Music; the universal language.

This post begins with what is in my opinion, one of the prettiest, most amazing collaborative endeavours so far; "In B Flat" (see the official website here) is a project created by Darren Solomon in which musicians were asked simply to play whatever they wanted as long as in the 'B flat' tone. You can read the 'Wired' magazine article about it here or read their FAQ.

"play these together, some or all, start them at any time, in any order."

Now, I honestly was so impressed by this I actually watched one by one to understand more of how it works; and on this video below, recorded during the "Notes and Neurons" event at the World Science Festival in 2009 (watch the whole panel here); Bobby McFerrin (wiki) shows us still a bit more about the pentatonic scale and its inert predictability (precisely what makes it so universally comprehensible)

While on the universality of music, the 'Playing for Change' project, goes around the world putting  together artists who never even met to sing 'universal classics' of popular music, while raising money for music education worldwide.

Here's a couple of these songs but you can watch them all on youtube or at their own website (linked above) and you may also make a donation at the 'Playing for Change Foundation'.

Finally this 30' documentary entitled 'We.Music' shows a bit about music creation among artists from São Paulo, Brazil and how they're facing these new possibilities of collaboration and collective creations and productions. The documentary itself was part of a vast collaboration between artists institutions, sponsors and of course the team @ "Galeria Experiência" who themselves have been working as a 'collective' of photographers who sign their work as one.

(I believe this video still hasn't gotten its English subtitles uploaded so for now, I'll have this one here and asap I'll swap to the subtitled version)

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