The Official Community Of Nitin Sawhney

Hello Rosemary,

Yes thanks this site is great and I have loved taking a look around it. I hope it did not seem as if it was not enough for me. I was just hoping to have an opportunity to show off Nitin to people who were not out there specificallly looking for him. That is the beauty of My Space. I will search again for a page devoted to him there; I did not find one before.

Thanks!

Lisa 8)

Nitin Sawhney:

Alright, alright.....

I'm sorry. Life gets on top of you sometimes. Nitin

mmmm... well gosh mr. sawhney... it begs the question why are you lying underneath it? ..I mean wouldn?t it be kinda heavy?
...anyways back to my foremost concern, if you are sending in the irrelevance deleter squad, should Buga and I be VERY, VERY scared? If irrelevance is scourged, lordy, lordy what would be left? sports results, the cross word ? there would be a gaping hole left for.... RELEVENCE and maybe even truth about why we are drawn here to this site about music that has integrity, relevance and expresses ideas that so deeply resonate, so beautifully....like buga's monkey theory!
I'm back, I escaped, I missed you guys
Calme

Calme, it's lovely that you're back but all is far from good here. I can't access my PMs and r had same problem yesterday. Either the forum prog is playing up or some spiteful swine has disabled our PM facility. Either way.................

"with us or agin us" Mr. Sawhney?

I haven't the heart to stick around to find out.

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"Does my bum look big in this installation?"

Buga....never give up I just spent the last time lapse stuck as a goat,
head ramming a very thick big wall, endlessly. Hell all I needed was a A.R.P (attitude readjustment program) a T.L.C (turn the corner) and bloody great dose of castor oil to move the S.O.L (....on liver) and a bloody good laugh (or at least a wry smile) which is the antidote to living in a world that does not make sense!. Which is why I come to this site....

"Awake, Arise and don't stop smiling till the white coats come"

Calme

Hi all,

You'll be interested to hear that, on due consideration, although all your comments were assessed as appropriate and completely cool, the entire universe outside of this virtual dimension has now been deemed as irrelevant to this site and is therefore eligble for demolition.

In order to assess who gets demolished first we, the new world moderators, will be inspecting various galaxies for weapons of mass destruction, oil, dodgy religious persuasion and any other excuse to act like what you earthlings call "utterly hypocritical megalomaniacs."

We hope you're happy with this and that we can count on your continued support. By the way, shortly after we've used up all our resources on destroying the known universe, we will be considering the technical issues with private messages.

We think that's fair and believe we know best anyway.

Thanks for your time.

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...................................... oh, er, hello, er, Mr. Sawhney ......................

..........well, that's quite an, erm, 'interesting' strategy you seem to have, er, um, .......................
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............ oh, yes, ........... and also, ........ er.....................
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................... that's a very f-f-fetching Darth Vader outfit you're, er, um, you're wearing t-t-today-y-y ...................

.......................... Is this a new, er, look for you now, or......................
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................... HEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!! ....................

........... ............... Easy with the light sabre, man!!! ........... You nearly took my head off with that thing!!!!

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"Does my bum look big in this installation?"

............so if I could be so bold as to translate that for the rest of us...........carry on as ususal (apart from of course the enfringing adbots.........which clearly necessitated use of the sabre) and your gonna sort the technical side out?

So I had another thought, with all this techno talk and kick boxing..........stay with me on this one.............you could have, as an addition to your website or perhaps your next release, a computer game. Now I know I may have dreams of 'moderation' although I will admit it, I am no techie- so may be beyond me a little, and the last time I played computer games was 'space invaders' on Atari.........yeah I know ages ago..............but nothing really quite matched up to that so never carried on. But now, back to the point, so a kickboxing NS against the evils of cyberspace, and who ever 'irrelevent' else?!?!?!?!?!? You could score a sound track, incorporate signalling modalities.........and members of the band could all be characters..........and then you could happily erradiacate the world of irrelevance........allbeit in a parallel universe.........of sorts..........................

Hey, that's a cool idea! And maybe there could be bonus levels too, where he has to do battle with a different despot each time until he's over-powered them all and locked them up in a secure room so that they are forced to TALK to eachother ..... and maybe, instead of actually killing the adbots, they turn into little wind turbines and solar panels and the like.... ?

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"Does my bum look big in this installation?"

I have to say I'm very impressed by these prompt responses.......

You all brighten up an otherwise fairly mundane Sunday evening.

I'm supposed to be working tonight - being in the middle of a very interesting collaboration right now - but I've reverted to just chilling out with a coffee, laptop and today's "Observer" in defiance of impending deadlines. The increasingly sureal nature of your discourse makes for an enjoyable addendum to the week's usual madness. Thanks for making me smile.

Since I've realised that I'm supposed to actually provide updates on some of the things I'm doing on this website, I thought I'd give it a shot......

Presently, I'm working on a bit of piano practice for the Holland performance of "A Throw of Dice" next month with the Metropole Orchestra. That's something I'm looking forward to immensely as the film has such a pure and direct innocence about it and is great to play to. The LSO played my score so amazingly well at the Barbican last month and they'll be hard to follow.....

I'm also currently looking at scoring the script of a new play that's soon coming out at Hammersmith Riverside called "Fallujah", which is based on authentic accounts of some of the victims of the bombing and recent violence... incredibly moving, harrowing and provocative stuff..... should expose a lot of the political spin and bullshit.....

Oh yes, and although I'm unfortunately sworn to secrecy right now, I can say that over the last few months I've been scoring the music for an up and coming new computer animation game to be released next year.....

Last week, I finally completed the music for an amazing film about blind kids climbing Mount Everest and I believe that, though the working title is "Climb Higher", it will debut at the Toronto film festival under the name "Blindsight". Other film scores I've been working on include Mira Nair's ("Monsoon Wedding", "Vanity Fair" and the oscar nominated "Salam Bombay") latest film "The Namesake" which is scheduled for worldwide release later in the year and also, although I completed the score long ago, the very beautiful film "Hari Om" has just debuted at the Cannes film festival. Finally, on film scores, I will soon be starting work on a major new worldwide film release scheduled to be shot next year. Again, I'm not allowed to mention it's name yet but it should be my most exciting and widely released film project yet. Also, the BBC are still discussing the imminent release of "Natural World Symphony" which I finished scoring last year for the makers of "The Blue Planet".

In terms of theatrical scores, one of my favourite collaborations (with the unbelievably talented Akram Khan, as well as Sidi Larbi and sculptor Antony Gormley) - Zero Degrees - is scheduled for a third run at Saddlers Wells, after selling out all over the world with some extremely gifted live musicians performing my score and we're also in discussions over a new Indian classical theatre production of "The Mahabarratta". Similarly, we're engaged in discussions over scoring a new production from the brilliantly inventive "Theatre de Complicite" which I'll be workshopping very soon.

Also on the workshopping front, I'm working later next month in Stimmen with local musicians to put on another Aftershock event.

Tomorrow, on another tangent, I'm off to work with some kids up in Northumberland on an inter-schools project called "Anthem for Northumberland" where I'm overseeing the development of a new filmscore created by the kids themselves. They'll be performing live to the film at the Sage, Gateshead in October.

Finally, I'm also getting together ideas for my next album - which is a little way into the future - but in the meantime we've confirmed to perform 6 dates of acoustic music at the Jazz Cafe in December. We'll be performing tracks from all seven albums there completely unplugged. I thought it'd make a nice change from all the gigs we've been doing at larger venues over the last few years, although we'll still be doing more of those next year.

I need a break.....

Anyway, thanks again for your posts and I will talk to Sumit about the private message technical problems and see if they can be fixed. By the way, I like the idea of a new world moderator computer game, although I'm not sure if I could kickbox in a long black cape......

Cheers.

Nitin

......that's the beauty of it, a virtual dimension, kickboxing in a cape should be a breeze, you can do whatever you like.............. Although having said that you seem to have your plate pretty full at the moment, what with sipping coffee and reading 'the observer'!!

and I suppose that's just before breakfast! Loved "in defiance of...deadlines" thanks Nitin for your generosity...
I do agree that you need a break....maybe the "alls" could come up with the perfect R & R holiday for a hardworking creator...mmmm...any suggestions anyone?

............. How about finding a remote, little corner of Scotland, falling inlove with the place
and writing a song about it? ............

.............. oh, no, hang on ...................

...........I think it's already been done ............ ..............

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"Does my bum look big in this installation?"

So I am thinking sea, surf, fishing away from people.. How about a holiday in the South Seas on a deserted oil rig...it?s away from all distractions and could be the inspiration for a new industrial aquatic theme piece, the eagerly awaited sequel to waterworld perhaps?

Or for something with a little more travel involved, find a oak leaf big enough, throw yourself off the Thames and see where the winds take you. If you can reduce yourself down to the size of the ladybug, I hear they do fabulous gourmet cruises, but if you suffer gout it could be aggravated.

Keeping on the miniature theme..(scientists are so innovative nowadays) you could shrink yourself down to the size of an antibody and go into the bloodstream of a sloth with a contagious disease. It would be highly educatative and a worthy cause indeed. Plus the sloths are much maligned as malingers but they are really rather delightful and could provide a suitable R&R environment.

Or something with a little culture but with a difference you could do a tour of Europe's finest galleries and places of beauty, blindfolded.

Then if it?s people, colour and a touch of randomness you could always transfigure (I always find those photo booths the most effective transportables myself) into a coin at a Moroccan market and just see where you end up. Or an olive.

But my pick would be I think to become a frill necked lizard in the Kimberley?s in the Western Australian outback. That blue sky, that red earth, the heat, take a dip with the freshwater crocs, mind your toes, find a rock, fan yourself with your frill and it?s the easiest place in the world to touch your peace?

Just a few suggestions hope they?re helpful?.

calme:

Or for something with a little more travel involved, find a oak leaf big enough, throw yourself off the Thames and see where the winds take you, if you can reduce yourself down to the size of the ladybug, I hear they do fabulous gourmet cruises, but if you suffer gout it could be aggravated.

Keeping on the miniature theme..(scientists are so innovative nowadays) you could shrink your self down to the size of an antibody and go into the bloodstream for a sloth with a contagious disease.
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If Nitin used technology to make himself himself miniature ..... would he be known as Nano Sawhney instead?

My recommendation would be West Wales - not too far to travel and very quiet. Could take in the archaeological monuments and King Arthur legends .... unless this sunny weather continues, that essential piece of British summer holiday clothing - a cagoule - might be needed though.

Nitin, a break would be a good idea, and more enjoyable when you choose to have it. As Buga would put it, Confucius has been burning the candle at both ends, and I look like having an enforced break of a week or two from work.... so watch out for heart palpitations and the like ....

Thanks for the update on the work, don't forget us in Wales. For the classical stuff there's the new Millenium Centre (aka The Armadillo), and there are smaller venues around too. Who knows, I might get a huge posse to come and see you to play in Cardiff, instead of the couple of people I dragged off to Hay festival and Bristol Colston Hall.

Anyway better have lunch and get back to resting ......

rosemary

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"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness" Confucius

Oh, now you've got me feeling homesick!! I was going to go down that way this week but decided that I wouldn't have enough time ..... and I'm down to my last 2 tins of lavabread!!! ..... Ah, it's too beautiful there anyway! You can't send some unsuspecting urbanite down to that coastline and expect him to want to come back to the rat metropolis! You know how it is when someone gets a lungful of clean air and a taste for water that hasn't been recycled once, let alone several times over!!! And anyway, we seem to have overlooked the fact that he's already HAD a holiday ..... what do you think that coffee break was!!!!

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"Does my bum look big in this installation?"