Posted: February 29th, 2012 | No Comments »
THANK YOU
Thanks to everyone who registered and applied for OneBeat! Applications for the 2012 program are now closed. We received a massive amount of interest for this inaugural year of OneBeat and we look forward to reviewing your profiles and listening to your music!
NOTIFICATION
Applicants for the 2012 program will be notified of the review panel decision at the end of April 2012. Because of the high number of applicants and the fact that we can only accept around 30 OneBeat Fellows, the process will be competitive and we will have to make many difficult decisions. We wish the best of luck to everyone. We’ve been truly inspired to see all the incredible talents and ideas from all around the world. Keep on with the amazing things that you all are doing!
Posted: February 29th, 2012 | No Comments »
Click HERE to visit the OneBeat site
OneBeatSM is an international music exchange that celebrates musical collaboration and social engagement through innovative people-to-people diplomacy. In the fall of 2012, 30 musicians (ages 19-35) from around the world will come together in the U.S. for four weeks to collaboratively write, produce, and perform original music, and develop ways that music can make a positive impact on our local and global communities.
OneBeat will be a musical journey like no other. It is a chance for adventurous musicians from an incredible diversity of traditions to seek common ground, creating new musical combinations, pushing the boundaries of music technology, and finding ways to involve all members of society in the process of musical creativity. OneBeat endeavors to be the nexus of a new way of thinking about how music can connect people from across the world and around the block.
One Beat is an initiative of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, administered by Bang on a Can’s Found Sound Nation. OneBeat builds on Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s vision of “smart power” diplomacy. It embraces the use of a full range of diplomatic tools, including music, to bring people, especially youth, together for greater understanding.
Posted: January 26th, 2012 | No Comments »
SPACE
We’ve launched the OneBeat website! Click picture above.
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.
Posted: January 23rd, 2012 | No Comments »
Found Sound Nation from PopTech on Vimeo.
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.
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Posted: September 21st, 2011 | No Comments »
Found Sound Nation at PopTech!
SPACE
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
