Musician Siennor is clear about his plans for the weekend. He is going to be all the way in Chidambaram, six hours away from the light pollution that Chennai abundantly dispenses, to ensure that he gets the perfect view of the highly anticipated Perseid meteor shower between August 12 and 14.
“If all goes well, we will be able to spot 70 meteors per hour at 4am from the place we are at,” says the singer behind the Tamil indie hit ‘Ponnira Malai’.
Under this sky full of stars, he will be performing songs — new and old — in their acoustic form because he loves singing for small, intimate crowds. “When I sing in such spaces, the music is raw. There are no amplifiers. Mukkavasi kaathu satham dhan (It is mostly the sound of air. It is overwhelming,” he says.
