Brhaddhvani is happy to announce COMET-workshop with Prof. Karaikudi S. Subramanian.

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Here is an opportunity for a perspective-change by opening an effective toolbox to unravel the treasure, Karnatak music, in a methodical way, straight from the maestro who created the methodology known as COMET in the early 90s. You might have learned Karnatak music - be a performer or a beginner; maybe you have lost the boat in your early childhood; or you might feel you are not yet there although you know so much – you have learned from brilliant performers and teachers and attended many workshops by renowned maestros, but something is evading you. If you haven't mastered the three fundamental principles "shruti-sthana-laya", you will ever be on the middle ground. 

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What is COMET?

While Karnatak music education is open to everyone, aspiring learners with no musically rich background seldom benefit from the available learning resources. Prof. KSS's educational approach demonstrates that the spirit and rigor of the gurukula system can be upheld and merged appropriately with the current learning facilities to benefit learners from any background. 

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Prof. KSS’s pioneering methodology 'Correlated Objective Music Education & Training' offers a pedagogical framework for holistic learning which enables students to learn at their individual pace. COMET strives to capture the interactive gurukula mode which progresses by musical dialogue and interaction. The quintessence of COMET is its insistence on developing a strong practical foundation in the universal principles of music through which the students acquire the analytical tools to understand the intricacies and nuances of Karnatak music. The system takes nothing for granted.

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COMET serves a spectrum of functions; it sensitizes learners to the nuances and complexities of music; it breaks cultural barriers by empowering any aspiring learner to learn methodically; it creates ways to transcend musical styles; it invites diverse music traditions to come together in meaningful interactions; it offers tools to sensitize children to music from a young age in a fun and playful manner; it fills the gaps which a performing musician had left in the course of learning in becoming a professional; and most importantly, it creates an urge and ways to excel at every stage of learning, making one more sensitive to the various ingredients in music-making. Each learner is bound to become a sensitive practitioner with clarity in details and delivery.