 shruti Indian octave among other tunings.
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A South Indian classical musician undergoes a gradual metamorphosis from living half his life in the western world. He develops new instruments to accommodate evolving drumming techniques and in the process has developed a personal vocabulary. He has undergone a transformation and is part of an old tradition with a new voice ! This is the story of Before and After, Here and There. Inventing the future, the same old future: the New meets the Old and the Old sees itself in the New.
Two hybrid instruments are used in the Cd Double Identity, they are sometimes played simultaneously. The first one is a Metallophone that was built in 1995 out of aluminum plates and is tuned to the Indian Shruti system (22 shruti octave). It is played with mallets and sticks. The second instrument is called a Shruti Stick and has a small solid body with a large fretless neck to accomodate 12 strings (medium to bass gauge). Different types of tunings are achieved by mobile bridges on the fretboard as well as certain types of preparations on the strings. There are two custom made pick-ups : one near the bridge and the other near the nut. The instrument is mounted on a horizontal stand and is primarily played with thin sticks, South Indian finger drumming techniques, a bow and other things.Have you performed in front of an audience?Yes mostly in concert halls, festivals, sometimes in bars, alternative spaces etc. About special moments: I think the adrenalin and rush of improvisation especially when it works ..is fabulaous and there are times it doesnt and one learns over time to be prepared for both.
Outremont, Montreal,
Canada
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597809
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Excellent. Do Things Happen reminded me of Michiyo Yagi's extended technique with the koto.
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