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László Hortobágyi

Biography
Lāszlō Hortobāgyi was born in Budapest, altough he didn't plan it. Therefore, besides his musicological and indological studies, he takes part in the design and building of a few organ throughout in Hungary, East-Europa.

Consequently, since 1967 he has organised and made private expeditions - in the first place - to North-India for making recordings on the spot, studying philological-musicological sources, archives, libraries and pursuing practical studies. Play instruments : rūdra-vinā,surbahār,sitār,tablā,etc. In 1980 he established the musical society called "Gāyan Uttejak Mandal" It was named after the Hindu-Moslem musician's society founded by Navraoji Kabraji in 1870 (it was the school of the great musicologist, V.N Bhatkhande). It's members consider it to be their obligation to practice and to study the traditional cultures - as a planet-world heritage - of the  Eastern branch of the history of music, primary the  traditional Hindu-Moslem music, - within  the framework of lectures, comparative music studies, making compositions   sometimes concerts and performances. In 1984 he founded "The Oriental Music Archives" which is unique in Middle-Europe and which operates parallel with the music studio called "Gāyan Uttejak Studio" and the "Gāyan Uttejak Orchestra". His music pieces composed in the classical Indian musical structure, together with other traditional and futuristic compositions are issued in the Netherlands,Germany,Greece, USA, France, England, Russia,Poland Hungary, etc. Musicological and theoretical publications in the field of  “Music of Hindusthān and Karnātaka”, “ Computer Music Systems” “Virtual Mēmesis of the Music”, “Frames of the Fictitious Societies”, “A Possible Bi-tonality System”, “Tāla system of Hindusthān and the Alienation: Overcome  of the Reality”, “ The’Polyphonic’ Shrutī System” etc. Paintings about “cyber rāga-mālā” and “Mēm”delineations,tryptichons,etc Member of the Advisory Council of the Research Project of Computer Music at the Institute of Musicology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Gāyan Uttejak Orchestra (GUO)
The roots of Gáyan Uttejak Orchestra (GUO) date back to the end of the 19th Century, as the “Gáyan Uttejak Mandal”, archetype of GUO’s establisher, the “Gáyan Uttejak Society” (founded in Hungary, 1981), was operated by Navraojji Kabraji and V.N. Bhatkhande, between 1870 and 1917, in Mumbai. The Society was expanded in 1984 with the “Archive of Oriental Music”, to be considered unique and unrivalled in Eastern Europe, the “Gáyan Uttejak Studio” and the “Gáyan Uttejak Orchestra”, composed of musicians of the most diverse nationality and being the direct progenitor of the current GUO. Music of GUO combines music of non-existing mythological worlds and Extra-European high music cultures with creative techniques aimed at a possible, global still virtual language of music that nevertheless differs fundamentally from the realized world music. GUO’s futuristic compositions have been published by Dutch, German, American, Greek, Indian, French, British and Hungarian record companies. Besides the more than 50 published records. In concert, the traditional Hindu-Islamic and classical Asian musical textures are performed by GUO in the original orchestration, effectuating simultaneously a live-electronic sound synthesis controlled by the traditional instruments, in complete conformity with 21st Century traditions of GUO.