Sound
Music
Hindustani classical vocals, riyaz, and the discipline of listening.
Before AI, there was riyaz.
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I started training in Hindustani classical music around the age of five — years of riyaz before any code. It was never a hobby I dabbled in. It's the first thing I went deep enough on to actually master, and that depth is where the rest of how I think came from: patience, structure, attention, and the ability to stay with complexity for a long time.
The point was never to do many things. Breadth is cheap — almost anyone can get slightly-above-average at a lot of them. What's rare is depth: staying with one thing long past where it stops being fun. Music is where I learned that, and systems is where I do it again. Sound and systems aren't a job beside a hobby; they're two depths that compound.
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Featured: a retro wrap-up
An end-of-session look back across the recordings — the closest thing to a single thread through the practice.
Featured: a retro wrap-up
An end-of-session look back across the recordings — the closest thing to a single thread through the practice.
Breadth is cheap. Depth is the only thing that compounds.
Most people collect skills. I went the other way — one practice, started at five, years deep before anything else. Music is where I learned to stay with a thing long past the point it stops being fun. Systems is where I do it again. The rare part was never the range; it's the two depths.
Practice
What the training built
अभ्यास
Training
Hindustani classical vocals from childhood — years of riyaz before any line of code.
Raag
Improvisation inside strict structure: the same constraint-and-freedom that good systems live by.
Listening
Deep listening as a skill — catching the small thing that is slightly off, in a phrase or in a latency graph.
Channel
Performances & recordings
More performance clips, covers, and original compositions — on the channel.
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