The PIYN project involves aspiring artists and performers from Auckland's diverse communities, working with the best of contemporary UK talent, to collaborate, create and celebrate. The programme involves capacity building workshops, online and face to face collaborations and master-classes in creativity.

OTW album released

By Thursday August 4, 2011

The creative commons EP recorded in a week as part of the Otherside Of The World joint collaboration from the British Council NZ and partners Redbull studios Auckland, and the Roundhouse in Camden has just been released online. Visit the bandcamp site here.

 

 

In May 2011 we launched the innovative creative commons project Otherside Of The World. The idea was to create an EP of new creative commons music, recorded between London and Auckland (over each day/night), in redbull studios Auckland and the Roundhouse Camden, and emphasizing the tools available on the internet, and the spirit of sharing and creative collaboration. Each evening was the change over part of the session, when the NZ musicians finished recording, and met the UK musicians by skype to discuss the recordings that were about to happen in Camden. Neither set of artists had met each other, and neither had experienced recording a track together. Viva la creative revolution!

We are now able to share the results of the collaboration online. This is a creative commons project.

Photos by Scott Sinton.

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PIYN launches in Australia July

By Wednesday July 6, 2011

Greetings to our friends and colleagues in Australia, We are running a pilot programme for our PIYN project in association with the British Council Australia 24-27 July in Melbourne and Brisbane.

The PIYN project involves aspiring artists and performers from diverse communities, working with the best of contemporary UK talent, to collaborate, create and celebrate. For the programme in Australia we welcome Helen Baxter’s Online Creative toolkit,  Oliver Wayman and Cameron Saul from East London charity Bottletop, and members of London’s dynamic HipHop Shakespeare company.

Programme details and dates are as follows:

Hip Hop Shakespeare :

The Hip-Hop Shakespeare Company is a music theatre production company founded by MOBO-award winning hip-hop artist Kingslee “Akala” Daley.

In his workshops Akala challenges the perception of language. He aims to teach young people ideas of cultural entitlement, but using something perceived as elite (Shakespeare), and showing its commonality with hip hop. Methods for opening culture through language are discussed, as well as techniques for poetry/MC delivery, and best practice from case studies. Akala inspires and engages young people with his workshop experience throughout Europe, Africa and around the World.

Sunday 24th July:  Workshop 11am – 4pm.  Followed by an open mic performance for friends and family from 5-6:30 pm.
Venue: The Substation
1 Market Street
Newport Melbourne VIC 3015, Australia

Tuesday 26th July: 5-8pm.
Akala will perform at Dig Deep at the Arts Centre 100 St Kilda Rd Melbourne, and interact with the aspiring artists there.

Wednesday 27th July: Workshops with Contact Inc’s networks.

Contact Inc.
3 / 80 Hope Street, South Brisbane.

Online Creative Toolkit Workshop:

Helen Baxter (UK/NZ) from Mohawk Media, presents an online toolkit for creative practitioners across the various artforms – with a focus on income generation, newly developed marketplaces, and developing an effective online presence.

This toolkit takes a group of 20 creative entrepreneurs, who will learn about the tools used to run a modern creative company, and take a guided tour of online places to publish work and earn money.

Participants will be shown blog start-up and/or enhancement using the WordPress platform, focusing on PayPal and donation systems, event management, mobile streaming and social media marketing tools. Mindmap materials will detail creative business structure & resources, and widgets for publishing.  The day will finish off with a social media masterclass, and participants will leave with a personalised strategy, action plan and toolkit for their creative practice.

Date: Tuesday 26 July 2011

Venue : Digital Learning Hub – Arts Centre Melbourne
100 St Kilda Rd Melbourne.

Start time: 10:30 am
Finish time: 2:30 pm

To apply for this free workshop go to: http://piyn.net/questionnaire/


Bottletop:

Come and join us for a free session on ethical trade, music and fashion initiatives with the director behind UK’s successful Bottletop charity. Bottletop is dedicated to designing and producing ethically sourced and sustainable products in communities where they deliver education programmes, focusing on quality and local craftmanship and generating sustainable trade and employment.

Oliver Wayman will present ideas about creating income generation projects in economically disadvantaged communities, and the way in which bottletop showcases beautifully crafted fashion accessories from different cultures, to an international market. He will be presenting a track record of high profile collaborations with fashion houses as well as focussing on the impact which the “ring pull effect” has had on the communities in Salvador, Brazil. Oliver will also talk about the reaction they have had to their cross-cultural music projects – Sound Effects and the Bottletop Band.

Come and join us for an inspirational session.

Date: Tuesday 26 July 2011

Venue : Digital Learning Hub – Arts Centre Melbourne, Open Learning Space.
100 St Kilda Rd Melbourne.

Start time: 3pm
Finish time: 4:30 pm

 

THANKS to all UK delegates and Australian partners for their support. See you there!

Please feel free to contact Amrit.Gill@britishcouncil.org.au if you have any inquiries.

Gill, Amrit (Australia)
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PIYN doco screening

By Saturday June 18, 2011

We are screening the documentary for the 2010 PIYN project July 29th in Auckland City at Federal & Wolfe Cafe Auckland Central. The 30 minute film was shot by Peter Takapuna, and directed by Peter Takapuna and Gareth Farry, and features some amazing live footage from the three NZ shows (Auckland, Wellington and Taupo), as well as some candid interviews with the NZ and UK talent involved.

Look out for live show clips featured in both Taay Ninh and Submariner’s sections of the show, as well as great interviews with visiting UK guests Charlie Dark, and the Urban Soul Orchestra crew. For more on the 2010 edition of PIYN visit the blog here.

 

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Otherside of the World draws to a close..

By Monday June 6, 2011

British Council’s online Creative Commons project Otherside Of The World, with partners Redbull NZ, Play It Strange NZ, and the Roundhouse Camden London, has drawn to a close after a week of intense recording, skyping and editing in studios in London and Auckland.

The project is part of British Council New Zealand’s PIYN programme, which involves aspiring artists and performers from Auckland’s diverse communities, working with the best of contemporary UK talent, to collaborate, create and celebrate.

NZ performers stood up to the challenge, and provided an inspiring and challenging mix of audio ideas for development by the UK participants. We are awaiting the final mixes, but keep an eye on this blog and our creative commons site for the free EP which will be available in the next month.

 

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Less than a week till “Otherside of The World”

By Wednesday May 25, 2011

Next Monday 30th May, we are launching the innovative Creative Commons project Otherside Of The World, with partners Redbull NZ, Play It Strange NZ, and the Roundhouse Camden London. We are extremely pleased to announce we will have Multi-grammy winning mixer “Bassy” Bob Brockmann to sit in on studio as guest executive producer for a couple of sessions.

The project is part of British Council New Zealand’s PIYN programme, which involves involves aspiring artists and performers from Auckland’s diverse communities, working with the best of contemporary UK talent, to collaborate, create and celebrate.

The idea is to create an EP of new creative commons music, recorded between London and Auckland (over each day/night), using online tools such as soundcloud, emphasizing the tools available on the internet, and the spirit of sharing and creative collaboration. Each evening will be a change over part of the session, when the NZ musicians will have finished recording, and will meet the UK musicians by skype to discuss the recordings that will be about to happen in Camden. Neither set of artists will have met each other, and neither will have experienced recording a track together. Viva la creative revolution!

 

BIOGRAPHY

“Bassy” Bob Brockmann is a veteran of the “bizz” as it is known, has mixed over 2000 singles, and his records have sold in excess of 50 million units world wide. His work is easily recognizable for a naturalistic approach to mixing, where the lead vocal is king.

Bassy has been responsible for seminal records for artists like Christina Aguilera, Biggie Smalls, P diddy, Babyface, Brian Mcnight, Herbie Hancock, the Fugees, Santana, and Sting.

The project runs for a week, and being creative commons, some parts of the finished recordings will be available under CC license online for anyone to use. As always stay linked to this blog, or twitter to get the lowdown.

 

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