contribution # 2 | RAGA SUBHA | toine horvers
via headphones toine hears the voices of dhrupad-singers umakant and ramakant gundecha. _while turning slowly and gradually around his center, he reproduces the sounds that he hears with as little as possible delay. _the singers perform a raga composed by tansen, a sixteenth century composer from the mughal india-period. _the piece starts with an improvisation on the long-stretched basic notes of the raga, followed by tansen’s song with improvisations. _toine follows the song as precise as possible in pitch, intonation and tempo of the singers. _dhrupad is one of the oldest forms of hindustani devotional music. _toine attended a concert by the gundecha brothers in bangalore in 2015