One dollar for music

Projects

Since 2007 OneDollarForMusic organizes sustainable projects in Indonesia. In all projects we stimulate yougsters to develop and perform their own creativity.

Training the trainers
Musicians and artists can apply for an intensive training program. Through learning by doing, the participants develop their own workshops. Furthermore the trainees learn about communication with youngsters, about composing - techniques, arranging, music software and band coaching. In addition, coaches can attend a more specialized course in training or management. To guarantee the quality of capacity building, OneDollarForMusic starts every three months with a new course for new coaches and trainers.

Young Acoustic Composers
Many youngsters in Indonesia can sing or play some songs on a guitar or a percussion instrument. Although they might have ideas for their own song, they seldom perform it. OneDollarForMusic enables these creative youngsters to arrange, to practise and litterally offers them a stage to perform and bring their talents to the surface.

From January - July 2008 youngsters in the age of 16 - 23 atteded workshops in songwriting. The project was sponsored by our partner, the Bali Seamen's Club in Sanur - Bali. Objective: empowering young 'hidden' talents to perform their own acoustic work.

The first Final took place in the Lazer Sport Bar at Sanur - Bali in 2008. 
The foundation's aims to organize this acoustic songwriting project every year.

Young Sounds of Bali
An experienced team of music coaches travel to different areas in Bali to find young composers for this projects. They organize workshops at schools and other communities.
Objective: supporting youngsters to compose and to express their work, involving sounds and visual elements from their environment.

The project 'Young Sounds of Bali' is supported by the Dutch Embassy in Jakarta for a period of three years.

The first Grand Final took place at the Art Center in Denpasar on February 20. and 21. 2009.

You can watch the video's from the eight finalists under 'Music'.