De Wereld maakt Muziek | The World makes Music

In de film De Wereld maakt Muziek kijkt regisseur Margriet Jansen via de ogen van de concertbezoeker naar de afgelopen 40 jaren wereldmuziek in Nederland. Van de verwondering over onbekende muziek tot vermenging van vertrouwd geluid met verre klanken. Over hoe muziek ons in het diepst van ons hart kan raken en soms zelfs levens kan veranderen. Concertregistraties maken de kijker deelgenoot van deze ervaring. Het vertrekpunt is de grote zaal van het podium RASA in Utrecht. RASA was het laatste in wereldmuziek gespecialiseerde podium in Nederland en is begin 2017 gesloten.

Producent: Jean Hellwig Vista Far Reaching Visuals
in coproductie met MJCpro.
Camera: Marcel Prins
Editor: Diego Gutiérrez
Supervising editor: Danniel Danniel

82 minuten cinema | 52 minuten televisie versie
Nederlands gesproken | Engels ondertiteld

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ENGLISH

THE WORLD MAKES MUSIC
Director Margriet Jansen

How to perceive the music language from another culture? This is the fascinating theme of The World makes Music. Music lovers relive emotions they experienced during their favourite live concerts. They recall how music has touched them and even changed their lives.

82 minutes / 52 minutes television version
English Subtitled, Dutch spoken

SYNOPSIS

The World makes Music is a music documentary in which people in all their diversity have a say. Music is their passion and somewhere along their musical development they discovered non-Western music, in particular at one special concert that they would remember for ever. The viewer relives their experiences through the numerous concert registrations included in the film. The starting point is the main concert hall of RASA in Utrecht. In the old language Sanskrit ‘rasa’ signifies the emotions that a work of art evoke in the viewer. This is exactly what The World makes Music is all about. The film shows these emotions and how music influences and even changes lives. It is a tribute to the universal language of music. The World makes Music is also a statement against the western-oriented concept of world music. Music is not bound by borders. Even though most musical development starts at home: “I got a flute from my grand father!”.

Dutch Premiere during the Netherlands Film Festival 2016
Selected for Babel Med Music 2017 and Womex 2017 a.o.

REVIEWS

“I found the film a delight (and for a moment I thought: I’d like to be the alien encountering this spaceship that Earth sent out – and listen to this all and decide to immediately buy tickets for all these concerts…. ).”

“A film that touches your heart, moves and inspires to listen to unknown music”

“Very nice film, because it not only takes us on a tour across this fascinating variety of beautiful music that people make, but also shows how all these music creations and creators continue to innovate, to be inspired by other traditions, to reinvent themselves and at the same time honour traditions (on “traditions” it was once said that they are about passing on the fire, not worshipping the ashes…). The film illustrates the nice proverb: “all known forms of energy come from difference, not from levelling”.