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The following sound samples document the evolving sound of din as a musical instrument in live improvised performance. In all these samples, din was played live by S Jagannathan (author). Usually recorded on an Edirol R-09. Very minimal editing. All these samples are licensed under the  | Raga | File (mp3/ogg) | Duration(min:sec) | Date | Size | Notes | | Malkauns (detuned) | noisedive.mp3 | 09:27 | December 3, 2009 | 22mb | First performance with Martin Klang as part of another Openlab Open Night at The Roebuck. I play Raga Malkauns with notes slowly modulated down in pitch to create rumble and whale like sounds. Martin uses his own open hardware music controllers like the Blipbox and the Taquito to control Ableton Live and his own software drone bcm harms. We are also working together to make the Taquito as a controller for din. | | Jog (+ Blues) | open_night.mp3 | 20:29 | October 22, 2009 | 37mb | Live at The Roebuck near London Bridge as part of Openlab Open Night. Geraldine McEwan on Violin and Evan Raskob on visuals. Robert Atwood could not do rhythms so I got a chance to use din's phrasor, arpeggiator & modulators live. Notice their live setup at 08:00. I love Geri's bluesy violin at 13:15. And din's surprising talking rhythms at 13:45. | | Multani | jazz_multani.mp3 | 05:26 | October 5, 2009 | 9.8mb | Grey Horse pub Jazz jam. Max Luthiert (Double Bass), Steve .... (Drums), ....|.... (Saxophone) & ...|... (Trombone) | | Marwa | shunt.mp3 | 15:02 | October 1, 2009 | 27mb | Live at the Shunt Lounge under London Bridge railway station as part of Toplap UK livecoding event. Geraldine McEwan on Violin and Evan Raskob on live coded visuals using fluxus. I play Raga Marwa and try to withhold Sa (tonic note) for as long as possible creating an unresolved, dissonant, end of the world atmosphere. You've been warned! | | Bhairav | one_chord_groove.mp3 | 09:42 | June 15, 2009 | 18mb | Duncan Eagles (Saxophone & MC) calls out to musicians at the Grey Horse pub in Kingston, London to jam with my 'laptop' - "..its a one chord groove.." (referring to a raga staying in the same key since the tonic note Sa is fixed thru out a performance while in jazz & western music a song moves thru several keys). At the start, I set Sa to middle C and play the ascending notes (arohana) of the raga for the musicians to get a feel for the sound and off we go! Musicians: Duncan Eagles (Saxophone), Max Luthiert (Double Bass), Pharoh Russell (Drums), Tom Whyte (Trombone), ......|..... (Keyboards). | | Malkauns | whale_of_the_forest_1.mp3 whale_of_the_forest_2.mp3 | 07:47 12:24 | June 2, 2009 | 18mb 29mb | From the now monthly jam with Jonny Sutters. I mostly repeat a phrase (s g m) in Raga Malkauns and play in the lower octave. Was influenced by Hazrat Inayat Khan's essay on the power of repetition. It was a sunny & hot day so windows were open. I was initially bothered by the sound of traffic and aircraft (you can hear them in part 2) but decided to blend my sound with them. Dont miss Jon Sutters's amazing moving train sounds in part 2. | | Jog | grey_horse.mp3 | 07:15 | May 4, 2009 | 12mb | From a jam session with the house jazz band (Duncan Eagles - Saxaphone, Max Luthiert - Double Bass & Pharoah Russell - Drums) at The Grey Horse pub in Kingston upon Thames, London. | | Bhairav | daybrake.mp3 | 09:40 | April 27, 2009 | 17mb | From first jam session with Jon Sutters. We played Raga Darbari and Raga Bhairav. This is an extract from Raga Bhairav - an early morning raga played at around 10 o'clock in the night! - Yet another tradition broken! Jon Sutters uses drum machines, midi controllers and his own software to make quiet, thoughtful music. | | Jog | jogging.mp3 | 12:32 | April 7, 2009 | 23 mb | An improv on raga Jog. Robert Atwood plays Kalimba, taps the microphone, takes din output and turns them all into rhythms with Variseq. I love my din playing on this track because I listened to Rob's playing more than me trying to play all the time. Its magical. This should happen more. | | Dharmavati | ushrinivas.mp3 | 01:06 | March 27, 2009 | 2.4mb | I have a fine record of Mandolin virtuoso U Shrinivas playing this raga with Ustad Sultan Khan on the Sarangi. I used din to match their Sa (tonic / key note) and played a few phrases on din. Replaced the Sarangi phrases with din and edited in the Mandolin | | Bhairav | 33mins | 02:56 | February 3, 2008 | 6.8mb | Its got 33 minutes From the first jam session with Robert Atwood who plays Variseq, his own polyrhythmic software musical instrument that converts the output of din into rhythms. | | Bhairav | 145 | 04:04 | February 3, 2008 | 9.4mb | 145 And when the beats get more complex, I play in the higher octave to hear myself! | | Malkauns | warm_milk | 05:10 | July 20, 2008 | 9 mb | Geraldine mcEwan (violin), Jagan Sampath (din) and Robert Atwood (variseq) provide improvised background score for On Standby, a fringe play that premiered in London this autumn. This track was made from one of the run thrus - the violin is loud and clear while din's volume is low as it was played on laptop speakers instead of PA loudspeakers. | | Malkauns | bufo_marinus | 07:43 | May 29, 2008 | 18 mb | On track 3 of my Rainforest Requiem CD, cane toads (bufo marinus) sing just a couple of notes for several minutes. On this track, I play just g and m of Malkauns with an occasional S and d. Geraldine mcEwan is on the Violin, Robert Atwood plays the Variseq and Evan Raskob strums the Ukelele and plays Djembe. The performers on this track have now formed the Cane Toad Orchestra. | | Bhairav | scratch_the_blackboard | 04:15 | March 24, 2008 | 3.4mb | First jam with Geraldine McEwan on the violin. | | Blues scale | podhuma_wheynuma.mp3 | 06:06 | April 11, 2009 | 14mb | A live improv on the blues scale using a version of din with the notes of the scale assigned to keys on the computer keyboard. All instrumental sound is din, vocals by yours truly. Lyric in Tamil. The title loosely translates to: Is it enough? Do you want more? | | Malkauns | live_at_reboot | 06:00 | April 12, 2008 | 14 mb | the beardos (Jagan Sampath - din, Robert Atwood - Variseq & Evan Raskob - visuals) perform live at Area 10 Medialab launch event Re|Boot in London. This lab is located in a huge disused timber yard so it was very atmospheric and very cold to play in too! | | Malkauns | drone_malkauns | 0:58 | August 15, 2007 | 2.2mb | A first solo tune from early days of din development. | | Unknown/Todi or Bhairavi scale | dear_mr_harris_jayaraj.mp3 | 03:31 | July 5, 2009 | 8.1mb | I recently learnt the famous Tamil film music director Harris Jayaraj was my classmate at School (I remember him only as Jayaraj). So I had to make a demo for him. I didnt want it to be boring nor sound desperate. I decided to sample bits from one of his super-hit songs, rap in english with a strong tamil accent, use din to find the key of the song & play phrases on top of the groove. |
| Raga | File | Duration(min:sec) | Date | Size | Notes | | Malkauns | water_company.mp3 | 02:34 | April 7, 2008 | 4.3mb | Demonstates the new Arpeggiator and delay features of din. |
The following mp3 files are edits from jam sessions with Robert Atwood who plays his own polyrhythmic / melodic instrument called variseq. It can record portions of the din's melody and convert them into beats in realtime. | Raga | File | Duration (min:sec) | Date | Size | Notes | | Bhairav | last_dance | 02:06 | March 25, 2008 | 3.8mb | Although I'm whining away, I liked Rob's beats. | | Multani | 01-multani.mp3 | 10:37 | February 28, 2008 | 9.8mb | Rob added digital delay for fun | | Bhairav | 33mins.mp3 | 02:56 | February 3, 2008 | 6.8mb | Its got 33 minutes; Slower than 145 and it put Robert's cat BenG to sleep | | Bhairav | 145.mp3 | 04:04 | February 3, 2008 | 9.4mb | 145; When the beats get more complex, I play in the higher octave to hear myself |
The following samples were directly rendered into audio files using din's live recording feature so they must be played back on loudspeakers instead of headphones as the room plays a big part in the quality of the sound! | Raga | File | Duration (min:sec) | Date | Size | Notes | | Ahir Bhairav | micro.wav | 00:56 | September 25, 2007 | 11.0mb | A 56 second recording of my microwave oven is the drone! Playing din while running this recording in the background, I found a strong resonant frequency at 100.046 which is very close to G2 (99 hz in Just Intonation or 97.9 hz in Equal Tempered tuning). Robert Atwood @ Openlab points out that this is likely as the A/C current in UK has a frequency of 50 hz and 100.046 is the 2nd harmonic of that A/C current! I set Sa (tonic) to 100.046 hz and played this raga. | | Malkauns | download | 03:28 | September 21, 2007 | 8.0mb | Sa is very low at 99 Hz! A drone cycles thru the notes low Ma, Sa, Ma, high-Sa one note per second. | | Malkauns | download | 01:58 | September 9, 2007 | 4.6mb | | Ahir Bhairav | download | 00:53 | September 5, 2007 | 2.1mb | Drone cycles thru notes low Pa, Sa, Pa, high Sa. | | Malkauns | download | 0:58 | August 15, 2007 | 2.2mb | A short tune that came out allright. | | Malkauns | download | 02:12 | August 7, 2007 | 5.1mb |
And these older samples were recorded live at the author's home using an old PC microphone. | Raga | MP3 | Duration (min:sec) | Date | Size | | Malkauns | download | 01:15 | June 16, 2007 | 2.8mb | | Yaman | download | 01:30 | June 17, 2007 | 3.3mb |
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The "short tune" in Malkauns seems ok, and the August 2007 Malkauns seems fine too, but other samples I tried (e.g. "water company" and the Multani) sound rather weird.
hi bhuvanesh
thank you for your comments.
since i have not formally learnt indian classical music the ragas that i present can at best be only considered as a base. however din doesnt restrict the correct performance of a raag by a musician knowledgable in indian classical music.
multani is a difficult raga - ive only started experimenting with it :)
water_company is an experiment with arpeggiation (intoning notes in 2s, 3s etc) and there is also delay which can do things to the sound.
-jag
Hi .. great stuff .. can we host this on Muziboo.com with attribution? Lot of people there may benefit from it!
It's really cool! Let me know if you'd like any help!
hi prateek yes please use Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0. --jag
hi sameer: thank you for your comments. i need help with the following:
gui to select different ragas gui to select tonic (ie Sa). add/edit sympathetic strings for each raga/family of ragas. develop waveform libraries and resonator maps for different timbres.
--j
Hello, Summertime had a very different atmosphere yesterday evening in Colliers Wood! look forward to further experiments with sop and din