ONEBEAT
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...
View ArticleOneBeat Apps Closed
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...
View ArticleFound Sound Nation in the Berkshires: Composition & Music Production Workshop
by FSN’s newest team member Nandi Plunkett After an exciting weeklong stint in the beautiful Berkshires in Western Massachusetts, it’s not easy to re-adjust to the Brooklyn office. Our corner of the...
View ArticleFound Sound Nation in the Berkshires: Physics of Sound & STEPS
In addition to the weeklong workshop we conducted with students in the North Adams community, we had the chance to dig into a couple of other music-making activities while in the Berkshires. The first...
View ArticleCINÉ INSTITUTE
In February 2012, Found Sound Nation directors Chris and Jeremy and acclaimed jazz pianist Aaron Goldberg traveled to Jacmel Haiti to work with students and graduates of the Ciné Institute, Haiti’s...
View ArticleINDONESIA
This spring Carnegie Hall’s Musical Exchange brought Found Sound Nation directors Chris and Jeremy to Indonesia to meet and collaborate with young musicians, and the master musicians who inspire them....
View ArticlePassing Period
It’s been a crazy weekend!!!!! The past two days have been mad scramble to make sure that our cargo is packed with every keyboard, pedal, wire, and…oh yeah, person…involved with OneBeat. And while we...
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...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
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Street 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 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...
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