Matt Rahaim |
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I've been studying Hindustani vocal music (Gwalior gayaki) since 1996. My guru is Vikas Kashalkar of Pune, India (whose guru was Gajanan Rao Joshi.) I began my formal studies in music at Wesleyan University with Jon Barlow and Harriotte Hurie, and since 2000 have been traveling regularly to Pune for training with Kashalkarji. I also have received vocal training from Rita Sahai, Warren Senders, Shafqat Ali Khan, and Mohan Darekar. I also am a doctoral candidate in music at the University of California, Berkeley. My research interests include the history of the harmonium, Gregorian chant, medical ethnomusicology, evolutionary narratives of music history, and simulogue. My dissertation is on the inheritance of spatial metaphor via gesture in Hindustani music. I have taught Indian music and religion at Berkeley and Stanford, as well as high school science, music, and liberal arts. I'll be in Pune until June 2008. The best way to reach me is the email at the bottom of this frame. While in Pune, I'll also be putting some photos and sound clips here.
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