Tuesday, March 01, 2005
What's happening?
I should feel sorry for the fact that I haven't written in about two weeks or so. Well, I have been preoccupied with rehearsing for a light music show that is happening on March 4th at Qualcomm auditorium. We've been having weekday and weekend rehearsals for five songs that we are going to perform. The show is supposed to be a fund raiser for Tsunami and I'm really glad that I am a part of this. I enjoy rehearsing with the group, though it takes considerable amount of time. I wish we could do more songs, but five seems practical. Since I joined the group kind of late and for lack of clear information about the show, we started practising songs which are not going to be performed. We then narrowed it down to these five songs - "jaane jaan", "main koi..", "Pehla Nasha", "Intehaan ho gayi" and "Woh ladki hain kahaan". The last one turned out to be a surprise hit, at least so far, since it was introduced only a week or so back and we are already feeling pretty confident about that song.
This group is currently called "cryptojam" and we are contemplating a name change. People have been asked to feel free to come up with their suggestions, so I didn't feel shy and proposed a few names - "Frets, Keys and Snares", "Ten Strings" and so on. I don't know how unique these are, but people are still deciding.
I am also in the middle of recording the theme music of Swades on my keyboard. I am mostly done, I have to embellish it a little bit by appropriately panning a few tracks and adjusting the volume to bring out the grace. Well, it is only 2:35 minutes long, but it has taken me more than a week to do it. I guess the key is to realise that the composer himself wouldn't have taken so much time to do it (considering that he has composed it at his will) and I shouldn't be so anal about trying to exactly replicate it, with the exact same instruments. Anyways, the story goes on.
The next recording on my agenda is "yeh jo des hai tera" from Swades. Rahman has kicked ass in this song. There are multiple instruments and voices and it is going to be a challenge to get them all on my Synth. Let's try.
This group is currently called "cryptojam" and we are contemplating a name change. People have been asked to feel free to come up with their suggestions, so I didn't feel shy and proposed a few names - "Frets, Keys and Snares", "Ten Strings" and so on. I don't know how unique these are, but people are still deciding.
I am also in the middle of recording the theme music of Swades on my keyboard. I am mostly done, I have to embellish it a little bit by appropriately panning a few tracks and adjusting the volume to bring out the grace. Well, it is only 2:35 minutes long, but it has taken me more than a week to do it. I guess the key is to realise that the composer himself wouldn't have taken so much time to do it (considering that he has composed it at his will) and I shouldn't be so anal about trying to exactly replicate it, with the exact same instruments. Anyways, the story goes on.
The next recording on my agenda is "yeh jo des hai tera" from Swades. Rahman has kicked ass in this song. There are multiple instruments and voices and it is going to be a challenge to get them all on my Synth. Let's try.
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