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On a near moonless night, the bus rumbles to a halt. The passengers all debark along the side of the road — a vast clear plain clouded in by the shadows of the Dogon cliffs — somewhere on the national...
View Articlekickstarters for vinyl of music from saharan cellphones
The new proverb says “all roads lead to Kickstarter,” and I’ve joined the fray in this latest push — to bring “Music from Saharan Cellphones” to a vinyl. In a rather ironic twist the musicians whose...
View Articleeverything is remix pt. 2
In West Africa, as mentioned every so often here, cellphones are far more important than television in media diffusion and consumption. Videos are traded, like sound – from short comedic clips to full...
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sahelsounds and the quest for the emerald mp3
The good folks at 3bute have adapted a former blog post into a “mashable” comic available here. “3bute [pronounced: tribute] is an online anthology devoted to the contexts often missing when African...
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paris in the springtime
For mes amis françias, I’m going to be in the country for the next few days. On June 14th and 15th is an international conference on Mobile Phones and Creation, presented by IRCAV Sorbonne Nouvelle....
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Digital Sahel
A heads up for the friends across the pond, I’ll be bringing some digital Sahel goodness to Europe for the next two weeks in Switzerland and France: From Feb. 6th – 8th is Lift 13, a three day...
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