The disco gathering was loud in every aspect

November 2, 2014 11:49 AM

Belgian non-profit art centre Recyclart invited refugees waiting for asylum in Brussels—Syrians, Afghans, Albanians, Palestinians, Senegalese and more—to plug their phones into a mixing desk for a globe-spanning PHONECARD PARTY.

◆ live recording on SoundCloud
◆ ten song YouTube playlist

[via MeFi-friend Bruce Sterling's tumblr]

posted by Chichibio (3 comments total)

Paging DJ Rupture. DJ Rupture, please pick up the white courtesy telephone.
posted by koucha at 1:57 PM on November 2, 2014

This is so great
posted by lalunamel at 6:13 PM on November 2, 2014

I feel so torn about this. On the one hand, I love the distinctive beats and tonalities. On the other hand, it's all machine beats. Nearly everything here could have come out of a laptop -- a Syrian laptop, a Senegalese laptop, and so on, but a laptop just the same. I have this suspicion that laptop music homogenizes more easily than bands playing instruments do. Also: Bands playing instruments sound great.

Anyway, great find, thanks for sharing.
posted by argybarg at 7:45 AM on November 3, 2014