Identical Beat - ACE420.2

Aniruddha Das, Musician, Community Music Workshops, introduces himself and the work of the Headspace soundsystem which works live, "improvising with samples and sequences and mixing desks… [incorporating] live instruments, mainly percussion, various vocalists, and turntables", and absorbing any outside sounds that happen to be recorded while they’re working. Asian shops, jewellery, dancers, etc. Three members of the workshop, Pavan, Deepali, and Deedar. Das running a youth workshop. He explains to them what he’s doing with the different pieces of equipment and helps them to create sounds and store them. His VO says he emphasises improvisation and experimentation. He thinks that there’s too much consuming of music and not enough people trying to make music for themselves. He has to determine how people of different abilities can work together. Deedar Zaman, Age 15, getting up in the morning. His VO talks about his first gigs and about performers like Apache Indian. Pavan Verma, Age 17, VO talking about Apache Indian and the different kinds of music he blends together. Verma says that he plays saxophone, guitar, drums and keyboards, with several different kinds of ensembles. The workshop. Das’s VO talking about the importance of community music. VO of Deepali Patel, Age 14, saying that girls are put off by the technology but it really isn’t very difficult to use. Patel singing. Her VO says she likes the singer Lata Mangeshkar. Talking to a friend about seeing Mangeshkar on stage. In an Asian record shop. Her VO names other favourite singers as Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Bally Sagoo and Apache Indian. Das’s VO suggesting reasons why it has taken so long for Asian music to come into the mainstream music business. Patel singing with Zaman recording. Her VO talking about what she sings and what she’d like to do, both Eastern and Western music.