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Of the music of the words

— Photo: Lingaraj Panda

Bipin Nayak in his study at his home in Berhampur on Sunday.

BERHAMPUR: ‘Words bear embryonic music in their wombs’, with this thought in mind, noted Oriya poet, Bipin Nayak has produced an innovative audio CD.

Mr Nayak is a name to reckon with in modern poetry. He excels in modern open verse as well as traditional lyrical poetry. As a teacher of economics in the Khallikote Autonomous College, he used to calculate and analyse the diminishing trend in the number of poetry lovers among the new generation. He was concerned over sub-standard lyrics in music albums. “It prompted me to experiment with poetry and lyrical poems through a new medium as I found that there were still people with brain and heart, who longed for good poems and music,” he said. And ‘Shabda Sangeet’, the audio CD for commercial marketing was born out of this thought process with help of some like-minded friends.

Assistant station director of Berhampur, AIR station, Shyantanu Rath, helped in preparing the total package of the audio CD. It included songs, poetry recitals, and poetic narratives based on writings of Mr Nayak. Amateur classical singers of the city have sung the lyrical poetry of Mr Nayak for this production under the music direction of Aswini Mohapatra.

The songs have famous poems of Mr Nayak as their interludes. They are recited by the poet himself. The audio CD ends with a poem where the poet finds beginning and end to be synonymous as he finds a new beginning in every end. One can hope this experimental audio CD would prove to be a welcome change in the music world of Orissa.

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