Kartikeya is a modern renaissance musician and composer whose talents
and inspiration span myriad genres, instruments and technologies.
His life journey has been similarly diverse - from Berklee College of Music
in Boston, to a Hindu monastery in Hawaii, to multiple bands and a recording
engineering job at Music Together in New Jersey - musically and otherwise,
Kartikeya has demonstrated polite disregard for the conventional.
He performs regularly in kirtan (popular in the emergent yoga communities
around the globe), jazz, rock-country-blues bands, world-beat ensembles
and children's music concerts and recordings.
Whether on acoustic or electronic drum set, hand drums, eclectic percussion
or keyboards, Kartikeya seeks to connect deeply to the music "as it happens,"
to support and enhance the group expression. He is routinely found working
behind a mixing console or recording desk, rounding out his musical role as
audio engineer and producer.
I feel like I must b e the musical equivalent of that proverbial c
Kartikeya is a modern renaissance musician and composer whose talents
and inspiration span myriad genres, instruments and technologies.
His life journey has been similarly diverse - from Berklee College of Music
in Boston, to a Hindu monastery in Hawaii, to multiple bands and a recording
engineering job at Music Together in New Jersey - musically and otherwise,
Kartikeya has demonstrated polite disregard for the conventional.
He performs regularly in kirtan (popular in the emergent yoga communities
around the globe), jazz, rock-country-blues bands, world-beat ensembles
and children's music concerts and recordings.
Whether on acoustic or electronic drum set, hand drums, eclectic percussion
or keyboards, Kartikeya seeks to connect deeply to the music "as it happens,"
to support and enhance the group expression. He is routinely found working
behind a mixing console or recording desk, rounding out his musical role as
audio engineer and producer.
I feel like I must b e the musical equivalent of that proverbial c