#Shake Your Power - Kickstarter Campaign
Mel C, Maxi Jazz and Maya Jane Coles launch “Hour of Power” campaign to bring power to communities without electricity, through music.
Launched on Kickstarter on the 10th June, this small prototype percussion shaker called, SPARK is generating interest from music industry heavyweights. Simply shaking this device for 12minutes will generate an hours worth of light or charge a mobile phone.
8 July 2014
Mel C, Maxi Jazz and Maya Jane Coles launch “Hour of Power” campaign to bring power to communities without electricity, through music.
Launched on Kickstarter on the 10th June, this small prototype percussion shaker called, SPARK is generating interest from music industry heavyweights. Simply shaking this device for 12minutes will generate an hours worth of light or charge a mobile phone.
#ShakeYourPower, is about bringing clean energy to places in the world without electricity, through the medium of music. The project is the brainchild of Sudha Kheterpal, best known as the percussionist from Faithless.
Working as a professional percussionist for over 20 years, Sudha has often wondered whether the huge amounts of energy created from performing on some of the world’s largest stages, could be harnessed and used. After some initial research and discovering the advancements in the kinetic energy harvesting space and other energy harnessing techniques, she began the process of researching and developing SPARK with a product designer from the RCA. She has just returned from testing it in Kenya, where the project will begin and where approximately 75% of people live off-grid.
The campaign has generated the interest of high profile musicians, Maxi Jazz, Maya Jane Coles and Mel C (from The Spice Girls) who are coming together to show that anyone can give a ‘hour of power’ through the medium of music. To keep up to date follow #shakeyourpower on Twitter.
For more information or to contribute and share, visit https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/726552172/shakeyourpower
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