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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

Community Evening

Shoot it yourself

Music Video

video making

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, 16.08 COMMUNITY EVENING - Perspectives on contemporary music cultures in South East Asia - Music Pool Berlin x Pop Kultur

musicpool intern — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 11:17:29 +0000

--> Free entry. No Pop-Kultur pass required <--

Music Pool Berlin Community Evening @ Pop-Kultur

Venue: Soda Moon Floor @ Kulturbrauerei / Pop-Kultur Festival, Schönhauser Allee 36
Date: 16 August 2018
Time: 18:00

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).

Check out the Facebook event here

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

musicpool intern — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:38:18 +0000

Thursday, 16 August, 2018 - 18:00 to 19:30

Soda Club, Knaackstraße 97, 10435 Berlin

Language:

Englisch

--> Free entry. No Pop-Kultur pass required <--
begins on time at 18:00

Music Pool Berlin Community Evening @ Pop-Kultur

Venue: Soda Club, Knaackstraße 97, 10435 Berlin

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).

Check out the Facebook event here

There will be space and time to meet and have a drink together afterwards.

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.

Music and Mental Health – Music Pool Berlin Community Evening x dBs Music

musicpool intern — Tue, 22 May 2018 11:04:02 +0000

Thursday, 14 June, 2018 - 19:00 to 22:00

Funkhaus Berlin, Nalepastraße 18, 12459 Berlin

Language:

Englisch

Music and Mental Health – Music Pool Berlin Community Evening x dBs Music

While it’s great to be work in music, be a musician, and spend your time engaging with your passion (a privilege many people don't share), the very nature of the music business oftenbrings with it a framework that makes us vulnerable as humans. A recent study commissioned by Help Musicians UK reported that musicians are three times more likely to suffer from depression or anxiety than the average population (in the UK).

Factors at play can be - precariousness of living conditions, merging of personal identity with profession (and never switching off), being constantly exposed to feedback (that often connects directly to personal identity), working late and inconsistent hours, alcohol and drugs, heavy touring schedules (incompatible with even a flu) and a focus entirely on work rather than taking time out for yourself as a human being. And while it may be that music is a great way to work through the issues of living in the world, this can still leave you vulnerable as a person.

Many of these things apply to other professions, as well as to just being a human and figuring out your way. At this Music Pool x dBs Music community evening, we want to discuss the mental health issues that particularly arise in the music business, and to think together what can be done to take better care of ourselves and our colleagues and friends, and to change the working conditions and structural issues in the long run.

dBs Music has run a series of conversations on the topic of mental health and creativity over the past few months, you can check them out here: http://bit.ly/dBsDialogues

PANELLISTS:

Andy Inglis – is an Artist Manager, Tour Manager, Conference Manager, Lecturer, Mentor, and frequent commentator on the Music Industries. He prioritises the mental and physical health of his clients over any other consideration.

Rachael Patterson - Formerly a Label Manager at [PIAS]’ London office, Rachael moved to Berlin to take the position of !K7’s Head of Sales and Marketing for their in-house releases and priority Label Services campaigns, with responsibility for international marketing and project management. She is now head of Artist Management for the Group, bringing in new clients and representing her own roster, and oversees a team of day-to-day managers and the long-term strategy for their respective clients – including Tricky and Mykki Blanco.

Emika - Brings bold new tendencies to a world of avant garde classicism, popular song and contemporary electronic minimalism. Having signed to Ninja Tune for her first two albums, Emika (2011) and Dva (2013), Emika established her own, eponymous label in 2015. With her fifth studio album now upon us, Melanfonie, the result of a successful Kickstarter campaign that allowed her to work with the City Of Prague’s 70-piece Philharmonic Orchestra, Emika is once again breaking new ground for singer-songwriters, producers and performers alike.

Start of the conversation: 19:30
Networking: 21:00

The event will take place at ZOLA at Funkhaus Berlin. Join us afterwards on the terrace for a nice, warm summer evening of networking, drinks and music!

Wed, 02/ 05 Community Abend _ Machine listening: Applications of AI to Music _ Music Pool Berlin x re:publica18

musicpool intern — Wed, 02 May 2018 07:00:46 +0000

This Music Pool Berlin community evening at re:publica is about present and future impacts of machine learning applications to music, with a focus on a practical understanding and use of machine learning in the music making process. In general, the Music Pool Berlin community evenings provide a platform for musicians to find out more about current music business topics, and get to know each other and other players in the music scenes.

FREE ENTRY •• NO RE:PUBLICA PASS REQUIRED

•• INPUT & DISCUSSION ••

(Insane in the) brain drain: Mensch-Maschine-Schnittstellen, KI und kreative Prozesse

19:00 - 19:30

After the release of "Hello World" at the latest, the first pop album written with the help of an AI, the music world would be in turmoil. Flow Machines and other "tools" promise nothing less than revolutionising music production by "managing" creative processes, "objectifying" styles, or acting as "artificial muse." With the next wave of technological innovation, traditional interfaces are likely to be eliminated, opening up completely new possibilities for music makers to compose, produce and perform music.

The talk is hosted by Music Pool Berlin (https://musicpoolberlin.net/).

TALK: Eiric Eitel

VENUE: Stage 9
STATION Berlin
Luckenwalder Str. 4-6,
10963 Berlin

Machine listening: Applications of AI to Music

19:45 - 20:45

This talk examines present and future impacts of machine learning applied to music, with a focus on understanding and using machine learning in the music making process.
AI researchers are rapidly proposing new applications at every stage of the musical process. On the creative side, bots and intelligent assistants help musicians fluidly manage their own compositional tools and sound libraries. Also, novel musical instruments imbued with smart sensors and circuits greatly lower the barrier of entry to production and performance, expanding the ways we interface with our instruments. And enabling richer and more direct interaction between musicians and their fans as well. Experimental techniques for synthesizing audio and imitating styles on-demand are still in their infancy, but could one day revolutionize production and composition from the ground up. On the curatorial and business side, music recommender systems are beginning to scan the "long tail" of large music collections and automatically make accurate inferences about who is likely to listen to or buy those songs.
As algorithms invade every aspect of the music creation process, we are asked to reconsider what it means to be a musician in the 21st century.
The talk is hosted by Music Pool Berlin (https://musicpoolberlin.net/).

TALK: Gene Kogan, http://genekogan.com/
MODERATION: Andrea Goetzke

VENUE: Stage 9
STATION Berlin
Luckenwalder Str. 4-6,
10963 Berlin

•• NETWORKING, DRINKS & TUNES ••

Join us for drinks and music afterwards in the Networking Area. Tunes handpicked by a2n_soundsystem aka Andrea Goetzke and Eric Eitel from 22 to 23.

VENUE: networking area, inside the re:publica area
••
This evening event is free.
No registration needed.
••
Further information: https://18.re-publica.com/de/session/machine-listening-applications-ai-music

COMMUNITY EVENING - Machine Listening: Applications of AI to Music - Music Pool Berlin x re:publica18

musicpool intern — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 10:58:14 +0000

Wednesday, 2 May, 2018 - 19:00 to 23:30

STATION Berlin Luckenwalder Str. 4-6, 10963 Berlin

Language:

Englisch

FREE ENTRY •• NO RE:PUBLICA PASS REQUIRED

•• INPUT & DISCUSSION ••

(Insane in the) brain drain: Mensch-Maschine-Schnittstellen, KI und kreative Prozesse

19:00 - 19:30

The talk is hosted by Music Pool Berlin (https://musicpoolberlin.net/).

TALK: Eiric Eitel

VENUE: Stage 9
STATION Berlin
Luckenwalder Str. 4-6,
10963 Berlin

Machine listening: Applications of AI to Music

19:45 - 20:45

This talk examines present and future impacts of machine learning applied to music, with a focus on understanding and using machine learning in the music making process.

AI researchers are rapidly proposing new applications at every stage of the musical process. On the creative side, bots and intelligent assistants help musicians fluidly manage their own compositional tools and sound libraries. Also, novel musical instruments imbued with smart sensors and circuits greatly lower the barrier of entry to production and performance, expanding the ways we interface with our instruments. And enabling richer and more direct interaction between musicians and their fans as well. Experimental techniques for synthesizing audio and imitating styles on-demand are still in their infancy, but could one day revolutionize production and composition from the ground up. On the curatorial and business side, music recommender systems are beginning to scan the "long tail" of large music collections and automatically make accurate inferences about who is likely to listen to or buy those songs.

As algorithms invade every aspect of the music creation process, we are asked to reconsider what it means to be a musician in the 21st century.

The talk is hosted by Music Pool Berlin (https://musicpoolberlin.net/).

TALK: Gene Kogan, http://genekogan.com/
MODERATION: Andrea Goetzke

VENUE: Stage 9
STATION Berlin
Luckenwalder Str. 4-6,
10963 Berlin

•• NETWORKING, DRINKS & TUNES ••

Join us for drinks and music afterwards in the Networking Area. Tunes handpicked by a2n_soundsystem aka Andrea Goetzke and Eric Eitelfrom 22 to 23.

VENUE: networking area, inside the re:publica area

••

This evening event is free.

No registration needed.

••

Further information: https://18.re-publica.com/de/session/machine-listening-applications-ai-music

"Three Cities: International Commission" performing in Berlin

musicpool intern — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 14:11:54 +0000

What happens when three musicians from different backgrounds get together and collaborate?

"Three Cities" is a new international commission that links Music Pool Berlin (Berlin) with Le Fil (Saint-Étienne) and Brighter Sound (Manchester). The project creates a unique opportunity for independent musicians to extend their network in the music industry and create new original music.

On the first edition of "Three Cities", musicians Martha Rose (Berlin), Pailette (St. Etienne) and Shunya (Manchester) have come up with new jointly created compositions via a three steps process: jamming together in Manchester, recording in St. Etienne, and performing in Berlin.

On March 15th 2018, the trio had the chance to present the product of their joint effort, together with a glimpse of their own solo work, at the Music Pool Berlin "Community Evening" held at Hangar 49 in Berlin.

Prior to the performance, the three protagonists of "Three Cities" had the chance to discuss with other fellow musicians their experiences with international collaborations, and share their impressions on collaborative projects, exchanges or residency programmes in different contexts. During the panel, Martha Rose, Pailette and Shunya were joined by electronic musicians, DJs and cultural activists Gebrüder Teichmann (aka Andi und Hannes Teichmann), Berlin based indie multi-instrumentalist Johanna Amelie, and Allie ( aka Florian Boss).

Shot at Hangar 49, Berlin.

Video by Katharina Tress
https://www.katharinatress.com/