It’s been just over a year since our last program on the classical and devotional music of India. With a history going back over three thousand years, it has complex, deeply entrenched traditions, yet has adapted surprisingly well to contemporary genres and technologies. A case in point is the ongoing embrace of electronic music by musicians from India and the demanding study of Indian music by western electronic musicians. It's even more remarkable because Indian classical music is drone-based and monophonic—no harmony, no chords—and microtonal, with 22 notes to the octave versus 12 in western music.

On this transmission of Hearts of Space — contemporary, traditional, and devotional music of India, on a program called INDIA NAVIGATION 3. Music is by ANOUSHKA SHANKAR, JASDEEP SINGH DEGUN, STEVE GORN, MANOSE & TY BURHOE, ALAM KHAN, and MANISH VYAS.

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