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Anshul Bawa is the 14-year old son of Dr Seema Bawa from Thapar University, Patiala. He sang this witty song for my 3-year-old son, Maadhyam, during our visit to Thapar University. I recorded it on my mobilephone. Here is a photo of all of us listening to Anshul: http://www.flickr.com/photos/niyam/2494130681/in/set-72157605070048600/

Permission to upload this file granted to me by his mother, Dr. Seema Bawa, who is an ardent Gnu/Linux and FOSS supporter. Find out more about this trip here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/niyam/sets/72157605070048600/

Short recording of Tanpura. When played in loop, it makes for a good background for audio recordings.

Thanks to my sister Purnima Balasubramanian, a Bharatanatyam dancer, who permitted me to record the sound of her foot-taps. She's the artist here, not me :)

Melody arises, as the breeze plays with metal. Yet, I find it a daunting task to avoid the cawing of crows and the honking of horns in the background, whenever I record something. One of the banes of living in the city, I guess. Any suggestions as to how we can remove the honk in the background? I tried recording this 15 times, and every time a vehicle's honking interrupted the chimes.

Everything about rain is beautiful (perhaps not the soggy roads). Even the sound of water gurgling down the sloping roof as it rains.

It rained in Chennai today. A sudden short burst of summer showers. Impossible to capture the fragrance that emanates from the sizzling ground when it starts raining suddenly, but I decided to make an attempt at recording the fuzzy sound of rain as it cascades down in sheets. Mind you, this is not the "pitter patter" kind of rain.

A bright new day dawns in the city. Somewhere in between this recording, I think the flower-seller is heard above the music of the birds. Vying for attention, or making a living, I don't know. Just wish she had not intruded the birds' symphony. Will try for a better recording soon, but is there a quiet dawn in the city, I wonder.

Hints of Indian Punjabi Bhangra with textures of african percussion. Quite interesting, very hypnotic. Here is rhythm that belongs to the world beat. Simba-e-Punjab.
Copyright 2005: Niyam Bhushan. Published under a creativecommons attribution only license.

This composition is a mix of 5 african tribal compositions. Arranged using Hydrogen. I can provide original hydrogen file on demand.
Mix is still under making, I will keep on updating the file as and when changes happen at my end.

Primitive drumming meets earth and fire. Use as you please.
Authored in Hydrogen drumkit under GnuLinux using the Erny's Percussion drumkit. Original source files of the drumming available on request.

Tabla and drum beats in a loop. can be used in various ways. authored using the Hydrogen drum kit, under gnulinux agnula. on request can provide you with the original data file of hydrogen so you may modify and tweak the drumming pattern. can also provide you with a wav file on request.

copyright 2005: niyam bhushan. published under a creativecommons attribution license.