chennai two weeks after h sridhars death december 1 the music industry paid homage to the audio wizard who showcased sound engineering on a global platform what twists the knife in my heart is the fact that a couple of days after his death my album floating point mixed by him has been nominated for the grammy awards said john mclaughlin the bassist who founded shakti in a written message read out at the homage held on sunday at real image where sridhar worked as chief audio engineera visibly sad a r rahman with whom sridhar was working on mixing the songs for ghajini hindi said the self taught audio engineer was held in high regard by the fraternity last week when i was in los angeles the head of fox music told me he liked my melody in bombay dreams but was really moved by the sound of the strings it is a tribute to the ultimate sound technician i miss the man whom i always held as the brother i never had added rahmansridhars body of work included films such as lagaan roja and bombaycinematographer rajiv menon classical pianist anil srinivasan and drummer sivamani were among those who saluted the sound technician srinivasan played bharathiars famous song asai mugam interspersing it with the background score of chariots of fire while sivamani dedicated the track infinity from his new album aaha leela to sridhar the most moving tribute came from sridhars two sons who played day break pat methney black magic woman carlos santana and pink floyds comfortably numb p jayendra director real image announced the institution will give an allindia scholarship for audio engineering in sridhars memory a fiveminute audio visual on the man who blended scientific temperament with unbridled passion for music was also shown