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OneBeat Alumni Spotlights March 2016 | Ft. Sequoyah School Workshop, Eva Salina New Release, Song Hee Kwon on Modernizing Pansori

April 7, 2016April 7, 2016

Eduardo Valencia + Ami Kim | Sequoyah School Initiative OneBeat 2015 | US Sequoyah School, an independent school in Pasadena, California, recently collaborated with Chris Marianetti, Found Sound Nation Founder and OneBeat alumni Eduardo Valencia and Ami Kim to run a 1-day workshop for students to experience the joy of composing, performing and recording music. The day was part of a series of events to help launch the school’s new high school program, set to open in August of 2016. The workshop featured sessions on found sound improvisation, FSN’s “Street Studio City,” coupled with a radio piece workshop addressing social issues and a rhythm workshop where students wrote scores and later conducted pieces using graphical notation. Sequoyah has been working with FSN to develop a music program that fully embraces the creative process and helps students to feel greater confidence and agency to explore and create. Sequoyah is an Ashoka […]

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OneBeat Alumni Spotlights February 2016 | Ft: Peni Rini’s “Bhumi” Release, OneBeat Alumni Represent at PopTech, Sayak Barua’s Afghan Youth Project

February 18, 2016March 2, 2016

Peni Rini | “BHUMI” ALBUM RELEASE OneBeat 2014 | Indonesia In September 2015, Peni released her album Bhumi, which featured the track “Kidung Kinanthi,” which Peni recorded during OneBeat 2014 dedicated the memory of our friend Sri Joko. She invited Neil Chua to join her for her album launch in Jakarta, and the two have plans to continue developing and performing the “Mermaid Opera”, a piece developed during OneBeat, in Southeast Asia and beyond. Blinky Bill, Mitya, Eva Salina – “Poptech Collaboration” OneBeat 2013, 2012 | Russia, Kenya, USA In October 2015, Mitya, Blinky Bill, and Eva Salina joined together in Maine for the PopTech conference, which every year gathers 600 diverse thinkers and doers from around the world to share ideas and projects that are shaping our future. The trio was brought together for this special reunion by OneBeat Director Chris Marianetti, who has been a featured speaker at the […]

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Dispatch From Russia – by FSN Co-Founder, Jeremy Thal

February 8, 2016March 8, 2016 by Jeremy Thal

In February, I traveled to Russia as part of a cultural exchange program between museum experts from Russia and the U.S., organized by the St. Petersburg-based Pro Arte Foundation and funded by the Potanin Foundation. Amidst increasingly complex relations between the leadership of these two old super-frenemies, cultural exchange has taken on a revitalized role. FSN was invited to help devise ways that music can activate museum spaces and enable museums of all sizes to attract a wider audience — perhaps not enough to solve disagreements around Syria or gay rights, but vital work nonetheless. I felt honored to have such great traveling companions, as the four other Americans on the 7-day trip were true museum superstars: Morris Vogel (Lower East Side Tenement Museum), Susan Fruchter (Smithsonian’s American History Museum), Julie Good (Philadelphia Museum of Art), and Sonya Shrier (The Museum of Modern Art). The Pro Arte team were incredibly […]

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OneBeat Alumni Spotlights January 2016 | Ft: LADAMA, Maskeliade Street Studios, 1Beat Inhambane

January 15, 2016April 6, 2016

In our January 2016 OneBeat Alumni Spotlights, we feature projects and news that showcase our alumni actively engaging with their communities and making a difference through music and art. Sara Lucas, Aurora Nealand, Daniela Serna, Maria Gonzalez, & Lara Klaus | “LADAMA” OneBeat 2014 + 2015 | US, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil The LADAMA ensemble, comprised of five OneBeat alumni from Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela and the U.S., is gearing up for their first tour in South America! The ensemble is made up of Lara Klaus (’14), Maria Gonzalez (’14), Daniela Serna (’14), Sara Lucas (’14) and Aurora Nealand (’13). They’ll be embarking on a two month-long tour to Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela starting in February, giving free workshops and public performances with the goal of fostering creativity among youth and women in their respective communities through music-making, sound design, composition and audio production. We’re incredibly excited to see this project come to fruition, […]

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OneBeat Alumni Spotlights December 2015: Kyla-Rose Smith, Aquil Charlton and Sanaya Ardeshir

December 15, 2015December 23, 2015

In our December 2015 OneBeat Alumni Spotlights, we feature projects and news that showcase our alumni actively engaging with their communities and making a difference through music and art. Kyla-Rose Smith – Hear Be Dragons OneBeat 2014 Fellow This past spring, Kyla-Rose Smith designed and led Hear Be Dragons, a community-based education and creative arts initiative designed to bring together young people to map the sonic landscape of their lives. The core of the project was a series of workshops in Cape Town, South Africa and Brooklyn, where groups of participants (ages 18-22 years old) investigate the ways in which sound and the urban environment influence our quality of life, our perception of history and memory, and our notions of identity, place and time. Through audio recordings and conversations around neighborhood identity, each group developed a set of original sound pieces or songs, eventually […]

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OneBeat 2015: Montalvo

October 18, 2015December 15, 2015

Week one is a wrap! Our incredible staff photographer, Hannah Devereux, has been hard at work capturing the first half of our California residency. Head over to the OneBeat 2015 Montalvo gallery to take a look at our residency in progress.

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OneBeat 2015: Seattle

October 14, 2015December 15, 2015

This year, OneBeat is taking the Pacific Northwest by storm (a very peaceful, musical storm), closing with a set of events in Seattle, November 4th-7th presented with the Office of Arts & Culture, Office of Film + Music and Compound. The OneBeat 25 artists from around the world will join Owuor Arunga, Draze, Naomi Wachira and other local artists for an unprecedented series of concerts and events celebrating music collaboration, and how music can help create more peaceful communities and a more just world. If you live in Seattle, or nearby, join us for these events! OneBeat 2015: Seattle Wednesday, Nov. 4, 8pm: Columbia City Theater, Seattle, WA, $10 (Tickets Here) OneBeat South [Seattle]: OneBeat’s first public Seattle show launches in funky fashion with 25 musicians from 17 countries, and guest performances from Seattle’s Owuor Arunga (Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, The Physics) and hip-hop artist Draze, at the historic Columbia […]

OneBeat is a music exchange and incubator for music-based social entrepreneurship, where innovative musicians from around the world launch collaborative projects designed to make a positive impact on local and global communities. An initiative of the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and produced by Found Sound Nation, OneBeat is cultivating a groundbreaking international network of leading artistic, technological, and social innovators in music.

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