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Culture Coin: Creative Currency Competes in Business Unusual National Challenge

Source: HypeBot
August 15, 2013

Alternative currencies can take many forms from Bitcoin to the credits given within gamified social networks to local exchange systems. One such system for exchanging arts-related labor and skills for similar skills or resources is the Culture Coin, a project of HowlRound currently competing in the Business Unusual National Challenge. Culture Coin is described (via @shadesofsolveig) as “an alternative currency, a bit like frequent flyer miles": “Say a playwright wants to organize a reading of a new script, but has ...
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Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libre (Constellation, 2011)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland
May 20, 2011

Saxophonist and composer Matana Roberts has been involved in a lengthy genealogical exploration of her family's rich history, and in doing so has conceived of an ambitious twelve part experience of music, narrative and sound.

Part one is this album, subtitled Chapter One: Gens De Couleur Libres which is a fascinating mix of genres, ideas and song. There is the raw toned tenor saxophone that she has developed a unique tone on in instrumental pieces like the opening “Rise," which ...
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