This video features Raga Shivranjani playing the Bansuri (Indian Bamboo Flute), and Sudarshan Sidhaye on the Indian bongo-like drums. You might want to play the video twice; first time watching the video, and second time with your eyes closed and meditating.
The video clip runs about 9:30 minutes and is an excellent example of Bansuri music. The sound from a bansuri comes from resonance in the air column inside it.
“The bansuri is a transverse alto flute of India, Pakistan, and Nepal, made of a single length of bamboo with six or seven open finger holes. An ancient musical instrument associated with cowherds and the pastoral tradition … the North Indian bansuri, typically about 14 inches long, was traditionally used as a soprano instrument primarily for accompaniment in lighter compositions including Indian movie soundtracks.” – Wikipedia
One of my daughters will be traveling to India this summer to do some volunteer work in rural villages. Perhaps she will hear music like this.
Back in 1981, when I first became interest in computers, I was talking to a salesman about an Apple 2 computer (way before the Lisa or the Mac had been invented). The salesman was demonstrating how the Apple II could play music… and I said: “Wow! You could study ethnomusicology with that thing!” He gave me a funny look and said, “Well I guess you could.” Anyway, I never bought that Apple 2 computer, but here is proof that you can study ethnomusicology on your computer.
