We are now accepting applications for the inaugural 2012 OneBeat program. If you or someone you know is interested in applying please visit 1beat.org. Here you can find more information about the program, answers to frequently asked questions, and the online application.
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Found Sound Nation, 2011 Social Innovation Fellow Chris Marianetti’s organization that unites people through collaborative music projects, recently announced some exciting news. It’s partnering with the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs on a new initiative, OneBeat. This project, which kicks off in September 2012, will bring together over 50 musicians to the U.S. from around the world, ages 19-35, for a month-long exchange to connect with American musicians and audiences, and especially those in underserved communities. We checked in with Marianetti to see how the project came to fruition with the State Department and what he’s most excited to see from the partnership.
PopTech: How did the collaboration between Found Sound and the State Department come to fruition?
Chris Marianetti: Buckminster Fuller talks about the “coincidental nature of discovery” as a wave that rolls across the environment of exploration and invention. It was a wave like this that rolled across our organization, Found Sound Nation, most recently. About a year ago we held a strategic planning meeting about the future of our organization. We dreamed up something that, to our surprise, shared a lot of similarities with the ideas that some people in the State Department were thinking about at the same time.
Today, the team at Bang on a Can’s Found Sound Nation program is pleased to announce OneBeat.
Bang on a Can’s Found Sound Nation will partner with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to bring more than 50 international musicians between the ages of 19-35 to the United States for a month-long exchange. OneBeat musicians will connect with Americans musicians and audiences, especially underserved youth, through people-to-people diplomacy and social engagement projects. It is slated to kick-off in the United States in September of 2012.
Click here to read the State Department’s announcement and make sure to sign up at onebeatmusic.org if you’re interested in applying or nominating someone. Or interested in joining the OneBeat team as a sponsor? Email Jeremy Thal at info@onebeatmusic.org.
Found Sound Nation at PopTech!
Our very own co-founder Chris Marianetti will be representing Found Sound Nation at PopTech as one of their 2011 Social Innovation Fellows! Read more about what that means here: http://poptech.org/sifellows
In August and September 2011 Found Sound Nation ran a Street Studio project at the renowned Lucerne Festival in Switzerland. As part of the Spotlight program of the Lucerne Festival Academy, Found Sound Nation set up small mobile recording studios to link festival musicians with Lucerne residents and visitors, as they worked together in the creation of new works. The street studios were based at various locations surrounding the Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Luzern (KKL), and these tracks were created on the spot with material gathered from people on the streets of Lucerne. The videos, made by Temujin Doran, are quick looks at each of our four days at the Street Studio. Also, all of the music created at the street studios can be freely downloaded by clicking on the links below.
Buvette Night – August 25
Day 1 (Station) – August 27
Day 2 (KKL Bridge) – August 29
Day 3 (KKL Fountain) – August 31
Day 4 (Lake) – September 3
KKL Presentation – September 10
Download Entire Street Studio Lucerne
