EUROPEAN GHOSTS is a MUSIC MOVES EUROPE CO-CREATION project and preparatory action. Our findings in the creative exploration on the co-creation of new works based on European ancient musical traditions, re-invented for the 21st Century, will inform the new Creative Europe programme helping shape the way forward for music support programmes in the new Creative Europe framework.
The project, undertaken by SCL Lda. (PT) and NORD University (NO) will feature three distinct phases:
- European Folk Mapping
NORD University’s music department will select a few European territories so that local folk music traditions, both in terms of living practices as well as old instruments that may have disappeared, can be mapped.
As these stories are told, by way of podcasts and video interviews with local artists and experts, European Ghosts will launch its Open Call for the residency…
- Co-Creation Residency
Curated by NORD University’s Professors Hans Stop and Frode Fjellheim, Lusitanian Ghosts’ Neil Leyton, as well as guest artist curators Joana Negrão (Seiva, A Cantadeira) and Misia Furtak, the co-creation residencies will take place during 10 days at Clouds Hill Studios, Hamburg, an analogue, vintage-gear-laden creative playground for artists.
- Dissemination and Story-Telling
The resulting European co-creations can lead to new works, side-projects and stories to be told by way of new music releases, promotion, synch deals and other ways to tell the stories from the European Ghosts residencies: stories old and new, based on ancient European music cultures and traditions, point the way forward to brand new European Sounds and even new genres of music still awaiting to be discovered.
Find out more at www.europeanghosts.com
