Notes

Journal

Occasional writing on practice, ragas and the recording room.

  • Close on the frets and the mizrab hand

    Studio

    In the room, to a click

    · 3 min read

    Session work is classical training used quietly, in four bars.

  • Seated at the instrument

    Ragas

    A raga at dusk

    · 4 min read

    What the time of day actually asks of a performer, beyond the convention.

  • The sitar at rest between takes

    Practice

    On riyaz, and the hour before it

    · 3 min read

    Practice is mostly the business of turning up before you feel like it.

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