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February 2010 Blog Posts (12)

SAWUBONA Rehersals For CeBIT Concert/Articele Local Newspaper 26 February

Added by Dieter Huober on February 28, 2010 at 11:21am — No Comments

All about Ubuntu Ma Africa - HIV/AIDS and Awareness Project



I am theFounder of the organization: Nonqaba Sweetness Mpongwana





I want to uplift people living in…

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Added by Ubuntu Ma Africa on February 24, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

SAWUBONA/Songs Of Good Hope in Concert: @CeBIT Opening Ceremony 1 March, Hanover

IBM presents@CeBIT Opening Ceremony 1 March, Hanover:



SAWUBONA/Songs Of Good Hope in Concert



Hanover/Suttgart, 1 March 2010 – IBM presents the SAWUBONA/Songs Of Good Hope at the evening of the CeBIT Opening Ceremony, 9 – 10:30 pm, Kuppelsaal, Glasfoyer at the… Continue

Added by Manuela Geiger on February 22, 2010 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Music Is The Language Of Love - Interview with Elischeba Wilde

Interview with Elischeba Wilde (reigning Mrs. Germany 2008/2009)



Music Is The Language Of Love

Mrs. Germany, Elischeba Wilde, wants to support SAWUBONA



She lives in a world of beauty and fashion, but she stays really connected to the real world. Above her involvement for Ady, a nine year old child from Senegal, Elischeba Wilde wants to support SAWUBONA help projects, too.… Continue

Added by Manuela Geiger on February 17, 2010 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Looking back (part8) Online Community & Music Factory

An online community has been developed, in preparation for the CeBIT in 2009, where we presented the Sawubina Music jam project the second time.



The community was placed to connect musicians and fans easier and faster, using web 2.0 technology.



In addition to the common community features like profil pages, photo and video upload, blogs and chat, we developed and implemented the so called… Continue

Added by Manuela Geiger on February 16, 2010 at 4:40pm — No Comments

Looking back (part 7)

Sawubona Song Contest (Continuation)



THE FINAL





Because the jury could not commit itself on a winner at the first time, we wanted to give the audience a voice, too. Therefore, we decided to organise a so-called "battle", where both finalists Los Skalameros… Continue

Added by Manuela Geiger on February 10, 2010 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Looking back (part 6)

To the start of the Sawubona Music Jam project, we organised a song contest on the Internet together with our cooperation partner Justaloud.



On www.justaloud.com you can easily discover new music, because here musicians and bands without a record contract can sell their music, too.



Now these musicians and bands were called to write a song on the subject "Good Hope". Therefor they… Continue

Added by Manuela Geiger on February 9, 2010 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Looking back (part 5)

Kick off for the Sawubona project was in March 2008 at the CeBIT in Hanover. Everything was ready: Sawubona Island in Second Life, the Weblog and the Sawubona Music Mixer.



The idea, to produce a CD with songs from an "Online Music Jam" piqued the interest of many visitors.

The flashy presentation of the Sawubona demopoint consisting of drums, electric guitar, micro and amplifier attracted many co-workers and employees from other companies to get together in the evening to… Continue

Added by Manuela Geiger on February 4, 2010 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Looking back (part 4)

Innovative Online Tools in early 2008:



1. The Sawubona Music Mixer



Kalina P. a member of the team of Ansgar S. developed this innovative online music tool - online-mixing just by clicking your mouse.



The mixer looked like this:











The following features were possible:



- Choosing single tracks

- Tempo change

- Volume change

- Pitch chang



And the user created his… Continue

Added by Manuela Geiger on February 3, 2010 at 6:17pm — No Comments

Sawubona Music Jam - looking back (part 3)

The Revival of the Sawubona project.



It was at the CeBIT 2007 when Dieter Huober and Ansgar Schmidt talked the first time about setting up the Sawubona project with New Technologies options.



The basic idea of Sawubona, supporting township projects in South Africa with the Songs of Good Hope, remaind.



But this time the main focus was the virtual collaboration of musicians around the world. Based…

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Added by Manuela Geiger on February 2, 2010 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Sawubona Music Jam - looking back (part 2)

Today some more details about the initial Sawubona Band:

The beginning was looking like this (Dieter Huober on the left-hand side):







The first tours of the initial Sawubona band go back to 1998 and 1999 and took place in Germany. On November 21st the first concert in Karlsruhe was arranged in cooperation with IBM, “Die Zeit” and the Radio Bremen in occasion of the ending…

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Added by Manuela Geiger on February 1, 2010 at 2:30pm — No Comments

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