KetchupTalks: Krantinaari, Manasi Nene and Pratika Prabhune share their experience of creating music at The Wench Film Festival

Krantinaari, Manasi Nene and Pratika Prabhune performed their multidisciplinary art through electro hip-hop at The Wench Film Festival.

The Wench Film Festival was all about representing women. We see women taking over the world and these three women are no different. Krantinaari, Pratika Prabhune and Manasi Nene, inspite of coming from different genres of music, collectively agree on seeing women in mainstream music. Krantinaari, who likes to spread awareness through her music by being vocal about patriarchy, misogyny justice, equality and unity. Pratika Prabhune who also creates music for social cause believes in standing up for the revolution. Whereas Manasi Nene whose life revolves around beatbox/looping, cycling, and books also performed at the festival and it was surely a treat to our ears.

I had a captivating experience watching them perform one of their songs. And as a queer person, their music spoke to me on a different level. I had a grungy, grimy, dark chat with Krantinaari, Manasi Nene and Pratika Prabhune at The Wench Film Festival where we talked about the creative process in songwriting and producing music and who they look up to for inspiration.

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Here's what they had to say!

What's the creative process like when you're writing or producing a track?

Pratika Prabhune thinks the whole world is an inspiration and as long as you can find inspiration in anything and everything, you can start off with an idea. Krantinaari, on the other hand, talked about what her writing process looks like and it's mostly observation oriented. "I find myself inspired by writing all these observations and then those conversations become a story." More than the writing process, sometimes it's important to just jam. Beatboxer, Manasi Nene believes that if your body naturally hints towards certain rhythm and is telling to work something around those beats, you just let those come out via free jamming.

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Where do you get your inspiration from since electro hip-hop is not a mainstream genre?

Krantinaari comes from a Communications and Visuals background hence she tries to inculcate that in her music and then she decides the soundtrack. "My music is also a mismatch of UK sound and some tribal music." While Krantinaari puts visuals into music, Pratika thinks her inspiration falls more into the expressing side of the music. "I think a lot of the sound in the production goes into the music we make which comes from a very vital conscious expression. It's very visceral and its sound kind of help depicts the situation." says Pratika. Whereas Nene seeks inspiration from literally everywhere since beatboxing is so new and fresh and also there's no "textbook" for it.

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What's that one song you wish you'd have written or produced?

Manasi didn't even hesitate and straight away went for Strung Up From The Sky by Pelican since it's been her favourite song since when she was 15. Pratika was confused between 24k magic by Bruno Mars and the rock band, Nine Inch Nails' whole album. Krantinaari has always been obsessing over Introvert by Little Simz.

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We see women conquering these realms of entertainment and we're super proud that times are finally changing. More power to these women who are finally breaking the norm.

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