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Dakshina Stotra
01:51
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Ōm namaḥ praṇavārthāya
śuddha jṅyānaika mūrtaye
nirmalāya praśāntāya
dakṣiṇā mūrtaye namah
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To Ornette - part 1
09:08
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wing joint alapana
08:52
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To Ornette - part 2
05:30
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guitar alapana
04:20
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To M.S. - raga kalyani
08:21
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𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝐼 𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑠.
𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡, 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑔𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑦.
𝐼 𝑑𝑜 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑡, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑠𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑒. 𝐼𝑛 𝑠𝑜 𝑑𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑟 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑎 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑓𝑒𝑠𝑡, 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑎𝑏𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒, 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒.
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Varun Rangaswamy New York, New York
As a Karnāṭak musician, bassoonist, improviser, and scholar, my work engages with the instability of cultural processes—like
the formation and reconfiguration of identity—by deconstructing normative associations between sonic, visual, and cultural signifiers.
My music explores the compartmentalization, unification, and distortion of my identities to express my own multiplicity.
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