For ideas, Smith turned to one of her best friends, the Boston-based beatsmith LDER. Partnerships and program development director Maya Smith and Save the Harbor were forced to come up with a new way to use funds initially set aside for an artist-in-residence. The competition was born out of a desire for a sense of community at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Once recorded, the samples are made available online, and this unique competition, which combines environmental advocacy with music, begins. Joining metal-detector-bearing treasure seekers, the sample collectors wander the beach and smack pebbles, scratch at the sand or just listen to the waves in the hunt for audio gold. Put together by Save the Harbor/Save the Bay - an organization that advocates for Boston Harbor conservation - Beats On The Beach has two established Boston-area artists head to the shore with a microphone. Traducido en espaƱol por El Planeta, Boston's Latino daily. Each one hoping to create a track to win the Beats On The Beach competition. But for the last four years, they have been looped, filtered and warped by producers in basements and in-home studios around greater Boston. Sticks snapping, the shriek of a seagull, the crunch of a shell being crushed underfoot and the steady lapping of waves are all sounds that could be heard on a relaxing beach vacation. Facebook Email Artist LDER captures sound using the sand.
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