Please join us for the 13th Dr Ashok Da Ranade Memorial Lecture, which will feature a talk by Professor Adrian McNeil, an Australian musicologist and an eminent Sarod player. We will meet online for this lecture.
The details about the lecture and the link for viewing it online are provided below. We look forward to meeting you at the session.Translating Hindustani Music: Navigating Different Musical Realities
Speaker: Adrian Mcneil
(Ethnomusicologist and eminent sarod player) Date: November 17, 2024 | Time: 12 pm IST OnlineTranslating Hindustani Music: Navigating Different Musical Realities
Abstract
For centuries music, musical thought and its material culture have circulated from one context to another through migration, cultural influence, historical imperatives, imperialism, commercialisation and any number of other reasons. Split for its source culture, music has been transplanted across geographical regions, historical periods, cultural orbits and ways of knowing music. This lecture considers seminal examples of the processes, influences and necessities by which Hindustani music is reinscribed into other contexts. It does this in order to ask the question is it possible to discern basic patterns when this happens? If so, can identifying these patterns help us to frame responses to Hindustani music and the oeuvre of Artificial Intelligence.
Adrian McNeil is an ethnomusicologist who has held research, teaching and program director positions in various universities in Australia, India and Hong Kong. Over his career, he has published on the cultural history, musical theory, political economy and philosophy of Hindustani music. His book Inventing the Sarod is well known. He is also a performing artist trained in Hindustani music on sarod by Ashok Roy, Sachindranath Roy, Irfan Khan, Sanjoy Bandopadhyay, with guidance also from Dr. Ashok Da Ranade.
Even though he has recently retired, Adrian continues as the Dr. C.W.W. Kannangara Visiting Professor, the Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Visual and Performing Arts, Colombo, Sri Lanka and as a guest artist at the Australian National Academy of Music, Melbourne.