[Re]collecting the World
[Re]collecting the World concerns the conduct of Arthur Henry's project Sampling the World in underprivileged settings. It has two main objectives: The first is to facilitate the access and conduct of Sampling the World in underserved and unsafe cities; The second is to deliver music-related activities with the participants of Sampling the World (and beyond) to learn from each other. Sampling the World creates snapshots of the world's major cities through the prism of music, and [Re]collecting the World opens up new perspectives.
Yerevan 2023In Armenia, we organised a 10-day music production workshop with a class of 17 students from the education centre TUMO. The students also participated in the recording of the audiovisual material of Arthur's song on Yerevan. Additionally, we organised two informal exchanges on music productions with the students of the State Conservatory of Yerevan and with music professionals.
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Medellin 2023In Colombia, we organised a showcase and jam session at the music venue La Pascasia where we invited participants to meet us. The event opened later collaborations and was followed by a workshop on music production techniques in the same place. Arthur also led a workshop with students of the non-profit Platohedro, in which he shared the techniques he uses to produce his songs and video clips.
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São Paulo 2024The project in São Paulo will consist of a music production entrepreneurial support programme that will offer young music professionals from disadvantaged areas the skills to record, produce, and promote their own music autonomously and with limited means.
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Listening to Climate Change
In collaboration with the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester and Studio Mécanique, we produce immersive audio accounts of the human influence on the environment made of natural sounds. Please visit cucusonic.net for more information.
Creative Summer Camps
We support the 10-day creative Summer camps organised by the non-profit Mihr Creative Union in Armenia for children who have never experienced anything but life in conflict regions. Away from the war zone, the youth are offered to engage in artistic activities, cooking, and exploration of the local natural wonders. The kids will discover new perspectives to imagine life away from war.
Support to like-minded organisations
In addition to the projects we lead, we support the work of other organisations active in similar fields. We are currently involved in the building of recording studios in Colombia and Lebanon with In Place Of War and source equipment for a youth oasis in a neighbourhood affected by gang violence in Cape Town, South Africa, with In Place Of War and Rise Above Development. We have also accompanied young Ukrainian musicians who fled their country with the Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation, helping them to transition as smoothly as possible to Switzerland.
Picture of the Lavender Hill youth oasis project in Cape Town, South Africa