CARNATIC SINGING - SEPTEMBER 2024
SINGING
Friday
7 pm
Explore singing in a community sing-along!
Carnatic Singing
September 2024
September 13, 20, 27
Workshop Lead: Ganesh Iyer
Carnatic singing and improvisation
Over three sessions, participants will use their voice to perform and tell their stories through ragam-based improvisation. They will learn the foundational elements of why Carnatic music sounds the way it does, and enter a meditative state as you immerse yourself into those sounds individually, and as a group.
Led by musician Ganesh Iyer, participants will use those foundation elements to compose and perform jatiswarams and nottuswarams during Saturday's Mingling. Expect to experience the therapeutic joy of singing in a group, as well as be given the opportunity to improvise as individuals.
Photos by Mariana Hernandez
Ganesh Iyer is a vocalist, improviser, and composer trained predominantly in Carnatic classical music, who also actively performs in genres like classical, ghazals, jazz, blues, rock, metal, and R&B. His work emerges from an intent to create music that's more evocative than our day-to-day life experiences. Join Ganesh as he takes you through an interactive introduction to Carnatic music in which you'll not only come out with an appreciation for the classical form as a listener, but also wield its magic in composition and improvisation.
Photo Credit: The Lightsmiths