The Jacobs Community Engagement Initiative is thrilled to be collaborating with The Twisted Spruce World Ensemble to reach children in various Indiana communities and unite them through music and art. This ensemble was started in 2020 as a response to the global pandemic and the resulting isolation, offering the opportunity for musicians to perform in an ensemble when it was otherwise impossible to do so.
The 2020 Twisted Spruce World Ensemble was an inclusive community project of 100 diverse guitarists whose recordings are set to animation by Chia-Hsin Lee (Taiwan). The animation underscores the narrative that we are a global community, uniquely diverse, and #AloneTogether. The project was created as a way for people to connect or feel connected while in isolation. The music score for Parts, Together, is an original composition commissioned for the project by Australian (Perth based) composer Azariah Felton. The audio was recorded by each guitarist independently and was mixed and mastered by D. James Tagg. The recordings came from guitarists representing Australia, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, Serbia, the United Kingdom, the USA, and Vietnam.
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