Home from Home

Sound It Out

Sound It Out create and run diverse participatory music programmes across Birmingham and the West Midlands.

The Arch
Unit F9
48-52 Floodgate Street
Birmingham
B5 5SL
Tel:0121 772 8655

http://www.sounditout.co.uk

Musicians In Exile

With ESF funding through the EQUAL Community Initiative, Sound It Out was the lead partner for Home from Home, a transnational music and film project.

Working in partnership with organisations in four countries, Germany, Italy, Poland and the UK the project aimed to raise awareness about exiled musicians living in these countries, and to provide a positive message about the skills and talents they are bringing to their new countries.

The participants of this project were exiled musicians from a diverse range of countries. Because of the restrictions of movement caused by their immigration status, it wasn’t possible to bring each group of people together, so we had to overcome these barriers through music and film.

In each country, between 3 and 4 musicians were interviewed and their music was recorded to create a DVD featuring music from each group, as well as a final piece that interlinks the musical journey into one seamless piece.