Peru

I will spend at least three months here in the Amazon, working together with the locals in documenting their musics, and learning, about their way of being here in this world.
Photo Gallery

The Other Side of China

Through the ages, music has been a means for people to express themselves during work, spiritual worship, celebrations and ceremonies.Today, the traditional music and singing styles have survived mostly only in small communities in remote regions.

CD RELEASE

Liveact at RadArt #10, Ljubljana

Jun 6, 2019 |

RADART excerpt - Morocco, live in Ljubljana 7th of May, 2019 from Andrej Kocan on Vimeo.

In April and May 2019 I went for a short field work to Morocco and recorded a few Gnawa jam sessions with local musicians hanging out at Dar Gnawa in Tangier. This is the finishing part of my live audiovideo performance, with the footage and music mostly from the Morocco trip.

It was presented at:

RADART #10: X/L Experiment: Radio Factory – 10th performative art-radio happening of Open research platform RADAR of Radio Student. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Radio Student that started broadcasting on 9th of May, 1969, and where I spent almost a decade. Radio Student – my first music academy..

 

Liveact at RadArt #10, Ljubljana

May 22, 2019 |

Liveact at RADART #10: X/L Experiment: Radio Factory, Ljubljana, 7th May, 2019
10th performative art-radio happening of Open research platform RADAR of Radio Student. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Radio Student that started broadcasting on 9th of May, 1969 and where I spent almost a decade. Radio Student – my first music academy.

Paper presentation at ICTM simposium, Lisbon

May 22, 2019 |

Paper presentation

Worldly Music: The Imagination of Sound and the Imagination of Instrumental Music Markets

at the 22nd symposium of ICTM study group Musical Instruments at the Institute of Ethnomusicologia at the Faculdade de Ciencias Sociais e Humanas, Lisbon Portugal 10-13 Apr 2019