others. Especially the work done on how best to produce faster taans effectively spanning various octaves, intricate slides between notes and octaves, gamakas, reduction of stress on fingers with invention of easier finger movements, among many others. • Shashank has done extensive work in area of harmoniously integrating the Vocal and instrumental styles of Carnatic to a unique style of his own, especially with the sounds that the Flute produces. • Dual Octave Sound production technique producing two octaves simultaneously, new ways using flute playing techniques to present Kalpana swaras and Tanam in Carnatic Music portraying a combination of Vocal / Instrumental styles and unique sounds produced only on the Flute. • Advanced breath control techniques, tonguing techniques, use of percussion like fingering technique on the Flute among scores of other contributions which are difficult to explain in writing that have overall improved ways of Flute playing immensely. • Co-creator of Shashank style of Carnatic Flute, a near perfect bamboo flute that solved age old defects that existed with the instrument. • Shashank is believed to have introduced to the system of Carnatic Flute, the deep bass flutes (Shankh Bansuri - sounds like the conch). These have been well documented in public performances and in CDs produced between 1999 - until date. • Introduced specially designed long base flutes with eight holes and made it possible for it to be the primary instrument in a Carnatic Music performance. Prior to this, traditionally, only shorter flutes were used in a concert. With this, Shashank has a range of Five octaves. Discography He has released over 80 CDs and 10 DVDs. Mukunda Malini - CD 2021 Ardhanareeshwaram - Kumudhakriya CD 2021 Venu Vandanam Part 1 - CD 2021 Venu Vandanam Part 2 - CD 2021 Shashank with Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra – CD 2021 Silent Breath by Meditation House Records, Germany 2020 WORD'N GLOBAL - A collaborative of Middle Eastern and Indian Music - published in Denmark 2020. Language of Musc, by Shashank, Mike Herting, Paul Shigihara. A live concert held in Cologne, Germany – by Riverside Records 2019 Charukeshi – 2016 Shashank with Sai Symphony – CD 2015 Shashank with Sai Symphony – DVD 2015 Seven Continents – Cross over CD with Shashank and Mikkel Nordso – 2015 Spirit of Krishna – Shashank and the Folk Musicians of Rajasthan – 2012 Shashank, John Sund and Phalgun – Trio Indo Danish jazz CD