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Pavithra Chari Interviewed by Rolling Stone India

Rolling Stone India interviewed 2018 Fellow Pavithra Chari about her upcoming music residency in Pokhara, Nepal. Chari was chosen to participate in this year’s Seashells on the Mountains artist residency, which began on October 14th at The Pavillions Himalaya, an eco-sensitive resort nestled in a forested valley and set against the backdrop of the Himalayan mountain range, and which culminates with the live performances of new works by the selected artists on October 27th. Pavithra, who studied with legendary Khayal singer Shubha Mudgal, has herself recently starting interviewing other traditional singers with the hopes of documenting burgeoning trends in Hindustani music. Regarding her research, Pavithra said: “I think as a student of Hindustani classical music, it’s important to have that sense of inquiry and that sense of understanding the people and compositions I’m representing on and off stage, and learning about the research that I’m taking up is basically to […]
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Nursalim Yadi Scores New Documentary Film About Deforestation in Sumatra

Splash and Burn, an Artist led initiative raising awareness on the dwindling wildlife population of South East Asia, commissioned Spanish artist ESCIF to create a series of murals and art installations in the Sumatra forest that highlighted the use of palm oil in rubber plantations that has caused rapid deforestation of the area. The resulting short documentary that Splash and Burn produced was scored by 2018 Fellow Nursalim Yadi. According to Splash and Burn, they asked Nursalim to compose the music due to his “interesting approach to instrumentation and composition as a DIY ethnomusicologist, and collaborations with indigenous musicians to preserve and reinterpret their music through new compositions.”  Watch ‘Rewild’ below:
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Johanna Amaya Conejo and Greg Chudzik To Participate In Art Omi’s Music Residency

Fellows Johanna Amaya Conejo and Greg Chuzdik were selected to participate in this year’s Art Omi music residency program, which took place in Ghent, NY this past month. The prestigious Art Omi program encourages its participants to share ideas, perform each other’s works, and write music for one another, while exploring their own musical vision and broadening their artistic and cultural horizons. The two OneBeat alumni were among fifteen musicians from around the world selected to participate in the three-week program. The residency culminated in a public concert at Art Omi’s Sculpture & Architecture Park on August 24th.   Read more about Art Omi’s 2019 Music Residency here.