Projects tagged
Music & Sound
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Chilean Protesters Used Lasers to Bring down Police Drone
Read more: Chilean Protesters Used Lasers to Bring down Police DroneA technological feat has emerged amid the Chilean protests. A video of protestors bringing down a police drone has gone viral on social media sites. These protestors didn’t use any physical or gun force to bring the drone down. Instead,…
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Journal Rappé
Read more: Journal RappéA TYPICAL EPISODE of Journal Rappé begins with Senegalese rapper Makhtar “Xuman” Fall dressed in a suit and seated behind a news desk. At first glance, the show looks like an ordinary newscast. But then Xuman (pronounced human) launches into…
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COUNTERSPACE
Read more: COUNTERSPACECounterspace is an independent curatorial platform functioning as the first decolonial thinktank mapping cultural activism worldwide. It shapes collectively decolonial toolkits with common tools and resources, and a global directory browsable by continent, praxis, and social construct, as a Beuys-inspired…
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Prank Call to Governor Scott Walker
Read more: Prank Call to Governor Scott WalkerA New York blogger impersonating David Koch successfully prank called Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. David Koch is one of the two wealthy brothers who were big donors to his political campaign and GOP efforts generally. While Walker doesn’t say anything…
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Singing Disrupts Oil Auction
Read more: Singing Disrupts Oil AuctionUtah environmentalists infiltrated a federal oil-and-gas lease auction and refused to stop singing until they were escorted out. Environmental writer Terry Tempest Williams purchased development rights on a small stretch of land at the same auction, to bring attention to…
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Singing to Disrupt Housing Auction
Read more: Singing to Disrupt Housing AuctionDemonstrators aligned with the Occupy Wall Street movement sang their way into handcuffs during a Bronx foreclosure auction Monday to protest the housing crisis that continues to plague the borough. They serenaded a courtroom of real estate investors with the…
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The Comfort Illusion
Read more: The Comfort IllusionThe Comfort Illusion is a solo aural performance that highlights the effects our everyday actions can have on the environment. Through mixed media storytelling using sound and lighting, Adams narrates the life of “The Overkiller” a fictional villian who negatively…
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Glory to Hong Kong – Protesters Create National Anthem
Read more: Glory to Hong Kong – Protesters Create National Anthem“Glory to Hong Kong,” created less than three weeks ago, has rapidly been adopted as a symbol of the pro-democracy movement. via NYTimes: “Written and composed anonymously, then modified in online forums popular with protesters, “Glory to Hong Kong” features…
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Rattlin’ Bog Flash Mob
Read more: Rattlin’ Bog Flash MobA This flash mob was designed to deliver a message to raise awareness and deepen understanding about the immediacy of the climate change problem. By subverting the lyrics of the Rattlin’ Bog, we appealed through music to the hearts of…
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Rap Challenge to the Thai Military Junta
Read more: Rap Challenge to the Thai Military JuntaBANGKOK — The rhymes came to Nutthapong Srimuong before dawn, when Bangkok is as still as it can be and the night jasmine overpowers the Thai capital with its perfume. The country whose capital is turned into a killing field…