Anil Srinivasan

Anil Srinivasan, Navin Napier and Krishna Kishore | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Close your eyes, listen to the music, feel the strains, let every note coming from the instruments connect and speak to you and that is when you realise…

World Music Day is the perfect occasion to pay ode to an art form that unites people World Music Day is the perfect occasion to pay ode to an art form that unites people What has music meant to us these past two years? With many months…

This is my last column for this year, and what a year it has been. The hope and euphoria that marked its beginning soon gave way to widespread chaos and despair as the second wave descended upon us. As this column goes to press, the…

Independent artistes are now showing the world that there is space for all forms of music The world’s creative economy is about to explode even further. With the ‘metaverse’ expanding, and personalities like Kamal Haasan announcing…

As I write this essay, a rather incredible experiment has happened, which combines data science with music. Beethoven’s unfinished 10th symphony has just been completed, 194 years after the composer wrote it, by an Artificial Intelligence…

Collaboration and cross-disciplinary feedback are important to refine a work of art During my conversations with practitioners and pedagogues of ‘design thinking’, I have had many reactions. Some are outright enthusiasts and see its…

The latest excitement for musicians is the newly launched Clubhouse, a social audio app, where people come together to talk and listen. Over the past month, I have listened to topics of varying interest. The global rooms on technology,…

The Internet is ruthless, and everyone is clueless. Where do artistes go from here? What does the new normal mean for artistes? Already, through the second wave, I notice many of those who were reluctant to embrace the online medium…