Chennai: Rachintan Trivedi is a musician with a difference. The resident of Kodambakkam, Chennai, collaborates with painters, architects, dancers and other visual artistes to create art that spreads awareness on societal evils.
Son of renowned Gujarati musician Raju Trivedi, Rachintan is a Commerce graduate who was introduced to music right from the age of three.
“After I decided to pursue this field, I came to Chennai and joined A R Rahman’s college in 2008. I took part in several live concerts of the legend, as a keyboard player,” he says.
The youngster’s wish to revive traditional folk music with a touch of fusion, resulted in ‘Folk Box’.
“Gujarati singer Aditya Gadhvi has joined me in this project and we both aim to take local tunes to a global level,” he adds.
On his initiative to merge art and music, he emphasises on the fact that children with special needs love upbeat music and this is the reason why he takes an artist and an illustrator along, whenever he performs at workshops at special schools and at NGOs.
“The illustrator presents his/ her work live before the little ones, after which I compose music on the spot according to the nature of the art. I also have a beat-making instrument named ‘Machine Mikro’, which has color-coded buttons. Special children feel fascinated when they press each of the buttons that give out different music each time,” he explains.
As for his future plans, Rachintan says that he aims to do a music album that is a collaboration of global artists.
He can be reached on 98846 17886.