Projects & Discoveries

1:
The Logic of Defreezing the Music from the Building Architecture, started from Vitruvius (80 -15 BC), and pursued by Iannis Xenakis, among many others in the modern era, was finally discovered by Dr.Vee, as the Project Consultant of the on-going R & D project at National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India, with patent and published in SCI journal ‘Multimedia Tools and Applications – Springer‘

2:
The musical phonetics of the letters in ancient Tamil texts & its complimentary dimension in the Shiva Sutras ( Śivasūtrāṇi) or Māheśvara Sūtrāṇi in the Aṣṭādhyāyī of Pāṇini, in Sanskrit

Published ‘Musical Phonetics in Tholkappiam’ in the December 2013  issue of the journal from the International Institute of Tamil Studies, Chennai

3:
Musical Threads – A New Musicological Concept discovered from the Ancient Indian Music’ published in in Sangeet Natak (Vol XLII, Number 3, 2008 )

This discovery revealed the minute role of the musical acoustic parameters in world music.

4:
MUXEL–A New Concept in Digital Music for Enhanced Aesthetics‘ – Like PIXEL in visual graphics, MUXEL in musical aural graphics, was the result of the convergence of the above discovery ‘Musical Threads’ with ‘Sruthi’ concept, and ‘MICROSOUND’.

“The concept of “Muxel” as opposed to “Pixel” has undoubtly a creative potential, which is worth to be further developed.”- Comment from Robert Peck, Editor in Chief, Journal of Mathematics and Music, SCI Journal.

5:
Critical review of the ‘Raga Sputa Method’ – ancient Indian music composing technique, by late Abraham Pandithar, & refining the method for computer based music composing.

6:
New Music teaching for music illiterates, but computer literates; Validated at NIT-T & SASTRA University, India.

7:
Pitfalls in the present teaching of the Grammar of Tamil Poems (‘yAppilakkaNam’- யாப்பிலக்கணம் )  ( Related research articles published in http://musicresearchlibrary.net/omeka/ & the book ‘தமிழ் இசையியல் புதிய கண்டுபிடிப்புகள்’ (2009)  )

8:
The acoustic technique of importing foreign language words into Tamil. Published ‘tholkAppiam and the use of Sanskrit words in Tamil, ‘ The Journal of Sanskrit Academy’ – Vol XX – 2010.

 9:
Tamil Musicology In Thirukural” project funded by Ministry of Human resource Development (Govt of India) completed in 2010.

10:
Dr.Vee had composed Music for International Award winning video documentary ‘Stagnation’-1997, historical documentary ‘Poompuhar’-1998 in DD (Indian Govt. Owned T.V] Debut Music album ‘Let’s Go Green’ (fusion)-1999 and concert at Chennai Museum Theater involving Kalashethra Artists during January 2000 and many unpublished compositions of experimental music.

11:
ON SOCIAL GROWTH & FORM and SOCIAL NUCLEATION” , long term project, inspired by the book ‘ON GROWTH AND FORM’ BY D’ARCY WENTWORTH, dealing with animate from plants to the humans.

Doctoral Thesis (Ph.D 1996) discoveries:

1:
Percussion Grammar for all world percussion instruments; discovered from the ancient Tamil texts;

published  in the  International Conference on Arts & Humanities, HawaII, USA, Jan, 2006

2:

Ancient Pitch Standard from the ancient Tamil texts & identifying the pitfalls in the pitch standard calculations of Vipulananda Adigal.

Published in the journal from the International Institute of Tamil Studies, Chennai.

3:
Identifying the pitfalls with respect to the ‘vattappalai’ findings of Abraham Pandithar. 

Published in chapter 12. ‘Thamizh Icaiyiyal – puthiya kaNtupitippukaL’ – தமிழ் இசையியல் புதிய கண்டுபிடிப்புகள் (2009)

4:
Tuning of string & percussion instruments from the ancient Tamil texts. 

Published in chapter 11. ‘Thamizh Icaiyiyal – puthiya kaNtupitippukaL’ – தமிழ் இசையியல் புதிய கண்டுபிடிப்புகள் (2009)