<p>Twenty-five year old Yashita Tripathi has no formal training in music, but she hasn’t let that stop her from giving musicians an exciting space to practice and record their tracks.</p>.<p> Soundspeak, her brainchild in Connaught Place, has hosted many artistes and bands over the last six months of its inception.<br /><br />Artistes of repute like Shubha Mudgal and ensemble, Cyanide, Hashback Hashish and bands, including Faridkot, Half Step Down, Circus, have availed of the jamming facilities at Soundspeak. <br /><br />“I was always inclined towards music. I thought so what if I can’t sing, perhaps I can set up a space for singers. This was a dream right from the time I was in school,” confesses the young entrepreneur.<br /><br />Her idea grew wings when Chirayu Sood, her batchmate at Cambridge University, offered to become her business partner. “I quit engineering and started making music. I remember how hard it was to find place to practice or create my own music. Studios in the City are very costly. That’s when we said to each other, ‘Let’s open a music studio’,” says Chirayu.<br /><br />Yashita, Chirayu and their audio engineers Angad Singh and Antriksh Bali get a high when they find grassroots musicians and mix their sounds with modern-age electronic music. <br /><br />The studio, with its colourful walls and bright interiors, is warm and inviting. The musicians are charged a nominal fee. “There is a jam pad where musicians can practice, a lounge where they can relax, and a recording studio. Shubha Mudgal described our studio as ‘very neat, clean and colourful’,” says Yashita.<br /><br />Soundspeak has also evoked interest from corporate houses who use it for team-building exercises. “Sometimes new bands and young artistes use the studio for post production work. We clean up their tracks or add more elements if needed,” she explains.<br /><br />All India Radio (AIR) FM Rainbow has collaborated with the studio to record its upcoming show ‘Born to be Remembered’. Manzil, an NGO, used the studio to create classical music and popularise it among the youth.<br /><br />“Delhi does not have many music studios. The existing one are either too expensive or booked for months by commercial artistes. Here, musicians of any genre are welcome. In fact, the focus is on fusion,” says Chirayu.<br /><br />Dhaval Mudgal of Half Step Down band says: “We need spaces where we can reharse and discuss. We use the reharsal space of Soundspeak very often its pretty good. The fact that it is CP, also helps.”<br /></p>
<p>Twenty-five year old Yashita Tripathi has no formal training in music, but she hasn’t let that stop her from giving musicians an exciting space to practice and record their tracks.</p>.<p> Soundspeak, her brainchild in Connaught Place, has hosted many artistes and bands over the last six months of its inception.<br /><br />Artistes of repute like Shubha Mudgal and ensemble, Cyanide, Hashback Hashish and bands, including Faridkot, Half Step Down, Circus, have availed of the jamming facilities at Soundspeak. <br /><br />“I was always inclined towards music. I thought so what if I can’t sing, perhaps I can set up a space for singers. This was a dream right from the time I was in school,” confesses the young entrepreneur.<br /><br />Her idea grew wings when Chirayu Sood, her batchmate at Cambridge University, offered to become her business partner. “I quit engineering and started making music. I remember how hard it was to find place to practice or create my own music. Studios in the City are very costly. That’s when we said to each other, ‘Let’s open a music studio’,” says Chirayu.<br /><br />Yashita, Chirayu and their audio engineers Angad Singh and Antriksh Bali get a high when they find grassroots musicians and mix their sounds with modern-age electronic music. <br /><br />The studio, with its colourful walls and bright interiors, is warm and inviting. The musicians are charged a nominal fee. “There is a jam pad where musicians can practice, a lounge where they can relax, and a recording studio. Shubha Mudgal described our studio as ‘very neat, clean and colourful’,” says Yashita.<br /><br />Soundspeak has also evoked interest from corporate houses who use it for team-building exercises. “Sometimes new bands and young artistes use the studio for post production work. We clean up their tracks or add more elements if needed,” she explains.<br /><br />All India Radio (AIR) FM Rainbow has collaborated with the studio to record its upcoming show ‘Born to be Remembered’. Manzil, an NGO, used the studio to create classical music and popularise it among the youth.<br /><br />“Delhi does not have many music studios. The existing one are either too expensive or booked for months by commercial artistes. Here, musicians of any genre are welcome. In fact, the focus is on fusion,” says Chirayu.<br /><br />Dhaval Mudgal of Half Step Down band says: “We need spaces where we can reharse and discuss. We use the reharsal space of Soundspeak very often its pretty good. The fact that it is CP, also helps.”<br /></p>
