Our Mission: To Tell the Story of the American Music of Our Time Through the World’s Artistic Cultures. American Sound is a reality show made for live stream through our website which is accessed by subscriptions. It is a hybrid of Talent Competition and Travel – Reality Show. By presenting the Art of Jazz Improvisation in the forum of pop culture, we will help promote the health and job making ability within our endangered industry as well as our global understanding. By auditions before a panel of the most eminent jazz performers and educators in the industry, a band of ambassadors will be selected to go to different countries as travel show hosts to tell stories of the artistic cultures and to hybrid our American jazz with the instruments, traditions and the people of the places they visit. Over the course of the series they will emerge a new full length collaborative work of music to be performed at the end of the tour. The series will be narrated by improvisational and comedic actors. During our broadcast hours, we will also present a programming of jazz education shows. They will consist of jam sessions, lectures, master classes, instrument classes, composition and theory, and chats where our customers can call or text in with their questions and have them answered in real time. Technology to broadcast in this way is already available and the architecture of the website can be built without new invention. Because of our minimal use of earth’s resources and maximum employment of talent, the majority of our funding goals of $10,000,000 to begin operations will go to salaries for new jobs. Our customers will benefit in a broader access to information about jazz culture and acquaintances while saving money and time on travel and admission fees to lectures, shows and sessions. They’ll also have fresh, exciting and interactive programming. Our investors will have a project that qualifies for the Section 181 Tax Deduction. http://besttaxbreak.net
Through live streaming, American Sound will present live lectures with jazz masters, jam sessions, chats, master classes with the ability for audience interaction through text or call in with their questions.. This service will benefit our customers in the savings of money by cutting out travel time going to hear these same lessons, chats and make acquaintances. Our customers will also save money in unnecessary restaurant food and drink minimums.
A hybrid of the Talent Competition Reality Show and Travel Show, American Sound is a series where individual jazz instrumentalists around the world compete by audition that will be streamed through our website. Our audience have the ability to vote for their favorite musicians. The winners will be members of the American Sound band which travels to different parts of the world to tell stories of different cultures through the hybridization of their music with ours. By the end of the visit, our band will emerge an original new work that combines the cultures.
Winnie Swalley is a polymath who studied classical voice and plays wind instruments, a screenwriter, a production, interface and interior designer and educator. She received her BA in Comparative Literature from Columbia University; studied Voice at UCSB; screenplay UCLA; and directing at LA Film School. She also spent decade in the private vocal arts studio of the great Mrs. Elizabeth Mannion where she carefully studied Bel Canto. She enjoyed a short career as a concert singer, but preferred a quiet life where she could teach, raise children and pursue her curiosities and imagination. She has produced, is an award winning production designer, directed short films, documentaries, designed interiors and interfaces for mobile mobile apps.