Raga CDs des Monats (08/07): Ragas und ihr Zeitzyklus im ayurvedischen Verstaendnis

IMC OnAir praesentiert in seiner Augustsendung „Raga CDs des Monats“ das Thema: “Ragas und ihr Zeitzyklus im ayurvedischen Verstaendnis … Die drei (3) Doshas – Vata-, Pitta- und Kapha-Dominanz.“

Sendetermin: 7. August 2007 – 21:00 Uhr (MESTZ)
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Der Ayur-Veda. Das Wort Ayur-Veda stammt aus dem Sanskrit, der alten indischen Wissenschaftsprache. Ayurveda wird im heutigen Verstaendnis allgemeingebraeuchlich als Lebenswissenschaft uebersetzt.

Ayurveda verfolgt als empirische Naturlehre und Philosphie die Gesunderhaltung des Menschen, praeventiv, heilend und pflegend… und konzentriert sich dafuer auf alle physischen, mentalen, emotionalen, spirituellen und sozialen Aspekte.
Die Eigenschaften der Doshas (Vata, Kapha und Pitta) symbolisieren fuer unsere Koerperfunktionen die phyikalischen Eigenschaften der Elemente. Die Prinzipien der drei Doshas umfassen den ganzen Menschen: Koerper, Sinne, Verstand und Seele.

So wie die Elementeigenschaften von Lebensmittel fuer eine Harmonie der Doshas foerderlich sein koennen, tragen die Umgebungsbedingungen massgeblich zu der Auspraegung der Dosha-Dominanzen bei. Sowohl Jahreszeiten, vorherrschendes Wetter wie auch Tageszeiten, lassen eine der drei Doshas dominieren.
In unseren bisherigen Sendungen „Raga CDs des Monats“ haben wir uns an dem Zeitzyklus von 8 x 3 Stunden des indischen Musikwissenschaftlers V. N. Bhakthande orientiert. Aehnlich strukturiert die ayurvedische Lehre einen Zeitzyklus von 6 x 4 Stunden.

Beginnend mit Vata, von 02:00 bis 06:00 Uhr, gefolgt von Kapha zwischen 06:00-10:00 Uhr und Pitta von 10:00 bis 14:00 Uhr. Ein Zyklus in gleicher Reihenfolge wiederholt sich von 14:00 Uhr bis 02:00 Uhr morgens.

Mit dem Hoerbeispiel von Raga Bhairavi, einem FrUehmorgenraga (Spielzeit zwischen 02:00 und 06:00 morgens), wird das Dosha Vata, das Bewegungsprinzip mit den Elementen Luft und Wind gestaerkt. Das ayurvedische Verstaendnis befUehrwortet ein Aufstehen vor 06:00 Uhr, um „Wachheit & Klarheit“ zu staerken. Raga Bhairavi befoerdert die Vata -Harmonisierung mit dem Stimmungsbild Frieden, Harmonie und Mitgefuehl. Das Vata-Dosha wiederholt sich fuer die Zeit von 14:00 bis 18:00 Uhr. Es ist die Zeit der „Kreativtaet & Kommunikation“. Dafuer eignet sich der Raga Bhimpalasi.

Der Morgenraga Raga Deshkar im Bilawal-Thaat steigert die Energien zur Morgenstunde, mit Raga Durga in der Abendzeit foerdert man zum Ausgleich der Kapha-Dominanz die Integration. Kapha bedeutet im ayurvedischen Verstaendnis die Zeit der Schwere und Traegheit, zwischen 06:00 Uhr und 10:00 Uhr morgens und von 18:00 bis 22:00 Uhr. Vor dem Zubettgehen empfielt sich daher leichtes Essen.

Zuletzt vervollstaendigt das dritte Dosha Pitta unseren Streifzug durch den ayurvedischen Zeitzyklus. Pitta, das ist die energievolle Zeit zwischen 10:00 und 14:00 Uhr, in der das Verdauungsfeuer am staerksten ist. Hier sollte die Hauptmalzeit des Tages eingenommen werden. Zwischen 22:00 Uhr und 02.00 Uhr morgens werden die Traeume verarbeitet. Raga Ahir Lalit foerdert zur Hochzeit des Tages die Freude. Raga Bageshwari verhilft zur Ruhe und Entspannung.

(Hinweis: Auf die Bedeutung der Rhythmik – Tala und des Tempos – Laya in der indischen Klassik gehen wir in einer gesonderten Sendung in 12/2007 ein.)

News b’casters form association to confront issues in radio & TV

NEW DELHI: Clearly not satisfied by the clarification issued by the government regarding the Content Code, major news broadcasters in the country have formed the News Broadcasters Association (NBA) to address problems specific to radio and television news broadcasters.

The broadcasters who got together to form the NBA are TV Today Network (Aaj Tak, Headlines Today, Delhi Aajtak and Tez), NDTV Limited (NDTV24x7, NDTV India and NDTV Profit), Times Global Broadcasting Company (Times Now), TV 18 Group (CNBC TV18, CNBC Awaaz, CNN-IBN and IBN7), Media Content and Communication Services (Star News, Star Ananda and Star Majha), Independent News Service (India TV) and Zee News Ltd (Zee News, Zee Business, Zee 24 Taas and 24 Ghanta).

Registered as a Section 25 company under the Companies Act, the Association is headquartered in Delhi. It held its first Board Meeting on 25 July to elect its Board and office-bearers for 2007-08.

The Board members are:TV Today Network executive director and CEO G Krishnan, Global Broadcast News joint MD Sameer Manchanda, NDTV group CEO K.V.L. Narayan Rao, Times Now CEO Sunil Lulla, India TV CEO Chintamani Rao, Zee News CEO Harish Doraiswamy and Star India COO Uday Shanker.

The office-bearers elected for 2007-08 are: G. Krishnan, president, Sameer Manchanda, vice-president, and K.V.L. Narayan Rao, honorary treasurer. Annie Joseph has been appointed secretary general.

Meanwhile, Krishnan told Indiantelevision.com that it was erroneous to conclude that the Association had only been formed to oppose the Content Code.

In fact, he said, the Association had been set up to address issues that are specific to news broadcasters in radio and television who work in a 24×7 environment and cannot necessarily be addressed by the Indian Broadcasting Foundation.

Answering a question, he said he would only be too happy to have DD News as a member of the Association.

Referring to questions about the Content Code, he said the government should leave this matter to the stakeholders. This was a matter of self-regulation and not of policing, and the government should realize that those running news channels are mature and seasoned broadcasters who will take care of the sensibilities of the people.

A press statement said the vision of NBA is to help create and nurture an environment in which news broadcasters can best serve audiences and also engage with policy makers on behalf of its members in order to promote an industry grounded in the principles of democracy and freedom of expression. This initiative will help to further promote the broadcaster’s role as an important contributor to the country’s cultural, social and economic fabric.

The NBA will help members to chart a course that facilitates news broadcasters in responding to the rapid socio-economic changes in the country, and in taking advantage of the opportunities ushered in by economic growth as well as new technology. To this end the NBA will concern itself with ethical, technical, operational, regulatory and legal issues affecting news and current affairs channels.

Earlier this week, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry in a background note emphasized that the Code would not be imposed on broadcasters or advertisers and would be implemented through a three-tier mechanism separate and distinct from the Government.

The Code, which is facing strong opposition particularly from news broadcasters, has been put on the Ministry’s website http://www.mib.nic.in for public and stakeholders’ comments to be sent in by 5 August. The Code will form part of the Broadcasting Services Regulation Bill which the Government wants to introduce shortly.

The note said the mechanism was intended to ensure that the complaints of the public were addressed and broadcasters and advertisers keep the viewing and listening needs of the public in view when designing programmes.

In the first tier, there will be a content auditor to be appointed internally by each channel who would be responsible for pre-viewing of the content to be broadcast. He would also be the point of contact for complaints in relation to any programme or advertisement.

At the second level, there would be the evaluation of the content in cases of complaint by Consumer Complaints Committees to be set up by a peer body like the Advertising Standards Council of India, the Indian Broadcasting Foundation, and the News Broadcasters Association, or any organization as may be notified by the Central Government.

The lodging of grievances at these two levels is expected to take care of public grievances regarding content, and broadcasters/advertisers would themselves make suitable modifications in future content.

It is only when they fail to do so or a complainant aggrieved with the order of the Consumer Complaints Committee files an appeal that the role of the proposed Broadcast Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) would come into play, the ministry said. The regulator will be an authority distinct from the government and I&B ministry and a second appeal against its order can also be filed before the Film Certification Appellate Tribunal.

( 30 July 2007 9:00 pm | Indiantelevision.com Team )

Progressionmag.com: Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain Reunite…

 

Over three decades as the innovative percussion engine of the Grateful Dead, Mickey Hart’s ear for global sounds brought numerous unpredictable guests to the Dead’s stage performances.

Hart’s 1991 release Planet Drum was the natural outgrowth of this adventure, showcasing his gift as a supreme catalyst in convening the world’s finest percussion talent for a dazzling collaboration – including Indian tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain, who is an international phenomenon in his own right. Zakir began his career as a child prodigy has gone on to win many awards, founded his own record label Moment! Records, and starred in two documentaries, 2003’s “The Speaking Hand: Zakir Hussain and the Art of the Indian Drum” and 1998’s “Zakir and His Friends”. Planet Drum was recorded in Hart’s Sonoma County home and studio, with the Dead’s legendary crew turning virtually every room in the house into a work zone for each musician. The album won the first-ever Grammy® for Best World Music Album, spent an unprecedented 26 weeks at #1 on the Billboard chart, and sells as a perennial favorite to this day.

15 years have passed, and the friendship and musical partnership of Hart and Hussain, which began in the early 70s with their world fusion experiment Diga Rhythm Band, has continued to flourish. Their 2006 Planet Drum reunion tour was immensely well-received and germinated the idea to revisit “Planet Drum”

Hence this fresh collaboration of tranced-out grooves, elegant electronic programming and hypnotic tuned percussion that is the Global Drum Project. Masterfully produced by Hart and Hussain, the Global Drum Project once again enlists the great partnership of Sikuru Adepoju (Nigerian talking drum) and Giovanni Hidalgo (congas), as well as Taufiq Qureshi (brother to Zakir Hussain) on percussion & vocals, Niladari Kumar on sitar, Dilshad Khan on sarangi, and sampled vocals by the late, great Olatunji. Global Drum Project will be in stores October 2nd, 2007. The ensemble will again tour the U.S. this fall in support of the release.

In addition to the Global Drum Project, Shout! Factory will be reissuing a series of catalog titles that will be made available digitally in October, and physically released in 2008. The titles include Diga Rhythm Band (One of the first “world music” recordings, a crystalline, remixed celebration of drumming and percussion featuring Hart, Hussain, nine other rhythmatists, and Jerry Garcia on two tracks), At The Edge (Companion to his acclaimed book debut, Drumming at the Edge of Magic (Harper San Francisco 1990), this exploration of the music of primeval man unfolds a serene soundscape of tuned percussion, ambient natural sounds, and guitar treatments by Jerry Garcia), Mystery Box (An effervescent, pop-inflected album, full of breezy songs with layered vocals by England’s Mint Juleps – and a vocal debut by Mickey Hart), Supralingua: Hart continued to push the “tribal space” boundaries of percussion and sound, beyond his Grammy-winning Planet Drum, with some of the same stellar guest personnel.

(2007/07/30 | Source: Progression Magazine)

India gets its first madam President

Posted online: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 at 1331 hours IST
Updated: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 at 1425 hours IST

New Delhi, July 25: Pratibha Patil was on Wednesday sworn in as the country’s first woman President.

She was administered the oath of office by Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan at a function in the Central Hall of Parliament House here. The function was attended by a host of VVIPs, including outgoing President A P J Abdul Kalam, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee, Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman K Rahman Khan, UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Union ministers, former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, opposition leaders, governors, chief ministers and members of the diplomatic corps.

A 21-gun salute was accorded to Patil after she was sworn-in as the country’s 13th President.

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Patil als erste Präsidentin Indiens vereidigt…

Einsatz für mehr Frauenrechte angekündigt

Neu Delhi – Pratibha Patil ist am Mittwoch als erste Präsidentin in der Geschichte Indiens vereidigt worden. In ihrer Antrittsrede forderte die 72-Jährige ein Ende der Abtreibung weiblicher Föten. Gleichzeitig kündigte sie an, sich für mehr Frauenrechte in ihrem Land einsetzen zu wollen: “Die Stärkung der Frauen ist sehr wichtig für mich”. Mit Blick auf das indische Kastensystem sprach sie sich für mehr Chancengleichheit aus: “Wir müssen dafür sorgen, dass alle Teile der Gesellschaft gleichberechtigte Partner im Entwicklungsprozess sind”.

(25.07.2007 – 13:30 | AFP)

special feature: From India to Europe… FestivalReport 2007 (part 1 and 2)

Part 1 and 2 of FestivalReport2007 is presented under the topic „Alternation of Generations ? – Music conferences & competitions of procreation“. In part 1 „IMC OnAir“ lights up the current music scene in India. Part 2 gives a view of the new generation competitions and international festival scene…

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part 1:  Monday, 30th July 2007 – 01:58 p.m. (MESTZ)
part 2:  Monday, 13th August 2007 – 01:00-01:58 p.m. (MESTZ)
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IMC OnAir presents the two hours special show „From India to Europe – Festival Report 2007“. The programme attaches to the Festival Report 2006. Here some interesting and worth knowing details were introduced to history and the development of Indian music festivals, the so called Sangita Sammelana-s.

All broadcastings of the past you get access to by free PodCast for re-listening as MP3 independently from time and place (see Podcasting | News)…

The Sangita Sammelana-s enjoy internationally an increasing popularity. The origin hands back to the 18th century. Until today the Indian classical music of North and South India can retain it’s character as chamber music on the large stages in Kolkatta, New Dehli, Mumbai, Pune and Chennai.

music:
Raga Jog, Raga Mishra Mand, Raga Tilak Kamod (old form: Kambodi or Kamodi), Raga Sohini, Raga Hamsadwani, Raga Mishra Khamaj, Thumri, Raga Bageshri, Rag Bhairavi, Dhrupad, Pakhawaj Solo (Paran), Thumri (Light Indian Classical Music), Misra Pilu – Jiya Mora Na Lage

artists:
Begum Parveen Sultana (Vocals), Rajan & Sajan Mishra (vocal brothers), Taalyogi Suresh Talwalkar (Tabla), Dr. Kamala Shankar (Shankar Guitar) & Rajeev Janardan (Sitar), Subhra Guha (Vocals), Hariprasad Chaurasia (Bansuri / Flute), Kumar Bose (Tabla), Shahid Parvez (Sitar / Tabla / Vocals), Shashank Subramanium (Bansuri / Flute), Sandeep Das (Tabla), Suchismita & Debopriya Chatterjee (Flute Sisters), Sukhvinder Singh (Tabla), Patri Satish Kumar (Mridangam), Bahauddin Dagar (Dhrupad / Rudra Veena), Ravishankar Upadhyay (Pakhawaj), Ikram Khan (Sarangi), Shishirchandra Bhatt (Harmonium), Kaushiki Chakrabarty (Vocals)

festivals:
Savai Gandharva Music Festival (Pune), 13th ITC Sangeet Sammelan (Bangelore), MRI Music & Dance Festival 2005 / Annual Music & Drama Festival 2006 (Chennai), Saptak Festival (Ahmedabad, Gujarat), Darbar South Asian Music Festival (U.K.)

Eros’ Bollywood channel on YouTube reaches 1 million views…

MUMBAI: Eros International’s official Bollywood channel on YouTube has received over 1 million views and has been consistent in the top 20 ‘Partner Channels’ of YouTube, states an official release.

Mainstream channels such as the NBA, CBS, NBC and more are also a part of the top 20 partner channels. The channel can be accessed at http://www.youtube.com/erosentertainment.

The Eros channel offers customers a wide range of premium content such as a ‘first-look’ at films, events and happenings from Bollywood such as the latest IIFA Awards, music videos, interviews, exclusive upcoming film trailers and much more.

This content is only available on Eros’ own portal prior to availability on any other online medium.

Eros International VP New Media Manu Kaushish said, “We are extremely pleased with the initial success of the channel; this has helped us validate the demand for our exclusive content library. Over the next few months, we will be launching our own ad supported platform http://www.erosentertainment.com and will be pioneering this model for the Indian movie industry.”

(21 July 2007 3:12 pm | Indiantelevision.com’s News Headlines | Indiantelevision.com Team)

C3 Ratings Better For Broadcast Than Cable…

by Wayne Friedman, Friday, Jul 20, 2007 8:45 AM ET

BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. — CBS says “broadcast networks will increase audience share at the expense of the cable networks” when it comes to the new world of commercial ratings and new digital platforms.

David Poltrack, chief research officer of CBS Corp. and president of CBS Vision, said in a presentation to the Television Critics Association summer tour here that the long-term implications of commercial ratings will help to lift broadcast networks beyond cable networks.

For instance, looking at commercial ratings plus seven days of DVR playback during May of this year, broadcast networks improved 13% among 25-54 viewers, versus program ratings of the same period. Cable networks gained 3%.

Across other metrics, it’s the same story.

For commercial ratings plus three days of DVR playback–so-called C3–among adult 25-54 viewers during the month of May, the broadcast networks lost 2% relative to their program ratings. This is in comparison to cable networks that lost 8%. Examining same-day live commercial ratings, the broadcast networks were down 6% versus cable networks that were down 10%.

Poltrack believes the DVR impact, as part of the commercial ratings, will also benefit broadcast–only losing 1% in C3 ratings versus program ratings. By contrast, cable will be down 8%.

Poltrack’s presentation, confirming other research findings, says the viewing of popular broadcast network shows will increase as DVR penetration increases.

In the second quarter of 2008–around the time of the next upfront advertising market–Poltrack estimates that DVR penetration will grow to 25% of U.S. TV households from 16% in the second quarter of 2007.

CBS notes that there is a slight decrease in ad recognition when it comes to viewing DVR commercials versus commercials that are seen in real time. Awareness of specific brands recall among DVR owners was 41% in playback versus 44% in real time.

In regard to commercial-skipping, CBS says 52% of the time DVR owners “sometimes notice ads,” 26% of the time they “rarely notice ads,” 15% of the time they “always notice ads,” and 7% of the time they “never notice ads.” CBS also disclosed that so-called engagement statistics–highly desired by TV marketers–is the highest of other networks and cable overall.

Among 18-49 viewers, from September 2006 to May 2007, per IAG Research, CBS scored a 76% program engagement score. ABC had 74%. CW, Fox and NBC each had 73%. Cable networks on average had a 59% number.

Even with the incursion of new digital platforms, CBS research said television “is likely to maintain its dominant cultural and marketing position in the 21st century.”

(07/23/07 – 06:23 | AdLinx | IndianTelevision.com – MediaDailyNews)

Eighth World Hindi Conference calls for Globalisation of Hindi language

The three-day (July 13 -15, 2007) 8th World Hindi Conference in New York concluded with an appeal to India to make a concerted effort to mobilize other nations towards giving recognition to Hindi as the seventh official language of the United Nations.

The six UN languages are English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Arabic.

The conference also appealed to expatriat Indians to pressures their respective governments to support this move.

Over 1000 delegates attended the three-day conference. From India alone, around 500 delegates attended the session, which has been jointly organized by the External Affairs Ministry and the Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan, New York.

The primary objective of this year’s conference was to project the significance of Hindi to the world.

According to the ‘Comrie’ Survey (held in1998), Hindi is the second most spoken language of the world after Chinese.

The SBS Atlas of Languages, authored by Bernard Combrie and his colleagues, provides a detailed account of the language families of each region of the world, and identifies and explains interesting and sometimes unique features of grammar and vocabulary.

It also examines the archaeological, historical, cultural, social and political background where this has had an impact on the dissemination, development or decline of a language.

In his concluding remarks, Karan Singh, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s special representative at the conference, emphasized the need to make Hindi a global language.

The concluding session saw 14 proposals being put forward. They were:

(1) To make Hindi teaching and the Devnagri script popular.
(2) To prepare a standard syllabus
(3) To give recognition to Hindi teachers working on foreign soil
(4) To tone up the World Hindi Secretariat
(5) Promote the opening up of regional offices of the secretariat
(6) To launch a Hindi language-centric web site at the world level.
(7) To publish a simple book in Hindi on technical subjects.
(8) To prepare a data base about foreign institutes and teachers teaching at these institutes.
(9) Expatriats should help in popularizing Hindi globally
(10) India to establish a research centre in Wardha for foreign scholars.
(11) To establish a Central Hindi Institute to promote Hindi globally
(12) To establish Hindi Chairs at foreign universities.
(13) To promote Hindi as the language of modern science and commerce
(14) To promote the use of Hindi at all the conferences organized by the India in India and abroad

The concluding day saw several foreign Hindi scholars being given awards for their proficiency in the language.

An Israeli scholar was also honoured for his contribution in popularising Hindi in his country. Genady Shlomper has been teaching Hindi at the Hebrew and Tel Aviv Universities for years, and has facilitated the graduation of over 260 students.

The head of Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan Trust in New York, Dr. P.Jayaraman, also received an award for his active participation in organizing the conference, and for working tirelessly in promoting the language in America, despite being a Tamilian.

“Despite India having so many languages there should be one link language.Whether it be Tamil, Malayalam or Kashmiri-all of them are Indian languages, but only Hindi can act as a unifying factor,” said Dr. Jayaraman.

What was interesting was the participation of an Arunachali woman Joram Yalam in the conference.

A PhD in Hindi from Delhi and a Hindi teacher, Yalam described Hindi as a simple and beautiful language that was not widely used or promoted in the North East. She called for greater effort in this direction.

Mauritius has shown keen interest to host the Ninth World Hindi Conference in 2011.

So far, seven such conferences have been held. They were held at Nagpur (1975), Mauritius (1976), New Delhi (1983), Mauritius (1993), Port of Spain, Trinidad (1996), London (1999) and Paramaribo in Surinam (2003).

(Source:  07/21/2007 – HindiLearner.com)

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