This class is not currently being offered in our catalog.
This class is not currently being offered in our catalog.
This year's OneBeat theme – Musical Migrations – invites fellows to collaboratively write music that reflects on how large movements of people have shaped music, and how music-making can encourage dialogue, community resilience, and rootedness amidst displacement and upheaval. OneBeat's wonderfully eclectic cohort of 2016 fellows includes a Zimbabwean mbira player and vocalist, a provocative Sao Paulo-based sound artist, a Muscovite gusli player, a virtuosa darbuka player from Istanbul, a soul singer from Seattle, and 21 other incredible artists.
A model for collaborative music-making pioneered by OneBeat producing organization Found Sound Nation (foundsoundnation.org) at the Lucerne Music Festival in Switzerland in 2011, and led by OneBeat fellows. The premise is simple: transport the basic elements of a music studio to a public place, and make the studio open and accessible to everyone in the local community, musicians and non-musicians alike. With a simple setup – a laptop, mics, midi controllers, speakers, and instruments – Street Studio producers invite passers-by and musicians to join in a music creation session that is completely improvised. Songs, beats, stories, and musical ideas offered by participants are recorded and actively transformed into loops and soundscapes. With an extraordinary ability to capture the "collective unconscious" of a public space, this improvised concert of original music and documentation is then shared with all participants and the world.
