Jambo! Habari gani? - Your ideas for Sawubona Musicjam with Tanzania musicians....

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Permalink Reply by Carsten Trotzkowski on July 12, 2008 at 9:27pm

Moin, Dirk,

as far as I can see, the timing will really be OK, since we are still in project phase 1 (composition / songwriting) with only some over-early pre-extensions to phase 2 (jamming to find musicians / interpretations) up to now, so there will be a lot of space for others musicians to share their skill and style on this platform.
Since I am one of the participating songwriters myself, of course rooted in the European music with only few knowledge of African music, I tried to keep most of my song drafts open for other ideas and instruments - from African percussion to African vocals (e.g. "Ouma Part I & III") or even anything that might fit..
What I want to say: If musicians at e.g. Tansania are looking for project songs to make a try with, I would really be glad if they liked to pick (for example) one of my songs, and they could really do any alterations to them and can ask for any support (musical background or even technically on recording / upload etc.). I basically count on the web community to judge if e.g. my "European" initial version or the new "Africanized" version is better, or even a mixup between both. But I really beleave that 1 + 1 is more than 2 in this project, and that other cultural and personal influences will really enrich anything I try to apply to this project. That's what I find really amazing, and I can't wait for suggestions how songs could look like - when looked at from another angle :-)
Hope this is one of the answers you were asking for :-)))

Kind regards, Carsten

P.S.: We just made a live jam at the IBM German Headquarters at Stuttgart, being 3 IBMmers plus Carlo Murro, and we overhauled 4 of our present drafts for live playing (in ony a half day)- it was such a fun to get others into our musical ideas and to learn how to grow together!

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Permalink Reply by Dirk Spannaus on July 13, 2008 at 11:34am

Thank you Carsten for the brief introduction, so timing and the focus of the project seems like a nice fit :-)

I could imagine, the quickest way would be to have some handouts with us, that we can print out and give interested people, so they can find the webpage, when thay go to an internet cafe.

Should contain the main items, like:
- whats the project about,
- how to participate,
- whats in for the person participating,
- where to find the webpage...

Is such thing available as a draft or would there be someone in Sawubona Project willing to help prepare one? Whenever someone is traveling, it would be quick and easy to spread the word outside the internet :-)

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Permalink Reply by Dirk Spannaus on July 26, 2008 at 6:39pm

Hi,
I'm still looking for someone to provide necessary information about the project and helps to create a little informative flyer, which we can hand out to musicians we may meet in Tanzania (see my post before).

I will be glad to spread the word with the other Corporate Service Corps teams who travel to Ghana, Vietnam, Philippines, Romania, and Turkey.... The teams themselves come from all over the world and can share this idea there too.

Wouldn't that be an incentive? :-)
If its interesting - please help me getting it prepared.

greetings - Dirk

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Permalink Reply by Carsten Trotzkowski on July 27, 2008 at 9:38pm

Moin, Dirk,
I'm going to give the Admin a hint to contact you in this promising case.
Dieter Huober (who is the project founder & manager) is still on holiday (see his blogpage) but will have the strongest response for you. But maybe the project core team can help you.
I will also send a message to Manuela Gravius (and Lucky Thobela) who may also provide in-depth-information for you.
Cheerio, Carsten

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Permalink Reply by Manuela Geiger on July 29, 2008 at 5:46pm

Hi Dirk,

please tell me which kind of information you need and what will you do with this.
Thx.

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Permalink Reply by Dieter Huober on August 14, 2008 at 3:35pm

Hi Drik, pls contact: boniluv@yahoo.com,

Boni has a recording studio in Tanzania and many contacts to musicians. We had a call with him - together with an IBM colleague from Washington. I told Boni already that you are on the way to Tanzania an he also will try to contact you.

Best regards, Dieter

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Permalink Reply by Lucky Thobela on August 25, 2008 at 12:28pm

Sawubona Dirk Spannaus

i would like to appreciate for the idea.

it really sounds good to expand the project across sub-sahara region, it will be a good platform and a great opportunity for our community in sawubona-musicjam to the rest of musicians in Africa, who will be sharing they're creativity with rest of the world by using and exploring the tools of web.2.0.

this is great : )))

regards

Lucky Thobela

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