World's first VR360 Tabla Solo | Debjit Patitundi | Darbar VR360

#darbarfestival #360 | Young tabla maestro was one of All India Radio’s youngest ‘A’ grade Hindustani percussionists. Here he plays a scintillating solo in the 16-beat teental cycle.
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Debjit Patitundi is a young tabla maestro. He took up the instrument aged four, learning first under his father Amal Patitundi and then from his father’s guru Pandit Shankha Chaterjee. Their fruitful decade spent as guru-shishya (master-student) saw Debjit win various competitions, including All India Radio's 2009 Tabla competition, and appear frequently on national TV.

He soon became one of All India Radio’s youngest ‘A’ grade Hindustani percussionists, and recently has represented his country internationally, travelling to Spain as part of an Indian cultural delegation and making his London debut in 2018. Debjit currently receives advanced instruction from eclectic maestro Pandit Subhankar Banerjee. Learn more at:
-https://www.darbar.org/artist/debjit-patitundi/148

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The 16-beat teental cycle is the most famous rhythm in North Indian classical music, played here on the tabla, South Asia’s most famous percussion instrument. They are carved from tropical hardwoods, such as that of the rose or mango tree, and covered with two layers of animal hide. The top layers help to suppress unwanted overtones, and both drum heads also have a central area of paste (known as syahi), made out of blackened wheat or rice-starch. It is the precise construction and shaping of this area which determines much of the instrument’s tonal quality.

Both drums are played with the fingers, palms, and heels of the hand, producing a variety of tones which many liken to the different sounds of water. Similar instruments are visible in 5th-century temple carvings in Karnataka, and subsequent myths abound - including tales of how a double-headed pakhawaj drum was split into two halves by 13th-century Sufi saint-musician Amir Khusrau (or alternatively by an angry percussionist in Emperor Akbar’s court).

It is more likely that it evolved gradually from existing drums during the 18th century, although it is doubtful that its exact origins will ever be traced. Read more about the tabla in our 12-part taster to the instrument, as another article on their distinctive ‘tihai’ three-part rhythms:
https://www.darbar.org/article/twelve-days-of-tabla/92 https://www.darbar.org/article/tihai-the-power-of-threes/88

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Recorded by Darbar in 2019, on location in West India:
-Debjit Patitundi (tabla)

Technical team credit:
- Jagdeep Shah (DOP)
- Sandeep Virdee (location sound)
- Nirmal Singh (360 editor)
- Christoph Bracher (ambisonic sound dubbing)
- Narvir Singh (assistant editor)
- Munshi Chohan (runner)
- Shivaji Shirke (village surpanch)
- Sunita Khandu Gore (catering)
- Special thanks to Sherna Chatterjee & Mortimer Chatterjee

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