One World 1

One World 1

One World 1 is based on sounds from New York and New Delhi, as if the world were one large crowded city, its space shared through a common human bond.

Yet inundated with information, much of it disturbing, the world today can be seen as a complex and turbulent system of different nationalities, religions, cultures, and politics, every group pursuing a different agenda, some groups coming together, some at war, all the more chaotic because of widespread ignorance, deprivation, and fear, made all the more dangerous by the existence of powerful weapons and environmental disregard.

We all face the same dilemma. How do we interact with this world? How do we extract humanity from the chaos to focus on the betterment of individual lives?

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The field recordings from New York were done by Benjamin Chadabe. The field recordings from New Delhi were done by Shankar Barua.  One World 1 was composed with support from the New York State Council on the Arts and presented at the first Ear to the Earth festival at 3 Legged Dog in New York on October 7, 2006.

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