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Strisvara celebrates women in music

Strisvara is a program created by 2015 alumnus Arun Sivag in Bangalore, aimed at empowering women through musical collaboration. This September, OneBeat 2015 alumnus Arun Sivag and his team at TreeOnz launched a OneBeat-inspired creative collaboration residency with tribal, urban and international musicians called Strisvara. The aim of the program is to bring women together from these different backgrounds to build, create, perform and lead together, thereby supporting the careers of the individual musicians and launching collaborative projects for years to come. The program also celebrates the role of women in music, and explores this role from a tribal, urban and global lens. Strisvara consisted of an 18-day residency and 4-day tour, where musicians from USA, Sweden, and Nepal joined musicians from urban India, and native women from the B.R. Hills in Karnataka, who are musicians but did not consider themselves professionals. Together, they created new compositions, recorded tracks, made videos, and […]
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Tiga Trio plays live from a long distance

Tiga Trio is multi-instrumentalist Jay Afrisando (Indonesia), theremin player and electronic musician Ng Chor Guan (Malaysia) and bassist Daniel de Mendoza (Colombia). We talk to Jay Afrisando about the group’s continued collaborations after OneBeat. Where did your group, TIGAtrio, get the idea to start rehearsing using Skype? What does a music rehearsal over video chat sound like? On the last day of OneBeat at Islandwood (Bainbridge Island, Washington), we decided we wanted to have more live collaborations remotely. Skype appeared in our mind suddenly. We did it eventually in mid-January this year; it was about Saturday 9 PM at Daniel’s place (Bogota), Sunday 10 AM at Guan’s place (Kuala Lumpur), and Sunday 9 AM at my place (Yogyakarta). At the first trial, we found that Skype only is not enough to use as a platform due to the intolerant audio latency and bad audio quality. In order to have a smooth and better audio connection, we also utilized an application […]
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IBK Spaceshipboi releases Padeya video

OneBeat 2015 alumni IBK Spaceship Boi talks about his new project, WORLDRADIO and video for ‘Padeya’, shot on location in Cali, Colombia. What is the inspiration for WORLDRADIO? The inspiration for ‘WORLDRADIO by SPACESHIPBOI’ is pivoted on the notion that “we become what we focus on”. Conceived with the intent to destroy negative racial demographic stereotypes, this is my attempt to show the beauty of the world via musical collaborations using visuals that capture it’s true essence. This is the first of many compilations ‎to come. It showcases my musical interpretation of various musical genres associated with race/geographical location. Imagine a compendium of genres unique to different parts of the world in an Album, that’s what this is, hence the name WORLDRADIO. How did you write the song “Padeya” (featuring OneBeat alumni Fabian Sanchez and Daniel De Mendoza) and why did you decide to travel to Colombia for the first […]