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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..."

 
Description
 Length
Size
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Call-and-response singing. 0:54 9.0 mb
Clip 02
Spoken response to Berklee music. 0:27 4.6 mb
Clip 04
Trilling, clapping, talking. 0:15 2.8 mb
Clip 05
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

The women of Darfur respond to Berklee's music.

Photo by Susan Romanski

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