http://projects.metafilter.com/3439/ShortWaveMusic-2012-Timbuktu/ Comments on MetaFilter Projects post ShortWaveMusic 2012: Timbuktu Sat, 19 May 2012 18:09:53 -0800 Sat, 19 May 2012 18:09:53 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://projects.metafilter.com/3439/ShortWaveMusic-2012-Timbuktu A short film documenting my recent trip across the Republic of Mali to record indigenous and regional music. After the kidnappings and murder in Timbuktu in December 2011, I had forfeited all plans to go to the northern half of the country ... until the day I was piled into a 4x4, completely unplanned, and swept away to Timbuktu as the personal guest of a Malian <em>gendarme</em>. This film documents my early work in Mali ... and the utterly unique experiences that awaited me in Timbuktu.<br /><br /><small><br />(ShortWaveMusic previously on MeFi: The <a href="http://projects.metafilter.com/3160/ShortWaveMusic-2011-United-Arab-Emirates">2011 project</a> in the UAE; a <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/97895/New-Music-for-the-New-Year">blogroll</a> mention; an <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/60613/shortwave-music">FPP</a> on the original incarnation of the project)<br /></small> post:projects.metafilter.com,2012:site.3439 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:09:19 -0800 mykescipark http://projects.metafilter.com/3439/ShortWaveMusic-2012-Timbuktu#7760 And currently being broadcast over the radio. Check out <a href="http://maliorgy.info">http://maliorgy.info</a> for more info! comment:projects.metafilter.com,2012:site.3439-7760 Sat, 19 May 2012 18:09:53 -0800 Kit