SING-TO- LIVE (India) (Eco-cultural centre)
SING-TO-LIVE (India) will enable folk and tribal musicians to experiment and collaborate with urban-based musicians and composers to create new musical compositions. SING-TO-LIVE (India) emphasises the need to build a platform for folk musicians to perform their art, and for rural and city-based musicians to engage in a meaningful, mutually beneficial and creative dialogue. Not only that, SING-TO-LIVE (India) is inter-disciplinary in its make-up, encouraging artists from the varied disciplines of dance, theatre, visual arts to collaborate and work with folk musicians to create exciting new work.
Combining state-of-the-art technology and equipment for recording, studio space for rehearsals and jamming sessions and an array of musical instruments for research and practice, SING-to-LIVE (India) offers a fertile ground for innovative contemporary music projects to evolve, bringing together the best minds from rural, sub-urban and urban music sectors. For the first time ever, a space that encourages and develops partnerships between producers, managers, distributors and musician-artists is being created, respecting the integrity of folk and contemporary music both as an art form and a business.
Services
SING-TO-LIVE aims to provide the following services to the individual musicians and the music industry:
A state-of-the-art studio cum laboratory for musicians and singers to compose, collaborate and create new work.
A research centre for folk, tribal and contemporary music that will house archival material, films, musical instruments, audio-visual material and literature on folk and indigenous music.
A space for composers, songwriters, publishers, record producers, band managers and promoters of music to meet, discuss and create new opportunities for up and coming musicians. And also open up avenues for the sustenance of dying indigenous/ traditional music and musicians.
An arena for the collaborative ventures between actors, dancers, musicians and filmmakers to take shape and for innovative experiments in music, theatre and cinema to reach fruition.
