Threshold (LIVE) | MD Pallavi | Bindhumalini | The Engineer's Pick | S02E03 | LIVE

The Whitefield Project for the Arts and Culture presents Season 02 Episode 03 of ‘The Engineer’s Pick’. This episode features a garland of four flowers - four compositions in four languages, collectively called as ‘Threshold’; and performed by noted singers MD Pallavi and Bindhu Malini. Today’s episode is a shortened version of a near 90 minute production of the same name by the same duo.
‘Threshold’ is a musical conversation between the artistes. The production celebrates the journeys of women across continents and across generations through the stories of Hypatia, Agnodice, Kharbaoucha, Fanny Mendelson and the songs of Lalla, Lingamma, Neelamma, Goggavva, Sule Sunkkavva, Nina Simon and Meera. MD Pallavi and Bindhu Malini weave together a journey of the woman; their soulful voices are accentuated by the melodious accompaniments of the harmonium, flute, kazoo, swarmandal, udukkai, bells, ghungroo, shakers, kartal, melodica, rainmaker and the banjo. Where and when available, we encourage you to see the full production.
Thank you for the resounding reception for Episodes 01 and 02; we really have been overwhelmed by your love. ‘Threshold’ premieres TODAY (18 March 2021) on KZbin at 12 noon. Do share widely; nothing can be more helpful to artistes than receiving appreciation for their arts.
Curated and produced by sound engineer and artiste Anish Ponnanna, The Engineer’s Pick is a curation of Indian compositions in Indian languages sung and performed by Indian musicians. The compositions are delivered in a raw and minimalistic style, with extraordinary attention to the sound detail. Where possible, emerging artistes are discovered and featured on the channel.
MD Pallavi: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._D._P...
Bindhumalini Narayanaswamy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bindhu_...
Anish Ponnanna
Anish Ponnanna is a noted sound specialist and artiste specialising in live and studio music productions, theatre and large concert designs. His work on sound spans productions in a number of locations including at Bollywood. Anish holds a Bachelors degree in Science from Christ University and a Post Graduate Diploma in Audio Engineering from the SAE Institute.
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Microphones used:
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Shure KSM137 on Banjo & Percusions rb.gy/lu7pmo
Shure Beta98H/C on Harmonium rb.gy/lu7pmo
The Whitefield Project for the Arts and Culture
Founded by Sanjeeth Shetty and funded by the Sanjeeth Shetty Foundation, ‘The Whitefield Project for the Arts and Culture’ is dedicated to causes surrounding the Indian Arts and works with emerging Indian artistes. Founded in 2016, the Project has worked on a number of initiatives and programs including in the Classical Arts. The Project’s commitment to the pursuit of its objectives is reflected in the work of its leaders, musicians, faculty, students and alumni - all of who are striving to build a global community of music and meaning.
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[@rranga99]

Sometimes one feels if Gandharvas....do descend in human forms. Engineer's pick makes me feel I am transported to divine light where beings of extreme compassion and grace shower their love. Thanks sir...thanks mam...u made this mortal's day with your darshan. Pranams🙏🙏🙏

[@TheEngineersPick]

Wow! This means a lot! Thank you :)

[@KShobha-xq6sl]

V

[@Vesselofbliss]

ತುಂಬಾ ಸೊಗಸಾಗಿದೆ..ಇಬ್ಬರ ಜೋಡಿ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯದ ಮತ್ತು ಭಾವದ ಹಿಡಿತ 👌👌👏👏😍

[@drdeepashreetalvar]

I don't know anything about music. But enjoyed it very much. Very soulful... Cried with out my know ledge.... Thank you so much..

[@anjankumarabheri9279]

Absolute Treasure. DhanyavadagaLu Anish sir, Pallavi madam and Bindumalini madam. Such a grace.

[@ratnajeethkumbhar8349]

Wonderful and a big thank you to your team, MD Pallavi and Bindhumalini for bringing the core essence of rural and cultural richness!!! The powerful, soulful voices with spiritual touch of words pushes and elevates you... Poliga poliga 🙏

[@chandankm1219]

Kannada's very own Coke Studio

[@TheEngineersPick]

Thank you for the compliment. But this is very different. All the episodes are live performances from the musicians, unlike Coke Studio where they do lip sync for previously recorded audio.

[@chandrashekharaparanjape2950]

Simply extraordinary, thanks a lot.👍🙏

[@zabiullat4584]

Very melodious. Kudos to Enginee's Pick for picking two lovely humans to sing.

[@piuvbn]

Bah. Excellent conception. Carnatic music meets Mira Bai. Wish you all the best in your musical journey.

[@annapavlova9194]

Восхитительно!

[@vsubrahmanian9200]

The sharana composition is itself so pregnant with Vedantic purport. It has been so beautifully brought out by this duo. Kudos. More of such pieces from the various traditions across the spiritual world are welcome.

[@TheEngineersPick]

I’m guessing you meant “poignant” and not pregnant 😀

[@baswarajum5125]

Oh God! Such rawness..as if so close and nothing inbetween! Beautiful and so unique.. I so loved the music not be too loud allowing this rawness and beauty to blossom! Waah! 👌👌👌 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@makeyourliferoyal5565]

Fan of m d pallavi medum

[@TheSanskritChannel]

Pure Brilliance! 😍

[@TheEngineersPick]

Thank you so much! Watch the latest episode about Yellamma and Parashurama!

[@Soilpopup123]

Both you guys are doing an amazing job!

[@vkhombal]

lingamma's poems were so nice.

[@mpharsha]

"ಮೊಲೆ ಮುಡಿ ಬಂದರೆ ಹೆಣ್ಣೆಂಬರು, ಗಡ್ಡ ಮೀಸೆ ಬಂದರೆ ಗಂಡೆಂಬರು.. ಒಳಗಿರುವ ಆತ್ಮ ಹೆಣ್ಣು ಅಲ್ಲ ಗಂಡು ಅಲ್ಲ ಕಾಣ ರಾಮನಾಥ.." ಶರಣೆಯರ ವಚನವನ್ನ ಇಷ್ಟು ಇಂಪಾಗಿ ಹಾಡಿ ಅರ್ಥೈಸಿದಕ್ಕೆ ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು..

[@vindhyaprabhu147]

Pure joy listening to the 2 wonderful ladies. More power to them. My soul is filled with happiness today.

[@dryatish2102]

Hope I am not too late... Again one of the beautiful work by amazing talents. Pallavi ma'am voice never gets old for folk song and bhavageetha songs ❤️ ''Hogutha'' was really a showstopper 🔥🔥 Hope you guys come up with some more amazing songs

[@TheEngineersPick]

Ee sala cup namde 😇✌️

[@dhanushprakash4933]

The way you ❤️ people exprees a magical words🙏

[@Jyotsna_Murthy]

Feeling lucky, that I have seen this beautiful art in my college live💚

[@apekshabalakrishna9697]

This is THRESHOLD OF BLISS

[@apekshabalakrishna9697]

One can only imagine how happiness really feels like seeing them sing those poetry. I can see Astral projection of their souls.

[@TheEngineersPick]

Glad you’ve connected with it :)

[@poornimarai6130]

Love your concept. Beautiful 👌🏽👌🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@surrao2732]

Pure Gold🙏🙏

[@marijuanaut4739]

The third rendition is just beautiful!

[@RinuKariath]

'Raw and Minimalistic' perfect description. Appreciate the translation for the pieces. Helps educate the uninitiated like me for sure ! Thank you team ❤️

[@TheEngineersPick]

Glad you liked it Rinu :)

[@jenuprabhu6676]

thank you so much , you create wonders..

[@kishorereddy3319]

Lovely renditions! Thanks for bringing this via Engineers Pick

[@uthappapooja1]

Thank you for making this available online. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Hope to catch the full 1.5 hrs sometime.

[@jaikumar8506]

13:02 goosebumps!! Absolute divine!

[@ponnadi1973]

Literally goosebumps ♥️♥️♥️♥️🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@swaroopsri5613]

This is sooooooooo good❤️❤️

[@ananthapadmanabhan3365]

The value of anything is by appropriateness. Threshold is valuable and appropriate.

[@yaminiblr]

This is so so beautiful ❤ the stories, their narration and the way they presented each one of it 🙏 soulful and so full of emotions..so strong😇! Thank you for these 💟

[@TheEngineersPick]

Great to have responses like these!

[@shubajayasimha4378]

Thank you for shedding light on some beautiful poetry. Lovely renditions. Much love

[@TheEngineersPick]

Thank you for watching!

[@sahanahegde61]

This was beautiful!!

[@pran2053]

I am glad I found this channel and this video. Wow. I even love the silence in the end. Just no words literally..

[@chaitanyaranade8318]

OMG, how did I miss this for these many days. Excellent, soulful really loved it. Thank you Engineer's pick for this treasure..👏

[@shashikalagopalaswamy446]

Extremely meaningful compositions rendered beautifully by the two talented singers.hats iff

[@poojaavyuktha9491]

absolutely divine

[@mohanagowda]

Pure Brilliance...feast..:-)

[@nagarajkinnal4718]

Marvelous.

[@Turplemaple6318]

Please consider song ranganayaka rajeeva lochana and other purandara dasara songs only 1 voice is there on youtube for many of the beautiful music 🙏

[@nitheshn1583]

Wow, brilliant 👏👏👏

[@greeshmagreekz2556]

Happy 🥰🤗 all the very best

[@talkwithvishal5504]

Awesome 🥰😍

[@suchitrarajeev1933]

Excellent🙏

[@ashwathish]

This is it. Brings much needed solace to the mind. 🙏 Is it ok for me to crave for more of this !?

[@TheEngineersPick]

Glad it made a difference to your state of mind in a good way :)

[@latheshshetty7160]

Spiritual essence in every line🙏🔥 #Threshold

[@srikanth.seshagiri]

The lingamma vachana is interestingly not about men-women divide at all, it is about the experience of losing the tripuTa-the separation of the seer, the object seen and the sight itself! The sharaNas were more interested in shoonya sampaadane - the experience of the oneness than any other lesser, mundane motives like gender divide , class divide etc., though there might have been subtext of protest against all divisiveness. Though melodiously sung, the beautiful theme around which the vachana itself has been created seemed lost in the din of the ideological overtones! I will go back to enjoying the soothing melody and ignore the chatter!

[@TheEngineersPick]

Thanks for the feedback.

[@ranna.]

I loved your explanation

[@sujayanarula3913]

Amazing 👏🏼😊

[@narsinghbakolia8550]

Balihari 🙏🙏🙏

[@learnatroots]

Lovely

[@roopakulkarni2194]

Excellent,

[@meerasrinath1941]

Devine singing

[@dhanrajkalaashrama5107]

WAW....WAW....WAW

[@sonudesai5694]

Good job ❤️❤️

[@MGP_2024]

Crossing the line has so much meaning especially in the light of the fairer sex... Hope more cross the threshold because that's where the genius lies

[@_apekshith524]

Definition of engineering in musical terms 🔥

[@wants2BDr]

I am from andhra pradesh...I love engineer's pick and i mean it

[@TheEngineersPick]

Great! I will have a Telugu episode sometime soon :)

[@wants2BDr]

@@TheEngineersPick eagarly waiting :)

[@masoom_parmar]

Bliss. ❤️❤️

[@TheEngineersPick]

Cheers!

[@nandithak3735]

Bhavayaana..❤

[@shridharjavalagi6486]

Tumba chennagide.....Adre kannadadalli matadidre chennagittu.... Matte Vasu anna irabekittu

[@anusha8068]

🙏♥️

[@vijaykumarbc2773]

🔥🔥

[@vm2943]

This is like a new genre of music where both the music and meaning of the song is given importance, you guys should name the genre as well or is Threshold the name of the genre itself? My bad didn catch it the first time, I tot it was the band name : )

[@TheEngineersPick]

Hi. Threshold is the band name. This performance doesn’t particularly belong to a certain genre.

[@vm2943]

@@TheEngineersPick oh then I understood correctly, they should name their genre it is very unique and beautiful

[@TheEngineersPick]

I’ll convey this to them 😀

[@yellowNred]

🙏

[@SathishKumar-uf3rs]

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@never_mind_my_comment5044]

Yay! I got here on time!!!! Finally!

[@TheEngineersPick]

Welcome back!

[@never_mind_my_comment5044]

Also, I am so happy I get to watch it for free.😂

[@fals2000]

very cool..

[@TheEngineersPick]

Thank you Fali :)

[@ramabapat]

Loved the presentation. Especially loved the Tamil composition.

[@TheEngineersPick]

It was a Malayalam composition :)

[@ramabapat]

@@TheEngineersPick Oopsies! Knew something was off, haha!

[@basavarajgowda6752]

Wow what a mesmerising performance and the highlight is in between the ಶರಣರ story telling it's fantastic......... I like it so much.

[@sureshawasthi6563]

Dissolved !

[@rammohan1991]

15:30 , 20:30 , 9:58

[@darshandevaiahkaiblira202]

Malayalam song was 🔥

[@TheEngineersPick]

Thank you

[@rammohan1991]

what is it called

[@rammohan1991]

can I know the name of the song being played at 17:00

[@raginiiyer]

Sharanu Sharanarthi

[@rukminisirigeri4122]

Sharanu🙂

[@rammohan1991]

4:10

[@rammohan1991]

Does anyone know what is the name of malyalam song

[@ajithkumarkr1139]

👌👌👌👌👌🤝🤝🤝🤝🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️

[@Abhitheace753]

Very nice, I enjoyed it. But i think Turiya is the last and there is nothing beyond.. Turiya itself is nothingness or bliss whatever you call. Please correct me i am wrong.

[@homediaries6235]

Please upload kannada & hindi separate videos

[@amoolyanarayan2148]

No

[@samk3566]

Looks like what you have pick is bhakti geetay and the your singing style is bhava geetya which is not so soulful as it could have been. But really like the fact that you have given prominence to voice over instruments

[@TheEngineersPick]

Neither Bhakti Geethay, nor Bhava Geethay. There is no particular genre that I can fit this into. They’re talking about gender and caste system. Sometimes we need to look past boundaries.

[@samk3566]

@@TheEngineersPick agree about boundaries.. it sounds great but not soulful. Like when you had picked anayana bhat it stirred my emotions, again when you hear pallavis 'amma nina yaday' again their were tears in my eyes. Looks like the genre of poems and songs they have picked in threshold are great but the composition or style of singing is melodious but not stirrings our emotion.. No offense i usually like your choice and both pallavi and

[@TheEngineersPick]

I hope you like the other videos 🙂😇

[@basavapatnasriraj1526]

Explain in Kannada. Majarty of people enjoy.

[@punithkumarm4451]

Kannada madthadi medam

[@gokulnaidugo]

why cant you explain in kannada ,when your singing kannada song ,Im not trying to be linguistic ,saying it because even people who know only kannada can also catch up.

[@rammohan1991]

why do you need an explanation in kannada when you are singing in kannada

[@gokulnaidugo]

There is something called old kannada (halle kannada) which cannot be grabed easily by everyone ,what ever she is singing is old kannada ,what we use know is new kannada (hosa kannada) ,so basically it has to be changed from halle kannada to hosa kannada for everyone to understand

[@rammohan1991]

@@gokulnaidugo how do you account for different dialects and intellectually deficient listeners .

[@rammohan1991]

hey explain in kannada officer , where are you .

[@gokulnaidugo]

@@rammohan1991 what are you trying , your inviting me to fight? , Still i am not understanding whats your problem , i said since song is in kannada , she could have explained in kannada also , i have cleared mentioned im not linguistic , i love kannada and i respect other language , i am not kannada master , kannada literature is ocean ,Nobody can master it ,

[@SathishKumar-uf3rs]

Hello palavi mam ,mam I need to practice music with ur troop plz mam can u plz join me to ur troop or music institute can I get the details mam .plzzzzzzzzx mam i am not that good singer but I love singing I can try singing good mam plzzzzzzz

[@gopi1618]

It is like stupid hippy music

[@TheEngineersPick]

God bless the Hippies and you also.