Mondragon Corporation, the federation of worker co-operatives based in the Basque region of Spain, has created a ‘soundtrack’ to the co-operative experience.
Humanity at Music – Sinfonia Kooperatiboa is a collaborative musical and cultural project which has produced an album of music and a book.
Musician Fernando Velázquez and lyricist Jon Sarasua were two of many collaborators on the project, which has also had input from numerous ‘bertsolaris’ – performers of improvised rhyming songs in the Basque tradition.
The work is a project of cultural interco-operation to “tell, sing and feel the co-operative experience, a kind of soundtrack for this film of social and business adventures whose real protagonists are people,” said a Mondragon spokesperson.
