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For Good Measure, by Ensemble for These Times (E4TT)
Episode 169: Rajna Swaminathan - Part 5
In this week’s episode, we talk to Rajna Swaminathan about her collaborations, conventions in Indian classical music, and how improvisation has affected her compositional process. If you enjoyed today’s conversation and want to know more about Rajna Swaminathan, check her out here: https://www.rajnaswaminathan.com/. This episode was originally recorded in January 2024.
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Intro music: “Trifolium” by Gabriela Ortiz, performed by E4TT (Ilana Blumberg, violin; Abigail Monroe, cello; Margaret Halbig, piano), as part of “Below the Surface: Music by Women Composers,” January 29, 2022
Outro music: “Lake Turkana” by Marcus Norris, performed by E4TT (Margaret Halbig, piano), as part of “Alchemy,” October 15, 2021
Transcription courtesy of Otter.ai.
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1. Rajna Swaminathan - Part 5 (00:00:00)
2. In this week's episode, we continue our conversation with Rajna Swaminathan, who we spoke to in January 2024. (00:00:22)
3. You work in the realm of collective improvisation. Can you talk about that and what role improvisation plays in your compositional process and some of the ways that you fuse composition and performance? (00:00:30)
4. Yeah, and so that's more of a kind of a jazz context. How would you translate that, if you were doing, say, improvisational composition for classical chamber music? Or would it be very similar. (00:05:27)
5. What do you do about... in terms of the the pitch realm? Because the scales and pitches and spaces between the notes are different in the... (00:07:36)
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