Yati has been awarded a funding award from the Creative Scotland: Sustaining Creative Development Fund for development, research and composition of Saundaryalahari 3! This award will support the compositional research for this work for the next several months, which is turning out to have quite some new technological demands.
Saundaryalahari 3 will be Yati’s third “series” of works inspired by the 8th Century Indian literary work in Sanskrit written by Adi Shankara called the Soundarya Lahari or Saundaryalahari (Sanskrit: सौन्दर्यलहरी) meaning "Waves Of Beauty”. The composition involves compositions that utlise a hybrid audio-visual system that portrays the complex geometric/spiritual design of the original texts while updating and presenting the work in a multi-media format for public performance.
Development of Saundaryalahari 3 including research, experiments, finished pieces and concerts is being documented on a special research site here. It is turning out to be exciting and new work!
The first experimental live performance of Saundaryahari 3 will take place at the International Media Music and Sound Arts Network in Education (IMMSANE) Zurich congress on Friday, 2nd October at 8pm in the Dolby Atmos Studio of the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). An audiovisual recording of the performance will be posted on the Saundaryalahari 3 research site later.
For more information about the IMMSANE Zurich congress 1st - 3rd October 2020 please click here.