This event is in the past.It took place on August 22, 2026 at Bangalore International Centre.

How Far a Note Travels: The Nadhaswaram and a Music Built for Distance 1
Educational Talk
How Far a Note Travels: The Nadhaswaram and a Music Built for Distance 2
How Far a Note Travels: The Nadhaswaram and a Music Built for Distance 3

How Far a Note Travels: The Nadhaswaram and a Music Built for Distance

August 22 at 7pm

At Bangalore International Centre

Indiranagar, Bengaluru

🎧Bring headphones mindset, not actual ones needed
πŸ“€Recordings from Smithsonian Folkways and other archives
πŸͺ•Listen for gamaka, the sliding ornament that shapes a raga

How do you fill a temple town with sound without a single wire? The answer is the nadhaswaram, a hardwood cone built to blast over crowds and carry sacred ceremonies for hours on circular breath alone. This listening session traces its social history, global cousins like the Turkish zurna, and the sliding ornamentation that defines a raga, all through rare archival recordings from the Smithsonian and beyond.

Intimate cultural session
Carnatic music exploration
Rare archival recordings
Social history focus