February 2023
Collaborators – Sadanand Naimpally, Devina Dutt, Pepe Gomes
Devina Dutt and Pepe Gomes of the Kishima Arts Foundation and her crew spent 6 days at UsPaar recording compositions and conversations with table maestro Sadanand Nayampally and accompanying musicians for their digital arts archive.
The archive is an attempt to hold on to and celebrate some of the fast-fading material as well as the aesthetic values—in the form of compositions, ideas, and works of great composers—that are in danger of being lost.
The archive seeks to work with diverse musicians who can help create a fuller picture of Indian classical music. This means actively seeking out the gurus as well as the prime disciples of past gurus, and accessing the treasure trove of compositions. These are musicians and thinkers who are willing to put together representative sets of their musical inheritance, overlay them with commentaries, and enliven them with freewheeling but informative conversations.
“This project is an attempt to document the art of our surviving greats and the cultural history they carry before it is too late,” says Devina Dutt who heads Kishima Foundation with Pepe Gomes.
