Modern industrial societies and their overwhelming superiority in technology and dynamic expansion are totally reorganizing the world. All traditional cultures that are alien to these technologically "homogeneous" societies are doomed to extinction. This means that there's a real possibility that traditional cultures will expire before they can enter "world-culture" circulation. Bearing all of this in mind, Lāszlō Hortobāgyi set up the "Gāyan Uttejak Society" in Budapest, Hungary 1981. Since then it has been active - among other things - as a music studio and maintains a remarkable library of oriental music.
It was named after the Hindu-Moslem musician's society founded by Navraojji Kabraji in 1870 (it was the school of the great musicologist, V.N Bhātkhānde ) .The members of the Gāyan Uttejak Society and The Gāyan Uttejak Orchestra in Budapest have made it their duty practice and to study the world heritage of the traditional cultures - among them the classical Language of the Hindu-Moslem Tradition of the Hindusthani Music - but also the bioastronomy, Kathakali, songs of the whales ("whale-canto"), Tinctoris'compositions, nigromania,computed fractal engines, Raga-mala paintings, cyborgs, Kuandalini sex, reports from the Arecibo Radiotelescope's Post Ozma Project, Tantic mandalas, Skinny Puppy tracks, tortures techniques of the Inquisition, Vedanta, brainwave synthesizers, building techniques of the cathedrals, Dolphin's Language, Seti-Phoenix Project, Bergen-Belsen, works of Lyn Margulis, Ajanta paintings, the softwares of the Nasdaq derivatums, Cavaille Coll Organs, techno-bio-morphology, Gagaku compositions, reptiles from the Reticulum constellation, Kondratyev cycles, transplantation of the human consciousness into Internet, architecture of Bhuwaneshwar, navigation softwares of the Ohio submarines, works of Stanislaw Lem, piknolepsia, Ustad Imdad Khan's compositions, animals'rights, sociology, Max Reger's composition, the nature of the human alienation, works of Richard Dawkins, the Polynesian polyrythmia and migrations' history of the islands, logistic softwares of the transnational corporations, bol-matrix of the Delhi-Farukhabad-Ajrada schools of Tabla playing, the cast-system of the capitalism, ectoplasma, Louis Vierne's compositions, works of Ilya Prigogine, death factory networks of the human societies, works of Zoltan Ganti, recreations of the ancient Bali banjar's gamelan compositions and the types of gongs, sci-fi visions of Wolfgang Jeschke and the Strugackij Brothers, arithmetric of integers, Persian tonality, Facteur Cheval’buildings, history of the trade unions, creating polyphonic digital instruments based on Shruti system, etc,etc, -
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