Chennai: Percussion instruments come in various shape and sizes. The rhythmic sophistication of Carnatic classical music has for long depended on the mridangam to guide the tempo. The double barreled ...

Oscar-nominated percussionist and music composer Bickram Ghosh holds forth on traditional Indian drums and how electronic sounds can never replace them. I have spent most of my career trying to break ...

Akshay Ram began learning how to play the mridangam 25 years ago. But it was earlier this year that the percussionist turned inventor of sorts when he unveiled his Trimukhi mridangam to the world of ...

It was not expected of a young boy growing up in a small town in America to pick up an instrument like the Mridangam to play but then that was what Rohan Krishnamurthy did when he was an 8 year old.

Patri Satish Kumar was fortunate that he was not fed on aspirations. His gurus never set ambitious goals and his mother, Padmavathy, who initiated him into music, had just one dream: to see her son ...

CHENNAI: As you near Mundakanni Amman temple in Mylapore, beats of the mridangam welcome you. If you follow the sound, you reach a narrow passage beside the temple. We walked till the end of the road ...

W hen I met this octogenarian past weekend at his house I realised that age is merely a number. Agile and energetic, he is ready to showcase his latest innovation, a mridangam made of glass, on ...

Legendary mridangam exponent Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman, who has completed 75 years of his musical career, has authored the book, Musical Excellence of Mridangam, jointly with eminent scientists T.

PALAKKAD: Mridangam maestro Kuzhalmannam Ramakrishnan has been given the patent for the design of a lighter version of the mridangam by the Patent Office of the Government of India. Issued by the ...

The science presented in this book confirms that UK Sivaraman, a household name in Carnatic music circles, can bring out sounds from his instrument that no one else can Umayalpuram K Sivaraman (UKS), ...

The complex world of Indian raga and taal has for long fascinated musicians and students within the country and across the world. Sandy Evans, one of Australia’s leading jazz musicians and composers, ...