INDIAN ELECTRONICA

"Coffee with sensational ''Vivek Rajgopalan''
He plays ''Mridangam'' an Indian drum like musical instrument. He is equally tallented with mixing Indian melodies and western sounds to create a mind boggling fusion.Guru Shri T.S.Nandakumar, Ghatam and Kanhira are his teachers. He also accompanied Indo-jazz band "Divya", at the International Jazz Festival at Thailand where he was exposed to World Music. He also contributed in Lucky Ali,s album 'Sifar', Srikant Sriram's album 'drum The Bass. He performed, 2002 Common Wealth Games along with the "Country Pine Band". As a composer he has scored music for many ad films and title track of "Goonj" soap
1) Have you idealized anybody in your life? Who do you think is behind your success?
Ans: Yes, all my credit has to be given to my friend Shri, who is a Big Bass player and flute player too.
2) When did you start your career of music?
Ans:I started my career of music when, I was nine years old in Mumbai as classical music
3) What inspires you?
Ans: Human life is my experience, the shades of experience that a human being can probably. pass is my inspiration. Music has its soul, it doesn't have dynamics and it is a flow of information for me.
4) What about your education?
Ans: Except music I want to be a pilot. I did my graduation in B.Com,after my graduation I did Sound Engineering and advertising in marketing too and also also at London I did a piano coarse.
5) How do you manage to study during your college period?
Ans: I used to study at day time and jammed at night. In youth I related sleeping as waste of time.
6) What's your philosophy of life?
Ans: For me philosophy of life is living and music is life.
7) What are your future plans?
Ans: My album is releasing on 31st July name "Moving Images", it is about a journey, which is trying to make a point of difficulties in life and it has its own darkness , I was plans for British sit comes by Mumbai calling for title track and background score in 2009.
8) What is music according to you?
Ans: For me music is an emotion. I feel the goodness in it. It has an infinite language. If a division will happened in this world people will take music with them.


Friday
18 July, 2008 5:21 PM