Listen to colours

Thirty-one year old Lele is an engineer by qualification,but has dedicated his life following his calling into music. Today,apart from his performances,he is also the founder-director of Gandhaar School of Music. And he is no stranger to performances with other artistes either,having collaborated with bharatnatyam and kathak dancers. “But this will be the first time I will be performing with a visual artist. It will be interesting to see the tangible form of music,” says Lele.

Both artists exude a confident curiosity at the impromptu nature of the event. There cannot be any rehearsals to this performance and both of them are equally unaware of what the other is going to do. “Well,the point of it all is that when I sing the bhajans of Meera,he won’t be drawing the visage of Meera. He will respond to the musicality and the range of emotions expressed,” explains Lele. For Mulick,it will be an extension of his already close connection with music. In his studio,he often listens to recorded songs while painting. “There is a certain predictability about recorded music,that is absent in live performances,” says Mulick,haltingly. “Performing live with music is a chance for me to surrender myself and get out of my habit. I couldn’t have been able to do it otherwise; chances are,the experiments on the canvas may not have come about.”

Mulick and Lele also acknowledge the importance of such events in bringing together two different sets of followers. Lele especially is a firm believer of following all forms of arts,and is a self-professed film and theater buff apart from his interest in interior and landscape designing. “An artist can’t limit himself,there are no water-tight compartments here. I feel sad when some of my contemporaries feel that riyaaz in just their art form is enough to get by.”

(Triveni-Rang will be held at Art2Day gallery,near Golibar Maidan,at 10 am,on Sunday,July 10)