Musical Correspondences around the Mediterranean with the Instituto Cervantes

Talleres Mix Nostrum

A narrative-album about the musical richness of the Mediterranean and its evolution towards a process of collective creation around the sea that unites and separates us.

The Mix Nostrum workshops are conceived as a collective and incremental creation project based on the logic of remixing folklore: a process to create a musical conversation between people living in different places around the Mediterranean Sea.

Based on the recognition of the profound interrelation of the musical expressions of the cultures surrounding the Mediterranean, we embarked on a playful and creative exploration to construct an open piece, woven with the voices, sounds, memories and imaginaries of the people participating in the workshops. A musical dialogue woven on the sea that unites and separates us.

Workshops and background

Mix Nostrum is a narrative-album published by Antropoloops (Telegrama), a work composed of more than 100 fragments of recordings of traditional music from the cultures surrounding the Mediterranean. From a creative approach to ethnomusicology, the disc-story is built on the idea that the richness of the musical cultures that surround the sea cannot be understood if it is not the fruit of migrations, diasporas, journeys, and exchanges throughout their history.

In each workshop, we want to reinterpret with the students, through sampling and sound collage, local musical traditions, working with sound archives and music associated with the family environment. The loops and messages recorded in each workshop serve as a starting point for the next one, building together a musical work that can be explored and played on the web through the online remix tool play.antropoloops.

The first exchange took place between a workshop held in Cordoba and another at the Higher Institute of Music in Tunisia.

Tunis Higher Institute of Music

Remixes between Córdoba and Tunisia

Workshop