OneBeat 2015
With OneBeat 2015 just around the corner (Oct 12-Nov 11), we have recently launched a new website for OneBeat, and announced the Fellows for the 2015 program. Now in its fourth year, OneBeat is...
View ArticleStreet Studio City Producers
Odetta Hartman & Kiya Vega-Hutchens Lower East Side | Lower Eastside Girls Club 101 Avenue D Justin Peake & TK Broderick Financial District | Brookfield Place 200 Vesey St Chris Marianetti,...
View ArticleStreet Studio City @ MMNY
12 NYC neighborhoods. 12 teams of producers. 12 hours to produce a dope original track, completely from scratch, based on the sounds of the street. Think Iron Chef, but with the secret ingredient being...
View ArticleBig Ears 2015
We were very happy to return to the esteemed Big Ears Festival in March 2015. This year, our Found Sound Nation crew (Lorna Krier, Keith Milgaten, Chris Marianetti, and Elena Moon Park) spent two...
View ArticleDosti Music Project 2015
The Dosti Music Project brings together ten musicians from Pakistan, India, and the U.S. for a monthlong residency and tour. An initiative of the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan, produced by Bang on a Can’s...
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UPCOMING EVENTS ++ to see posters from all events, click here! ++ Friday, June 26 @ 7pm Noveller Pinegrove (trio) Mobius Percussion Odetta Hartman PAST EVENTS May 22, 2015 Port St. Willow Bombay...
View ArticleFSN Presents at Pioneer Works
The musicians, producers, and organizers behind Found Sound Nation are proud to partner with interdisciplinary arts center Pioneer Works in Red Hook, Brooklyn, for this exciting new monthly concert...
View ArticleYoung Composers Workshop 2014
In July 2014, the Found Sound Nation Young Composers Workshop met for its third year at Drury High School in North Adams, MA. FSN welcomed the local youth community into the annual festivities of the...
View ArticleStreet Studio: Bang on a Can Marathon
Notes by Beatriz Ramirez-Belt On June 22 2014, Found Sound Nation held a mobile Street Studio outside of the Bang on a Can Marathon at Brookfield Plaza. The annual Marathon consisted of eight hours of...
View ArticleStreet Studio: Big Ears Festival
In late March 2014, a crew from Found Sound Nation traveled to Knoxville, TN to capture spontaneous music, sounds, and stories at the third annual Big Ears Festival. Setting up a Street Studio in...
View ArticleLucerne Studio
In August 2013, Found Sound Nation returned to the esteemed Lucerne Festival in Switzerland to take part in the Lucerne Festival Academy’s 10th Anniversary celebration and the Lucerne Festival’s 75th...
View Article2012 is a Wrap!
The tour is done. Fellows have returned to their respective abodes. But the music doesn’t stop! —————————————————————— —————————————————————— Stay tuned for exclusive music and video releases, plus...
View ArticleTaking the Town
Roanoke is a sleepy town. From personal experience, I can tell you that meandering downtown for an hour won’t get you a laundry mat. It is far from a metropolitan cityscape, but it doesn’t try to be...
View ArticleNew Under the Sun
They say there’s nothing new under the sun. Still, as artists we stubbornly insist on excavating the unheard, unseen, and unrealized. With the vastness of human creativity, what gives us the audacity...
View ArticleJam By the Water
Inside this tour bus is a wide range of experiences. There are those who are like Chance, homegrown in the Appalachians and who has stomped enough U.S. ground to have an opinion about each nook we land...
View ArticleTake ‘Em to Church
Last night we played the Pour House, which mutated into a hot, sweaty southern funkfest. Tonight we played the Circular Church, a gorgeous chapel with raw echo and hardly the need for a mic. Yessir,...
View ArticleBringing Down the Pourhouse
Oh baby baby. Throughout the past couple of weeks with these artists, we’ve been knocked off our feet countless times over. But there’s a difference between a rehearsal and a real show. And as much...
View ArticleTouchdown in Charleston
First leg of the tour is on! We arrived in downtown Charleston Sunday night, and by the next morning OneBeat was taking the town by storm. Some of us spent the day at Mitchell Elementary School causing...
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