Dec 20 2025 to Dec 20 2025 7:30 p.m.

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Where

Sabha Blr

No.44/A, Kamaraj Road, Bharati Nagar, Shivaji Nagar, Bengaluru 560042

Event Description

This very special solo guitar concert has been composed and curated by Konarak Reddy, to offer the audience a meditative and transportive experience.

Konarak’s compositions for CARBON emerged from wondering about the frequencies of joy and consciousness, the romance of darkness and light. Memories of Isaac Albéniz’ Asturias. Chick Corea’s Spain and Bill Evans’ harmonic explorations in Blue in Green. Perhaps you might remember the lines “We are stardust, we are golden, billion year old carbon..." Or, Craig Santos Perez’s riff on Pablo Neruda’s Sonnet XVII “I love you like this because we'll only survive / in the nitrogen rich compost of our embrace, / so close that your emissions of carbon are mine, / so close that your sea rises with my heat.” Perhaps the nature of carbon can awaken new mysteries for us.

Konarak Reddy is a guitar virtuoso from Bangalore. His finger-style playing, using his thumb in lieu of a pick, is extremely rare. He has spent decades honing his musical voice that speaks of his experience of being an Indian rock musician, integrating Hindustani and Carnatic styles of improvisation into his guitar technique.