Keynotes and Keboards
Sufi Inayat Khan, Irfan Zuberi · 2016
Technology has an increasingly large role to play in the lives of us all in myriad ways. It is thus no surprise that it has a deep-reaching impact on the life of Indian classical music through various channels such as recording, broadcasting and of course, amplified performances. What follows is a brief history of the involvement of technology in Indian classical music and a glance at the various issues which musicians have to deal with across the country. The paper is divided into three sections recording, broadcasting and finally, the effects of technology on the guru-shishya parampara