Atma Means Soul

Come join us for Atma's 7th Annual Sping Show!

(and see if you can find the grain of our voices, haha)

Show Info

Rolling Stone: Atma Exposé

February 26 and 27, 2010

Doors open at 7:30pm | Show starts at 8:00pm

Class of '49 Auditorium

Houston Hall

3417 Spruce St.

Philadelphia, PA 19104

If you guys could come on Friday, that would be best! Tickets are typically $8 presale and $10 at the door, but if you let me know which night you would like to attend by Thursday, I will have tickets reserved for you at the door for $7 (just tell them you're with MUSC251)

Here's a little bit of musical background about Atma for you guys:

Atma, Sanskrit for soul, began 6 years ago when a bunch of girls who specialized mostly in South Asian music (both Hindustani and Carnatic) decided to start an a cappella group in which they could experiment vocally with new styles while preserving the traditional sound of Eastern music. Since then, Atma has incorporated a wide variety of Eastern and Western music, fusing all kinds of cultures and backgrounds to produce a sound that is uniquely our own.

One thing most people don't know about our a cappella group that is different from most is the way in which we arrange our music. Most other a cappella groups rely pretty heavily on notation for learning parts, but our group arranges everything aurally and vocally through recordings. Though this method may have been chosen for convenience or because it was the only way the original group founders knew how to arrange, I believe it has become integral to our sound and our awareness of the songs we perform. It forces us to know the songs in a different way -- we make corrections and sometimes change arrangements around based on the sound we collectively produce -- not because one member is singing a C# when she should be singing a D.

I could probably go on far too long about the little oddities that make Atma a group I really enjoy being a part of but I'll catch myself and end it here... in any case, I really do hope you guys come out to see the show if you have some time this weekend.. in the very least, it's definitely something different to do on a Friday night!