manan dedhia

Rough around the edges. Noisy end points forwards.

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Vinyl

A co-worker who shares similar musical interests asked me this question - What albums would you want to own on vinyl. The medium of choice speaks to the gravity of the question - not just its significance to you but also the listening experience. Picture a sunlit room. Turn table hooked to a high grade amplifier feeding tower speakers or nice headphones. And you just sitting back in your favorite ...

Vinyl

Subversion

Art dies in stasis. It's movement is oxygen. Like a molecule of oxygen, someone exhales it and someone, something else inhales it. What that molecule enables is unpredictable. The end result of a multitude of uncontrollable vectors working on a closed system. Potentially a new creature breathes alive. Something unknown lurks. Subversion is art. Morphing is survival. I present my examples and rest ...

Subversion

Bass, Rahman bass.

You like something Rahman has created. Let me re-phrase it - some piece of music that Rahman has magically woven is amongst, if not your outright favorite pieces of music ever created. There are many many reasons for this, most of which I do not understand clearly. But the one I do, is found in the lower ranges of the frequency range. The bass. The thump. Think back to a time before Rahman - all ...

Bass, Rahman bass.

Khayyam

The moving finger writes and having writ, moved on: not all thy piety not wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, not all thy tears wash out a word of it. P.S.: Read “Remnants of Separation” by Aanchal Malhotra. Well worth your time.

Khayyam

Smart Watches

I have to wear this Apple Watch for a work thing. Now, I am not a fan of smart watches in general - its just another screen that distracts me from another screen that is distracting me from what I am supposed to do. But now that I am stuck with this thing for 24 hrs., I would like to see the silver lining. Just to be clear - I am not against the device and what it is designed to do, per se. The en...

Smart Watches