THIRTEEN in association with WNET.ORG has partnered with Indaba Music, the leading global online music collaboration web application, to enable artists worldwide to create a theme together online based around tracks provided by musicians, many of whom appear in the upcoming documentary Music Instinct: Science and Song. The two-hour special premieres nationally on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 9:00p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings).
This marks Indaba Music's members second chance to interact with the program Music Instinct: Science and Song, as the initial phase of this campaign recently closed. For this part of the campaign music tracks from esteemed artists including, Bobby McFerrin, Daniel Bernard Roumain, Christiane Karam, and Gino Sitson as well as additional contributors, Tiempo Libre, Ari Hest, and Greg Osby, will be featured as the base tracks around which contestants will build a new theme.
THIRTEEN is excited about our partnership with Indaba Music, said Stephen Segaller, Vice President, Content WNET.ORG. Our collaboration is a unique way to connect musicians and music lovers to the premise of the film that music is an important human phenomenon.
To qualify for the contest, a minimum of two of the provided tracks must be used there is no maximum. While original recorded melodies or other materials can be used in generating a complete composition for the contest, all compositions will be judged on the originality and expressiveness, musicality, and ability to converge the styles of these different artists. The winning mixes will be distributed as the Music Instinct: Science and Song album on emusic.com and will be available on www.pbs.org/musicinstinct.
We're incredibly impressed by the more than 140 submissions for the first phase of PBS Music Instinct: Science and Song campaign, hosted here on Indaba Music, said Matt Siegel, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Indaba Music. In the second phase, we'll be giving our growing community access to tracks from these talented artists. We're sure that the themes they create will intrigue and inspire everyone who watches the program, listens to the album, and learns from the discussions.
In addition to the contest, a robust educational section offers interactive and sharable widgets for students. Educational resources include online lesson plans for formal education to encourage student understanding and learning about the powerful connections between music and science, the LAB@Thirteen will create a series of three middle-school lesson plans for the program website (available in early June) focused on bringing the topic to life in middle school classrooms. These lesson plans, will adhere to national learning standards, and will contain comprehensive instructions for classroom implementation, utilizations of Music Instinct: Science and Song online features, streamable and downloadable segments of the broadcast program, and printable student handouts. For further information visit our website www.pbs.org/musicinstinct.
The Music Instinct: Science and Song is a co-production of Thirteen for WNET.ORG and Mannes Productions Inc., in association with ARTE/France, NDR, Australian Broadcasting Corporation with the participation of YLE. Award-winning filmmaker Elena Mannes is writer, director. Narrator is Audra MacDonald. Executive Producers are Elena Mannes and Margaret Smilow. Available in HD. Major funding for this program provided by the National Science Foundation, Mary Rodgers Guettel, NAMM FOUNDATION, National Endowment for the Arts, Rita and Frits Markus, The Vital Projects Fund, the Irving Harris Foundation, Sono and Victor Elmaleh, Thea Petschek Iervolino and public television viewers.
About WNET.ORG
New York public media company WNET.ORG is a pioneering provider of television and web content. The parent of Thirteen, WLIW21 and Creative News Group, WNET.ORG brings such acclaimed broadcast series and websites as Worldfocus, Nature, Great Performances, American Masters, Charlie Rose, Wide Angle, Secrets of the Dead, Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, Visions, Consuelo Mack WealthTrack, Wild Chronicles, Miffy and Friends, and Cyberchase to national and international audiences. Through its wide range of channels and platforms, WNET.ORG serves the entire New York City metro area with unique local productions, broadcasts and innovative educational and cultural projects. In all that it does, WNET.ORG pursues a single, overarching goal to create media experiences of lasting significance for New York, America and the world.
About Indaba Music
Indaba Music is a web application as well as a social network for musicians that enables artists all over the world to create music together online. Members can connect with an international community of more than 175,000 musicians to create online recording sessions - editing and mixing tracks recorded in different parts of the world using our online mixer. Following Indaba Music's first year of strong growth, the site is becoming an integrated platform from which musicians can manage all aspects of their digital lives.
This marks Indaba Music's members second chance to interact with the program Music Instinct: Science and Song, as the initial phase of this campaign recently closed. For this part of the campaign music tracks from esteemed artists including, Bobby McFerrin, Daniel Bernard Roumain, Christiane Karam, and Gino Sitson as well as additional contributors, Tiempo Libre, Ari Hest, and Greg Osby, will be featured as the base tracks around which contestants will build a new theme.
THIRTEEN is excited about our partnership with Indaba Music, said Stephen Segaller, Vice President, Content WNET.ORG. Our collaboration is a unique way to connect musicians and music lovers to the premise of the film that music is an important human phenomenon.
To qualify for the contest, a minimum of two of the provided tracks must be used there is no maximum. While original recorded melodies or other materials can be used in generating a complete composition for the contest, all compositions will be judged on the originality and expressiveness, musicality, and ability to converge the styles of these different artists. The winning mixes will be distributed as the Music Instinct: Science and Song album on emusic.com and will be available on www.pbs.org/musicinstinct.
We're incredibly impressed by the more than 140 submissions for the first phase of PBS Music Instinct: Science and Song campaign, hosted here on Indaba Music, said Matt Siegel, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Indaba Music. In the second phase, we'll be giving our growing community access to tracks from these talented artists. We're sure that the themes they create will intrigue and inspire everyone who watches the program, listens to the album, and learns from the discussions.
In addition to the contest, a robust educational section offers interactive and sharable widgets for students. Educational resources include online lesson plans for formal education to encourage student understanding and learning about the powerful connections between music and science, the LAB@Thirteen will create a series of three middle-school lesson plans for the program website (available in early June) focused on bringing the topic to life in middle school classrooms. These lesson plans, will adhere to national learning standards, and will contain comprehensive instructions for classroom implementation, utilizations of Music Instinct: Science and Song online features, streamable and downloadable segments of the broadcast program, and printable student handouts. For further information visit our website www.pbs.org/musicinstinct.
The Music Instinct: Science and Song is a co-production of Thirteen for WNET.ORG and Mannes Productions Inc., in association with ARTE/France, NDR, Australian Broadcasting Corporation with the participation of YLE. Award-winning filmmaker Elena Mannes is writer, director. Narrator is Audra MacDonald. Executive Producers are Elena Mannes and Margaret Smilow. Available in HD. Major funding for this program provided by the National Science Foundation, Mary Rodgers Guettel, NAMM FOUNDATION, National Endowment for the Arts, Rita and Frits Markus, The Vital Projects Fund, the Irving Harris Foundation, Sono and Victor Elmaleh, Thea Petschek Iervolino and public television viewers.
About WNET.ORG
New York public media company WNET.ORG is a pioneering provider of television and web content. The parent of Thirteen, WLIW21 and Creative News Group, WNET.ORG brings such acclaimed broadcast series and websites as Worldfocus, Nature, Great Performances, American Masters, Charlie Rose, Wide Angle, Secrets of the Dead, Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, Visions, Consuelo Mack WealthTrack, Wild Chronicles, Miffy and Friends, and Cyberchase to national and international audiences. Through its wide range of channels and platforms, WNET.ORG serves the entire New York City metro area with unique local productions, broadcasts and innovative educational and cultural projects. In all that it does, WNET.ORG pursues a single, overarching goal to create media experiences of lasting significance for New York, America and the world.
About Indaba Music
Indaba Music is a web application as well as a social network for musicians that enables artists all over the world to create music together online. Members can connect with an international community of more than 175,000 musicians to create online recording sessions - editing and mixing tracks recorded in different parts of the world using our online mixer. Following Indaba Music's first year of strong growth, the site is becoming an integrated platform from which musicians can manage all aspects of their digital lives.
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