Is it a bird, is it a plane, no, it's bamboo!
UnniKrishna Pakkanar uses bamboo to speak out against the destruction of the environment. He raises awareness about conserving the Western Ghats and Athirapally in particular through bamboo instruments and folk tunes with a team of friends. All of them hailing from Trissur live near the Chalakudy river.
10 years and 10 specialist musicians between them have made music from 60 instruments, each with its own timbre. Each tune that breathes from the bamboo celebrates different things- natures, God, music and the environment. It was this band of musicians along with local residents of Chalakudy who put a bamboo spoke so to speak in government plans to build a dam to harness the Athirapally waterfall that plunges into their beloved river. Just days ago it was Unnikrishna’s bamboo symphony that inaugurated the Mumbai International Film Festival 2012 for shorts, documentaries and animation films.
Taking the movement further is UnniKrishna’s Institute of Bamboo Music.
For further details of where you can see his team play or learn at his Institute
Contact:
UnniKrishna Pakkanar
Kottanelloor.P.O.Trissur District
Kerala – 680672
Mobile: 91 9048 529 921, 9495 637 737
Email: pakkanar@gmail.com
Listen in to the recreation of the sounds of the forest be it chirping birds or ripple of the river…www.youtube.com/user/pakkanar
UnniKrishna Pakkanar uses bamboo to speak out against the destruction of the environment. He raises awareness about conserving the Western Ghats and Athirapally in particular through bamboo instruments and folk tunes with a team of friends. All of them hailing from Trissur live near the Chalakudy river.
10 years and 10 specialist musicians between them have made music from 60 instruments, each with its own timbre. Each tune that breathes from the bamboo celebrates different things- natures, God, music and the environment. It was this band of musicians along with local residents of Chalakudy who put a bamboo spoke so to speak in government plans to build a dam to harness the Athirapally waterfall that plunges into their beloved river. Just days ago it was Unnikrishna’s bamboo symphony that inaugurated the Mumbai International Film Festival 2012 for shorts, documentaries and animation films.
Taking the movement further is UnniKrishna’s Institute of Bamboo Music.
For further details of where you can see his team play or learn at his Institute
Contact:
UnniKrishna Pakkanar
Kottanelloor.P.O.Trissur District
Kerala – 680672
Mobile: 91 9048 529 921, 9495 637 737
Email: pakkanar@gmail.com
Listen in to the recreation of the sounds of the forest be it chirping birds or ripple of the river…www.youtube.com/user/pakkanar
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