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Durban Sings requests contributions

Category: General News
Posted on March 2, 2010

DURBAN SINGS is a regional 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.

Send your contributions to the project by 31 March 2010: http://durbansings.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/call-for-contributions/

Learn more about this project:

Audio compilation July 2009
http://durbansings.wordpress.com/2009/07/18/durban-sings-pre-release/

Listener responses to date
http://durbansings.wordpress.com/letters-remixes/

Radio interview about DURBAN SINGS (page + quicktime link)
http://www.archive.org/download/DurbanSings_163/
http://www.archive.org/download/DurbanSings_163/DurbanSingsOnSafm.mp3 

Community portal (info and picture archive on website of the Centre for Civil Society)
http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs/default.asp?11,62


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