We welcome and appreciate our latest sponsor, TechZone Audio Products. TechZone has been making some (positive) noise with a new line of impressive microphones. We are excited to be putting their mics to work! Thanks, TechZone.
Thanks to the Nora Roberts Foundation
Once again, we are fortunate to have received a grant from the Nora Roberts Foundation. Many thanks to the Foundation for their $5000 and continued support!
KMC Music Backs Global Z
KMC Music is an industry powerhouse – the largest distributor of musical instruments and pro audio equipment in the United States. Global Z is excited to list them as a sponsor of our organization. Thank you KMC!
Mockingbird Foundation $5000 Grant!
The Mockingbird Foundation announced Global Z has been selected to receive a $5000 grant. The foundation is largely supported by fans of the legendary progressive rock/jam band ‘Phish.’ We are honored to receive these funds, which will allow us to launch our Phase II North American Indigenous Music Project. Thank you Mockingbird and all supporting contributors!
https://phish.net/blog/1599333584/the-mockingbird-foundation-announces-20-new-covid-relief-grants.html
Global Z Featured in ‘Frederick Magazine’
The July 2020 edition of Frederick Magazine featured an article that provides its readers with an overview of The Global Z Recording Project.
Episode 14 – Want Peace? Make Music (Theoretically Speaking)
This episode of From A To Global Z is a timely reflection on a dozen scholarly studies that speak to how music making can be utilized to make peace and unify people of difference. ‘Mic Talk Time’ reviews the Audio-Technica ATM230, a hypercardioid dynamic mic designed for drums and instruments with low frequencies.
Global Z Receives Funding From Maryland Humanities & the National Endowment for the Humanities
Funding has been provided to The Global Z Recording Project from Maryland Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the 2020 Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act of 2020. We are extremely grateful for their contribution which will be applied toward general operational expenses.
Episode 13 – Borrowing the Native American Sharing Circle
Episode 13 of From A To Global Z features the Native American Sharing Circle – a communication concept that has been practiced by North American Indigenous people for many years. It promotes honesty, social learning, civility, a willingness to hear a different point of view, builds a sense of community, and is an exercise in respect. While originally designed for face-to-face settings, we apply it toward our online collaboration, community-building learning environment. For ‘Mic Talk Time,’ we give a listen to a pair of Cascade M39 small condenser mics set up using a popular XY stereo technique.
Student Musician Focus Group with UNM is a Wrap
With the assistance of the University of New Mexico’s Organization, Information, and Learning Sciences program, we successfully conducted and completed an Indigenous student-musician focus group that collected data relevant to the design, experience, and content we have developed in support of our up-coming Phase II North American Indigenous Music Project, which is scheduled to launch fall 2020.
Many thanks to the student participants, their parents, the Native American Community Academy and Mr. Chuck Charleston, UNM OILS (Dr. Damien Sanchez), UNM doctoral student Ms. Monica Dorame, our awesome sponsor Sweetwater, and all of our supporting volunteers that made the focus group a huge success!
Please watch our website for information about our Phase II Project.
Audiomovers – Our New Sponsor!
Audiomovers is made up of a team of elite audio software developers and engineers.
https://audiomovers.com
They have developed LISTENTO – a plug-in that allows users to stream, listen, and record high quality, low latency audio from your DAW over web browsers. It is particularly useful to Global Z, as we are designed to conduct all of our audio production projects in realtime, around the world, via Internet-based technologies. We are extremely excited to have Audiomovers behind Global Z as we move closer to our Phase II North American Indigenous Music Project launch.