Introduction:
Can we transfer creative strategies from other artistic domains into music creation? Can a sequence of sounds be composed the way a choreographer composes a sequence of movements in space, a poet composes an arrangement of words, a novelist follows characters through a plot? Can music be staged the same way a director stages a play or a visual artist conceives an installation? The "Ecstasies of Influence" (EoI) research-creation project will explore inter-artistic ways of conceiving, creating and composing musical performances and productions, influenced by dialogues with and transfers from other artistic practices.

This project is happening simulteniously in Concordia University Montreal, Ensemble Extrakte, Berlin, and FLAME University , Pune. The Pune leg of the project will start on 1st August 2019 and the final performance would be on 14th Auguston Flame University campus. The artists’ ensemble called “Sangeet Prayog” from Pune will be participating as performers. The members of the Ensemble Sangeet Prayog are- Aparna gurav and Sameer Dublay as vocalists, Charudatt Phadke – Tabla. Govind Bhilare- Pakhawaj Pramod Gayakwad- Shehnai. Renowned Architect Mr. Rahul Rawat and  FLAME University’s dance professor Priya joshi are artistic resource partners from Pune: and Deborah Carruthers, conceptual artist, Montréal Ramesh Vinayakam, composer, Chennai are  also part of the Artistic resource partners’ team for this project. Prof. Sharmdeep Basu from Bengaluru would be working with us as the critical respondent.

FLAME University’s Music Prof. Sameer Dublay is the Co- Director of the project’s Pune  Creation. The Director of the project is Prof. Sandeep Bhagwati, eminent composer/theorist/Musicologist from Montreal/ Berlin.

The research creation project will also feature series of lectures by participating professors and a symposium on “Translating into Music and Translating from Music”. Details will be announced soon.