ar rahman has announced a new project for which he will be collaborating with his longtime friend and filmmaker bharat bala and composer and inventor tod machover from massachusetts institute of technology mit titled ta futures the project will be a participatory venture that will capture tamil nadu its culture and its soundsi got inspired by tod when id gone there to do a course begins rahman he does something called city symphony he goes to a city and creates an artistic work with the sounds from that city then bharat bala came in and we decided to do something that will inspire kids something newer rather than talk about the same thing we want this to be a gear shift so that children get a new direction in thinking about art and believing in our nation rahman says we celebrate the old stuff but there is a question of what we are leaving for the next generation we want to trigger young minds with this project there is so much negative energy right now with talks of war and so on and we dont want kids to be influenced by this but rather free their minds so that there is an environment where they can become thinkers scientists innovators politicians and musiciansta rahman says stands for thai thandhai tamil dharmam tara stars rhythm takadimitha its a coinage that includes everything he saysin this project rahman and his team will be creating certain sounds the sounds of a weavers thari the songs sung during the harvest the sounds made by a sculptor at work that are totally intrinsic to our culture they are planning on doing this in two ways the team will go to the places and the people and record the sounds and they will also create a platform where people can record and send the sounds these sounds will then be turned into music a culturecurated artistic project while chennai will be the melting pot for this project the sounds will be sourced from across the state from the coasts of kanyakumari to the tribal areas of the todas to the weavers of kanchipuram and tod a music inventor will sample these sounds and come up with something very futuristic he will devise ways to get children to play with such technology rahman says there is war and protests happening world over right now and during this time the duty of an artiste is to make something beautiful and when we make collective art thats beautiful we create an alternate world the final part of this participatory project rahman says will be different it will be an exhibition a concert many things i want the output to be a museum that lasts for at least 20 years actually we have many plans and we will do whatever is practically possible he informs