In June, I have produced and engineered two songs—for two completely different projects. Sweet Poison with Vapour Sea Vapour Sea is a collaboration project between me and Sudipto. While we waited for the guys in Dark Project to finish recording (and I wonder if it would ever be finished), Shounak pitched in a seed idea … [Read more…]
The idea of playing a cover of “Arriving Somewhere but Not Here” by the venerable Porcupine Tree was by our very own Shounak Roy. Fresh off a college gig where he had played some of the introductory keyboards and most of the guitar parts for the same song, he suggested that we try it out … [Read more…]
A new lineup Our last show with Korak was in November, post which he left to pursue his post-doc. After the show, I was out of Bangalore to enjoy my yearly, month-long vacation. Once I was back in Bangalore, we were frantically looking for a drummer. Sudipto did most of the work in connecting with people … [Read more…]
A few months ago, Korak introduced us to a new guitarist, Shounak, and a new bassist, Sricharan. This rekindled our desire to play shows again. Our opportunity came via blueFROG Bangalore, who agreed to host us. We had to settle for a Thursday due to non-availability of weekend slots. I had to carry a lot of equipments. … [Read more…]
The last show that I had played was about four years ago. Back when I was regularly playing on stage, I used to change my strings once a month. Ever since I stopped playing on stage, I did not change my strings. The four-year old strings had become rusty and had lost almost all of … [Read more…]
I was working on mixing our (I don’t know what this new project will be named) new song. This time around, I wanted a very open palette – very much like a well ventilated soundfield where instrument separation was of prime importance. This meant that I couldn’t use much of my go-to reverb designs. That … [Read more…]
Music as a disposable commodity When mp3s invaded the collective consciousness of our society, it gave birth to something no one had foreseen before. The availability of infinite music at the disposal of one’s fingertips. The key word here is “disposal”. Indeed, an instance of a file can be classified disposable commodity – the loss … [Read more…]
Long ago I had written why I prefer listening to whole albums. My approach to listening hasn’t changed much. However, I am from a lesser group of the population. The majority consumes music in a very different way. Convenience of portability The idea of revisiting this topic stems from my listening to lectures by Andrew … [Read more…]
I have very limited means and even limited talent when it comes to music. I can’t play that well, I can’t play fast. Sometimes I fail to even play something in time (but I have improved a lot in the last five years). All I have are a guitar, the computer and some software (Reaper, Reason 5, … [Read more…]
About two months ago I had mailed a copy of Duality video DVD to MTV Indies, which they never received. I had to mail a second copy. It turns out that even the second copy of Duality video DVD was misplaced. The above picture shows my third attempt at mailing the DVD to the correspondent … [Read more…]
