SAMPRADAYA (which literally means "handing down of tradition") is essentially a resource centre for South Indian music traditions. It serves as a resource centre by documenting, archiving, researching and disseminating the various aspects of the richly vast South Indian music heritage.
Sampradaya was founded in1980 by two students of South Indian music. Michael Nixon, a student of the veena & Ludwig Pesch, a student of the flute, under the inspiration & general guidance of the late Savithri Rajan, founded Sampradaya with the purpose of documenting 'Sampradaya Sangeetham'.
SAMPRADAYA's work centers around two linked objectives:
* to bring to light and help preserve those valuable areas of South India's music traditions which have been overlooked or neglected by commercial music producers and concert organisers.
* to provide free access to these music traditions through documenting and archiving of recordings, interviews, books, journals and manuscripts.
In the pursuance of these objectives SAMPRADAYA has been involved in the following activities:
* arranging specially conceived public concerts and in-camera recordings covering musical subjects in critical need of documentation: schools and styles of music, composers, musicians, compositional genres and so on.
* conducting in-depth taped interviews of eminent Carnatic musicians so as to document their experiences, their views on musical practice, theory, technique and pedagogy.
* organising workshops and seminars focussing on central elements in Carnatic music and other South Indian music genres.
* making surveys and conducting field-trips with the object of systematically documenting folk and other forms of traditional South Indian music.
* collecting and organising documentary materials relevant to the understanding of South Indian music traditions in the form of books, manuscripts, journals, photographs and newspaper articles.
* housing and organising all these resources ( indexed, catalogued and transcribed ) in its library.SAMPRADAYA's Audio Listening Library is the only one of its kind in South India where the public has free access to music recordings and archival collections. The SAMPRADAYA listening library has the facility of eight seperate music listening stations.
* publishing song-notation books and monographs on music. SAMPRADAYA also brings out a quarterly newsletter aimed at disseminating its documentary and research materials.
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