HOW MY HEART ACHED!!!
I started off from scratch in professional audio and still consider myself to be an amateur. But after attending today's concert I think I know quite a bit. Attended this fusion music concert by Zakir Hussain and a couple of other musicians whose names I cannot remember. Sivamani, the renowned percussionist gave a 'Taang' at the nth moment and the excuse given first was that he did not get a visa, which then later turned out to be like he was issued the visa but could not collect it due to some reasons. Thro' out the first part of the concert the sound level distribution to each of the musical instruments was so out of balance, no matter how hard Zakir played the tabla, it was only the violin like instrument that could be heard with much harshness. This went on upto the intermission, ~1.5 hrs and only in the second half when Zakir gave a 20 minute solo performance was the sound adorable. I always wonder, a mega event like this and there was no professional sound team to handle the acoustics. One could see a visually frustrated Ustad asking God knows who, to increase the auditorium volume of the speakers. All in all the musicians were ofcourse beyond compare, and their efforts were being spoilt by inferior sound quality.
Sunday, October 03, 2004