me the encouragement to experiment it was what gave me the opportunity to try and improvise with music genres while playing my violin to try and engage with my audience and thereby get myself this tag of the walking violinist it was about experimenting with fusion and presentation and that excitement and zing of encouraging anything new is what is there among the audience in bengaluru the encouragement and support here is what gives me the confidence to take this art form to other places across the countrybengaluru accepts every kind of music behram siganporia i began playing music along with my band mates at pubs for the fun of it as i loved music it was only much later that we took it as a serious profession we began by playing cheesy pop something that a rock and metal obsessed city like bengaluru often frowned upon but we soon realised that we had our own set of audience and fan base bengaluru accepts every kind of music from rock to cheesy pop the city has an encouraging set of listeners who are out at the pubs and nightspots and actually enjoy the music and follow the singers this culture of course has come in because of the kind of foundation laid by the many rock bands that have helped the indie scene grow over the yearsmusic production and electronic music is finding a niche here gurbaxx if i were to be asked whether music producers could improvise with local sounds and produce dance music five years ago i would have probably not believed it but the music produced in the city is finding its niche as listeners are open to soaking in more tracks that are different from the replications of the sounds on the billboard top 20 in the us personally i use various sounds with beats and no vocals and try to add my indian touch to it i had used the nadaswaram last year in a track as it is a tribute to bengaluru there are more risks in this but if we are to look at the sounds that are being made not just in bengaluru but across india with artistes like ritviz and nucleya also producing music that have the indian essence