Get Out The Vote March [Music Arrangement & Original Animation by Chihiro Shibayama]

Описание: #BeginWithTheBallot #Getoutthevote #elections2020

Here is my response to #beginwiththeballot movement Alarm Will Sound launched.

Music arrangement & Original Animation by Chihiro Shibayama
Software used: Logic Pro, Animate, Photoshop

::Original Message from Alarm Will Sound::

Music has always accompanied the march towards a more just society. Our fellow citizens have for decades sung “¡El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido!” to move us and to push our democracy forward.

We’ve made this video as our response to “¡El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido!” We invite you to share your own musical response on social media using the hashtag #BeginWithTheBallot to inspire others to vote and to take any of the following actions.

Register to vote, check your registration status, and get local election info at headcount.org
Become a poll worker
Transport voters to the polls
Spread this musical call-to-action using the hashtag #BeginWithTheBallot
Contribute your own musical response to ¡El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido!
Vote before or on November 3 and in your local and state midterm elections beyond
In the spirit of American composer Frederic Rzewski’s The People United Will Never Be Defeated!, we’re inviting all of you in the Alarm Will Sound community to create your own variation on the original song, in the hope of inspiring everyone to vote and to take further action in their communities.

We’d love for you to contribute your own variation (preferably in D minor if it’s in a key). It can take any form: it can be as simple as you performing it in your own style; it can be a more complex arrangement that incorporates other protest or suffrage songs; it can be a creative improvisation inspired by ¡El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido! — anything you’re motivated to do.

The hashtag #BeginWithTheBallot represents our belief that voting is just one step we can take in a democracy that must serve all its citizens fairly.

While the core of our message is unity around the principles of democracy, we understand that voting has complex and contradictory meanings for our fellow citizens. Music is a vehicle for expressing such rich and complicated feelings about the political franchise (or the lack of it). Therefore, we also invite you to add text or video to your musical recording to say what voting means to you and how your variation expresses those feelings.

Questions and comments can be sent to [email protected].