The Idea Ideas for musical scores, songs or themes come to me randomly. Sometimes, I get inspired by a situation or works from other artists. The idea for this composition ( read full article and listen to the composition here ) came as a ‘need’ to compose a fusion track. I am still in the process of discovering my sound and experimenting is the only way to achieve it. Hence it makes perfect sense, at this point of time, to experiment with every genre of music under the sun! So fusion it is… this time! Every composition has a ‘hook’ that grabs the listeners’ attention. "A hook is a musical idea, often a short riff, passage, or phrase that is used in popular music to make a song appealing and to "catch the ear of the listener" - Wikipedia. In this composition, strangely though, I see two hooks (in my head). The first hook ‘came’ to me when I was experimenting with the samples in my new “Sounds of India” audio sample CD I recently bought. I was playing some tunes on India...
"There are lots of different definitions of the word 'music', some more poetic than practical. For example, William Shakespeare called music the 'food of love', George Bernard Shaw called music the 'brandy of the damned', and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz called it 'sounding mathematics'" - a quote from the book "A Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Theory, Second Edition" by Michael Miller.