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An International Look at Music Scenes in the Current Moment

Andrea Goetzke — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 16:55:41 +0000

Freitag, 28 August, 2020 - 15:00

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Each year, the Pop-Kultur festival invites in collaboration with the Goethe-Institute an international group of musicians to come to Berlin for an exchange programme, and to also get to know the local music scenes. This year, the group is convening online, meeting over a longer period of time, with the plan of meeting in Berlin, foreseeably in the summer of 2021.

One objective of this get-together is to introduce the international group of musicians to Berlin's different music communities for potential collaborations over the next several months.

During the panel conversation, participants will explore and discuss how independent music scenes in different countries around the world are faring during the pandemic – where live music has largely come to a pause. If touring is on hold indefinitely, and performing is oftentimes the largest source of income for professional musicians, how is this situation playing out now and into the future? What structural issues are becoming apparent? How do musicians, collectives and communities view and address them? How is this changing how musicians work, how collaborations are organised, and how music is distributed and enjoyed? Which changes should be permanent and which ones should only be temporary? What can we learn from each other, and how can we support one another – internationally, too?

A panel of three group participants will start the conversation – then everyone else can join in with their own perspectives:

Janat Sohail Aziz / Wooly and the Uke - Wooly and the Uke is an indie-folk project laced around the phantasmagoria that pours out of the singer and the songwriter, Janat Sohail Aziz. Her music is crafted upon satire and often, the disconnection with what lies within. Based on an ominous sound of the ukulele, the structures push and spill out of the preconceived boundaries. Having remained a former member of Pakistan’s first all-female ensemble in Nescafe Basement, Janat Sohail Aziz introduced Wooly and the Uke in 2016. Her debut single called ‘Circus’ stirred a melancholy with its hollow atmosphere and soaring orchestration, pushing one into an enchanting fantasy. In 2020, she released a new single in collaboration with Poor Rich Boy, an indie-folk band based in Pakistan, called Watch – similar to Circus, it frames the struggles of humans and their weakening attempt at humanity. Currently based in Tallinn, Estonia, Wooly and the Uke aims to release an EP in 2020.

Juan Manuel Cortéz / Lunate - Lunate is a small, moon-shaped bone in the human hand, and a music project by Juan Manuel Cortés. Seeking to create musical compositions that carry the moody oscillations of Bogota, the Colombian artist explores sound inspired by the scenery, cycles and dynamics of the city. Since 2016 he released a tape on 100% Silk and various tracks on different electronic music labels. In addition, 2018 saw the birth of Malviaje, an attempt to revisit Corteś Colombian musical ancestry. The research delved into Currulao, a traditional rhythm made in the Pacific region of the country with a time signature of 6/8. The result (to be released soon) is an exploration of rhythmic patterns that will make people move, but remain different to the traditional 4×4 approach: dance floor friendly music, that doesn’t exactly fit with contemporary dance music or with the traditional Colombian output.

Santiago Narváez / Glitchbird - Born in México City in 1990. Self-taught musician and coder. Started making music at age 13. In 2015 released EP ‘Inner’ as Moonatic composing and recording guitar, backing and main vocals, bass and synth. In 2017 scored music for ‘WireLines’. In 2018 In 2018 released LP ‘Another Sky’ as Moonatic. In 2020 released EP ‘Jhula’ as Glitch Bird. As part of Moonatic has opened shows for The Album Leaf, Balmorhea and Low Roar. Glitch Bird blends evolving atmospheres, sticky basslines, hallucinating sequences, and simple yet captivating beats. His live presentations are closer to ambient and techno. The live set makes use of bass and beat sequences, as well as live improvisations and recordings of electronic and midi instruments. The use of long decaying delays and improvisation results in organic and unique live sets.

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Thu, 16.08. Community Evening - Perspectives on contemporary music cultures in South East Asia - Music Pool Berlin x Pop - Kultur Festival

Eileen Möller — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 12:21:14 +0000

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Music Pool Berlin Community Evening @ Pop-Kultur

Venue: Soda Club, Knaackstraße 97, 10435 Berlin / 16 August, 2018 - 17:30 bis 19:30

The Music Pool community evening will provide insights into the music scenes in Indonesia, Singapore and the Philippines – from musical styles to organizational aspects. Potential ways of collaboration for Berlin based artists with the music scenes in Southeast Asia will also be a topic.

The evening is organized on the occasion of a group of female artists and cultural producers from Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand visiting Berlin and the Pop-Kultur festival, organized by Goethe Institute in cooperation with Missy Magazine.

Speakers:

Alyana Cabral (Manila, Philippines) is a musician, writer, and film score composer from Manila. For seven years, she has been performing all over the city as a singer and multi-instrumentalist for several bands. She is currently the vocalist and guitarist of garage folk outfit Ourselves the Elves, as well as keyboard and percussion player for psych rock group Shamanism. Her forays with sound art and electronic music fuel her experimental solo project, Teenage Granny. Alyana has made music for a handful of films, such as Cinema One Originals 2016 Best Film awardee, “2 Cool 2 Be 4gotten,” and Regal Entertainment’s horror film, “The Debutantes,” wherein she got nominated for best musical score by FAMAS 2018. When she goes home to her bedroom with just her guitar, she writes political songs for her folk project identity. Aside from performing, Alyana also organizes live shows, mostly (but not exclusively) for female musicians and female-fronted bands. She has recently founded Kababae Mong Tao, a multimedia platform aiming to empower women of all colors and expressions. Alyana believes in sisterhood solidarity, male involvement, faeries, woman-moon synchronicity, and the power of dreams.

Instagram: @_teenagegranny

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/teenagegranny

Amanda Keisha Ang(Singapore)is known for her work behind Singaporean all-girl art and music crew ATTAGIRL! championing electronic music for women in Asia - on her own, Amanda has been quietly but actively pushing her own initiatives and shows. When she isn’t DJing or doing music promotion with her bass music collective BAOWBAOW, she spends her time teaching illustration, creating artwork for like-minded music aficionados, music journalism, learning tattoo and cooking. As a music lover and DJ, her palate spans across various genres of Classic House, Techno, Hip-hop, Soul, UK Garage, Dancehall, Grime, Footwork, Jungle and Drum & Bass. She’s played in various cities and festivals alongside names/collectives such as Discwoman, BaeTokyo, Mr Carmack, TOKiMONSTA, Madam X, and electronic music legends DJ Krush and RP Boo. Through travel and music she hopes that she can empower and lend support to other women of color like herself in the similar artistic fields.

Instagram: @akasounds

Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/akasounds/

Kartika Jahja (Jakarta, Indonesia) is a vocalist and songwriter with the group Tika & The Dissidents. The band is known to fuse different genres from punk, to trip hop, to jazz combined with Kartika’s defiant lyrics touching on issues from gender justice, sexuality, labour movement, to media literacy. As an activist Kartika has focused on the issue of gender and sexuality since 2012. In 2015 she founded The Bersama Project; a foundation that aims to promote gender equality through music and the arts. In July 2018, Kartika and her two partners opened an alternative art space called SELATAN.

Instagram: @kartikajahja

Mich Dulce (Manila, Philippines)is a Filipina fashion designer, milliner and corsetiere by profession, specializing in the creation of ethical contemporary hats and headpieces with wholly sustainable traditional Philippine raw materials combined with traditional European millinery techniques. She is also the vocalist of The Male Gaze, a feminist riot grrrl band that aims to inform, provoke and challenge their audiences. Also a contemporary artist, Dulce’s practice as an artist has always been confessional and about her personal experiences as a woman and her reaction to the patriarchal social norms in the Philippines, reattributing and dissecting gender roles. Working with a variety of mediums (often involving stereotypically feminine craft), she builds immersive multi-sensory environments and installations that encourage the viewers to contribute to the work.

Instagram: @michdulce

Website: www.michdulce.com

The conversation will be moderated by Sonja Eismann (Missy Magazine) and Anna Maria Strauß (Goethe Institut Jakarta).

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Thu, 24.08. Festival Organization and Booking - Learning from Roskilde (Music Pool x Pop-Kultur)

Eileen Möller — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 11:51:30 +0000

Roskilde Festival in Denmark is the largest music festival in Northern Europe, with 130.000 visitors and 180 concerts spanning over the festival week. At the same time, Roskilde operates as a non-profit – and has supported numerous humanitarian, cultural and other non-profit social projects. Quite an unusual combination in the music world, where setting up shows and festivals often times are financially rather precarious endeavours.

At Pop-Kultur, we are happy to get the chance for a public interview with Thomas Sønderby Jepsen, music programmer at Roskilde, to find out more about how Roskilde operates and to see what we can learn from their experiences for our own different festivals, large or small. We'll talk about working with volunteers, sponsors, logistics etc. Also, we will use the chance to learn more about Roskilde's approach to music programming and look forward to get some insights into how artists get to play at festivals at this level and the competitive business in the international big festival circuit.

Venue: Soda Salon, within the Pop-Kultur area at Kulturbrauerei, Schönhauser Allee 36, Prenzlauer Berg, U Eberswalder Str.
Thursday, 24 August
Talk: 18:00 - 19:00, Drinks at Sodaterrassen (Pop-Kultur VIP area) afterwards.
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Music Pool Berlin Community Abend #20 Pop-Kultur

Eileen Möller — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 11:12:20 +0000

Here are a few insight in our last community evening at Pop-Kultur Berlin with Glenn Max artistic director of Village Underground in London and Chris Sharp curator at the Barbican Centre.

Donnerstag, 27.08.2015 Music Pool Berlin Community Abend #20 @ Pop-Kultur

Eileen Möller — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 09:06:21 +0000

** PLEASE NOTE **
* Registration by email required - see infos below.
* Earlier start than usual - 16:30 - 20:00.
* Venue: Canteen of Bühnenservice Berlin, next to Berghain, Am Wriezener Bahnhof 1

Auf dem neuen Pop-Kultur Festival kommen Ende August KünstlerInnen und Akteure der Musikkultur und -wirtschaft - Profis und Nachwuchs - zusammen. Wir freuen uns, unseren nächsten Music Pool Berlin Community Abend im Rahmen des Pop-Kultur Festivals zu veranstalten, und somit eine weitere Gelegenheit zu schaffen, sich mit den lokalen und angereisten Gästen des Festivals auszutauschen.

Für den ersten Teil des Abends bzw. Nachmittags (16:30 - 18:00) haben wir Glenn Max und Chris Sharp eingeladen.

Glenn Max ist künstlerischer Leite von Village Underground in London und Gründer/Direktor von Convergence, einer kulturellen Initiative an der Schnittstelle zwischen Musik, Kunst und Technologie in London. Glenn Max ist seit den 90er Jahren als Konzertproduzent und Kurator unterwegs, zunächst in New York, dann in London und hat mit vielen namhaften KünstlerInnen zusammengearbeitet - von Brian Wilson's Comeback Konzerten bis zu David Byrne, Sonic Youth, Brian Eno oder John Cale.

Chris Sharp ist Kurator für zeitgenössische Musik im Barbican Centre in London. Nach Zusammenarbeit mit verschiedenen Plattenlabels, arbeitet Chris seit 2008 als Kurator für das Barbican. Chris hat das Programm um elektronische und audiovisuelle Performances erweitert, z.B. In Zusammenarbeit mit KünstlerInnen wie Nick Cave, Beck oder Patti Smith. Er hat verschiedene Kompositionen und neue Werke in Auftrag gegeben, von Komponisten wie Steve Reich, Philip Glass oder Terry Riley. Ebenfalls hat er verschiedene Orchester-Kooperationen produziert, wie z.B. Grizzly Bear mit dem London Symphonieorchester, Aphex Twin mit dem Heritage Orchester, oder Chilly Gonzales mit BBCSO. Er hat MusikerInnen aus ganz verschiedenen Teilen der Welt ins Barbican geholt.

Wir sprechen mit beiden über ihre Ansätze in der Kuration von Festivals, der Produktion von Konzerten, über den besonderen kulturellen Bereich der Auftragsproduktionen, und wie sie an die Schaffung von Gesprächen und Begegnungen im Kontext von Pop-Kultur allgemein herangehen. Ebenfalls interessant sind ihre Tips für Musikschaffende und KonzertveranstalterInnen für die eigenen Konzertreihen und Festivals.

Im zweiten Teil (18:00 - 20:00) habt ihr die Gelegenheit bei einem Empfang mit Drinks und Snacks die DozentInnen und 150 TeilnehmerInnen des Nachwuchsprogramms (http://www.pop-kultur.berlin/nachwuchs/) kennenzulernen.

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ORT: Kantine des Bühnenservice Berlin, neben dem Berghain

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