GANESH — Exploration

	R & D

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT / RECHERCHE & DÉVELOPPEMENT

Tambourin Chromatique
Built by/Construit par Guillaume Toutain, France

Trop de café.mp3 (pour Guillaume)

The Shruti stick

I thought about an instrument that could combine the melodic aspect
of the santoor (the asian hammer dolcimer), the orchestral possibilities of
the prepared guitar and percussion. With this in mind, I designed the Shruti
Stick, a small bodied, 22 fret, electric instrument. I felt that the pick-ups
could obtain much more micro-sonic possibilities than an acoustic
instrument. The first model was built in 2004 and after six months of
experimentation, I felt I needed a wider range of notes and octaves so I
widened the fretboard to accommodate 12 strings – six guitar and six bass
strings. Both instruments were built by a luthier and are tuned in a variety
of ways to match my other Shruti instruments such as the metallophone, tuned wood blocks and others (Espace Shruti).

Shruti Stick 01.mp3

See also a full page on the oddmusic.com website.

Eastern traditional and modern western ideas have collided with me in the middle. At the moment I use my hands and 10 fingers with as much independence from one another as possible. The goal is to play as many different parts simultaneously.

exploration 01.mp3 exploration 02.mp3 exploration 03.mp3

Hands-on book

Publication d’un livre

An educational “Hands on book” and DVD on the Karnatic approach to drumming on frame drums and alternative surfaces. Subjects include: solkattu, theka, korvai and mora.
Released in Nov. 04.

Publication d’un livre présentant la méthode et le doigté karnatique adapté pour frame drums et surfaces alternatives, traitant des solkattus, des thekas, des korvais et des moras.
Publié en nov. 04.

Solkattu — PDF, 35 k
Grooving solkattu.mp3
Permutation 1.mp3
Permutation 2.mp3