The Indoencers - An Insight Into Indian Music
Dec 29, 2025 · 1 hr 22 min · 11 segments
On this episode on The Indoencers Podcast, I sat down with the creative powerhouse that is Sindhu Vasudevan! As an accomplished singer, dancer, composer and vocal arranger, she has had quite the…
And, you know, speaking of, you know, doing different things throughout high school, something interesting, I think, for any NRI or NRI musician is inevitably you come to a stage where you're doing both Indian classical music and the sort of Western choral music at the same time.
And same for me as well.
And personally, it's something I struggled with a little bit because, you know, they're two completely different sort of musical identities.
You, you know, use your voice in completely different ways.
And You know, if the two worlds start to merge in unintentional ways, the way you sing starts to get a bit murky.
How was the experience for you? Like once, you know, Hindustani came into the picture in middle school, once the sort of Western vocals and choral vocals came into the picture as well.
Like, was there ever a process of like needing to sort of silo these different vocal expressions and be like, okay, Carnatic, I sing this way, Hindustani, I sing this way.
Or was it something where you were able to naturally move from one style to another?
I think it kind of started just a little bit before high school when I started being in choir and that kind of thing.
This kind of process started just a little bit before middle school when I started singing more film stuff and using my voice differently than classical music.
And I don't think I necessarily... was able to fully tell you the vocal technique that I was using, you know, when I sang film songs versus classical music, where especially in gunatic music, you have to use that strength.
So I think generally that was something I realized is like oh okay I have to use my voice slightly differently when I sing film versus um or not even just film but just like non-classical music versus um you know then when it came to choir is when I really understood and really um like increase my knowledge in vocal technique and I think that's not necessarily something that we are taught inherently in classical Indian classical music um of course my teachers did a great job teaching the music but I think a lot of the vocal health the vocal technique how to use your voice properly um how to modulate your voice a lot of that came from my western training um And I think it's when I worked with like my vocal coach when I was in high school, which was it was kind of a mandatory program that I had to do as part of choir.
But that really helped because that's when I really realized, OK, I have to do I have to use my voice like this.
And that's kind of, I did, I think I did have to kind of, like you said, silo the way that I use my voice.
For choir, I would predominantly use my head voice, or for karmatic, I would always use my chest voice.
And, you know, speaking of, you know, doing different things throughout high school, something interesting, I think, for any NRI or NRI musician is inevitably you come to a stage where you're doing both Indian classical music and the sort of Western choral music at the same time.
And same for me as well.
And personally, it's something I struggled with a little bit because, you know, they're two completely different sort of musical identities.
You, you know, use your voice in completely different ways.
And You know, if the two worlds start to merge in unintentional ways, the way you sing starts to get a bit murky.
How was the experience for you? Like once, you know, Hindustani came into the picture in middle school, once the sort of Western vocals and choral vocals came into the picture as well.
Like, was there ever a process of like needing to sort of silo these different vocal expressions and be like, okay, Carnatic, I sing this way, Hindustani, I sing this way.
Or was it something where you were able to naturally move from one style to another?
I think it kind of started just a little bit before high school when I started being in choir and that kind of thing.
This kind of process started just a little bit before middle school when I started singing more film stuff and using my voice differently than classical music.
And I don't think I necessarily... was able to fully tell you the vocal technique that I was using, you know, when I sang film songs versus classical music, where especially in gunatic music, you have to use that strength.
So I think generally that was something I realized is like oh okay I have to use my voice slightly differently when I sing film versus um or not even just film but just like non-classical music versus um you know then when it came to choir is when I really understood and really um like increase my knowledge in vocal technique and I think that's not necessarily something that we are taught inherently in classical Indian classical music um of course my teachers did a great job teaching the music but I think a lot of the vocal health the vocal technique how to use your voice properly um how to modulate your voice a lot of that came from my western training um And I think it's when I worked with like my vocal coach when I was in high school, which was it was kind of a mandatory program that I had to do as part of choir.
But that really helped because that's when I really realized, OK, I have to do I have to use my voice like this.
And that's kind of, I did, I think I did have to kind of, like you said, silo the way that I use my voice.
For choir, I would predominantly use my head voice, or for karmatic, I would always use my chest voice.
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