NUANCES ARE IMMENSELY
IMPORTANT IN ALL ASPECTS OF HUMAN ACTIVITIES.
They are the aesthetic filigree works that enhance value of
ornamentation and manifest human brain’s ability to perceive better and
progress further.
So, we must try to observe them, to understand them and to appreciate
them.
Besides, observing Nuances helps one to notice the interrelatedness and
interconnectivity of a whole lot of things using multiple senses. [a]
As the great author Guy Murchie
in his wonderful must-read book The Seven Mysteries of Life: An
Exploration of Science and Philosophy
writes, “I seek to scrutinize the earth and her creatures
down to their deepest marrow, to sense through their senses, read from their
minds, pulse with their heartbeats - finally tune in, so far as I am allowed,
to their profoundest spiritual potentialities”.
Could it be that UNIVERSE means एकश्य+ काव्यं= The poetry of one=UNI+VERSE also refer to etymology of UNIVERSE in https://psychweb.com/the-etymology-of-the-word-universe/ [b]
Music according to Guy Murchie is
something that is omnipresent [c]
In some Reels and Stand-Up comedy shows nuances get blurred
superficiality floats.
Consuming these are as bad as junk food, titillating but cause harm in
long-term.
Drowning the nuances in superficialities is trying to shrink the immense and vast potential human faculties
to distinguish varieties of experiences and expressions especially in a country
like India which has given to the world by unravelling the hidden splendour
and beauties of the most intricate aspects of sound through its classical music
especially through various ragas which is the hallmark of human brain’s ability
to perceive minute and subtle nuances of sound. India, a country which has given
to the world thousands of years ago minute filigree works carved in big rocks
and stones. It still has a village where people call and recognise one another
not by name but by different sounds of whistling.*1
The taste of the present generation is, at times, really perplexing
because on the one hand there is lack of sense of humour wherein every topic or
utterance becomes selectively sensitive mostly theoretically imbibed ideologies
with a smattering of social cause often magnified as discriminations or
disparities or exaggerated view of differences injected through WOKESIM ( this
makes casual chat or serious sarcasms to fade away especially, ones that
humorously express the well observed stereotypical collective behaviour
patterns/ activities etc and this selective sensitivity subjects every
statement to multiple layers of censorships*2), whereas, on the other hand in the name of
Stand Up Comedy shows especially the sensationalism based attention seeking
ones try to baselessly, blindly and crudely criticise good actions,
interesting productions, original creativity etc, mostly in the realm of
culture, art, traditions.
Many like the one in the above video have started making Reels/ videos
thinking that they are great geniuses.
What these people call as beat is just for maintaining Thalam or
rhythm.
The tune, Raga, lyrics, type of Gamakams, rendering, voice of the
singer, situational emotions , the niravals ( multiple combinations of
resonance, pauses); instrumental music filling gaps etc, all of them together
keep changing.
All great writers, artists repeat certain things or aspects because they
have mastered the domain so well and their love for the art form becomes a nice
obsession that they want to and try to weave multiple patterns or various forms
out of the same pattern and dig deeper to explore the multiple nuances in
hidden layers of a pattern.
Even criticism or sarcasm of or on great pieces of work or artist can be
interesting if the critic himself or herself has some natural talent in the
domain, then it can be interesting as the way in which it is delivered with
panache.
How does everyone all over the world enjoy visual humour of Mr. Bean or
Charlie Chaplin ( they have criticised even many highly venerated
traditions, practices etc ). In similar show Alex *3 does well because he has natural talent
for both music, sings well and has good sense of humour with important
ingredients of humour well embedded, that relate with the audience easily like
exaggeration of what people associate familiarly with an artist or art piece
and repetition in different but familiar contexts.
To explain to the lay person beat is a system of basic framework like a
canvas or paint brush for a painter; Alphabet or words like the articles,
prepositions for a writer; doughs for a cook; a camera to a camera person (
gender neutral) a particular favourite shot to batter etc.
Besides, in every art form there are styles and obviously scientifically
some specific pattern(s) can be deciphered in every creation be it natural or
born out of human creativity.
Some talented individuals have a fancy for something that would have got
them enough fame and they may stick to them, other cannot even imitate them
that easily*4.
Some like to express and to share the joy of their experience at
grasping some aspect of an art *5
Just because one has managed to observe and understand the style or
pattern that does not automatically empower such a person to mock at or
condescendingly dismiss such creativity as monotonous or standardised like a
pack a particular brand of biscuits. That shows merely a superficial view
not an understanding.
Anyone well versed in the 22 Shrutis and 12 Swarasthanams with the ability
to grasp the scale properly and a better understanding of Gammakams can take
two or three notes and dive into multiple ragas. Can we make a Stand-Up Comedy
saying that with just three or five notes someone renders so many songs.*6 & *7
In fact, doing serious research to decipher such patterns and explain
them as Lec-Dem will enable many to learn and appreciate better with additional
knowledge inputs, enabling a better understanding to bridge the gap between
different genres of music.*8
Humour, satire and criticism too must have some class, and it must come
naturally or out of spontaneous and instinctive reaction rather than
laboriously working to score high marks in a board exam intended to
achieve a particular milestone.
We all need to accept everyone cannot be/need not a specialist in everything, while everyone
can and preferably need to know something about everything
* 9 and can attempt to do anything or criticise anything but in certain
circumstances better still, appreciate in consternation relishing the mastery
or uniqueness.
After all, every small child in India criticises that Rohit Sharma must
not have gone for that lofted shot without realising that he has scored more
sixes than the number of words that those children know.
Nothing wrong in such criticism but to say that he is useless and he
does not know how to play, and he knows only two shots etc are stupid criticisms.
Like in India many used to say that Sehwag has no foot work or Kumble does not turn the ball much as
a spinner. Both, in a way, predicted the future of vital aspects of T-20
cricket. Now, as per review Sharne Warne may not get many decisions in his favour,
but Kumble would get more.
Even a Subbudu criticised vehemently Semmangudi, not about his music or
rendering but only about his excessive nasal impact [ unfortunately, in those
days we did not have advanced acoustic mikes otherwise, even that nasal sounds
could have been filtered and Semmangudi’s niravals could have inspired many
music directors. Talking of inspiration, if one is in the same profession a
greater or better performance must be seen as an inspiration rather than as
intimidation.
Imitations in mimicry which comes naturally to some people are enjoyable
but not hard laboured copying.
*1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmFCHwqT2gM&t=41s
*2) Present day statements are subjected to scrutiny everything from
microscope to telescope will be used find out whether opinions are
gender neutral, non-racist and devoid of the following :-political
undercurrents, ideological overtones, hidden agenda, ulterior motives, lurking
suspicions, simmering discontent, extrapolation of any 'ism', nudging in
narratives etc..
They must steer clear of even remote controversies, ambiguities and
navigate through these excessive scrutinises.
*3) Alex's two shows involving music director and top singer
https://youtu.be/zehaYpgDuk8?si=haBJVkfrlVzkqOgy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-B5xCkFIXE
https://youtu.be/GOIBjZ5YyBI?si=6Dqk2zCu9SjtqprY
4*) One must know multiple factors to know why these 73 by Abby and are
free to interpret but difficult to even imitate.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/587678870737134/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v
https://youtu.be/Mq2jNxHzJeM?si=tpvHXffkKh2tJ8UP
https://youtu.be/nwguAh-DJoA?si=IxRrWlHSn_cIMlwM
whereas this one is laboured very hard
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3727911330558537&rdid=96H95nRB9BRgydg7
*5) https://www.facebook.com/vishwajeet.borwankar/videos/1429902891709953/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v
*6) &*7)
Many ragas with the same set of swaras
https://www.facebook.com/voxguruofficial/videos/1003331161386378/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdDprxRGWD8
A peep into many Bhairavis
https://www.facebook.com/NJNandiniofficial/videos/622310883823887/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v
https://www.facebook.com/NJNandiniofficial/videos/1124699292141034/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v
Gamakams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4w30izPVDA
Introduction to the 12 notes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AivQgaKwEfo
22 Shruthis explained
by stalwarts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfmCpWLLgmY&list=PLabcsxuRPksyv4UAsg81ykSBTFzgEJIFj&index=5
Dr Vidhyadhar oke the
doyen who is the best in explaining the marriage of scientific approach with artistic aesthetics in
music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlKarYv2UQg
RAAG EK BHAV ANEK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBTpcrVJOCo&list=PLnclq_BFTOwDklFrrfYtfgzwUZM4UyTZX
*8) https://youtu.be/kpNB4rRRRAY?si=_LuI_oSE-af0WOpV
https://youtu.be/Z3K6pbgxLWw?si=mti3c9rkh455QmGT
https://youtu.be/1-Un0jzyLNc?si=dUD5s-t2qkd52ejv
and this one is a
class apart
https://www.facebook.com/AbbyVOfficial/videos/665870215866852/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v
*9)
[a] http://www.this-magic-sea.com/PERCEP32.HTM
“Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for
music. What is Music? How do you define it? Music is a calm moonlit night, the
rustle of leaves in Summer. Music is the far off peal of bells at dusk! Music
comes straight from the heart and talks only to the heart: it is Love!”-Sergei
Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
https://egreenway.com/reason/fivesenses.htm
[b] https://psychweb.com/the-etymology-of-the-word-universe/
The term “Universe,”
derived from the Latin ‘universum’, is profoundly symbolic in its etymology,
signifying the totality of existence as “one verse” or a unified entity.
This concept encapsulates the grandeur and unity of all celestial bodies,
cosmic phenomena, and the very fabric of spacetime. From the smallest subatomic
particles to the vast galactic clusters, the Universe is a seamless symphony
of physical laws and forces, interweaving matter and energy in an intricate
dance. It embodies the entirety of space and time, housing not only
galaxies, stars, and planets, but also the lesser-seen forces and dark matter
that bind the cosmos together. In this singular, boundless expanse, the story
of everything—from the fiery birth of stars to the silent drift of
galaxies—unfolds, offering a perspective that highlights both the
insignificance and the extraordinary uniqueness of our place within this vast
cosmic verse.
[c] Music is
mathematical in structure of course and brings abstraction to the earth as a
gong, to the atom as a harp, to life as a melody, while the Pythagorean
inspiration that celestial bodies have musical relations is virtually a key to
the universe.
I must say that music is so abstract I constantly
have to remind myself it is a wave phenomenon lacking not only tangible but
even intangible existence until at least one vibration has sounded. For any
briefer sound can hardly have
a definite pitch or be a note. And when it comes to
fitting notes together into a melody, any piece of music can be taken apart and
reassembled, indeed a lot more freely than can an animal. Someone has even
invented a synthetic symphony that can be played and integrated entirely by one
versatile musician, who performs solo on all the orchestral instruments, one
after the other, recording each part of the symphony separately before
acoustically blending all the parts into one complete performance that, however
beautiful, is no less artificially abstract than the reconstituted
ameba.
“The Fibonacci Sequence turns out to be the key to
understanding how nature designs... and is... a part of the same ubiquitous
music of the spheres that builds harmony into atoms, molecules, crystals,
shells, suns and galaxies and makes the Universe sing.” ― Guy Murchie, The
Seven Mysteries Of Life: An Exploration of Science and Philosophy
