My new proposal is designed to encourage the rapproachment of cultures by rhythmic means. The world comprises many cultures. All of them different. All of them contain music. More specifically, many of these cultures contain unique rhythms. My aim is to promote cultural awareness by exposing the user to different rhythms and allowing them to mix and match these rhythms to create new polyrhythms. This cross cultural style is already showing it's face even in the mainstream music scene. M.I.A. is a good example - http://bit.ly/avrNp.
I'll be meeting with Phil and Gearoid hopefully on Monday to tease it out more. In the mean time I have a lot of research to do!
I've started to sift through a lot of websites (most of them pre-2000) that are related to this topic. The interactivity of these sites is awful at best so I'm trying to find some better, more modern examples.
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