Amateur Musician
I had also given a couple of concerts in the local temple and played Veena as accompaniment (in place of Violin) in a full concert. Review of a concert I gave in my residence in 2003 is here. Excerpt from the concert (Alapana in Varali) is available here Varali Alaapana.. Here is a more recent recording (2019) Kalyaani Alaapana and short Thaanam -

On 1st May, 2005 I gave a 'Musical Discourse' (along with my friend Mr. M.Ganesan)on 'Thyagaraja on Sangeetha Shasthra' in our local Sabha, Sangeetha Rasikar Sangam. We sang about 15 krithis of Thyagaraja dealing with music (such as Nada loludai, Swararaga sudha etc.). I explained the meanings of the krithis and what I perceived as Thyagaraja's concepts on music. Click here for a review of this program.

Carnatic Music Software
In 1992-93 I wrote two programs for Carnatic music, Cmrasika and Cmsishya which worked in DOS and produced music using the PC Speaker.Although the sound of the PC speaker is poor in quality, the deft use of gamakams made the music sound realistic and the programs were well received.

When sound cards became standard items on PCs, I wrote 2 programs - Rasika which is the sound card version of Cmrasika and Gaayaka which is a new program enabling the entry of notation in the South Indian 'sa ri ga ma ..' style and playing it. The first version of this software had 5 upgrades and the second version (RasikaV2) with additional programs (Sishya, Student's Music Players and Novice) is the one now described in this website (second tab on the home page).

Carnatic Music Software as web pages
As more and more people are migrating to non-Windows based devices I have produced most of Rasika program as a series of web pages using the Audio synthesis capabilities of HTML5 and Javascript. Equivalent of Gaayaka program with 'S R G M..' notation, a Thalameter and Sruthis are also available as a web pages. They can be used in Windows, Linux, Mac and Android and require no installation and user can go to the web site and use them with Chrome,Firefox or Microsoft Edge browsers. The first tab on the home page of this web site gives all the details and links.

Articles
A few articles dealing with the problems of computerisation of Carnatic Music and my experiences, Analysing Gamakams with computer, automatic generation of Gamakam from bare notation etc. have been published in 'Sangeet Natak' (Journal of Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi) and elsewhere. The articles may be accessed in the articles page of this web site. An article titled 'Tracing present Carnatic Music Style to ancient Tamil Music works' by me and accepted for publication by 'Sangeet Natak' is available here.

Automatic Gamakam generation by the computer
My recent work is automatic introduction of detailed gamakam notation in bare notation. Gaayaka program plays what is typed and the notation available in books is skeletal (not depicting the gamakams). My efforts in this direction are described in http://carnatic2000.tripod.com/gamakam/index.html. The web site also has audio clips to show how the conversion has worked. The article published on the subject may be downloaded AutoGamakam.pdf. A paper was presented in the 2nd Computer Music Workshop (Istanbul, July 2012) on this subject. The video of the presentation is available here. Copy of the paper prsented there is avaialble here. I also gave a lecture demonstration on the same subject in the Music Academy on 17th Dec., 2012. A slide set of the lecture with audio is available here.

Trying Composing !
I composed a song on Vinayaka of the temple adjoining our residential complex on the occasion of the Kumbabhishekam of the temple (2011). Click here for details and audio of the song 'VarasiddhiVinayakam'. More recently I composed a Tamil kriti in Atana on the Kamala Vinayaka - the deity inside our complex. It was sung on Vinayaka Chathurthi of 2019. Click here for an audio and lyric of the song .