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2012: A Year in Review



2012 has been a great year for Beat Making Lab. Here are some amazing articles and conferences we’ve been a part of this year.

Press
NPR/WUNC
The State of Things with Frank Stasio Interview
Mad DecentThe Post-Apocalypso Gift Madness!
The IndependentArtivists Pierce Freelon and Stephen Levitin take their Beat Making Lab to the DRC 
ReverbnationSo You Want to be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Professor?
News and ObserverCongo Beats: A hip-hop mission from UNC sends musical marketing lessons to Africa
SlashDotHip Hop Artists Developing Open Source Beat Making Software
Shuffle MagazineUNC Profs bring Beat Making Lab to Africa
IndiegogoWhere Are They Now? Dropping Beats in the Congo
GOOD
Congo Beat Making Lab
Durham NewsCarolina in the Congo
OkayafricaCongo Beat Making Lab Documentary

Conferences
Sticky Ideas / Tedx / Ljubljana, Slovenia / October 13, 2012
Social Good Summit / Mashable / New York, NY / September 22-24, 2012
Citizen Media Summit 2012 / Global Voices / Nairobi, Kenya / July 2-3, 2012
Rio+Social / United Nations Foundation / Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / June 19, 2012
Switchpoint / Intrahealth / Saxapahaw, NC / April 19-20, 2012