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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 10:28:15 +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

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Tue 28 Aug., Artist Meetup #11

musicpool intern — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 12:05:54 +0000

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 little tech setup, like singing, rapping with beats, acoustic instruments ..). You can also mention if you are e.g. looking for a drummer, a producer etc.

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

Please write an email to andrea (at) musicpoolberlin (dot) net latest by August 20th, 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.

Join the Facebook Event here

@NIRGENDWO
Helsingforser Str. 11
10243 Berlin

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

musicpool intern — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 10:05:06 +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.

SHOOT IT YOURSELF - NEW MUSIC-VIDEO-WORKSHOP FOR BERLIN BASED MUSICIANS

musicpool intern — Tue, 08 May 2018 10:09:39 +0000

SHOOT IT YOURSELF - NEW MUSIC-VIDEO-WORKSHOP FOR BERLIN BASED MUSICIANS
26.6.-29.6.2018 + 28.8.-30.8.2018

Music videos have become a very important facet of the music industry and a common tool for artist promotion. But how do they work? And how can you create interesting content on a modest budget? As digital filming becomes a more user-friendly and affordable option, it is essential for up and coming bands and new artists to gain filmmaking skills.

In the last twenty years, Stephanie von Beauvais has created music promos and shot both commercials and documentaries with a wide range of budgets including artists like the Beatsteaks, Materia, Tocotronic, Turbostaat and many more. Now for the third time she offers an intensive Workshop on both the theoretical and practical aspects of shooting your own video.

The workshop takes place in collaboration with BIMM Institute Berlin, Musicpool Berlin and is funded by Musicboard Berlin GmbH. It requires no attendance fee. Catering, travel- or accommodation expenses are not included. Participants are selected by a defined jury only. The jury’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. Application via e-mail only.

You may participate due to a general interest of the topic or because you are responsible for a actual project.
Indeed, every participant is invited to work on his/her own video – either it has been already shot or it is in process of planning. For the shooting of their own video, the workshop even offers a financial aid of 300€ each, to 4 bands within the participants, who will be selected by the jury only.

APPLICATION - via e-mail only, by may 21rst, 2018 to: bewerbung [at] shootityourself-berlin.de

More info: here

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

musicpool intern — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 12:56:46 +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.