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Mon. 24.09, Community Evening - Shoot It Yourself x Music Pool Berlin: The Art and Relevance of Music Videos – Discussion and Music Video Premiere

musicpool intern — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 10:28:03 +0000

We are happy to present the premiere of freshly produced music videos, as outcomes of an intensive workshop led by the film director Stephanie von Beauvais.

This Music Pool x Shoot It Yourself Community Evening will premiere and discuss the videos, and look behind the scenes of conceptualizing and producing a video for your song. How can you make your video a quality short film in itself, and not just an inevitable visual byproduct to your song? How can you create an interesting video yourself on a small budget? What are basic filmmaking skills that you need to know? And what are the experiences of musicians that have just gone through the process of shooting a DIY video?

The second part of the evening will discuss the relevance of music videos in post MTV times. How important are music videos for the promo of a song these days? How do promoters and musicians use music videos in their album or track campaigns? And is a music video only being perceived as a promotional tool or how do audiences appreciate music videos as an art form?

Steph von Beauvaisis a Berlin based director and producer of music videos, documentaries and commercials with more than 20 years experience. She has collaborated with German musicians and bands like Tocotronic, Beatsteaks, Olli Schulz, Marteria, Casper, Laing, 2Raumwohnung, Kreator and several more. She teaches at HTK Berlin and her own music video workshop series.

Michael Mlinskihas more than 10 years of experience of developing marketing campaigns for musicians, such as Drangsal, Marilyn Manson, Ferris MC, or Denzel Curry, currently with Vertigo/Capital, and formerly with Caroline International.

Participating artists:

DJ:
Galina Ozeran (Chikiss aka Galina Ozeran, Video Salon / NOT NOT FUN rec.)
As a child of soviet era sci-fi, Chikiss tinted by the faded glory of suggested futures that never came to be. Her DJ sets are deep cinematic experimental journey - and complement the soundscape of this community evening on music videos.
music: https://soundcloud.com/chikissecrets
mixtapes: https://www.mixcloud.com/chikissecrets/

The project Shoot It Yourself is being realized in collaboration with BIMM and Music Pool Berlin, as well as funding from Musicboard Berlin.

Doors 19:30, Talk starts at 20:00. Free Event.

Location: Spektrum Berlin, Bürknerstraße 12, 12047 Berlin

Community Evening

Shoot it yourself

Music Video

video making

Die. 28 Aug., Artist Meetup #11

musicpool intern — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 12:07:02 +0000

Unser elfte Artist Meetup bietet KünstlerInnen und Musikschaffenden eine Plattform um andere Musikprojekte kennenzulernen, sowie sich über Möglichkeiten einer Zusammenarbeit auszutauschen.

Acht Musikschaffende stellen ihre Musik, Projekt, Band, Label, Studio etc. vor - um vielleicht Leute zu finden, die mit ihnen zusammenarbeiten möchten, und um Ideen und Feedback von anderen KünstlerInnen zu bekommen. Im Anschluss gibt es bei Drinks und Musik die Gelegenheit miteinander (auch mit denen die nicht präsentieren) zu den Projekten ins Gespräch zu kommen, Leute zu finden, die am Projekt mitarbeiten möchten, Ideen und Kontakte auszutauschen, gemeinsam weiter zu kommen als alleine! Wir freuen uns auf einen regen Austausch - zwischen unterschiedlichen Szenen, zwischen verschiedenen Interessen und Erfahrungen, und auf einem neuen gemeinsamen Weg.

Du möchtest beim Artist Meetup präsentieren? Wir haben insgesamt acht Slots a zehn Minuten. Schreibe bitte in einer kurzen Email an andrea (at) musicpoolberlin (dot) net was du gern präsentieren möchtest, bis zum 20. August 2018.
Es lohnt sich selbstverständlich auch für diejenigen, die nicht präsentieren vorbeizukommen, und die anderen KünstlerInnen und Musikschaffenden kennenzulernen.

Eintritt frei; kommt einfach vorbei.

Die Moderation würde auf Englisch sein, Sie können sich jedoch auf Deutsch präsentieren, wenn Sie sich wohler fühlen, und wir werden Ihnen bei der Übersetzung helfen.

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Don., 14.06 Music and Mental Health – Music Pool Berlin Community Evening x dBs Music

musicpool intern — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 10:05:31 +0000

You must have lived on another planet for the last 5 years or so, if you haven’t noticed yet that the music business has a mental health problem.

With the loss of a number of high profile artists (Avicii, Chris Cornell, Chester Bennington from Linking Park, Cranberries' frontwoman Dolores O'Riordan Lil Peep just to name a few), and many more becoming vocal about the problem (Lady Gaga, Benga, Olly Alexander from Years and Years, Rustie, Leftfield), the issue cannot be ignored anymore. Breaking the stigma and beginning the conversation its a first step, but the need for more urgent and practical solutions is real, as the numbers talk pretty clearly.

Triggered by a rise in the number of calls and applications for help from musicians experiencing mental health problems, British Charity Help Musician UK undertook in 2016 a research aimed at developing a more inclusive and holistic reflection of the state of musicians’ mental health, extending its focus beyond musicians to all those involved in the creative music process (who tends to be facing similar levels of pressure as shown by this insight published via Noisey).

Data resulting from this initial study were pretty impressive: out of the 2,211respondents to the survey, 71.1% admitted to having suffered from panic attacks and/ or high levels of anxiety, and 68.5% suggested they had suffered from depression.

This first part of the survey (available for reading here) was crucial for understanding the scale of the problem. Its follow up (downloadable for free here) was aimed instead at exploring the link between the compositional structure of the music industry and the mental health of those working within it.

Western Music tradition is embedded with a hard- to- die narrative that strongly ties together creativity and mental health, seen mainly as an individual issue. A little attention has been put instead on the overall mechanisms and working conditions that can affect and deteriorate one own psychological well- being.

In its second part of its report, Help Musicians UK has tried to highlight contextual dynamics and elements that can lead towards psychological pain and discomfort for musicians and music industry workers in general. A first issue to emerge has been precarity, to be intended both in its financial and experiential nature. Secondly, a number of cultural norms and working conditions, such as the role of feedback, the difficulty in defining „success‟, the impact careers can have on relationships, and issues surrounding equality and diversity understood as access to opportunity.

Help Musicians UK has since then activated a 24/7 mental health service, Music Minds Matter, to offer advice, signposting, emotional support, clinical pathways and professional therapeutic services, counselling and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to musicians and people within the music industry suffering with mental health issues. As this looks as a step towards the right direction, it could not be enough.

As all the above mentioned studies focus more on the UK situation, during our panel in collaboration with DBS Music Berlin we want to look closely at the situation in Germany and try understand what strategies can be adopted and what changes need to be introduced to tackle the issue of mental health on a long term perspective. Panelists invited to take part to the discussion include electronic music producer Emika, artists manager Andy Inglis, K7! Head of Artists Management Rachael Patterson and philopher and coach Florian Goldberg.

Discussion starts at 19:30 at Funkhouse Berlin, drinks, pizza & networking from 21:30 onward, more info here.

Jetzt bewerben bis zum 21.Mai!! SHOOT IT YOURSELF - NEUER MUSIKVIDEO-WORKSHOP FÜR BERLINER MUSIKER_INNEN

musicpool intern — Tue, 08 May 2018 10:04:44 +0000

NEUER MUSIKVIDEO-WORKSHOP FÜR BERLINER MUSIKER_INNEN
26.6.-29.6.2018 + 28.8.-30.8.2018

Steph von Beauvais dreht und produziert seit über 20 Jahren Musikvideos. Zum dritten Mal bietet ihr Intensiv Workshop "Shoot it yourself" Berliner Musiker_innen die Chance, alle Seiten der Clip-Produktion kennen zu lernen - vom Konzipieren, über das Drehen bis zur Endfertigung. Nach einer intensiven Woche in Filmbasiswissen und jeder Menge Praxis habt Ihr ebenfalls die Möglichkeit, euer eigenes Video zu drehen und zu schneiden.

Der Workshop behandelt alle wichtigen Schritte, die bei der Entstehung eines Videos gemacht werden müssen: Ideenfindung, Drehvorbereitung, Kalkulation und Umgang mit k(l)einem Budget, Dramaturgie im Musikvideo, Bildgestaltung, Kamerabewegung, Lichtgestaltung, Inszenieren von Musik-Performance, Make up, Montagetheorie, Schnitt und weitere Möglichkeiten in der Post Produktion.
Neben zahlreichen Beispielen aus der Praxis und einem Crash Kurs in Film-Theorie, lernen die Teilnehmer_innen unterschiedliches Low Budget Equipment zum Selbsttesten kennen. Es sind ausserdem Gäste zum Thema Smartphone-Apps/ Gadgets und Post Produktion eingeladen.

Nach 3 intensiven Tagen können die Teilnehmer_innen ihr eigenes Video-Konzept überarbeiten und es im Kurs vorstellen. Im Anschluss werden sie einzeln beraten .Mit einer Finanzhilfe von 300 € drehen 4 vorher von einer Jury ausgewählte Bands/Künstler_innen selbständig ihren eigenen Clip.

Zum Schnitt treffen sie sich alle wieder. Unter Anleitung von Steph und einer Post Produktions-Expertin starten alle Teilnehmer in die Endfertigung ihrer Videos an ihren eigenen Geräten: sowohl die von der Jury ausgewählten 4 Bands, als auch alle anderen Teilnehmer_innen, die ihr eigenes Material mitbringen.
Ziel ist die Fertigstellung während des Workshops. Und soviel Erfahrung, dass sie in Zukunft selbstständig auch mit wenig Budget das Ergebnis bekommen, das sie sich vorstellen.

BEWERBUNGFRIST - Bis zum 21.5.2018 ausschliesslich per e-mail an: bewerbung [at] shootityourself-berlin.de

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April 10th, Music Pool Berlin Artist Meetup #10: APPLY NOW!

musicpool intern — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 12:59:10 +0000

Dienstag, 10 April, 2018 - 19:30 bis 23:00
arkaoda Berlin, Karl-Marx-Platz 16
kostenlos / free of charge
Sprache: Englisch

The Music Pool Berlin Artists Meet Up offers a platform for musicians to share their music projects with a wider musician community, ask for feedback, ideas or support, and get to know each other. You can show a new video, play a new track or song, or perform live (only with a relatively easy tech setup, like singing, rapping with beats, acoustic instruments ..). You can also mention if you are e.g. looking for a drummer, a producer, a graphic designer etc.

Would you like to present at the Artist Meet Up? We have approx. 8 slots of 10 minutes each including feedback and discussion with the audience.

Please write an email to andrea (at) musicpoolberlin (dot) net latest by April 5, 2018, including a link to your music and some brief info on what and why you'd like to present. The event is open to all artists regardless of genre.

At the end of the presentations, there will be time to meet and talk to each other over a drink and some music. It definitely makes sense to come by also for those who are not presenting.

The moderation will be in English, however, you can present in German, if you feel more comfortable, and we will help you translate.

No entrance fee, just come by. No registration needed, only if you want to present.