===== Carnatic Music =====

Carnatic music is an impromptu style of live music with its roots from ancient vedic music. Its a pretty neatly organized, systematic set of rules with focus on improvisation and that's what appealed to me about it. 

I've been self-learning about carnatic music since the past 4 years or so with about 5 months of formal training from [[http://www.carnatica.net/shashikiran.htm|K.N.Shashikiran]] that I discontinued due to lack of time for formal training. I typically end up grokking stuff over intense practice sessions, albeit not regular ones. For instance, at the time of this writing, I played my acoustic guitar for over 7 hours in the past 3 days and I haven't touched the guitar in the past 2 days.

==== Inspirations ====

  * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U._Shrinivas|U. Shrinivas]]
  * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_Prasanna|Guitarist Prasanna]]
  * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilayaraaja|Ilayaraaja]]

==== Writings ====

I intend to, some day, create some articles on this wiki out of the [[blog]] posts that I've made earlier on [[http://sunson.livejournal.com/tag/music|music]] in general and several on [[http://sunson.livejournal.com/tag/carnatic|Carnatic music]] in particular.

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