Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Mafuta's "NYWERA" album Launch

Mafuta a youth group is launching its "Nywera" album this Saturday the 31st of July 2010 at National Theatre in the main Auditorium. 

Time:   5:00 p.m.

Fee:    VIP 30,000/=
           Ordinary 10,000/=

Friday, July 2, 2010

SOUND AS A MEANS TO ENGAGE


SOUND AS A MEANS TO ENGAGE
Audio media, ICTs and oral history

8th July 2010, 10-5 National Theatre/Kampala –CICP, 2-6p.m

A one-day interactive introduction to the tools and concepts of “slow broadcasting” online archiving and audio correspondence as based on creative commons (cc.) share-alike license distribution   

with Claudia Wegener (alias, radio continental drift)
For artists, collectives and organizations around UNCC; the session is also meant as a collective consultancy & ‘strategic’ idea exchange between the organizations involved; how by using above tools links and collective productions between those organizations can be furthered and thus common goals pushed even harder and more effectively.

including various ways of recording, uploading & capturing audio, clipping, editing, mixing as story telling, uploading online, creating on-line audio archives, setting up a blog and linking audio files to it, creating on-line platforms etc.

please bring pen & paper, your mobile phone (especially if it can record audio!) and other voice recording equipment you might have (including mics and headphones); if you have a laptop and its no trouble bringing it, please do.

resources: an interactive audio application, the publication of the NO-GO-ZONES project called “influence100”, and a sound-file telling the story of the DURBAN SINGS audio media and oral history project “the rough radio mix” are on the desktop of the computer in the UNCC resource centre. This is a free learning session and it’s open to all interested individuals.

further suggested listening
* 2010 (March), 100.3 MHz Laehradio in Helsinki Silakka Radio Show: Africa! dj shinji kanki presents selected tracks from the on-line archive of radio continental drift http://silakkaradio.fi/sound-art/march-7-2010-africa/

project blog/ archive: http://www.nogozones.wordpress.com
project blog/ archive: http://www.durbansings.wordpress.com


radio continental drift
a broadcasting house in the bag of a drifter out to here unheard voices
a branch of the growing networks of sound workers,
audio artists, radio communities, and the street corner academies of listening and broadcasting
around the world
radio is happening
when people loiter in public places
the air is free!


radio continental drift (claudia wegener) http://www.radiocontinentaldrift.wordpress.com
a travelling sound and media artist organising collective radio projects (such as the No-Go-Zones audio radio project in South London; collaboratively with Terry Humphrey, funded by Arts Council England, TrAIN, and Southwark Council; http://www.nogozones.wordpress.com); Associate member of Transnational Arts Identity and Nation Research Centre (TrAIN) at University of the Arts London http://www.camberwell.arts.ac.uk/39575.htm; most recently, a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs/default.asp?10,66,19,104; organising and facilitating the DURBAN SINGS audio media and oral history project www.durbansings.wordpress.com collaboratively with Molefi Mafereka Ndlovu, funded by Rosa Luxemburg Foundation; recent work includes LONG WALK, a radio play commissioned by Studio for Acoustic Arts WDR3 Cologne (broadcast October 2009) http://www.wdr3.de/open-studio-akustische-kunst/details/artikel/long-walk.html; and a contribution to sound art magazine www.vibrofiles.com for vibrö No.5; "The Plastic People Issue", released by Double Entendre June 2009.