The Veena is a stringed lute instrument, which is also the oldest within the South Asian tradition and often overshadowed by its North Indian cousin, the Sitar. Each individual instrument has its own tonal quality, style and timbre.

In One, Mithila Sarma, looks at creating a new sound to carnatic music by opening up structures to include chords, harmonies and counter-melodies, not common within the genre. Most compositions in carnatic music are composed for Vocals, therefore not exploring the full range of the instrument; however, ‘ONE’ focuses on the Veena alone, bringing an ensemble of three Vainikas (veena players) together to experiment and push the limits of the instrument’s unique bass tones, multi-octave sounds and rich gamakas.

Mithila Sarma is a London born South Asian classical musician trained in East London with further training from India since the age of seven. She represents a growing number of musicians from the South Asian heritage training in South Asian classical music, looking at exploring new ideas within the genre.

Tour Dates

mac

20 Apr 2018

Birmigham

Leicester

Kings Place

7 Jun 2018

London

Sage Gateshead

15 June 2018

Newcastle

Kala Sangam

29 Sept 2018

Bradford

Brunel, London

Team

CREATIVES

Music: Mithila Sarma

Musicians: Shyla Shanmugalingam and Pradeepa Sivasanthiran on veena and Abhiram Sahathevan on percussion.

 

PRODUCTION

zerOclassikal with Brunel Arts and The Artta