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Band History
RAVi + ALEXei = RAVALEX
Ravi Dattatreya and Alexei Ustinov international collaboration over
Internet
We got acquainted over the Internet 6 or 7 years ago, having mutual
passion for creating music while not being professional musicians. Now we
have one collaboration CD, lots of instrumental arrangements of our songs,
with live and synthetic vocals, recorded film music, a number of real
meetings in Europe and the USA, the foundation of Jasmine Music Technology
and work there: and many new plans. Thanks for visiting our page, please
listen to MP3 songs and MIDI files (they are all free!), we sincerely hope
that our musical experiments will be interesting to you.
Friendly,
Ravi, Alexei
Our comments on the first CD release
Ravi says:
"When I was a little kid, I used to listen to songs from Indian movies on
the radio. I loved and enjoyed those songs. But I always wanted to make
songs of my own. My father bought me a simple musical instrument, and my
mother taught me how to play my first musical notes on it. Over the years,
I began to collect a stock of melodies that I had created. My wife, Goda,
encouraged me enormously in every step of the way, and I still fondly
remember the day when we both went to the local music store to buy my
first electronic synthesizer, the Korg M1. My son Sriranga helped me add
harmony to some melodies. My daughter Mallika Lakshmi helped me with some
songs by adding lyrics and singing along with me. Srivatsa, the musically
talented baby of the house, hummed the melodies while doing his school
work. My friends, Chandru and Ram, helped me put together a couple of
albums published in India.
However, since I did not have any formal training in harmony and
orchestration, my songs were lonely. They were the soul waiting for a body
to get into. My search for someone to help me create something entirely
new continued.
It was then that I found Alexei on the Internet. I asked him via email if
he would work on my melodies, and he readily agreed. In "The Awakening
Soul" album you will find the result of his extreme talent applied to my
simple melodies - a blend of the Indian soul in a Russian body. You will
also see that Alexei has used his Performance Modeling technology to bring
an added dimension to the music. We also decided to launch Jasmine Music
Technology to share our technology for making music, our magic-potion for
going to 0 to Song in 60 seconds, with the entire musician community,
including both armatures and professionals. You will see the results of
our endeavors in this website. Enjoy!"
Alexei says:
"I never thought of becoming a composer. When I became forty I was an
electronics engineer, a leader of a research team and a professor of
Conservatory. All this was connected to sound and music, though. Except
for some music-making experiments in university R&R bands, I began to
compose more or less finished pieces in 1996, when the first Style
Enhancer version was released. This software, developed on the basis of
the Performance Modeling technology, was bundled with MIDI examples. I
discovered that it was much easier to make those examples on my own than
to commission them from professional composers. Later I also found that
those MIDIs are interesting in their own right - I got excellent reviews
and offers to cooperate...
I gratefully accepted one of such offers which had came from a talented
melody-maker Ravi Dattatreya. I always was attracted to oriental melodies,
so Ravi's musical ideas looked extremely interesting to me. Besides, Ravi
chose not to limit my freedom of interpretation, which was almost equally
as valuable...
Now, that "The Awakening Soul" album has become available, I sincerely
hope that our modest experiment will draw the attention of professional
and amateur musicians worldwide to the unique Performance Modeling
technology enabling them to create the really great music."
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