Organiser’s blog Bologna ’10 – Day 4
Share 3.40pm Gelatauro. Granite this time. 4pm Katzuma and Blanda are going over the tricky song from yesterday, covering his entrance points, before Nico and the rest of the band arrives. Luca is showing me the photos from yesterday’s trip to the school, some amazing shots that manage to capture the surreal element of what [...]
Original Cultures ‘From Inner Space’ – the story so far
Share Original Cultures ‘From Inner Space’ is over half way through now, and as day 4 starts here’s a handy round up of everything that’s happened this week in video, photo and text to give you an idea of what to expect Friday night. Today is the last day of rehearsals before we roll out [...]
Organiser’s blog Bologna ’10 – Day 1
Share Set ups galore and we’re back. The third event in 13 months, not bad for an idea that took shape two years ago and only started really becoming ‘real’ with the first event in early 2009. This year is hotter, with the July heat bearing down on us and making the use of fans [...]
Original Cultures Bologna 09 – Day 3 video
Share We return for the third time, with a video edit of what happened during day 3 of the Original Cultures pilot featuring footage of the visual arts workshop, soundcheck and the seminar at the Modo Infoshop. Edited by The Slow Breakfast. Available as a direct download in HD quality (quicktime format) optimised for iTunes [...]
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Editors’ blog Bologna ’09 – Workshops day 3
Share We are sorry but this post is not yet available in English. Da Alarico Mantovani. Nuovo ingresso in formazione stamattina: Bruno Briscik, il carismatico violoncellista che fa coppia con Tayone nei Rajasful, è già all’opera con gli altri sul palco del San Leonardo. Quando entro in sala vengo letteralmente assalito da un suono hard [...]
Organisers’ blog Bologna ’09 – Day 3
Share And again, sitting here in the kitchen with coffee on one side and brioches and panini on the other. It’s the morning of day 4, and even though they say all good things come to an end, I really feel like I don’t want this beautiful experiment to end. Looking back on day 3 [...]
Original Cultures Bologna 09 – Day 2 video
Share And again. Video edit of the day 2 music workshop proceedings during the Original Cultures pilot. Tayone, 2tall/Om Unit and Tatsuki tighten up the music for their showcase and prepare for a seminar and q&a session with the public. Edited by The Slow Breakfast. Available as a direct download in HD quality (quicktime format) [...]
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Artist blog Bologna ’09 – 2tall day 2
Share Ok, so take one dangerously introspective bedroom based music producer who debates walking 5 minutes to sainsburys instead of taking the bus for 2 stops and drop him in Bologne and let him loose with other artists to create a selection of live material to be performed 5 days later. We’ve been using our [...]
Editors’ blog Bologna ’09 – Workshops day 2
Share We are sorry but this post is not yet available in English. Da Giorgia Soncin. Da oggi cambio di location, che si sposta dallo studio di Ericailcane agli spazi del Sì in via San Vitale 67 a Bologna, luogo deputato per l’evento conclusivo di sabato sera. E’ da oggi che le idee dei tre [...]
Original Cultures – Pilot
Share Everything has to start somewhere, and Original Cultures will make its official debut in June 2009 with a pilot event spread over 4 days and held in Bologna, Italy. The pilot will feature artists from the UK, Italy and Japan and a number of select activities from Original Cultures’ own Cultural Exchange Program (CEP). [...]
Pilot – Workshop day 3
Share Third day of workshops for the Original Cultures pilot. Musicians and visual artists will work together across different spaces with a focus on creating new and unique collaborative works of art to be used for the pilot’s live showcase as well as the remix project and the installation for the Bologna Museum of Music. [...]
Pilot – Workshop day 2
Share Second day of workshops for the Original Cultures pilot. Musicians and visual artists will work together across different spaces with a focus on creating new and unique collaborative works of art to be used for the pilot’s live showcase as well as the remix project and the installation for the Bologna Museum of Music. [...]
Pilot – Workshop day 1
Share First day of workshops for the Original Cultures pilot. Musicians and visual artists will work together across different spaces with a focus on creating new and unique collaborative works of art to be used for the pilot’s live showcase as well as the remix project and the installation for the Bologna Museum of Music. [...]
Original Cultures Bologna 09 – CEP activities
Share Original Cultures Bologna 09 will test all the main activities from the project’s Cultural Exchange Program (CEP). These activities will be spread across 4 days and involve all of the pilot’s artists as well as the general public and students from local art universities/institutions in Bologna. Below is a list of the activities that [...]
The Cultural Exchange Program
Share The Original Cultures Cultural Exchange Program, or CEP, is the name for the core process of the Original Cultures project and its events. Simply put Original Cultures’ CEP involves a process of “visits” whereby artists from different countries go to each other’s countries to participate in a series of collaborative activities that stimulate and [...]
