Movement producer @ian_coss is visiting professor @eisenberg_andy’s Anthropology of Music call in advance of tonight’s premiere. Follow along. 
Director of Artistic Planning @linseybostwick opens by talking about the deep curricular relationship between artists work as learning and research tools with the @NYUAbuDhabi curriculum.
Opening with an intro of @ian_coss as an applied ethnomusicologist and how his process of research and storytelling complements anthropological and more core academic approaches.
The students introduce themselves - most are musicians from all over the world, various practices, genres, composing, performance, production but also interests in sociology, anthropology, public health
Ian points out that his own background crosses very similar terrain. Post colleges he lived in Indonesia and Japan, and living abroad sparked an interest in ethnomusicology, and he earned his PhD at Boston University.
For a class, he had to make a 3 minute radio report. Loved how it drew from his ethnographic and music production and editing trainings.
That was his first radio production and it led him to producing podcasts on @prx public radio.
Student question: why did @meklitmusic’s Movement podcast tie its pilot to US Thanksgiving. It resonated with the themes of home and homecoming.
Conveniently, it also allowed the @TheWorld staff an opportunity to take a holiday break.
Conveniently, it also allowed the @TheWorld staff an opportunity to take a holiday break.
Another Q: about process of making the show, production process etc.
A: Movement has changed over time. Started as a radio show. Now launching as a podcast and evolved as a stage show.
Ian met Meklit during his PhD program; reconnected as he was developing a music radio show
A: Movement has changed over time. Started as a radio show. Now launching as a podcast and evolved as a stage show.
Ian met Meklit during his PhD program; reconnected as he was developing a music radio show
They shared interest in the theme of music and migration which spoke to @meklitmusic’s personal history as a refugee and immigrant interested in #migrationmusic
Stories begin with an artist they want to profile. They do long interviews. 2 hour conversations might be distilled to 8-15 minute pieces.
They did a similar process with @ghaliaaofficial @cromwellojeda and @freektv from the UAE for the show at @NYUAbuDhabi
They did a similar process with @ghaliaaofficial @cromwellojeda and @freektv from the UAE for the show at @NYUAbuDhabi
Many of the artist also share music - completed and stems - which Ian can incorporate into the sound mix.
In the pilot featuring @Sinkane they also found a local audio producer in Khartoum who was able to help them get ambient and concert recordings of his first Sudan show.
In the pilot featuring @Sinkane they also found a local audio producer in Khartoum who was able to help them get ambient and concert recordings of his first Sudan show.
Student comment about how “live” and “immersive” the conversation seems - which Ian credits to the sound design and approaches which have come out of the podcasting medium.
The alchemy of conversation, studio recordings and ambience of specific space.
The alchemy of conversation, studio recordings and ambience of specific space.
The convergence of ethnography and documentary podcasts, points out @eisenberg_andy - the coded informality separates it from a traditional media interview.
While most media is getting shorter and shorter, podcasts are one form in which the length of narrative arc is actually expanding across multiple episodes.
There’s also a more transparent cinema verite aesthetic that incorporates the reflexive nature of #ethnography
There’s also a more transparent cinema verite aesthetic that incorporates the reflexive nature of #ethnography
A thread from a different Movement class visit just jumped in. Hopefully this #thread will still hang together.
Student Q about definition of ethnomusicology as study of music within a culture context: does music always have to exist within a Place, or can it just exist with a Person.
Ian points out that this is an undercurrent of Movement, that Place is fluid. Rather than defining studies by geography, there’s more focus on circulation.
That’s why the lens of migration is so important.
That’s why the lens of migration is so important.
Q re podcast focus on subjects who were displaced, refugees and migrants. Media has a bias to the exceptional.
Long conversation that I was talking in so not tweeting about how the questions around migration that are salient in the US context where Movement was created is quite different from the questions in the UAE which is exciting and the point
He also talks about how much the conversations with @cromwellojeda @ghaliaaofficial & @freektv have evolved from the online meetings in digital to being on the ground here in Abu Dhabi, walking the streets, visiting the fish market and plant souq, has deepened their understanding
Final notice: we opened some additional seats for tonight’s performance of @meklitmusic’s Movement. Find them here nyuad-artscenter.org/en_US/events/2…
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