In a remarkable fusion of traditional Indian music and modern neuroscience, IIT Mandi researchers have provided scientific proof that listening to Indian classical ragas can positively influence brain ...

Jazz and Indian ragas share common ground in their traditional use of improvisation. They are often talked about in compatible terms, but Ravi Shankar, for one, did not believe that ragas could be ...

Last week, five members of a music collective calling themselves Brooklyn Raga Massive, or BRM, were seated in the backyard of co-founder Neel Murgai’s Prospect Heights apartment, sipping coffee and ...

Violin maestro L. Subramaniam recently published his doctoral thesis as a book, Raga Harmony (Westland). The book explains how he integrated the Indian raga system with the harmonic structure of ...

Radhika Iyer and Matt Bacon’s work, Elements of Indian Music — Melakarta: The System of 72 Heptatonic Scales, has the collection of fundamental musical scales, from Carnatic music Our theory started ...

A festival celebrating Indian classical music tradition with a modern twist is about to take over Downtown Brooklyn. “Counterpoint: Brooklyn Raga Massive Festival,” presented by Clara Wu Tsai and the ...

Over morning coffee, a stressed professional opens an artificial intelligence (AI) app. Within seconds, it suggests a five-minute breathing exercise, a calming Raga music track—musical forms known to ...