(clapping)
(singing in foreign language)
- [Miklos Voiceover] My name is Mi klos Both
and I'm the founder of the Polyphony Project.
We are collecting folk music in Ukraine,
something like, in the last four years.
We visited around 100 villages already
and recorded 2,000 songs and created a digital archive
which contains all the records from the villages.
(singing in foreign language)
Almost every village has, still, this kind of connection
with the tradition but we see
that this is the very last generation.
So to save this kind of knowledge, to have this diversity,
we have to somehow generate or stimulate the situation
that the young people, somehow, learn this music.
We are in Chernivtsi Oblast and we are going
to the village Vovchok.
So actually, we make a few preparation,
but it's also a new village for us
so we didn't record here to the archive.
- [Interviewer] What's the biggest challenge
when you arrive in a new place like this?
- There's never a problem to make connection
with these people because they are so happy
if somebody's interested.
- [Miklos Voiceover] Of course, everyone will be connected
with the global culture and I think this is why
is it so important that we really try to record
in high quality audio, high quality video,
this kind of knowledge.
(singing in foreign language)
We really believe that this music has power.
It's very important to understand that music
and singing is really like language.
If you just really take your time
and sit down and try to sing these songs
and try to understand these songs,
they start to open for you.