The PP Sound pillar sees music as a powerful tool that has the ability to transcend lingual barriers and connect people on a deeper level through a universal language. We see music not merely as an art form, but rather as a facilitator of cultural experience that builds community and strengthens cross-cultural relations. We strive to nurture and support the root system of our music industry, foster connections, and create long-lasting impact through our sustainable projects that are strongly supported by the European Commission. Our POLYPHONY PROJECT worked with Ukrainian musicians to preserve their folk culture by archiving recordings. Whereas our interdisciplinary HOME PROJECT invited passersby to share their personal stories which were then transformed into music.
Keeping the sustainability of our efforts in mind, we are impelled to take on educational projects as well, such as FOLK_ME – an educational tool developed as a solution to preserve disappearing European folk heritage. Our latest project, KidBeats considers the future of how our youngest generations connect to music.
I believe art allows us to express our inner self and our way of experiencing the world, all types of art. Words alone cannot faithfully communicate the most intimate concepts, that’s when music as a universal language intervenes and helps us connect with others in a deeper way. Cultural and linguistic boundaries can be traspassed with music, so we can even experience what it feels to become One. Through PP Sound’s pillar projects we can contribute to this matter and together achieve this goal. I am pleased to be part of this process.
Our inner stories connected to wars, enmity, traumas are part of our oral history overarching generations in our family and can not be shared easily as they are extremely subjective and intimate. Our Family House project aims to create a space in which these shared stories can meet and become something nonverbal. Content of the shared words can be transferred to music in the form of a mobile installation set up in four countries settlements.
The mission of MOST is to boost the music market of the Balkans, by connecting and supporting actors of the world music scene; artists, managers, festivals and institutions. MOST builds a bridge connecting the Balkans and the global music market, a bridge made up of personal connections, experience and exchange.
Supporting and Promoting Arts in Rural Settlements of Europe (SPARSE) will foster rural touring in the partner countries taking performances by professional performing arts companies and artists into rural areas to rural audiences in local community venues.
The Transparent Sound New Music Festival (meaning also ‘see-through note’) was founded by two composers, Balázs Horváth and Samu Gryllus, in 2014 in cooperation with several renowned concert halls and organizations in Budapest: the Franz Liszt Music Academy, Trafo House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest Music Center, Müpa Budapest and FUGA Budapest Center of Architecture, among others.
POLYPHONY was a collaborative research project involving traditional and contemporary music and performing arts to discover, record and promote the disappearing cultural heritage of Ukraine. The main goal of the project was to digitize and archive the last living peasant music in the remote areas of Ukraine and to present it Europe-wide by using contemporary tools of music and performing arts.
Folk_ME project targets public music education in Europe with developing an innovative digital tool.
