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Raman is currently doing a
research on finger transpose technique and the usage of finger transpose in
carnatic concerts. Due to his tremendous experience in the recording industry,
he has mastered the finger transpose key shift technique.
He has achieved doing the
grahabedham and can have any note as the Adhara shadja (Tonic Note) and play,
thus he can play any shruthi on a single flute.
With this technique he is able to
collaborate with any musician of any Genre.
Raman
has collaborated with Irish, Welsh, Spanish, West African, Jazz, Blues,
Flamenco, Japanese (Koto) musicians.

South Indian
Musicians
Collaborated
with Carnatic Music Sangeetha Kalanidhis like Dr, M. Balamuralikrishna,
Nedunuri Krishnamurthy, Veena Dr. V. Doreswamy Iyengar, R. K. Srikantan,
Madurai T.N. Seshagopalan, Flautist Dr. N. Ramani,
South
Indian Saxophonist Kadri Gopalnath, Violinist Mysore M. Nagaraj and South Indian Drummers (Mrudangists)
Guruvayur Dorai and Srimushnam Raja Rao.

North Indian Musicians
Hindustani
Tabla artist Anindo Chatterjee, Santur artist Nandakishore Muley
(Disciple of Pandit Shivkumar Sharma), Sitar artist Pundit Gaurav Mazumdar
(Disciple of Pandit Ravishankar) Flautist Praveen Godkinde, Pundit Vinay Torvi,
Pundit Venkateshkumar & Tabla artist Ravindra Yavagal, Pandit Vinayak Torvi
(Disciple of Bhimsen Joshi)
Pundit
Madhava Gudi (Disciple of Bhimsen Joshi) Pandit Venkatesh Kumar (disciple of
Basavaraj Rajaguru), Pandit Parameshwar Hegde (Disciple of Pandit Basavaraja
Rajaguru).

World Musicians
Globally acclaimed
contemporary musicians such as Grammy
winner Glen Velez, Dr. L. Subramaniam, Charlie Mariano, Pepe
Habechuela, Louis Banks, Karl peters, Ranjit Barot, Jamey Haddad, Phil Scarf, Jerry Leake, and
others.

South Indian Cinema
Raman's contribution in the Kannada film industry has been
noteworthy. Worked with most successful sought after music director Hamsalekha,
Manohar and others. Raman was specially featured in the re-recording of the box
office hit movie "Janumada Jodi " which broke all the previous box
office records.
Other successful films include Ramesh Aravind's Thutta Muttha, Gadibidi Ganda,
Tuvvi Tuvvi Tuvvi, kaurava, TavarinaTottilu..
Raman worked with all the Music Directors like T.G Lingappa, Rajan-Nagendra,
Upendrakumar, Manohar, Rajesh Ramanthan, and Sadhu.
Raman's role as an Accompanist, Composer, or Conductor span more than 400
commercial audios releases.
Worked as an arranger and conductor for many eminent
music directors of the South Indian Cinema.
Worked with popular South Indian film music
personalities like Dr Rajkumar, and has accompanied on Flute for a number of the
popular play back singers like S.P.Balasubramaniam, Mano, K.J.Jesudas,
Chitra, and S.Janaki.
Member of the orchestra for several Award Winning
Regional Indian Movies like Janumada Jodi, Tayi Saheba, and
Matadana.

Indian Dancers
Collaborated
with a variety
of schools in Indian dance. Has been on Tours for Several big Dance companies
& has scored music for Dance productions and accompanied personalities
like, The Dhananjayans (Bharathnatyam), Kumudini Lakhia (Kathak), Nahid
Siddaqui (Kathak), Shobha Naidu (Kuchipudi), Padmini, Chitra and Meenakshi
Sheshadri, Prathibha Prahlad and Indira Kadambi (Mohini Attam).
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