Translating Hindustani Music: Navigating Different Musical Realities

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.