Temple Beyond Sanctuary: A personal study of hybridizing Indian music and Jazz

Authors

Kavyesh Kaviraj Chirayil

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Abstract

Temple Beyond Sanctuary is a suite of compositions written to utilize Carnatic music and its' hybridization in a modern jazz context. This project studies the requisite devices that characterize Carnatic music, and explores the central attributes to its performance. These devices are then expanded upon by combining concepts from the jazz genre, adding upon like elements like improvisation, motivic development, and rhythmic complexity, but carefully contextualizing elements as authentic to each genre that are absent in one another, such as harmony or dissonance. Theses compositions are derived from personal stories of immigration, that the author has collected from his family, or personal experiences as an immigrant.

Publication Date

7-1-2020

Campus

Boston Campus

Comments

Project Components: paper (.pdf), presentation (.pdf), audio files (ZIP file containing 4 .wav files), scores (ZIP file containign 4 .pdf documents).

Recommended Citation

Kaviraj Chirayil, Kavyesh, "Temple Beyond Sanctuary: A personal study of hybridizing Indian music and Jazz" (2020). Global Jazz. 86.
https://remix.berklee.edu/graduate-studies-global-jazz/86