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To Aretha - alterity in reverence

from REINHERITANCE by Varun Rangaswamy

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In 1973, Aretha Franklin recorded her album Amazing Grace live at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church. As part of my response to her, I visited New Templem, whose current members are now my lifelong friends. In the act of showing reverence to Aretha, and in the act of the church community and me all showing reverence to each other, we were able to recognize a healing type of alterity together. It is an alterity that finds community within difference. It is an alterity that crosses racial, geographic, and historical boundaries in solidarity and love. It is alterity in reverence.

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π‘‡β„Žπ‘–π‘  𝐼 π‘Žπ‘‘π‘‘π‘Ÿπ‘’π‘ π‘  π‘‘π‘œ π‘šπ‘¦ π‘Žπ‘›π‘π‘’π‘ π‘‘π‘œπ‘Ÿπ‘ .

𝐼 β„Žπ‘Žπ‘£π‘’ 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑑 π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ π‘€π‘Žπ‘£π‘’π‘Ÿπ‘–π‘›π‘” π‘π‘Žπ‘™π‘™π‘  π‘œπ‘“ π‘π‘Žπ‘ π‘‘ π‘Žπ‘›π‘‘ π‘“π‘’π‘‘π‘’π‘Ÿπ‘’. π‘‡β„Žπ‘’π‘¦ π‘π‘œπ‘šπ‘’ π‘“π‘œπ‘Ÿπ‘‘β„Ž π‘“π‘Ÿπ‘œπ‘š π‘€π‘–π‘‘β„Žπ‘–π‘› π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ π‘“π‘œπ‘™π‘‘π‘  π‘œπ‘“ π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ π‘π‘Ÿπ‘’π‘ π‘’π‘›π‘‘, π‘“π‘Ÿπ‘œπ‘š π‘π‘’β„Žπ‘–π‘›π‘‘ π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ 𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑒𝑠 π‘œπ‘“ π‘‘π‘Ÿπ‘Žπ‘‘π‘–π‘‘π‘–π‘œπ‘›, π‘“π‘Ÿπ‘œπ‘š 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ 𝑀𝑒𝑙𝑙 π‘œπ‘“ π‘šπ‘’π‘šπ‘œπ‘Ÿπ‘¦.

𝐼 π‘‘π‘œ π‘›π‘œπ‘‘ π‘ π‘’π‘’π‘˜ π‘‘π‘œ π‘Ÿπ‘’π‘–π‘›π‘ π‘π‘Ÿπ‘–π‘π‘’ π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ π‘π‘Žπ‘ π‘‘, 𝑏𝑒𝑑 π‘‘π‘œ π‘™π‘’π‘Žπ‘‘ π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ π‘–π‘›β„Žπ‘’π‘Ÿπ‘–π‘‘π‘Žπ‘›π‘π‘’ π‘œπ‘“ π‘Ÿπ‘–π‘‘π‘’π‘Žπ‘™ π‘‘π‘œ π‘Ÿπ‘’π‘π‘’π‘™π‘™π‘–π‘œπ‘›. π‘‡β„Žπ‘–π‘  𝑖𝑠 π‘€β„Žπ‘Žπ‘‘ π‘šπ‘¦ π‘Žπ‘›π‘π‘’π‘ π‘‘π‘œπ‘Ÿπ‘  π‘Žπ‘ π‘˜ π‘œπ‘“ π‘šπ‘’. 𝐼𝑛 π‘ π‘œ π‘‘π‘œπ‘–π‘›π‘”, π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ π‘Ÿπ‘’π‘ π‘–π‘‘π‘’π‘’π‘  π‘œπ‘“ π‘‘β„Žπ‘’π‘–π‘Ÿ π‘ π‘π‘–π‘Ÿπ‘–π‘‘π‘  π‘Žπ‘›π‘‘ π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ π‘™π‘–π‘›π‘”π‘’π‘Ÿπ‘–π‘›π‘”π‘  π‘œπ‘“ π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ π‘™π‘Žπ‘π‘œπ‘Ÿ 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒 π‘œπ‘› π‘‘β„Žπ‘Ÿπ‘œπ‘’π‘”β„Ž π‘Ž 𝑛𝑒𝑀 π‘π‘œπ‘‘π‘¦ π‘Žπ‘›π‘‘ π‘šπ‘Žπ‘›π‘–π‘“π‘’π‘ π‘‘, 𝑖𝑛 π‘‘β„Žπ‘’π‘–π‘Ÿ π‘Žπ‘π‘ π‘’π‘›π‘π‘’, π‘Žπ‘  π‘Ž π‘£π‘–π‘‘π‘Žπ‘™ π‘π‘Ÿπ‘’π‘ π‘’π‘›π‘π‘’.

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from REINHERITANCE, released October 19, 2022

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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 processesβ€”like the formation and reconfiguration of identityβ€”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. ... more

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