bengalurus newest allwomen music band is here metronome station is a fusion ensemble that blends elements of indian music with that of western the band comprises indian classical singer manasi prasad rapper siri narayan vocalist padma priya bassist shalini mohan vocalist and percussionist sumana chandrashekar and drummer priya andrews ahead of their maiden performance at the bangalore international centre on november 2 bandmates manasi and siri indulged in a conversation with bangalore times they speak about being diverse celebrating women empowerment and more excerptshow did you decide on the name metronome stationmanasi initially we felt that our collaboration connected many genres of music something similar to how metro stations connect different parts of a city thus we wanted to work on that concept and have a name that sounds similar to metro stationsiri we needed a music element to be added to the metro station concept and thats when we came up with the word metronome which means a device that musicians use to control the beats we combined the two ideas and came about with the name metronome station it explains what we are a confluence of various musical genreswhat is the most unique factor about your collaborationmanasi we have quite a diverse lineup i think that our music is a personal tribute to the various genres of indian and western music mixing the charm of indian classical music with the grunge feel of western music in our compositions was difficult but achievable we hope that our audience will be happy to listen to the different sets of songs something that they would probably not be able to immediately categorise under any particular genresiri our music is also a celebration of women empowerment many women are now leading in jobs that were previously dominated by men i am a rapper and i have mostly worked with male artistes in the past but this team gives me the opportunity to work with women artistes we all have been living in this city for quite a while and i think that the city connect is what brings us togethertell us what binds you all togethersiri surprisingly we didnt have any misunderstandings arguments or disagreements over the scheme of things this is definitely something that amazes us as well we have noticed that while working together we took a lot of interest in each others work and style of music somewhere that has helped us individually to fit in and contribute to the collective effortmanasi i think we have managed to form a collective despite being so diverse because all of us have one thing in common the virtue of being accommodating we all share the same ideology when it comes to musicany tracks that are special to youmanasi we have been working on quite a few songs the set consists of new compositions as well as the improvised versions of tracks that the bandmates had composed earlier one song titled metronome in majestic is an interesting one it