Maestro ilaiyaraaja news & titbits

[rajaramsgi]

Last part.. 17-01-2012 (splitted in 7 parts)

[baroque]

rajaramsgi & kamesh,



Raja, I am speechless... saw the two notes offering followed by his previous songs recall for us.


vaa vaa pakkam vaa......
a small passage from a composition recall is a nice try, we love the song.

அதை ஒதுக்க முடியாது... ஒரு சின்ன portion from a song .


I think they want you to compose a longer musical passage (whole composition) with a particular bhaavam/theme/emotion/idea in 2 notes.


Raja is amazing!

thanks... I will check it out rest of the show at the end of the day.

I think Raja should do live concerts often. It is good for music.

It's a treasure!

I think Dr.Bala Muralikrishna composes or creates ragas with 3 notes, 4 notes. He defines them with rules for the purist platform.

We are fortunate to live in their life time.

Govt of Andra has SPB and Dr.BMK to push for Bharath Rathna in music.

Bimsen joshi, MSS are there in purist platform.
Lata in non purist platform.

S.P.B and Dr.B.M.K's contributions are monumental in their respective field.


Vinatha.

[rajaramsgi]

It is truly a spectacular show. Raja had a great time, he was at his best. I enjoyed his smile and laugh when Balamurali krishna was singing.

Hariharan did not mess up much as someone else mentioned.
SPB, Chithra, Deepan Chakaravarthy - THE BEST PERFORMER AWARDS GOES TO THESE 3 along with Surumuki.
KJ. Yesudas, Balamuralikrishna & Uma ramanan were singing a bit slower than the original songs, may be due to old age?
Yuvan's drama was unnecessary
Rita screwed up Yedho Mogam song, where as karthik did a good job on it
Glad Bavatharini was not on-board.
Wish Krishnachandar and Mano got a chance for atleast one song.
Surumuki Manasi did not have any star value, but the girl did a good job. This says much about Raja, he don't care for the looks or personality, he cares for what they deliver.
Did you notice Hariharan says something to Raja twice and then Raja goes to play the Piano for the Nee paartha parvaikoru song? Great to see him playing the Piano.

Great to see younger generation tfm'ers such as Devi SriPrasad, Vijay Antony, Vijay Yesudas, Srilekha Parthasarathy, James Vasanthan,
Did some one notice Kanimozhi during the first interlude of Oru Ragam Padalodu song? Jaya TV showed her only for a second.
Gangai Amaran and his boys were missing, but Vasuki Bhaskar was there.

Sithar Ganesh Muthu got lots of chances to play in many songs and he was very spontaneous
Veena Punya Srinivas messed the begining of Kanmaniye Kadhal enbadhu, but later she picked up. She was good overall along with Ganesh Muthu.
Guitar sadha, Flute Nepolean were at their best.
That percussion with Dosa kallu in between Ayiram and Malaragaley and Malarungal was not upto the standard. Original song has that unique sound which is great.
Dosa kallu percussion, Punya Srivas's veenai, Prabhakar's violin,along with the orchestra was a wonderfull treat on Poongadhavey thaalthiravaai.
Koyil mani percussion at the begining of Amma endralaikkadha should have been better..
Did the violin orchestra miss something at the begining of the first interlude of Raja kaya vecha?
Azhagar samiyin kudhirai title score by the hungary team was awesome. I thought the drummer who was called to go along with the hungary team to go to India - is going to be like the Bhagyaraj in Idhu Namma Aalu, called to say swahaa.. but it was exciting to see him playing drums for many songs, he seems to have enjoyed and he knew Raja already it seems.

Symphony and the way Raja explained about merging different pieces together along with Idhayam Poguthey -- Wonderful ya..

இன்று, எனக்கும் புல்லரித்தது
நானும் அழுதேன்.
அப்போ சொன்னது தான் இப்போதும்..
ராஜா என் அப்பாவை விட முக்கியமானவர்.
எனக்கு அதிக சந்தோஷங்களை அளித்தவர் இவரே.
நான் அதிகம் ரசித்ததும் அவரை தான்.
வேற என்ன வேணும் எனக்கு?

[RR]

vaa vaa pakkam vaa......
a small passage from a composition recall is a nice try, we love the song.

அதை ஒதுக்க முடியாது... ஒரு சின்ன portion from a song .

That was meant to be a joke Otherwise, a number of songs would qualify, e.g.

1) 'ayigiri nandhini' would be the first 3-note song
2) tweaking the ending N2's as S or R1, would make it a 2 note song
3) The part 'orankattu orankattu' in ARR's 'akkadaannu naanga' would become a 1 note song

I can compose one too

Seriously, I wish he explored the 2 note song more. It kind of fell flat..

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

http://radiospathy.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/rajatelugu/

இன்றைய றேடியோஸ்பதி இணைய வானொலித் தொகுப்பில் இசைஞானி இளையராஜாவின் இசையில் மலர்ந்த தெலுங்குப் படங்கள் சிலவற்றில் இடம்பெற்ற பாடற் தொகுப்பை நீங்கள்கேட்டு மகிழலாம்

[baroque]

Raja is capable of anything and everything. No doubt about that.

my friend told me there is a two - notes composition bgm by John Williams.

it is stunning.

Vinatha.

[rajaramsgi]

a dumb question.. please don't laugh, instead answer in way I can understand

what is the difference between composing music in 2 NOTES and 2 KEYS in a PIANO or a simillar instrument?

எனக்கு ராஜா இசை கேட்க தெரியும், ஆனா இசை சுத்தமா தெரியாது. தெரிஞ்சவங்க என்னை மாதிரி ஆட்களுக்கு புரியும்படி சொல்லுங்களேன்.

[app_engine]

rajaramsgi,

note = sa-ri-ga-ma-pa-dha-ni (C-D-E-F-G-A-B in western), one set of this is called one 'octave' and there could be more than one octave in an instrument, as this gets repeated with frequency going up from one end to another (for e.g. from left to right on keyboards).

That way, even cheap Casio keyboards, that have 5 octaves, can have 5 keys for one note - i.e. 5 sari's, 5 gama's etc or 5 C's 5D's etc, new students first identify the "middle C" that is on the middle of the keyboard (left extreme octave on keyboard has lower frequencies and right extreme has higher frequencies).

[baroque]

basically each piano key is represented with a 'note letter'

white piano keys are C,D,E,F,G,A,B.....naturals

black piano keys are sharps and flats of the piano. accidentals- There are 5 accidentals inan octave.
sharps are higher pitch
flats are lower pitch

that means ...c sharp is right to the note C which is left to the note D which D flat.
C sharp and D flat are the same black key.

like pitch of the notes, another important aspect is duration of the notes.
duration of the note means how long a note can be played. rests are silences, they have only duration.

We covered rhythm--that is how long you hold the note, how long you rest between the notes etc..

Now throw TEMPO into it too. How slow or fast beat is counted.
You can change tempo of a song with out changing the rhythm.


Basically Raja can choose to compose a 2-notes composition with C and G notes or D & F sharp notes, may travel in all octaves of C&G or D&Fsharp with possible permutation of duration-time, rests

Raja will throw tempo into it too.

Basically Raja can give a same music passage using notes C & G or D & F sharp like that in two different tempos.

Vinatha

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

Let me try with a picture!



You can see keyboard with notes, western and our carnatic music uses the same 7 note system

C - D - E - F - G - A- B - C
Sa-Ri-Ga-Ma-Pa-Tha-Ni-Sa

You can see an area noted as Octave. There will be 5 to 7 octaves in a keyboard. (an Octave has 7 /white and 5 Black keys total 12 keys) So no of octave multiplies by 12 gives the no of keys in the keyboard.

Now, assume i will use only C & D keys on the keyboard. if i consider only 3 octaves, 3 x 2 notes gives 6 keys, that is 3 keys of C and 3 keys of D. My tune has to use only this 6 keys and then my song is a 2 note song.