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March 21, 2009

the DURBAN SINGS internet audio project.

Filed under: christo doherty, new media politics (k3) — ABRAXAS @ 9:09 am

You are invited to a presentation by the DURBAN SINGS internet audio
project.

Date: Tuesday 24 March: 13:15 ­ 14:00
Venue: Digital Convent Seminar Room
East Campus, Wits University.

DURBAN SINGS is a regional audio media and oral history project with a story to tell. The project uses street recordings and internet audio to create an open platform for contributions and re-mixes from artists and activists around the world. DURBAN SINGS is a sound network joining hemispheres via audio correspondence between listeners. DURBAN SINGS is an audio bridge between communities, artists and activist groups in KzN and the rest of the world.

Presenters:
Claudia Wegener (radio continental drift), a German, London-based sound and media artist organising collective radio projects (such as the NGZ audio radio project: http://www.nogozones.wordpress.com), visiting scholar at the Centre for Civil Society (CCS) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN). http://www.radiocontinentaldrift.wordpress.com

Molefi Mafereka Ndlovu (motho) born in Johannesburg now based in Durban; is a research fellow at Center for Civil Society full profile @:
http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs/default.asp?10,24. He is a founding member of the RASAfm Radio Project (Pimville, Soweto 2005), he is a third year student of Community Development at UKZN- Howard College.

For further information ­ christo.doherty@wits.ac.za

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