Someone not in my shoes would perhaps get frustrated and would have to move around schedules. He adds that these learnings have helped compose background music for films.īut, has his musical and technological paths crossed? “Yes, my technological skills helps me understand when the softwares I use for music composition encounter bugs. Mano Murthy holds ‘Arranging an Orchestration’ degree from Berklee College of Music and ‘Advanced Music Theory’ from the University of California, complementing his Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering (University of California) and Computer Science (Stanford).
In retrospect, he sees it in good light as he left to the US for further studies, pointing out that “a comfortable living is difficult to make as a musician, despite talent. “One fine day, I look for my drum kit, and my friends tell me that my dad has taken it away.” “While pursuing engineering in Bangalore, I started a four-member band, Sonics,” which amplified his love for musical performances and muted his interest in academics. And my parents’ gift for acing SSLC was a drum set.”īut imagine the aspiring artiste’s distraught when the drums were take away. With no internet, I would visualise drumming techniques and then audiolise music. At the time when LP s ruled the music scene, there were portraits of musicians on their covers. Then, he “often listened to Western pop music - Rolling Stones, The Beatles and others. “At age three or younger, when taken to weddings, I would park myself in front of the orchestra and concentrate on the percussion instruments - correlate hand movements with the sounds coming out of the instruments. Well, the markings of becoming a musician were all there. I enjoy juggling the two streams,” says the engineer and much-sought-after music director of the Kannada film industry, whose has composed tunes for films America America (1995), Nanna Preethiya Hudugi (2001), Mungaru Male (2005), Milana (2007) etc. “It keeps the other side of my mind occupied. And alongside this setup is his laptop from where he takes care of his network-security company, Attivo. (He has one such music studio at his Californian home, where his family stays). When you meet Mano Murthy at his house in Bangalore, you also see his music studio, where now the composition for the upcoming Kannada film Shankara is ongoing.
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