AR is the Indian of the Year in almost all award ceremonies this year.
--- In [email protected], "ichord" <purev...@...> wrote: > > Congrats ARR!!!! > > The article talks about AR's music from an intellectual perspective, which if > apt and very well written. I also wish they could mention how his music > reaches people emotionally, spiritually. > > http://business.in.com/article/person-of-the-year-09/ebony-ivory/8662/0 > > I esp. like these 2 paragraphs: > > What Rahman had was an array of millions of tones. What he produced was > limited by only his imagination and that was incredibly vast. Does that sound > easy? Imagine you had a book of the most elegant words and phrases. What > would it take for you to produce a Shakespeare? You would need an > extraordinary flair for creating great sentences and ability to arrange them > in the right order. Musically, that's what Rahman has. In copious quantity. > > His acutely sensitive ears are able to arrange his array of tones into > winsome tunes that are intricately layered. A snatch of melody can be > accompanied by sounds of birds, waves of ocean or an electronic distortion > being played simultaneously. What's more, in case a piece of music appears > off-key, the pitch correction software may be used to make it sound pitch > perfect. "What Rahman wants is the best sound for the listener. His ears are > so sensitive that they can pick even micro-tonal (extremely subtle changes in > pitch) variations. So when Rahman delivers a tune it sounds unique and > absolutely polished," says Selvakumar. >
