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WORKSHOP: New Communities of Sound: Improvising Across Borders

Jane Bunnett, Alain Derbez, Hamid Drake, Terrie Hessels, Abdoulaye Koné, Getatchew Mekuria, Brad Muirhead, Rob Wallace, Jah Youssouf

Published: 2009-09-11

An improvised musical performance featuring musicians from around the world who are able to combine very different traditions and styles into a single collaborative piece of art.

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  • New_Communities_of_Sound_Roundtable.MP3

    165 MB | audio/mpeg

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  • New_Communities_of_Sound_full.mp4

    556 MB | video/mp4

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  • New_Communities_of_Sound_full.mp4

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  • New_Communities_of_Sound_highlights.mp4

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Listening itself, an improvisative act engaged in by everyone, announces a practice of active engagement with the world, where we sift, interpret, store and forget, in parallel with action and fundamentally articulated with it ("Mobilitas Animi" 113).

– George E. Lewis