DURBAN SINGS www.durbansings.wordpress.com recording and re-mixing oral history for a global audience audio: DURBAN SINGS jingle “African Roots” edited mix of workshop recordings, Feb. 2009
DURBAN SINGS is an audio radio arts and oral history project with a story to tell…
Using street recordings and internet audio archiving to create an open platform for contributions and remixes from artists and activists around the world. DURBAN SINGS is a sound network joining hemispheres via audio correspondence between listeners; building a listening bridge between communities, artists and activist groups in KZN and the rest of the world. audio: Karabo Kgoleng, SAfm “Afternoon Talk” 25 March 2009
A pilot project across eThekwini communities
audio: Molefi Ndlovu, SAfm 25 March 2009
DURBAN SINGS network of editorial collectives creating new media and means of communication between centers and peripheries
Audio arts, creative communication and oral history: www.durbansings.wordpress.com
audio: Claudia Wegener, SAfm 25 March 2009
“It’s no mystery, we’re Making History…” from a song by poet Linton Kwezi-Johnson
Local recordings & International response
audio: Molefi Ndlovu, SAfm 25 March 2009
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DURBAN SINGS a 'rhizomatic' work of art : creative engineering of new networks for & with artists from the peripheries On-site introductory audio workshop in 4 communities (Nov. - Dec. 2008) Succession of 6 central workshops based at the university (UKZN) as a Centre for Civil Society (CCS) outreach initiative (Februray - July 2009) Training for audio-recordings, interview techniques, audio-editing, oral history and IT skills; oral history data-collection, on-line and off-line archiving, project management, public presentations, networking, blogediting, and broadcasts Involving 50 young people from 12 Durban community organizations Establishing 9 editorial collectives of audio artists at micro-media hubs in their local organizations and areas, each maintaining on-line presence via a blog and audio archive (uploaded on www.archive.org) Blogs are networked via www.durbansings.wordpress.com as switchboard and a 'community portal' at the CCS web-site: http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs/default.asp?11,62 The DURBAN SINGS archive continues to grow with every re-telling, remixing, re-listening, re-broadcasting and down-loading, through its widespread on-line presence, multiple producers and collective approach based on creative commons agreements an open invitation of connecting people through listening locally and across continents or divisions of class, age, culture and education audio: artists from Imisebenzi Yentsha, Folweni Township, on-site workshops in November 2008
Call and Response :
Cjam91.5fm: re-mix by Garth Rennie in May 2009 from DURBAN SINGS on-line audio archive Oct. 2008; www.cjam.ca
www.durbansings.wordpress.com ‘switchboard-blog’ and network of core producers
Clermont: Ubuntu Babasha: Thembinkosi Daemane, Malaodi Sekake, Mpumelelo Kwini, Zandile Ngidi http://www.ubuntubabasha.wordpress.com
Folweni Township: Imizebenzi Yentsha: Thulile Zama, Ayanda Mthembu, Zinhle Ndaba, Malusi Mkhwanazi, Sanele Langa, Nkosi Zama http://www.imisebenziyentsha.wordpress.com
Marianridge: Marian Coordinating Committee: Jenny Boyce, Beverly Webster, Linda Dupreez, Kathy Boyce, Charleen Bridger http://www.mariannridge.wordpress.com
Mzinyathi: Malungisa Youth Development: Bongisipho, Mthokozisi Ngcobo, Zine Ngcobo, Sphelele Phewa http://www.malungisa.wordpress.com
Inanda Newtown A: Youth in Action: Nhlanhla Mkhonza , Nkosinathi Buwa, Ndumiso Sondezi, Maswazi Mkhonza, Bomgani Mzaka, Nqobile Kunene, Vukani Mahiaba http://www.inanda.wordpress.com
Inanda Newtown A: Abasha: Phindilie Xulu, Nokulunga Mthethwa, Ayanda Sokele, Nosipho Maphumulo http://www.abasha2009.wordpress.com
Inner City: UKZN Refugee Council: Mambo Mukambilwa, Oliver Babingwa, Mustafa, Faustin, Stephen, Jean Claude http://www.communitymediadesk.wordpress.com
Umlazi (G section): Umlazi Youth Organisation: Cyril Linda Vezi, Sandile Desmond Sekeleni, Nokubonga ka Seme http://www.youthumlazi.wordpress.com
Chatsworth: http://chatsworthactivists.wordpress.com
audio: cjam91.5fm Windsor/ Detroit CA: intro to weekly “Sound-Scape-Rhythms” show by Garth Rennie, www.cjam.ca
Slow Broadcast and Radio Communities:
Re-mixes and oral histories from listeners in Windsor CA
“transit and intimacy� audio work with Joburg photographers & picture-feeds from Azania linked to www.durbansings.wordpress.com
audio: from DURBAN SINGS on-line audio archive: Durban poet and activist Faith kaManzi, February 2009
Making tools for correspondence: Portal for Community Action
http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs/default.asp?11,62
poet-activist contributors Faith kaManzi and Dennis Brutus
audio: cjam re-mix by Garth Rennie, May 2009 from DURBAN SINGS on-line audio archive, Interview with Durban film-maker Similo recorded in November 2008
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Collective Slow Broadcast methods: based on Creative Commons, Share Alike, Open Source
via public access archive:
www.archive.org
contribution from a listener in Finland
audio: from DURBAN SINGS on-line archive: poet and activist Dennis Brutus, February 2009
Correspondence between Listeners: ‘switchboard’ blog linking Local and Global Listeners in an exchange of audio productions
audio: “Azania”, protest song recorded at the Southern African Social Forum in Swaziland, Oct.2008
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www.durbansings.wordpress.com blog stats July 2009
comment from municipal Ulwazi Indigenous Knowledge Project www.ulwazi.org
audio: Abasha presentation clip, Pan-African Wolpe Lecture 16 July 2009
Inanda Newtown A: Abasha
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audio: No houses but tents; DURBAN SINGS pre-release compilation July 2009
Folweni: Imisebenzi Yentsha
www.imisebenziyentsha.wordpress.com
audio: Margaret Vilakazi Lembede; DURBAN SINGS pre-release compilation July 2009
Gospel for all Nations Community Hall, venue 16 July, At ‘The Point’ inner city of Durban
audio: Folweni presentation clip, Pan-African Wolpe Lecture, 16 July 2009
University of KwaZulu-Natal, Venue of workshops February - July 2008
Chatsworth: www.chatsworhactivists.wordpress.com
audio: Three ships from India; DURBAN SINGS “Afican Diwali” Nov.08, pre-release compilation July 2009
iNanda Dam
Port of Durban
audio: Chatsworth Drums; DURBAN SINGS archive Nov. 2008; pre-release compilation July 2009
Mzinyathi:
www.malungisa.wordpress.com audio: iNanda dam crisis; DURBAN SINGS pre-release Compilation July 2009
Mariannridge: Mariannridge Coordinating Committee
www.mariannridge.wordpress.com
audio: Shirley Ricks the next CEQ, from DURBAN SINGS pre-release compilation July 2009
Warwick Markets, Bovine Head Kitchen, Downtown Durban
audio: Karabo Kgoleng on SAfm, March 2009, and DURBAN SINGS jingle ‘contemporary’ mix, workshop recordings Feb.2009
Umlazi Youth: www.youthumlazi.wordpress.com
audio; Sbuso Tony Ndlovu; DURBAN SINGS pre-release compilation July 2009:
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Inanda: Ntuzuma
audio: Maria Cele: a legend; DURBAN SINGS pre-release compilation, July 2009:
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audio: area memories, DURBAN SINGS pre-release compilation, July 2009
Clermont: www.ubuntubabasha.wordpress.com
audio: cosmo area; DURBAN SINGS pre-release compilation July 2009
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Blog stats August 2009
Audiences and Producers at
DURBAN SINGS Pan-African Wolpe Lecture Event 16 July 2009
audio: DURBAN SINGS edited mix from workshop recordings, February 2009
DURBAN SINGS pre-release compilation On-line & off-line audio: YIA presentation, Pan-African Wolpe Lecture, 16 July 2009
Freedom to Create in African Tradition: based on our findings through DURBAN SINGS as a pilot of Collective Research, Arts and Community development in Azania:
= creative development of audio radio arts and ICTs to amplify and multiply African Oral Traditions and Histories today = creating contemporary spaces and new communities of listeners around African Oral Traditions and Histories locally and globally
audio: clip from Albert Park recordings October 2008; DURBAN SINGS pre-release compilation July 2009
Steps ahead for the DURBAN SINGS project: • creating a comprehensive publication of the project making its tools and methods available and reproducible for cultural activists in Africa and beyond (including those with currently no on-line access) in the form of:
• a “Media Activist Guide Book” accompanied by • an interactive multi-media DVD mapping out the journey of the project in images, texts and audio samples • a dramatic walk-in audio media and oral history environment traveling with its producers from Durban to Johannesburg to extend and strengthen the network of producers the project has initiated audio: Tunde Adegbola responds to the DURBAN SINGS project; Pan-African Wolpe Lecture 16 July 2009
A participatory audio media and oral history environment including:
drop-in recording studio drop in audio editing and on-line broadcast studio listening room and exhibition (documentation of 'slow broadcast' and oral history tools in process) all parts of the environment facilitated by DURBAN SINGS producers on-air broadcast involving local radio stations on-line broadcast involving international participants and stations "pavement-broadcast" (open mic, DJ, speakers on pavement, street recordings, mixing from DURBAN SINGS archive and contributions from passers-by) audio: Tunde Adegbola responds to the DURBAN SINGS project; Pan-African Wolpe Lecture 16 July 2009
Artists sketch for walk-in audio media and oral history environment
audio: DURBAN SINGS jingle ‘contemporary’ mix, from workshop recordings Feb. 2009
DURBAN SINGS www.durbansings.wordpress.com
an audio radio arts and oral history project developed and facilitated by Motho (Molefi Mafereka Ndlovu) and radio continental drift (Claudia Wegener) audio: DURBAN SINGS jingle, clip from ‘call for response’ May 2009
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