Posts by ananth
Happy Birthday Avantgarde Tuesday!
An Avant-Garde Tuesday by ananth pattabi Exactly an year ago, I was writing and recording what was to become An avant-garde tuesday. As with all my other compositions, it began with a very simple idea, and took shape in one stretch of work, within the least possible time to carry out the physical aspects of [...]
Cool DAW/Sequencers
Reaper is my main DAW, and it’s just awesome! Today, I came across Zynewave Podium, which looks cool too. … and this is Energy XT. It works under linux too. Darkwave studio is probably the only open source DAW for windows. Though not free/opensource, a fully functional Reaper can be downloaded for free, without any [...]
Score: Brochevarevare (Kriti), Sriranjani, Adi – Tyagaraja
Another score graduated from my Carnatic Scores Repository – Saint Tyagaraja’s kriti Brochevarevare in Sriranjani Ragam, Adi Talam As mentioned earlier, Carnatic Scores Repository is my attempt to notate and share carnatic music compositions, to make them available to every musician and student. At present there is a handful of Varnams and Kritis which are [...]
Listening/Learning Music: Some excellent Music Theory resources (Scores & Audio)
A typical page in a music theory/appreciation book looks like this – Problem: It’s difficult to go through the musical examples. One must look for the recordings, or try to play them on an instrument (or sing). In some books, musical examples are printed in a separate section and referred through out the book (Refer: [...]
Varnam Tables
Added two varnam tables. 8 Adi Thala Varnams (from year 2, certificate course, AP govt. music colleges). Table 1 – Varnams first words, correspond raga, the mela ragam it’s based on, and the name of its composer. Table 2 – Number of avarthams in each section of the varnam (Anu Pallavi, Pallavi etc.) This is [...]
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Carnatic Mela Ragas Chart
Working on this – will post soon.
Carnatic Scores Repository
I’ve created a repository for Carnatic Music Scores. One can download Carnatic Music Notations/Scores for Varnams, Kritis along with the ‘source’ file/document which generated the score. At present the repository has one score Kalaharanamelara – Suddha Saveri – Adi – Tyagaraja Score: pdf – 2 pages Source: Inkscape SVG files for both the pages. Download [...]
Site Restored! It’s clean, up and worki…
Site Restored! It’s clean, up and working fine. Initially I thought it’s the wordpress vulnerability. Started cleaningup the wordpress installation, .httrack, plugins and themes. Strangely, even if I rename/move the actual wordpress folder, still the site continued to redirect to the spam site. Figured out it must be some dns setting hack, I reset the [...]
Site Hijacked :( Recovery in progress
Site Restored. descard this message. Beautifulnote.com has been hijacked. Probably due to a vulnerability in WordPress. When someone enters beauitulnote.com or beautifulnote.com/blog it directs to the hackers site. However, if we use the url of any particular post (ex. this post) we can enter the actual beautifulnote.com and access other posts, downloads and music. I’m [...]