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26 June 2020

Translating Global Refugee Movement to Song

Data-Driven DJ by Brian Foo (brianfoo.com) is a series of music experiments that combine data, algorithms, and borrowed sounds.

This song was generated using refugee data from the United Nations from 1975 to 2012. The quantity, length, and pitch of the song’s instruments are controlled by the volume of refugee movement and distance traveled between their countries of origin and asylum.

Migrating People And Migrating Cultures

The Global (De)Centre (GDC) is a platform that brings together a growing network of scholars from across the world committed to producing new knowledge and using different epistemologies and methods by working collaboratively with a broad range of partners.

The intellectual questions that unite us fall under the broad umbrella of migrating people and migrating cultures.

Read our Manifesto (PDF)

How do I decenter that?

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