As we reckon on disseminating Carnatic music, latest inclinations have been a fortunate thing. Since the age-old guru-sishya gurukula tutoring, Carnatic music has indeed adapted itself to modern technology. In the present trend, we have various channels like Visual Media, Print media, Digital and Internet media, e-mail, skype, audio and videos recorded in the form of cassettes and CDs and numerous linking the gap between the tutor and Carnatic music aspirants

When we imagine the present times arrangements of Carnatic Katcheris, we sense improper balance. Olden days Carnatic katcheris had a enchanting and classic arrangement wherein, the recital would begin by means of a “varnam” then the main krithi ( core part of the recital ) of the concert would be in the same ragam as that of the varnam. This calibrates the artist in a confined shield and may perhaps be solicitously bound to his collections. The choice of the kritis would be exceptionally gifted, a prathi madyamam ragam followed by a shudda madyamam. Connecting varieties of thalams. Such intellectual diversity would formulate the recital a sensation. We should not label this as a connotation of contemporary drift, nevertheless it’s unquestionably a rationale of not adhering to customary style.

Balancing the main kritis and thukudas is also an art. But in these days concerts, there is a greater emphasis on thukudas. This is an easier trend to win audience. Select a very famous thukda and the crowd would start tapping with the stage; say people choose “kurai ondrum illa” when in Tamil Nadu, “Bhagyadha lakshmi baramma” in Karnataka and something like “Hariharathmajam” in Kerala. These thukudas would please the audience for the moment, but imagine the effect of an expansive RTP and the impact it would leave on the crowd. I would say we are customizing and commercializing music for popularity sake. This would definitely dilute the purity in Carnatic music.

But we would say, the love for music, the analysis of music science…..Exploring music beyond music…….has been deeply imprinted in the young minds. People have developed more awareness for Music. Its just that we need to selectively adopt our trends, but analyze the traditional trends and follow them, for traditional methods would always be based on some reasoning. By our carelessness to traditional trends, we would be digging in a deeper hole and create a greater delta between our future music families and the traditional stalwarts.