Nanda Vishnu

Ferk - Miss seeing you here. I recall you posting this awhile ago and it is somewhere in the Archives. I enjoy the juxtaposition of street scene sounds and the manipulated rag - the bird song works extremely well. What I find interesting is that ragas are connected with certain times of days and seasons sometimes. Does this raga have such an association. Is that the drone? It seems doubtful. It sounds more like a car idling. If it is I strongly suggest you remove it and then reapply portions of it - treat it like a talae and its restatements different colors as De Vitry does. The tale for him were fragments of the chant and a color was the rate at which the original segment was sped up or slowed down. Since De Vitry was from medieval ars nova there were only two options - speed up or slow down by ration of 2:1 or 3:1. However he would have other voices singing against it in tripe or duple meter so that the bar lines would meet irregularly. Also DeVitry would go back and forth irregularly between two and 3 so that the macrorhythmic divisions would create very interesting mathematical ratios.