PostCredits: Bhuvi Suresh
Interviewer : People complain that
Indian musicians lack the dedication
that classical musicians feel the rest
have. What do you think about it?
ARR: I don't agree the
generalization of dedicated/non-
dedicated people. I think those who
are dedicated are dedicated in a
different way. You can't compare
with them, they are unique in their
own way, and they are unique in
their own way. Because the
infrastructure is built in such a way
that it is organized, in the West. But
here due to various different
things...lack of unity…may be it
suffered a bit. But now hopefully
things will get better.
Interviewer: Will K M Music
Conservatory be one step towards
that?
ARR: True music conservatory is
definitely a step towards that
because we have it all in us and it
just needs that one step of
organizing, or, helping to give
infrastructure where they can play
any kind of music and they can, in
one step, jump to go to international
arena.
Interviewer: And focusing on
bringing more Western song music
to Indian music through this
institution?
ARR: No, it's not that why it
works actually. It's acquiring more
perception, and…generating more
jobs, generating more passion,
generating more shows and…so
many other things. I think once it
happen I'll also be more convinced
than at this stage…
Interviewer: You also have a
school of musical tradition as part of
the conservatory. So are you actually
encouraging people to learn the
instruments that are fairly old?
Considering that you have been
accused of bringing in technology to
music, you know, is it sort of
repentance for that?
ARR: It is not repentance. It is
the way of life now. Because if
somebody knows only one way, one
little thing and they don't know the
other thing, they cannot complain
that this came in, like the video
came and the radio starved (smiles).
Let there be both and let them have
a choice. If given an opportunity I'd
have learned, that time, I would
have gone to conservatory and all.
But we all came up the hard way, so
I think if they provided with the
right sort of education, we can see
much more music. We are only
accusing "oh music is not like that
those days", but nobody has ever
thought of giving that to the people
to educate them in the right way.
Well, if somebody wants to get
educated, the rich could go to
Europe or America and learn, the
poor could go nowhere.
Interviewer: Right
ARR: So...
Interviewer: So is it a paying
back to the society today?
ARR: Also, it is also a selfish
reason.
Interviewer: What is the selfish
reason?
ARR: Selfish reason is that I'll
be listening to the orchestra for five
years and I'd be having an orchestra
of our own, in five years or three
years, or ten years, but the seed had
to be sown, and it had to be done
now.
Interviewer: How do you respond
to that allegation you are clinging
on, you are depending too much on
technology? Do you feel…?
ARR: I don't think it is an
allegation; it's just…sometimes
ignorance, sometimes lack of
understanding of what they say. If
you say, now that you are carrying a
camera, (pointing at the camera), if I
say you should use a machine old
camera…you are using the
technology to capture me. So that is
not a…that's a progress. So certain
things are progress, certain things
are… If I make good music with
whatever it is, then it is… it's a
progress for me. If I deteriorate from
that, if I'm making noise, so you are
going to technology and making
something irritating which I
shouldn't like...But doesn't that
happen now too often in modern
music? Don't you feel, see, hear…
There is, there's good and there's
bad. And we have to filter it, I think.
That happens in every era I think.
Mediocrity is in every era. That
shortcut to creativity always
happens..
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