Found Sound Nation

Amel Zen @amelzen (Algeria) - Vocals
Iskander Dridi @user364745902 (Tunisia) - Ney
Amy Garapic	@tiguemusic (USA) - Vibraphone, Percussion
Othnell Moyo (Zimbabwe) - Percussion, Vibraphone
Kirby Chipembere @kirby-jnr-jingati-chipembere (Zimbabwe) - Hosho, Vocals
Felipe Jose (Brazil) @felipejoseba - Guitar, Flute 
Ezgi Ekmilis (Turkey) - Percussion
Emil Ishen (Kyrgyzstan) - Temir Komuz, Komuz, Kyl Kiak
Rosie Tucker @rosietucker (USA) - Vocals

Engineering and Mixing by Jeremy Thal @jeremythal
Final Mix & Master by Cherif Lmc and Yanis Djama at Tahat Art Studio (Algiers, Algeria)

Queen Of The Desert - OneBeat 2016

Voice - Imran Fida (Lahore, Pakistan) 
Sarangi - Zohaib Hassan (Lahore, Pakistan) 
Tabla - Surojato Roy (Kolkata, India) 
Sarod - Debanjan Bhattacharjee (Kolkata, India) 
Violin - Tatiana Silver Hargreaves (Corvallis, USA) 
Horn and Trumpet - Jeremy Thal (Madison, USA) 
Electronics - Chris Marianetti (Albuquerque, USA) 
Recorded at Rancho Pillow Studios (Pozo Hondo, TX) 
Engineered by Ryan Chavez 
Produced & Mixed by Chris Botta & Chris Marianetti

Dosti Music Project - Mahi Yaar Di Gharoli

from Suites For A Broken Orchestra
Produced by Derick Gomes (@notquietsound)using the Symphony For A Broken Orchestra Sample Bank.
* All samples provided by Found Sound Nation and Symphony For A Broken Orchestra.
Symphony for a Broken Orchestra was commissioned by Temple Contemporary at The Tyler School of Art. Major support is provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, with additional support from the Barra Foundation.

Broken Bones - NOTQUiETSOUND

from Suites For A Broken Orchestra
Produced by King Shi (@kingshimusic) using the Symphony For A Broken Orchestra Sample Bank.
* All samples provided by Found Sound Nation and Symphony For A Broken Orchestra.
* Symphony for a Broken Orchestra was commissioned by Temple Contemporary at The Tyler School of Art. Major support is provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, with additional support from the Barra Foundation.

Caravan - King Shi

This gnawa song Shalaban speaks of blessing the 'maalem' or masters of gnawa. This recording was made at our pre-program residency at the Rockefeller Center, and the track is featured in Mosaic: Rituals as a duo with Mehdi Nassouli on guembri and voice, and live electronics by FSN Co-Director Jeremy Thal.  

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Mosaic is a suite of interdisciplinary works that explore our collective dreams, memories, and rituals. A team of artists from Morocco, Kurdistan, Palestine, Indonesia, South Africa, West Virginia, and New York journey through the liminal spaces that reveal our deepest humanity, the worlds hidden between past and present, sleeping and waking, spirit and substance. 

The piece was developed during a year of workshops in Palestine, Turkey and central Appalachia, which culminated in a month-long tour in central Appalachia, where we engaged with local communities through song shares, remedy/recipe exchanges, pop-up portrait studios, community dinners, and free concerts. These videos, filmed in East Kentucky and West Virginia during this tour, showcase Mosaic artists performing works from or inspired by our Mosaic pieces. 

Mosaic Interactive is supported by the Building Bridges program of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art. Additional residency support provided by the Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

For more information, visit mosaicinteractive.org

Shalaban

Created during our Mosaic residency at the Rockefeller Estate, this track features improvisations and melodies from Kurdish vocalist Ali Tekbas, accompanied by West Virginia banjo player Ben Townsend and Moroccan gnawa master Mehdi Nassouli.

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Mosaic is a suite of interdisciplinary works that explore our collective dreams, memories, and rituals. A team of artists from Morocco, Kurdistan, Palestine, Indonesia, South Africa, West Virginia, and New York journey through the liminal spaces that reveal our deepest humanity, the worlds hidden between past and present, sleeping and waking, spirit and substance. 

The piece was developed during a year of workshops in Palestine, Turkey and central Appalachia, which culminated in a month-long tour in central Appalachia, where we engaged with local communities through song shares, remedy/recipe exchanges, pop-up portrait studios, community dinners, and free concerts. These videos, filmed in East Kentucky and West Virginia during this tour, showcase Mosaic artists performing works from or inspired by our Mosaic pieces. 

Mosaic Interactive is supported by the Building Bridges program of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art. Additional residency support provided by the Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

For more information, visit mosaicinteractive.org

Ali Improvisation

Found Sound Nation (FSN) is a collective of musicians and artists who leverage the unique power of creative sound-making to help build strong, just, healthy communities. We believe that the art of listening extends far beyond the practice of making music — it is one of the major ways we can become aware of the beauty, tragedy, and hidden potential present in our neighborhoods, institutions and families. Our work emphasizes a mobile, accessible, collaborative way of recording and producing professional quality music, a technique developed by combining the innovative art music traditions of musique concréte, hip hop, audio-journalism, and contemporary composition. This method is highly adaptable to different environments, based on finding the unique sounds and resonances of each space, drawing upon the talents of musicians in the local scene, and examining issues most relevant to each community.

To get in touch, write us at around@foundsoundnation.org.