CHENNAI: Students proficient in traditional music can now pursue engineering at IIT-Madras, Prof V Kamakoti, Director, IIT-Madras, has said, urging parents to encourage their children to learn music from a young age.
Delivering the inaugural address at the 93rd annual South Indian Music Conference and Festival of the Indian Fine Arts Society on December 17, among the oldest sabhas of Chennai, Prof Kamakoti said music has a strong basis in science, especially mathematics. “We at IIT-Madras are working a lot on this,” Prof Kamakoti said.
According to him, to promote interdisciplinary education at IIT-Madras, they are establishing a ‘bamboo-based mic-less' auditorium and are also in the process of establishing the Ilaiyaraja Centre for Excellence in Music.