SAI SHRAVANAM

Music Producer/Engineer & Musician
RESOUND INDIA®
Music Production and Sound Technology

A Skilled Musician, Music Engineer/Producer and Entrepreneur, Sai Shravanam has created a benchmark quality in all of his endeavors with a Single minded devotion towards MUSIC.

Uniquely recognized as a one of the few Classically Trained Sound Designers in the country, Sai Shravanam has developed his talents through years of experience in recording music, bringing musicians the masterful chemistry necessary to produce their best.

With his constant thirst for music and technology, he wanted to establish a concrete bridge in Indian Classical Music between Artistes and Modern Technology. He initiated a humble startup in the year 2007, Resound India®.He has successfully completed 14 Years of Professional Music Production with all the Premier Artistes of our Country, International artistes and the most prestigious Music Labels around the World.

He has gained the confidence with artistes of great caliber in the field of Classical Music and Classical Dance with his innate ability of being a catalyst to amalgamate their ideas with his expertise in technology and creativity, without losing the soul (Bhav) or flow of classical music in this modern era.

His innate capacity as Musician coupled with commendable Sound recording and production ability has given him a unique stature in the Indian Classical Music arena. He has turned Science into Art which has changed the perspective of Classical Music recording in India.

Considered as one of the rare engineers who has dedicated his career concentrating on recording, archiving and producing Classical Indian Music.

Sai has arranged music, engineered and mastered records for the last 12 years with premier artistes which have received various awards and credentials Worldwide. His works have spanned over 500+ professional Projects.

In the year 2012, his versatility fetched him commendable recognition as a Sound Recordist/Additional Engineer for the Academy award winning film “Life of Pi” by 20th Century Fox, directed by Ang Lee.

In the year 2015, he was the first to be credited cumulatively as Indian Music Producer, Music Arranger, Scoring and Recording Engineer & Musician for the Blockbuster Bio Epic Movie “THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY”, a Hollywood film on the legendary Mathematician Ramanujam directed by Matt Brown, Music by Coby Brown. He was chosen to interpret and record Indian Music over Western compositions for the Movie “The Man Who Knew Infinity”.

Madhura Murali Purashkar given specially by Dr. Balamurali Krishna for being the only Sound Recordist who has specialized in recording Indian Classical Music.

Both in Sound/Music Productions, Sai Shravanam has worked in various cross cultural and experimental Music endeavors with composers/artistes such as Dr. Balamurali Krishna, Lalgudi Jayaraman, Karaikudi Mani, Rajkumar Bharathi, Mandolin Shrinivas, Bombay Jayashri, Sudha Raghunathan, Aruna Sairam, Eero Hameenniemi, Mike Herting, Justin Stanley, Coby Brown, Michael Koehler and many others.

In the field of Indian Classical Dance, Sai has recorded most of India’s greatest exponents such a Sudha Rani Raghupathi, Chitra Visweswaran, Leela Samson, Alarmelvalli, Malavika Sarukkai, Priyadarshini Govind apart from many others.

Highlights:

First to introduce “Seamless Project Workflow” for Classical Indian Music & Dance recordings with variable tempo maps that abides to traditional styles of practice. This is usually not incorporated with modern recording techniques using a metronome, ensuring integrity in the music composition without disturbing its flow.

Known for Capturing true sounds of Indian Instruments and Voice by creating unique natural sounding rooms with floating floors that retain instrument resonance, wooden rooms that enhance the right frequencies in voice. This is primordially the most important element in capturing Classical Music.

Being a musician himself, he is self equipped with handling musically challenging projects both melodically and rhythmically. This ensures the best content captures from all the artistes even in the absence of composers and directors.

As an Artiste:

As a Self-Trained Tabla player, Sai Shravanam gave his first performance as a Tabla player at the tender age of Seven and since then has performed extensively with various acclaimed Artistes world over.

His versatility extends into his abilities to perform various Percussion instruments, Piano and is well versed in Music arrangements and Score writing.

He won the Child Prodigy Award “Ugadi Purashkar” for Tabla along with some of the most renowned artistes in the year 1996

In 2017 he received the Sangeet natak akademi awards Yuva Puraskar in Music for Dance

Recognized as the only student representing and winning Inter-University competitions for Six consecutive years, Nationwide, by the Ministry of Youth Affairs, Govt. of India.
` In the Indian film industry, Sai Shravanam has performed exclusively only for the legendary Music composer A.R. Rahman both in his soundtracks as well as live performances.

His Performance have been a part of many blockbuster movies like The Man who knew Infinity, Rockstar, Kochadaiyaan, Million Dollar Arm, The Hundred Foot Journey, Kaviya Thalaivan, Tamasha, KABALI, OK Jaanu, Bhairavaa, Kaala and many others.

Has performed in some of the most prestigious concert venues with musicians and dancers, like the Kennedy Center, Royal Albert hall, Queen Elizabeth hall, Esplanade Theatre, Kilkenny Festival, White Light festival amongst many others.

As a Composer:

Sai Shravanam’s ability to compose has been the greatest strength to his being an artiste as well as an Engineer/Producer.

His in-depth knowledge in rhythm, melody and score writing has allowed him to compose music right from the age of 14.

His first commercial album “Confluence of Elements” was released in the year 2007 which today is regarded as one of the most uniquely executed world music album in the country sung by Bombay Jayashri.

Since 2004, Sai has been composing for background scores in Theatre, Instrumental and Vocal Albums, Re-recordings and Films. Till date Sai’s work as a composer have spanned over 75 projects.

He has also conceived and directed many live concerts for premiere Musicians which have a special mention in the press for raising bars in the concert scenario. - “Listening to Life-Bombay Jayashri, Rang Abhang-Aruna Sairam, Strings and Song-Sikkil Gurucharan and Shweta Mohan, Angkor-Singapore Esplanade, Aikya-Abhishek Radhuram and Sanjeev Abhyankar” to name a few.

In November 2015, Sai has played a very important role in arranging, executing and performing in a mammoth International project Global Sai Symphony consisting of Musicians from 18 countries, 111 artistes and eminent soloists from all over the world composed by Conducted by Dr. Michael Koehler from the Leipzig Philharmonic Orchestra and composed by Mike Herting from Germany.

Academics

Master of Computer Application (M.C.A) – University of Madras 2004
Gold Medal in Final project “ Music Synthesis and Production using computers”

Advance studies and project research in Speech Recognition from IIT Madras (Project Associate 2004-2006)
Developed the First professional Voice Recording Suite in IIT Madras – Application in Speech recognition and speech research projects

Areas of Work and Expertise

Classical Music, Classical Dance, Music for theatre, Broadcast and Radio, Commercial Films, Wildlife Film and Documentary, Advertisements, Sound FX and Foley, Broadcast Voice Over, Archival, Sound Acoustics.

International Music Research Projects

Frequency Analysis of Tanpura and application in Medical science for healing through music. Capturing the intricate sounds of the Tanpura on analogue medium and analysis of various resonances and harmonics that it produces. A collaborative research with Eliaz Caden from Germany.

A project in collaboration with Harvard Medical School and Ramachandra Medical College Interleaving Indian Classical Music and Recording and Analysis of Soufflé Sound inside mother’s womb. A Music product development to be played for premature Babies.

IIT Madras : Speech recognition A Project analyzing, recording and simulating the phonics of various Indian languages capturing over 200,000 phonetics. The current Interactive Voice Response System (IVR) development available in all telecom and mobile technology.

Special Projects

Archival of Vedas for 6 years (Rig, Krishna Yajur, Shukla Yajur and Sama) spanning over thousands of hours of Professional Recordings.

Archival of Palghat Mani Iyer Recordings one of the most difficult projects to execute. The source recordings Signal noise ratio was low. A careful handling of noise reduction without losing the elements of harmonics and overtones of the instrument was successfully done in 2012

Archival of “Kalakshetra” Repertoire since the year 2008 till date. Professional audio recordings of age old compositions and their traditional music content.

Some of the prominent Artistes Recorded and Produced (Many more not listed)

  • Lalgudi Jayaraman Dr. Balamurali Krishna
    Guru Karaikudi Mani
    Mandolin Shrinivas
    R. Visweswaran
    Bombay Sisters
    Nedunuri Krishnamoorthy
    T.N. Seshagopalan
    T.N. Krishnan
    P.S. Narayanswamy
    Aruna Sairam
    Sudha Raghunathan
    Bombay Jayashri
    T.M. Krishna
    O.S. Arun
    Malladi Brothers
    Ranjini Gayathri
    S. Sowmya
    Sikkil Gurucharan
    A.K. Palanivel
    Mannargudi Vasu
    Chitraveena Ravikiran
    A. Kanyakumari
    Ganesh Kumaresh
    Lalgudi Vijayalakjshmi
    Rajesh Vaidya
    Balasai
    Sikkil Mala Chandrashekar

  • Sudha Rani Raghupathi
    Chitra Visweshwaran
    Leela Samson
    Alarmelvalli
    Malavika Sarukkai
    Priyadarshini Govind
    Kalakshetra Institution
    Kalamandalam Kerala
    Urmila Sathyanarayanan
    Rajeshwari Sainath
    Parvathi Ravi Ghantasala


  • AR. Rahman
    Illayaraja
    Rajkumar Bharathi
    Coby Brown
    Mike Herting
    Justin Stanley
    Mychael Danna
    Shekar Dattatri
    P.C. Ramakrishna
    Michael Koehler




  • Ustad Amjad Ali Khan
    Ayaan Ali Khan
    Pandit Nayan Ghosh
    Pandit Ronu Majumdar
    Pandit Debashish Battacharya
    Subha Mudgal
    Uday Bhawalkar
    Murad Ali