Ragamatics (created August 2006)

Ragamatics is the confluence of musical beauty and mathematical rigor, traditional aesthetics with academic discipline. The aim of Ragamatics is not to infuse dry and starchy analysis in the creative, spontaneous and beautiful classical music. The aim is to create a simple, yet concrete mathematical infrastructure using concepts in mathematics and other basic sciences to be able to understand the various relationships between ragas, music and communication; to apply multidisciplinary concepts to Classical Raga Theory to enhance fundamental concepts and their understanding.

Ragamatics tries to create and formalize building blocks that establish a platform for specifying the fundamental language of music, to understand this language in terms of the basic performance elements and finally to extend the fundamental performance building blocks to effectively span the entire language.

Ragamatics is a life-long quest to understand, specify and study communication and cognition of ideas and emotions effectively through music.

Building Blocks

Raga Morphing using Hamming Distance (October, 2005)

Complementary Ragas using Discrete Fuzzy Set Inversion (March, 2006)

Delta Fingerprinting of Ragas using Finite Differences (August, 2006)

Stability Characteristics of Musical Contexts (October, 2006)

Acknowledgements

I thank the following people for helping me with the Ragamatics journey, for their timely advice, for letting me bounce ideas off them, for their feedback, criticism and questions.

Amol Hardikar, Dr. Sharad Gadre, Dr. Ashok Ranade, Dr. Vikas Sukhatme, Dilip Ranade, Suresh Shukla, Kiran Joshi, Meghana Chitale, Ketki Hoshing-Nawathe, etc.