The documentation of the Campus Project 2018 – a journey between Bonn and Mumbai connects the music cultures.
A crash course for German musicians: percussionist and composer Bernhard Schimpelsberger asks: »Could I, as a Western musician who plays drums not tabla, learn this system?« In a year-long project, young musicians from Germany and India set out in search of common ground. Their ambitious aim: to create a productive dialog between traditional Indian and European classical music.
The Campus Project, an annual joint undertaking by Deutsche Welle and Beethovenfest Bonn, has been bringing talented young musicians together for almost two decades. In 2018, the Western musical universe met the Indian one, beginning with a workshop of ten young music students from Germany and India in Mumbai. At the very end, composers Bernhard Schimpelsberger and Rakesh Chaurasia premiered »KISMET«, an Indian-German composition whose title means »faith«. Join us on this journey with an astonishing crescendo – and unforeseen musical adventures along the way.
Watch the English documentary here.