Welcome!
Hello and welcome to Arun’s (mostly carnatic) World!
I am arun(k), and I live with my family near Chicago. I am a huge fan of carnatic music, and I do programming for a living. This website is mainly about the product of that union, and hosts the carnatic music related web applications that I have developed. It is a Wordpress based site. Even though Wordpress is primarly intended for blogging, I think it will serve my needs here. I think I can use the blog like format to provide periodic update information, hints/tips etc. Also this can allow users to ask questions, suggest improvements via comments.
I have three applications on this website
- Typesetter, with which you can typeset carnatic music notation and generate attractive looking notations like you see in carnatic music notation. You can even typeset notations in Tamil, Telugu, Sanskrit and Kannada.
- Transliterator, with which you can have the lyrics of carnatic music compositions printed out in Tamil, Telugu, Sanskrit and Kannada. For this purpose, the application uses a common transliteration scheme for all these languages. You type in the lyrics in English, but following this scheme and then with a click of a button, you can have the lyrics rendered in Tamil, Telugu, Sanskrit or Kannada.
- Gamaka Modeling with MIDI, a purely experimental application, which lets you model gamakas as any arbitrary curve and have your computer play it using MIDI. Please note that this application is a Java applet.
You can access these applications using the links on the left.
Please give me feedback via comments, or by sending mail to me at arunk underscore the_number_fifteen at yahoo dot com.
excellent work!! can it be down loaded and the notation typed offline?
Comment by pushpa — March 4, 2008 @ 8:00 am
Thanks pushpa. At this point not easily. But I will be making the source available for download soon, at which time I will include some instructions on how to install it locally.
Comment by arunk — March 7, 2008 @ 9:21 am
Dear Arun
Ms. Prema Bhat will be coming to the Chicago area (Crystal Lake) on October 19, 2008 to perform a concert of Carnatic music. Please contact me if you want more information.
Thank you,
Budd Friend-Jones
Comment by Budd Friend-Jones — August 31, 2008 @ 5:07 am
Awesome programs man! Keep up the good work.
Language: tamil, and everything comes in tamil! pure magic
Please open-source them, if you haven’t done already.
Comment by Ananth — October 10, 2008 @ 9:01 am
Dear Sri Arun,
I am verymuch fascinated by seeing your e music notation
I am verymuch ashamed of not contributing any service to music
as you all do.I become only an enduser.Anyway my hearty congratulations.
As intimated by you is the software made ready for download and
for installation by us ? Pl do so if not already done.
With best regards and blessings of the lords,
R.Ramjee.
Comment by R.Ramjee — July 20, 2009 @ 3:19 am
Hi, Can you publish the notations created by the users of this software?, so that others can make use of them to learn carnatic music.
Comment by Murali — November 15, 2009 @ 7:45 pm
Excellent! Damn useful for me!!!
one small suggestion:
I usually like to have swarams in english and lyrics in sanskrit…
why not have a language field for LyricPrefs and SwaraPrefs…
I believe (correct me if i am wrong) that I have to put Language:english in front of every swara and Language:sanskrit in front of every lyrics to do it…
Please tell me if there already exists an easy way to do this…
Comment by Srivatsan — January 13, 2010 @ 9:59 pm
Nice post! GA is also my biggest earning. However, it’s not a much.
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Comment by Viagra — January 25, 2010 @ 3:37 am