grandparents but also realised that with time and age many of these songs had faded from their memories she saysin what would be the first milestone to this regenerative collaboration the biate elders will sing and play their traditional handmade instruments such as darribu a set of brass cymbals and chongperang a string instrument interspersing vinayakas raw and spontaneous medley of sounds at the crown jewel of indias electronic music the magnetic fields festival in rajasthan this december as an experimental music producer i was drawn to the musical instruments that the biates handmake with wood and bamboo they are distinct with no set reference an instrument that would look like a violin for instance would sound completely different says vinayak who was trained inrabindra sangeeth as a child they sound so sonically pure that with electronic music which really is unbounded in its scope there was no limit to the ways we could put these sounds out