Let’s Make Sweet Music Together

A new, shared music studio designed and built in Philadelphia

Research has shown that the act of playing music together “can be a powerful medium for social interaction,” coordinating the movements and rhythm of individuals in harmony with one another. In 2019, our team helped to create a program to leverage music in cultivating social capital between people of different backgrounds. The result was “Let’s Make Sweet Music Together”, an initiative designed to give people free access to instruments and collaborative music programming through an open air, mobile music cart.

Designed and built in collaboration with Tiny WPA and programmed with music educators John Gore, Zaire Best, and Jesse Mell of Mad Beatz Philly, we hosted a bucket drumming session, hip-hop rhyming workshop, and a Philly-centric Eye of the Tiger power chord workshop.