Sunday, December 5, 2010

(Aa:) S G2 R2 G2 M1 N2 D2 M1 N2 N2 S (Av:) S N2 D2 M1 G2 M1 P M1 G2 R2 S

Disclaimer: If you stopped by expecting to read another rambling from a hopeless soul, you are up for disappointment (this time) and better move on.. :P


Not long ago and not so far away lived a boy who was ignorant when to came to technicalities in music.
But, but, he did have a pair of functioning ears and could listen to and attempt to appreciate rhythms. :P
One day he stumbled upon a couple of songs that sounded eerily similar and was intrigued! Upon seeking help of highly skilled sources with better set of ears, he found out that they were all based on same series of musical notes defined in the title of this post & make a melody(raaga) called ReethiGowla. 
Here is a flautist's rendering of the melody that started the quest:
(skip to the 1 minute mark to cut the intro in the beginning..)



Whoa, whoa.. wait a minute! That sounded like more than one song, didn't it?
And so started his quest to crack the code where he learnt that the recording indeed mixes 2 songs:


1) (oooold) song : Chinna Kannan Azhaikkiran
    film : kavikkuyil (? sorry, this is too old and he is no expert)
    composer : Ilaiyaraaja



2) song : Kangal Irandal
     film : Subramaniapuram
     composer : James Vasanthan (the fellow who used to be an anchor on VijayTV ?!?!)



And searching even more examples of this wonder he found 1 that he already liked:

 song : Azhagana Ratchashiyae
 film : Mudhalvan
 composer : AR Rahman



Are there more? No idea but maybe there are!! 
If only Google's algorithm can also crawl inside video, audio files and tag patterns.


Maybe one day it will..:P

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