Set 1:   AFRICA  listen   

Set 2:  EUROPE  listen

broadcast by KUNSTRADIO (ORF, Vienna) 

“start asking, where am I coming from…” often a central question in my work with community organisations & groups of artists in Africa; here, I’m posing the question also to myself: through conversations with women of my mother’s generation in Germany (…); I’m asking the women to listen to recordings I made with African women conducted in English & “translate” or respond to parts they may choose & relate to in German (…). * complete text & credits

download engl./german script (cross-translation of audio)

Kunstradio also broadcast the LONG WALK radio play in 2010. A dedicated page “Listen! Babylon!” with resources & background information on LONG WALK is published on Creative Africa Network.

"Anti-colonial Monument" Bremen (renamed 1989; earlier "Reichskolonialeherendenkmal" (1931); design: Fritz Behn (1913); picture source: Peter Schroeder) http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikolonialdenkmal_(Bremen)

Students multi-media stories from two audio courses at the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg, March 2011

see skills training programme

“The initial idea of the audio workshop is to train photographers to listen while they “shoot”, or in other words: (…)* Listening as a means of research and analysis of collected “data”; audio editing as a method of evaluation; audio media skills in the services of articulating and “writing” a picture story; and even as a means of developing (one’s own) language.”  *complete text:  article MPW-newsletter 

click here for >>audio-photographics open platform of exchange

>>The DURBAN SINGS rough radio mix 

was release on Gruenrecorder label in December 2010; a movie trailer hosting the work followed in January. The trailer is packaged in an article  “Remixing African Oral History”  on Creative Africa Network where a re-mix tree provides access to the work’s multiple contributions celebrating the pioneering achievements of the DURBAN SINGS project and the people who continue to further the production of its vision.

“Global Voices” published a Review on the “trailers for a road movie”-project in December 2010. Deepdish “Waves of Change” also featured the trailers.

still from "SAUTI NAIROBI"

click to watch:

>>EMBOOZI YA KAMPALA – Kampala Conversations

>>DURBAN SINGS rough radio mix

>>SAUTI NAIROBI – Nairobi Conversations

>>DWAN LUGULU – Gulu Songs of Wisdom (part 1)

>>Gulu Songs of Wisdom (part 2)

>>AFRICA in the Belly of the Beast (Brixton)

You Can Explore & Use the Archived Audio:

Original recordings re-mixed in the audio tracks of the trailers can be accessed, downloaded & used under creative commons share-alike license. They are archived as part of an on-going conversational journey to “Africa” & audio media road workshop across the continent.

The audio playlists on www.archive.org are meant to introduce artists & organisations and the cultural, activist and socio political scenes as encountered by radio continental drift at the time.

We hope that their slow broadcast from the archives may already reach open ears & join like minds, while more complete sets of recordings are still being edited & uploaded.

Your comments & questions will feed the fire. Re-broadcasts & re-mixes can become a starting point for further audio correspondence. Do get in touch if our words & songs strike a common cord.

Thank you for listening!

radio communities/ list of contacts

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a broad casting house in the bag of a listener

DWAN LUGULU – GULU SONGS OF WISDOM

click on the links below to access the playlists:

->>playlist 1 ->>playlist 2 ->>playlist 3

->>playlist 4 ->>playlist 5

&

->>playlist 6 Legacy of Colonialism Joyce Laker, co-director of the TAKS Community Arts Centre in Gulu, on histories of conflict

->>playlist 7 TAKS Community Arts Centre Ugandan sculptor David Lukani Odwar & his sister Joyce Laker on the foundation & vision of TAKS

KAMPALA CONVERSATIONS – EMBOOZY YA KAMPALA

click on the links below to access the playlists:

->>playlist 1 ->>playlist 2 ->>playlist 3 ->>playlist 4

&

an  interview with  ->>Dennis Muhumuza (UNCC)

(editing & archiving in process)

SAUTI NAIROBI – NAIROBI CONVERSATIONS

click below to access playlist of clips:

I —  II —  III —  IV —  V

plus: conversation with Jimmy Ogonga (Nairobi Arts Trust/ CCAEA)

collection of mini-clips 1 , mini-clips 2 , on-air playlist

conversation with rhyme fm , rhyme fm 2 (Gas Fyatu  & MC Shenzy)

(uploading & archiving in process)

tune in at: Silakka Radio Show: Africa! 100.3 MHz Laehradio in Helsinki. dj shinji kanki presents selected tracks from the on-line archives of radio continental drift, featuring DURBAN SINGS, drip mix, and foreign investment ‘Good Morning Camberwell’ (a mix by Alan Dunn) July 2010

sampler: http://www.archive.org/details/RadioContinentalDrift

DURBAN SINGS switchboard:

http://www.durbansings.wordpress.com

DURBAN SINGS is an audio media 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.

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: a new ‘rough radio’ mix from the DURBAN SINGS on-line audio archive re-opening the project’s call for contributions and listeners’ response from around the world (13 mins; Oct. 2009)

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSingsARoughRadioMix

ALBERT PARK: SONGS, INTERVIEWS, STORIES from a group of DRC refugees

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_84

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_34

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_164

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_250

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_691

BULWER PARK: SONG FOR ASSASINATED JOURNALISTS AND ITS STORY from a young song writer and DRC refugee

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_259

BAT CENTRE: MORE AND LESS RECENT TOWNSHIP STORIES BEFORE THE ELECTIONS from a journalist poet activist

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_568

CENTRE FOR CIVIL SOSIETY: POEMS, STORIES, INTERVIEWS from an oral history workshop

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_796

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_516

CLERMONT: SONGS, INTERVIEWS AND POEMS from politically minded youth group

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_473

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_221

DOWNTOWN BAR: MUSIC, STORIES AND POLITICS IN THE SMOKERS ROOM conversation with a young film-maker

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_966

FOLWENI TOWNSHIP: SONGS, POEMS, STATEMENTS, AN INTERVIEW from a youth group

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_926

F197 CENTRE FOR CIVIL SOSIETY: POEMS, MEMORIES OF THE PAST AND FUTURE SOUTH AFRICA from a poet activist

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_764

HOWARD COLLEGE: VOICE-OVER TO “SILENCED VOICES” TRAILOR from a young filmmaker writer from Zimbabwe

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_18

INANDA (NEWTOWN A): SONGS, JAMS, COMMENTARY AND A MOVIE from a youth group

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_212

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_10

MZINYATHI: A SUPPORTER ABOUT YOUNG HIP-HOP POETS from the group ibutholondonzima

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_216

CHATSWORTH: AN AFRICAN DIWALI; audio report from Chatsworth

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_661

CHATSWORTH: THE BIRTH OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS a talk by Orlean Naidoo

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_965

PORT OF DURBAN: A PROTEST against import of goods from Israel

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_421

UKZN: THE CLIQ PROJECT an interview on IT training in/for township groups

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_70

WARWICK JUNCTION: VOICES FROM DURBAN’S MARKETS and about its proposed ‘re-development’

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_607

DURBAN SINGS  pre-release compilation 16 July 2009

tracks 1-10: http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_976

tracks 11-20: http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_59

tracks 21-30: http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_326

tracks 31-40: http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_644

tracks 41-43 http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_52

DURBAN SINGS: raw footage archive

http://durbansings.wordpress.com/category/raw-footage-archives-july-09/

CALL FOR RESPONSE: make a conversation across the lines

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_609

LETTERS FROM WINDSOR CA: vanguards of trans-atlantic community, media and curriculum development; a skype lecture & cjam remixes

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_642 (part 1)

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_5 (part 2)

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_972 cjam-remixes

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_762 (part 2)

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_163 (part 3)

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_346 remix Dec. 09

LETTER FROM LONDON: telling translation of LKJ’s song “Making History”

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_69

LETTERS FROM JOBURG: urban stories from young Johannesburg photographers

http://www.archive.org/details/audio-photo-graphics

LETTERS FROM WINDHOEK: songs, stories and histories from a Herero

http://www.archive.org/details/VolunteersNamibia

LETTERS FROM A CONTINENTAL DRIFT: Joburg, Soweto, Gaborone, Windhoek, Swakopmund

http://www.archive.org/details/radiocontinentaldrift_513

compilation of 13 MINICLIPS OF SONGS AND STORIES

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_953

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_980

DURBAN SINGS on SAfm: presented by Karabo Kgoleng “Afternoon Talk”

http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_163

RASAfm switchboard: http://www.rasafm.wordpress.com

RASAfm conversations and reports from activists:

http://www.archive.org/details/RASAfm http://www.archive.org/details/RASAfm_165

radio contiental drift on archive.org:

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22radio%20continental%20drift%22&sort=-publicdate