Are You A Musician, Photographer, Animator Or Film Enthusiast? Pawa 254 Wants You!

Are you a musician, dj, photographer, cartoonist, animator, creative designer, videographer or filmaker? Then read the following post below courtesy of Pawa 254!

The post was published by Kevin Oyugi, Community Manager for Pawa254. Meanwhile if you missed the pictures of the turning one party also held at Pawa, click on this link.

Pawa 254 in conjunction with Camelo International, is proud to announce open applications for ‘The Urban Collab Lab: Making Music in the Connected City’ which aims to bring together musicians, artists, and fans of both, to explore the role of technology in supporting new forms of creative collaboration across economic, cultural, and geographic boundaries. This workshop, spread out over 3 days in the month of June 2013, seeks also to discover more about how music emerges and evolves in a connected world where there are more phones than people.

Some of the questions we hope to be tackling in the workshop are:

How does technology, specifically the mobile phone, change the way we make music and collaborate?

What can this tell us about ourselves and our cities?

How can we create platforms that create intersections where few previously existed?

This three-day collaboration lab invites participants to first collect or record sound via mobile phone, and then come together for collaborative music composition, idea development, and critical reflection.

It culminates in a celebration of the city of Nairobi, and its sounds, with a small party on the Pawa 254 rooftop.

The primary goals of the workshop are:

● Collect sounds and music via mobile from musicians and artists living in Nairobi

● Create collaborative compositions from sounds collected and submitted to Camelo

● Fieldtest and get feedback on Camelo, the platform current state, overall concept, and

future vision

● Create paper prototypes of future Camelo concepts (music composition and mixing, filters, sharing, competition and voting etc

Our secondary goals are:

● Understand what the sounds and music of Nairobi tells us about the city and ourselves

● Understand how technology is changing the way that music is created (in cities)

● Understand how the mobile phone creates a different kind of access to technology and

what that might mean in terms of economic or cultural boundaries

Interested in participating?

For this workshop, we’re looking at working with a maximum of 30 participants only, so kindly RSVP to the Pawa 254 Community Manager, Kevin via email – [email protected] before midnight, June 10th 2013.

Our target audience is primarily (and not limited to):

Musicians, DJs, photographers, cartoonists, animators, creative designers, videographers and filmmakers. – students, enthusiasts and / or professionals

The workshop will take place at Pawa 254 in Nairobi, Kenya

Lab Dates & Times:

Thursday – June 20th 3pm to 6pm

Friday – June 21st Independent work session

Saturday – June 22nd 2.00pm to to 7pm