I am going to Denmarks capital tomorrow and I have some things to celebrate. So I need your help to give me some advice about where to go out, which areas, bars and clubs suit best for tomorrow night. And this is actually a little competition, sponsored by Defshop. They love Stylewalker and offered me a goodie to give away in a little quest, so all of you who help me to find some cool place to go, take part and can win this pants by the Danish brand Humör.
So please, post hints to the best bars and clubs in Copenhagen in the comments, thanks!
Am 07.09. findet im HBC am Alexanderplatz die a2n Werkstatt statt, die sich an Musiker und Kreativarbeiter richtet und Wissen und Kontakte vermitteln will. Erfahrene Experten und Auskenner im Bereich Musik und Entertainment beurteilen Musikstücke und vermitteln anschließend in verschiedenen Workshops Wissen zu Lizenzierung, Versicherungen und Promotion. Ein tolles Angebot mit prima Leuten, das ich nur empfehlen kann.
Es geht los mit dem „Public Coaching“: Hier diskutieren Booker, Labelbetreiber und Musik-Journalisten zusammen mit den Musikern die eingereichten Songs. Ihr oder eure Musiker-Freunde können sich dafür ab sofort mit einem Song bewerben, den ihr in die a2n Dropbox schmeißt. Die “Werkstatt-Jury” wählt dann die Tracks aus, die live und vor dem geneigten Berlin Music Week-Publikum besprochen werden. Als Coaches sind illustre Menschen wie Sascha “Bleed” Kösch von der de:bug, Tim Renner von Motor Music oder Stephan Szillus von der Juice am Start.
Die anschließenden Workshops widmen sich Fragen wie: Wie funktioniert die Künstlersozialkasse? Gibt es Alternativen zur Gema? Wie geht Promotion im Netz? Was ist Crowdfunding? Wie lizensiere ich meine Musik für Filme?
Um Antworten bemüht sich ein ganzes Heer von Musik-Experten, darunter Stephan Benn, Rechtsanwalt und VUT-Vorstand, Artur Schock, Booker bei Audiolith, Tino Hanekamp vom Uebel + Gefährlich in Hamburg, oder Matthias Krebs von der UdK Berlin.
Checkt das gesamte Workshopprogramm.
Summer hit? Who needs a summer hit? We all do, to remember, to dance into the sunset, on the top a roof, above the big city, especially with such a shit summer we have this year in Berlin. So this easy, discoy, kind-of-familiar-sounding thing is exactly what I would play at an open air summer party and that’s the moment when everybody would get into the groove, when the nice conversations start over the second cocktail, when the relaxing kicks in after some hard days of work. This is the kind of summer song we want and we need. This is what it is all about. Enjoy Doctor Dru & Adana Twins – Juicy Fruit in this video which let’s you wish you’d be there. Ok, I admit, it’s a bit cheesy, but “I like it” 🙂
Was einst als Absicherung für Produzenten und Verarbeiter begann, ist inzwischen zu einem großen Spekulationsgeschäft geworden: Termingeschäfte (Futures und Forwards) auf Nahrungsmittel wie Weizen, Reis oder Soja. Das Volumen dieser Termingeschäfte ist in den letzten Jahren massiv gestiegen und inzwischen ein attraktiver Markt für reine Finanzgeschäfte. Der Wert der gehandelten Futures, Forwards und ihrer Derivate überstieg schon 2007 den Wert der real existierenden Nahrungsmittel um mehr als das 30fache. Bei den Geschäften geht es den Akteuren nicht mehr um die Absprache über einen zukünftigen Preis (z.B. für die Ernte im nächsten Jahr, was beiden Seiten Planungssicherheit gibt) sondern um Renditen aus Preisschwankungen der gehandelten Papiere.
Der “Nebeneffekt” dieses Handels: steigende Preise für Weizen, Reis und andere Grundnahrungsmittel. Während wir in westlichen Ländern ca. 10% unseres Einkommens für essen ausgeben, sind es in Entwicklungsländern im Durchschnitt mehr als 60%. Steigende Preise für Lebensmittel sind also sofort und direkt existenzbedrohend. Der Film der NGO Weed (World Economy, Ecology and Development) erklärt diesen Zusammenhang sehr nüchtern und anschaulich.
Boiler Room is a regular livestream from a very small club in London. They do a good job bringing interesting people in like Four Tête, James Blake, Mount Kimbie, Martyn, Theo Parrish, Jamie XX or Little Dragon who play their favorites and edgy tracks. It is watched and discussed simultaneously online and they have a nice podcast running.
I tuned into today’s (tuesday, 19/02/2011) show to listen into the Black Acre session with @bluedaisytwit, @FM_Fox and @Hyetalmusic. To sum it up: Interesting new sounds, I especially liked the Fantastic Mr Fox, cool to watch the musicians editing plus I really got this live feeling: seeing some people dancing in the background, watching the musicians, with a twitter stream, facebook and ustream chat boxes all around the video and people constantly writing stuff.
Mostly people write that they are there watching it, but sometimes also commenting the music, sharing links, tweeting to the bands. Who, and this makes the concept interesting, are mostly also on Twitter and get linked to by the boomboxtv account or by one of the founders and organizers Thristian Richards. But while most performers have accounts, only a few of them would check the discussion while doing music, I assume.
To be honest, there was no real discussion it was more the feeling to be watching the same stuff at the same time that made the experience interesting. And of course, the intimacy of being somehow at a living room party, like you can see in this video, Hudson Mohawke playing a 90ies classics Hip Hop set.
In a Time Out magazine article, Blaise Bellville, the other cofounder, talks about up to 25k viewers when James Blake was on, in this video interview Thristian Richards talks about the concept behind it. Richards is also a dj and Belville used to run “Platform”, a web magazine. It’s offline now, pointing to a new project called Leisure only but I found a nice readplatform.com snapshot from the Wayback machine.
The club is now located at Corsica studios, a small venue inside of railway arches near Elephant & Castle, maybe on their Facebook there is a chance to be invited to the actual performances.
The second Awesome foundation grant this year goes to (drumroll..) Jay Cousins and his idea to build bird houses in the city! Here is a bit of his plan:
“Make a little birdhouse in your Keats” will show people how to make bird houses from trash and then place them in public spaces – trees, lamp-posts, street signs and buildings. This process will educate people about waste, and engage them directly in improving directly their urban environment. The birdhouses themselves will create a provocation, bring birdsong to the streets and make the keat’s just that little bit nicer for everyone in it. The project would manifest in workshops – street actions and documented online with a how to replicate in your own keats.
Awesome! We look forward to seeing this in action.
I am getting excited about this years Melt festival. Again, I will be taking care of some artists, to my very pleasure, the ones I would have liked to see most as a visitor as well. My place again is the stage down by the lake, the beach stage with lots of dubstep, experimental electronics and some pop appeal. Among the musicians are Nikolas Jaar, A.T.O.L., Jamie Woon, Modeselektor, Gold Panda, Cosmin TRG and Apparat. Here is the official trailer, hope to see some of you there!
Am 07.09. findet im HBC am Alexanderplatz die 