The
(short) Motion Project story
2001
Jamie Catto from the band Faithless and producer Duncan Bridgeman
travelled the world to explore the things that unite us all
and showing how these common traits far outweigh our superficial
differences.
A film '1 Giant Leap' documented the journey and fused music,
words, sounds and images from a diversity of musicians, storytellers,
authors, artists and thinkers from many different cultures.
www.1glni.net
2004
Belfast, Beyond Skin, a new organisation addressing racism
& sectarianism saw the positive energy that 1 Giant Leap
could reflect on Northern Ireland. As a result a series of
events dealing with the racial and cultural issues in Northern
Ireland, where held surrounding the 1 Giant Leap cinema screenings.
Event
organisers, 'Beyond Skin' and friends within the music scene,
knew the potential was there for Belfast to have their own
Giant Leap themed project. In September 04, the concept of
the project 'Motion' began to take shape. Inspired from a
quote, from Duncan Bridgeman on the making of 1 Giant Leap
a difference would be focusing on local unknown talent. "Before
we left on our six month journey around the world, we did
a little list of all our heroes and favourite people we wanted
to work with … but what we completely underestimated was how
great all the people who aren't famous are"
Three
months later, December 04, recording began of the 'Motion'
CD, February 2006 it was released and 1 year later Motion
had developed info a touring program of workshops & performances.
In April 2007 Motion2Music ltd was established as a social
enterprise to develop and manage projects using music to address
racism & sectarianism. www.motion2music.com
One
of the developments was of a unique workshop format called
an 'interactive music experience' or iME. The IME has now
become a recognised format and term with government units
and education groups.
Using
the same format as the original Motion recording the concept
for young people was developed into 'youth in motion', which
has become a regional recording project. www.yim-ni.org
Other
projects include development education programs with aid charity
'Children in Crossfire' and positive learning programs in
partnership with life coaching company 'Soul Ambition'.
Development
of the Motion Project has lead to the 'Homely Planet' initiative,
a inter(net) cultural radio station for Northern Ireland.
www.homelyplanet.org
At
the time of the 'Journey of Equals' film release over 60 musicians
representing 19 countries have been involved with the Motion
Project. www.themotionproject.net
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