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In 2019, when Rajna Swaminathan, acclaimed mrudangam artist â among a handful of women playing the mrudangam professionally â composer, and scholar, released her debut album, âAgency and Abstraction,â music connoisseurs took notice: she created new sounds from the instrument â which she started playing when she was just five â breaking away from tradition.
In her music and research, according to her website, the Indian American musician âexplores the undercurrents of rhythmic experience and emergent textures in collective improvisation.â
She received her creative foundation on the instrument from her father, P.K. Swaminathan, and mrudangam maestro Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman. While she spent much of her youth performing in the Carnatic music and Bharatanatyam scenes across the diaspora and in India, her music has also been informed by her study of Western classical piano, an affinity for Indian film music and other popular music, and extensive collaborations with improvisers in New Yorkâs creative music scene.
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