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Tune into history
Updated On: 08 January, 2020 09:30 AM IST | Mumbai | Dalreen Ramos
The CSMVS museum bus for children enters second leg, showcasing the journey of sound and music through Indian classical instruments
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The outdoor panels display the ancient musical bow, dutar and tanpura. Pics/Atul Kamble
Classical music can be thought of in many ways: soothing, a background score or simply inaccessible. That's why stepping into the new Citi-CSMVS Museum on Wheels bus docked at the city museum's premises is necessary. It forces you to erase all preconceived notions, and to start from scratch — the definition of sound and musical sound. The exhibition housed inside the vehicle is titled In Tune: The Journey from Sound to Music and has been in the works for seven months. The MoW project is headed by Vaidehi Savnal and Joyoti Roy. Primarily aimed towards schoolchildren, it will travel to schools in the state post the inauguration today, which features maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain.
Nandita Krishna, education facilitator at CSMVS, who is helming the project, takes us through all 15 exhibits, developed in collaboration with the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) and well-curated with bite-sized information that kids can easily digest. "I'm not a musician and had to do lots of research. It entailed consulting Dr Suvarnalata Rao at the NCPA as well as scanning JSTOR articles and going on field trips. It had to go through a lot of drafts and the challenge was to not make it complicated for children," she maintains.
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