HUM Nishād

HUM Nishād

HUM means ‘H’ for Humanity, ‘U’ for Universe and ‘M’ for Music. And nishād is the seventh swara or the last note in the octave of Hindustani art music. In other words, it is the seventh degree of a musical scale. Under the auspices of innumerable music lovers, Mohammad Rafi Socio-Cultural Trust, HUM Nishād, has bloomed with a dream to offer the fragrance of happiness, melody and harmony among the mass. It promises to offer happiness and bliss among people with music as an elixir and therapy for many common and moribund maladies called stress and depression.
Music is one of the strongest media that fights stress and depression. It is believed that mere combination of some melodic notes that successfully resonates in the mind of the listener, truly leaves an indelible impact that directly corresponds with a person’s positive activity in life. It induces a significant dose of positive sensation that reverberates within oneself and eventually promotes happiness and peace of mind.

Vision

HUM Nishād solely believes in dissemination of happiness and compassion among the mass through different positive approaches in life. Mass means people irrespective of age groups who face challenges of life in different perspective— in one hand, for some life means tremendous pressure and competition; a never-ending fight to survive and prove to be the fittest; a chase to be the forerunner; and on the other hand for some (especially senior citizens, specially-abled group of people, people with dysfunctional challenges in life etc.) life means complete sterility; beyond a hopeful ‘tomorrow’ and without any meaning.
HUM Nishād streamlines life by helping one feel and understand competitions through the right approach. Managing competitive modes in life through positivity is the sole understanding of HUM Nishād. HUM Nishād prepares a person to face common challenges by striking out fetters like lack of confidence, indecision, depression, stress and many more through counselling; by extracting the potential from the self; helping one see the true reflection and worth of the self; making one self-sufficient and bold to face challenges in life and above all, retaining passion to visualise one’s dream in life.
The approach that HUM Nishād opts is absolute optimism and living with passion. HUM Nishād orients one’s psyche through continuous celebration, which means perennial grooming of the self without stress. It promotes the value of the ‘I’, which means the self that resides in every soul— Ātmavat sarva bhuteśu is what HUM Nishād strongly upholds. Music, as HUM Nishād believes, plays one of the pivotal roles in curbing some of the toughest challenges in life. Music is the path that leads to immortal bliss.
HUM Nishād celebrates both tradition and modernity. It celebrates music and helps one immerse oneself in its richness; explore its idiom; discover its nuances and preserve its timeless essence. It is an exploration of world music in its entirety. From promoting an understanding, learning and creating music - vocal and instrumental, to building a musical bond between all music lovers, the artiste and the rasika (lovers of music), and creating
an archival treasure of music – it’s the gamut that HUM Nishād offers as a bud. It dreams to bloom and unfurl its petals with a view to promoting more and more happiness and music with time.

Mission

HUM Nishād, a forum that stands for humanity, universe and music, believes in seeing dream and enlivening passion for something irrespective of age, debility and dysfunctional challenges. Music, it believes, has the power to uphold one’s desire to live even in old age. It resonates with the soul to unify oneself with the Almighty.
HUM Nishād, dedicates its entire endeavour for inducing music as a panacea among the mass. Music, as we believe, has immense potential to restrain and also cure some of the maladies detrimental to not only an individual’s metal and physical health but also society in a whole. HUM Nishād is thus born to offer substantial relief through music.

HUM Nishād’s mission—
• Value education through music among children (age between 10-18 years) along with formal training in various musical genres.
• Yoga and Music as a therapy and relief to de-stress professionally hard pressed individuals.
• Training and organising performing art sessions for senior citizens and differently-abled people in order to visualize a ‘tomorrow’, which seems to have disappeared from their life.
• Language training sessions for correct dissemination of thoughts and basic ethics in order to prevent misunderstanding among people.
• Publication of novel thoughts, contributions, achievements and success of HUM Nishād’s members through bi-annual journal.

Courses Offered

Faculty: Dr Sanchita Choudhury
Regular Course in Academics- Soft Skills, Communication Practice, Personality Grooming (Duration: 6 months)
Regular Courses in Music:-
• Vocal
Hindustani Art Music (Classical): (Duration- 1 year to 8 Years)
Hindustani Art Music is the ancient genre of structured musical form of Northern India. It is one of the unique musical genres that provides with a platform to present one’s creative faculty of music through a pattern that indulges ultimate liberty. Performance here is a constant discovery of one’s creativity which gets honed and developed with formal training. HUM Nishād provides its students an opportunity to learn Hindustani Art Music through structured curricula, able guidance, continuous care, examination, follow-up programme and periodical stage performances through different levels based on an individual’s progress. A student here acquires the ability to improvise musical phrases with the use of basic elements of music like melody and rhythm.
Light Classical: (Duration- 4 years minimum)
This course trains a student to conceptualise and display intricate nuances of voice through mild classical renditions and songs like Thumri, Dadra, Ghazal, Kajri, Kafi, Qawwali etc. Students are also trained here how to perform these genres by paying attention to the techniques of both singing and abhinaya or overall performance including body language.
Folk: (Duration- 2 years minimum)
One of the most ancient musical genres of the world is folk or tribal music. HUM Nishād trains its students how to render folk numbers with appropriate emotion, body language, voice modulation and rustic accentual technicalities. Folk music of Odisha, Bengal, Assam, Punjab, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Chhatisgargh, Bihar and many other provinces are taught here. HUM Nishād plans to organise exclusive cultural programmes on folk music.
Devotional/ Bhajan: (Duration- 2 years minimum)
Devotional/cult songs or Bhajans or Shloka chanting is one of the exclusive programmes of HUM Nishād. Students are taught how to develop the emotion of devotion while rendering these songs. Special care and attention is paid to help one develop correct pronunciation of Sanskrit words with apt accent, stress and emotion.
Bollywood: (Duration- 1 year minimum)
Contemporary as well as old Bollywood songs of different legendary artistes are taught thematically to help a student get ready for the toughest stage or media sponsored competitions. A student is groomed as a complete stage as well as studio performer/artiste, much ready for the tough competitive world.
Voice Yoga: (Duration- 6 Months)
This unique course provides the right path to chisel one’s voice and tonal quality. It lays the foundation for acquiring stability, clarity and versatility of voice and tone. It imparts training on how to control breath and produce maximum beauty of voice through modulation, vibration, volume and dexterity.