Asian Music Circuit

The Asian Music Circuit (often abbreviated to AMC) is a London based touring company for music from Asia. It also runs workshops and summer schools which are open to the public. They accommodate all types of Asian Music and now have a Centre that includes a musuem and workshop rooms, complete with touch screens and sound chamber. The new centre is up and running but the touch screens still need to be booted up.

Viram Jasani founded the charity company in 1991 and has been going for 17 years now. The organisation now produces summer schools and workshops for people in Britain and are hoping to organise exchange projects to Asian countries including India, China and Japan. Their website is www.amc.org.uk , not to be confused with the cancer research company.
The AMC has had many awards in the past and is responsible for the large number of Asian artists that visit Southbank for concerts. The AMC also deals in artists that need to come to England to perform and have never been outside their own country.

This charity company gives services to the public and lots of workshops are available in the summer and to schools during term time. They also hold some workshops on the weekends and hold practice sessions in the coming months to the summer schools. The summer schools hold at least 10 workshops that include Guqin, Pipa, Erhu and many more Asian Instruments. The musuem in the Asian Music Centre holds most of the instruments that you can try during the summer schools. The best thing about these summer schools is that you don't have to know anything about Asia, you can come to our workshops and ask our artists about anything to do with their instruments to better your knowledge about these things.

The Asian Music Centre is an extension of the Asian Music Centre that was opened in 2007 and is the place where most of the workshops during the year take place. The Centre holds a musuem of asia and the instruments that are native to all countries in asia. In the museum there is East Asia, South Asia, South East Asia and Central Asia. There is also a sound chamber near the centre of the musuem that reacts to your hand movements and creates music and melodies taken from the projection that is on all sides of the chamber. The projection ranges from Chinese to Indian and will screen different sounds for you to play with in the sound chamber.

The Asian Music Circuit is well known for bringing the best artists from Asia. The artists will come and perform in England and sometimes go on tour throughout England. A new tour that is coming to the UK is The Dying Song. The Dying Song is about the form of Thumri and how the form is slowly dying out and is being renewed by Bireshwar Gautum. He is a leading figure in Thumri and Kathak and is helping the *Asian Music Circuit in promoting their company. Bireshwar Gautum plays the leading figure in the Dying Song and mimes the very words he sings.

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