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Field Recordings from Darfur
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Following are the field recordings made by Linda Mason on her "women-to-women" visit to Darfur.
Students, faculty, staff and alumni can use these clips to create recordings, which will form a CD the college plans to release in the coming months. The CD will also include the student-penned tracks that were brought to Darfur.
The Berklee-Sudan music project is sponsored by the Women's Network at Berklee.
Submission Instructions
Berklee students, faculty, staff and alumni are invited to use these clips to create recordings, and send submissions that adhere to the following criteria:
- Format: MP3 or audio CD, with or without lyrics.
- Recording quality: demos are fine.
- Time limit: 2.5 – 4.0 minutes.
- Language/tone: non-religious and apolitical material only; no offensive language; subject sensitive.
- Submissions: send to Shannon Kim via e-mail at skim@berklee.edu, or by mail at Shannon's Berklee mailbox
MS 921-SA.
- Deadline: Sunday, July 31, 2005.
Downloading Clips
All clips are .wav files; some clips have slight gaps/skips. To download:
- Mac users: option-click on the link in the Download column.
- Windows users: right-mouse-click on the link, and select "Save target as..." or "Save link as..."
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Length
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| Call-and-response singing. |
0:54 |
9.0 mb |
Clip 02
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| Spoken response to Berklee music. |
0:27 |
4.6 mb |
Clip 04
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| Trilling, clapping, talking. |
0:15 |
2.8 mb |
Clip 05
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| Male translator talking. |
0:21 |
3.6 mb |
Clip 06 |
| Talking, clapping, trilling. |
0:43 |
7.2 mb |
Clip 07 |
| Call-and-response singing, clapping, with translation. |
0:29 |
5.0 mb |
Clip 08 |
| Children singing, followed by applause and call-and-response talking. |
0:51 |
8.6 mb |
Clip 10 |
| Singing, trilling, clapping; spoken English commentary. |
1:21 |
13.7 mb |
Clip 11 |
| Call-and-response singing and trilling with clapping; spoken English of the words "women," "sisters," and "America." |
1:56 |
19.6 mb |
Clip 12 |
| Morning prayers in the distance; a rooster crows. |
1:42 |
17.2 mb |
Clip 16 |
| Begins with people speaking; a woman sings, children sing; some laughter, some translation (some gaps/skips). |
5:02 |
50.9 mb |
Clip 17 |
| Track begins with loud trilling, followed by singing, laughing. |
0:38 |
6.5 mb |
Clip 18 |
| Children singing, laughter, talking (some gaps/skips). |
2:44 |
27.6 mb |
Clip 19 |
| Singing, clapping, laughing, trilling. Some talk about the recording device two-thirds in (some gaps/skips). |
2:30 |
25.3 mb |
Clip 20 |
| Children singing (some gaps/skips). |
1:57 |
19.7 mb |
Clip 21 |
| Children singing and talking, followed by village sounds, and some singing near the end (some gaps/skips). |
5:39 |
57.1 mb |
Clip 22 |
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The women of Darfur respond to Berklee's music.
Photo by Susan Romanski
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