Practical | melharmony

Practice and Performance

Melharmony is not merely a new age musical experiment; it is an aesthetic experience. It has a tremendous scope as a performing art-form. As the video and audios showcase, Melharmonic collaborations are highly attractive artistes or orchestras with Western Classical, Jazz and other systems.

Ravikiran has created melharmonic compositions and arrangements of diverse types including:

Compositions for full-scale professional symphonies.
Works for smaller classical & jazz ensembles.
Intricate Caprices for soloists.
Pieces for Youth Symphonies and School Orchestras.
Melharmonic arrangements based on works of traditional Indian composers such as Tyagaraja (1767-1847), Oottukkadu Venkata Kavi (1700-65) and Muttuswami Dikshitar (1775-1835).

Student level solo pieces (geetam/tiruppugazh) arranged for piano, strings and winds.

Many of these pieces are flavoured with exciting and often original rhythmic patterns. Ravikiran has introduced modes/scales novel in the West but based on Indian ragas like Hamsadhwani, Nattai, Dhavalambari and Janaranjani.

Several other composers such as Robert Morris, Polivios as well as teachers and students have created various types of Melharmonic compositions, some of which have been performed in Canada, Switzerland and other countries.

For a list of some of Ravikiran's Melharmonic works, click here.