Sitar music will be performed — Indian ragas played on this ancient instrument. Ragas are meditative and dynamic: they develop like a flower or other life form, from the first notes to a riotous blossoming of all the colors the musician strives to convey, changing the listener’s mind. The raga is unique; it can only be roughly placed alongside some other Eastern musical systems or placed frivolously between free jazz and classical music. The performer improvises within a certain canon, adding more and more melodic structures, creating plotlines. Performing a raga is like writing an essay on a given topic or painting a picture that never ends.

The music will be interspersed with the author’s poetic works, which will form their own layer — poems that contain philosophy — about time and love — about the eternal, nature and social landscapes…

Keywords: fate, chance, Creation, House, Petrovich, tourist, things, You, We, meaning.

The performer welcomes questions about music (what? raga? history?), about the instrument or about the works’ meaning of the work.

Boris Solozhenkin (Martin) is an active philosopher (PhD), musician and poet. He has been studying Indian classics for over 10 years and poetry for his entire adult life. He is an author of articles in scholarly journals, of books, and for “Apraksin Blues.”