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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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SAWUBONA/Songs Of Good Hope in Concert: @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
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Added by Ubuntu Ma Africa on February 19, 2010 at 2:30pm — No Comments
Music Is The Language Of Love - Interview with Elischeba Wilde
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
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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…
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…
Added by Manuela Geiger on February 1, 2010 at 2:30pm — No Comments
Sawubona Music Jam - looking back (part 1)
Uli Staudenmaier - a friend of Dieter Huober, was the one who composed some songs… Continue
Added by Manuela Geiger on January 28, 2010 at 5:38pm — No Comments
CeBIT 2010
There are just 33 days left until take off and we will present the Sawubona Music Jam Projekt on the IBM booth for the third time!! The last two years the visitors could catch up on the story and idea behind the Sawubona Project and the progress of music collaboration in the Sawubona Community.
Added by Manuela Geiger on January 27, 2010 at 5:30pm — 2 Comments
Back on the block
After rebuilding my Dean V and creating a new tuning and string set up I was excited and riffs were coming along well but the ease at which songs come to me has slowed a great deal. This is unfamiliar ground for me. I do like what I am hearing but song construction is not… Continue
Added by Billy Winslow on January 24, 2010 at 5:00am — 3 Comments
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Added by Sanna Arthur on January 15, 2010 at 4:58am — No Comments
Peace - Love - Light 2010
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Peace - Love - Light 2010
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SAWUBONA 2010
siyabonga for all your contributions to the SAWUBONA MusicJam platform. At the end of 2009 we will give you some views about the follow ups of the project in 2010.
2010 will be the year of SAWUBONA and the "Songs Of Good Hope". During December Werner Acker, Ken Hensley and others evaluated the songs we got for the Sawubona MusicJam - about 120. They will select about 15 "Songs Of Good Hope" for the CD production which starts in the 3rd. week… Continue
Added by Dieter Huober on December 30, 2009 at 3:48pm — 6 Comments
First day of Creativity World Forum 2009 with the Sawubona Band
Added by Manuela Geiger on December 2, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments
AFRO SOUL AND JAZZ SESSION
Added by Setjhaba Mokeki on November 27, 2009 at 10:05am — No Comments
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