Breaking Musical Habits with Nakul Krishnamurthy, Ankna Arockiam and Tom Mudd
This workshop looks at collaboratively taking apart musical habits, unpicking musical practices, and exploring music making with the pieces that remain.
This can be a useful way to reflect on your own musical activities, to think about how people encounter the music that you make and the language encoded in it, and to have fun making music with a different perspective. Participants will explore their own musical habits and practices in dialogue with each other and look at collaboratively making music in ways that breaks or plays with these habits in new ways.
The workshop is led by Nakul Krishnamurthy, Ankna Arockiam and Tom Mudd who are working on a project together that attempts to explore both South Indian Classical music, voice and electronic music traditions.
The session will take place at Music Broth, a fully accessible venue.
No prior knowledge required, and all equipment is provided. Please email us via music.space.projects@gmail.com with any questions.
We reimburse all participants travel costs, we can discuss this with you once your place is confirmed.
Venue information (Music Broth)
Music Broth is a no step venue, they have one ramp in to the building which is the height of two steps. You can drive up to the door, there is visitor parking. Drop off by taxi at the door is possible. There is a disabled toilet.
Directions to the venue can be found here.
Image credit: Brian Hartley
Nakul Krishnamurthy is an Indian artist who works with Indian Classical music and explores new ways of conceiving it at the intersection of Western Classical, experimental and electronic music traditions. Using procedural approaches and electronic music making techniques, his work experiments with and attempts to reconfigure the structural foundations of Carnatic and Hindustani musics to generate new interpretations and alternative modes of engagement with the art forms. Through such radical reimaginations, which draw from his extensive study of Carnatic, Hindustani, Western Classical, and Indian Popular music, he attempts to imagine new possibilities for Indian Classical music—possibilities that are sensitive to its history of marginalisation, and critically examine and challenge its power and hegemonic status within Indian society. Originally from Hyderabad in India, Ankna Arockiam moved to Glasgow in 2011. Since then, she has graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland with a degree in Vocal performance. Ankna has completed her PhD, exploring young Western classical musicians’ musical, cultural and social identities in Indian cities. She currently lectures at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She co-founded Shared Narratives; empowering researchers of colour in the performing arts. A versatile soloist, Ankna’s singing and performance career spans festivals and venues in India and the UK. With a background in both Indian and Western classical music, she enjoys collaborating with artists across diverse styles and genres. Ankna has also worked in theatre productions and films as an actor, singer, and composer. Tom Mudd makes music with computers. Recent work revolves around physical models: digital synthesis processes based on physical simulations of acoustic objects and instruments.
Music Broth
4 Level, Skypark, 0 Elliot Square, Glasgow G3 8EP
