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<in·site> CONCERT, October 2000
CAN DU PIRATE
TV TOUR, August/September 2001
PAVAROTTI MUSIC CENTRE
RASTI IZ MUZIKE (GROWING FROM MUSIC)
Corporate
Sponsor
<in·site> 28th
October 2000
A concert at the Pavarotti Music Centre in Mostar (Bosnia Hercegovina) which
involved musicians from Britain, the United States, Japan, India, the West
Indies and Australia. They performed their own sets as well as collaborating
with local musicians. Perhaps most important of all the concert brought together
musicians and audience from the divided communities of former Yugoslavia.
The three hour concert was broadcast in full on Bosnian national TV and webcast
in Japan.
It was like this...
Nifty idea > A one day performance on music
and video in the base that is the place > Pavarotti Music Centre > A
Centre for things that have grown outwards > Musicians from round the
globe > Jamaican Horace Andy
to PoloEnglish Enos, Indians, Slavs and a hundred others in between...
The
Venue was a special place where people from the other side of the divided
city felt safe. This venue was home to normality...
Live music interlaced
with videos from the global contributors > visual
mixmology from ColdCut > scratchmic wrist rendering from ShingO2s main
man DJ Nozawa > Oh yeah Big Up Peter Gabriel for the contribution of Biko > Biko's
main man and driver Eugene Skeef supplied 50% of the heart 100% of the time
for this place...
Brian Eno on <in·site> I just wanted to say
what a great time I had in Mostar, and many congratulations to you all for
getting that complex
thing to work so seamlessly. It was really wonderful - everybody had a great
time and it must be the beginning of a new era for the Centre. I was sceptical
when I saw the programme that such an ambitious event could be made to work.
Well, it did, and it worked fabulously. This is exactly the kind of thing
the Centre was set up for - but better than I could have hoped for. I realise
you all must have put a lot of work and thought into this and I'm really
deeply grateful to have been a small part of it. I felt that this was a new
bridge built in Mostar, probably more important than any of the other bridges
being made there. Please give my best regards to everyone involved. You did
something great.
Ambassador Daniel H Simpson, OSCE, Mostar on <in·site> I
admire greatly what you did for the Pavarotti Centre, Future Trust, Mostar,
and
Bosnia/Herzegovina in general through your work and effort in putting together
the 28 October event here. Please know that there is enormous appreciation
here for what you did. You can count on us for future enterprises, as needed.
All the best. Ambassador Daniel H. Simpson, Director Regional Center Mostar,
OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
Murray McCullough OBE, Head of Office,
European Commission, Mostar on <in·site> The
concert has been a huge injection of hope for the staff at the Pavarotti
Music Centre, they no longer feel quite so forgotten and the issue of sustainability
is firmly at the top of the agenda. Very, very well done.
CanDU PIRATE
TV TOUR. August/September 2001
The CanDU PirateTV Tour took in much of
former Yugoslavia with dates in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia. This
was the largest event in a post-war
zone using the talents of international musicians as a catalyst for reconciliation.
It drew attention to Future Trust’s CanDU campaign to seek the abolition
on the use of depleted uranium in war zones. The heart of the Pirate TV Tour
was an interactive multimedia circus incorporating the audio and visual talents
of Ninjatune, the pioneers who created and influenced most of the music DJs
play today. The tour, however, was not DJ-based as it also incorporated live
performances and video jockeys (VJs), using the VJAMM software program developed
by Coldcut and Camart, which allows the manipulation of visual images as
if they were musical instruments. Arriving in town a day or two before each
public performance, the group's work with young people was used in performance.
The crew filmed their workshops and collaborations with local youth which
then appeared within hours on the six stage screens and "timed" to
the music. Pre-edited film on Future Trust’s depleted uranium campaign
was also VJAMMed. Long before the tour opened, the ColdCut & Ninjatunes
'Solid Steel' radio show was syndicated to radio stations on the route.
The tour crew also dropped in at local radio stations to loan DJ exclusive
sets
for the performance, part of building an atmosphere of expectation and
excitement.
'We had an astonishing promotion - two way mix via internet
link: Belgrade - London, between Jonathan and Matt [Cold Cut] was one of
the best art events
I have ever participated in. Thanks for making it possible.' Dragan Ambrozic,
B92 Radio/TV station, Belgrade, Serbia
NOTE: Cytomation GmbH supported Future
Trust’s DU campaign by providing £20,000
worth of technical services to maintain the blood cell analysis machines
at St George’s Hospital London
RASTI IZ MUZIKE (GROWING
FROM MUSIC)
Future Trust were able to provide film-making equipment,
computer edit
suite and other equipments to the Pavarotti Music Centre at the time of
the <In.Site> concert as well as contribute to local staff pay
for a number of months. The charity were also able to provide support
to the
local NGO, Rasti iz Muzike, to help them with their music workshop projects
with local youth.