- The European Music Office is an international non-profit association promoting musical diversity and representing the interests of European music professionals at a European and worldwide level.
- EMO’s main policy consists in setting up a specific EU Programme for music.
- As coordinator of the European Music Platform, EMO develops music cooperation projects responding to the EU calls for proposals with the aim of promoting the mobilityof artists and of works of art.
- EMO members are mainly European Author Rights Collecting Societies, Music Information Centers and Music Export Offices.
Platform on Cultural and Creative Industries On the 10th of June 2009, the board of the platform on the potential of cultural and creative industries presented its final recommendations to the members of the platform and representatives of the European Commission (Directorate General Education and Culture - DG EAG). The platform, constructed by the DG EAG, began its work last year in order to engage in a structured dialogue with the cultural secor in drawing up a list of recommendations that would improve the status of the artist in Europe. The platform functioned in 5 working groups which drafted recommendations on 5 themes and gave best examples on how to conduct programmes and projects. Since January 2009, the board has worked on compiling the efforts of those 5 working groups in a single document. The next step will see the recommendations being addressed to the European Commission, to member states and to regions at a forum from September 28th to 30th.
EU-MUSIC: 1-4 July, 2009 EU-Music stands for European Urban Music.
The event gathers the music industry and urban music lovers on the 3 main arenas in Stockholm, Sweden on July 1-4, 2009. Together with the City of Stockholm, several different local partners throughout Europe (including EMO) and international media partners, EU-Music will be the most outstanding event for urban music in Europe in 2009.
EU-Music consists of 3 different parts:
1. EU-Music Days A celebration of the urban music culture, open to the public. 2. EU-Music Summit A forum for professionals working with urban music, film, dance and entertainment to meet and do business. A part from being the meeting-place for doing business, different activities will take place, such as seminars, debates and workshops on current topics. 3. EU-Music Awards An award ceremony to reward outstanding urban artists and a celebration of the end of EU-Music.
The outstanding show, featuring several of the most popular international and European urban artists, will permit TV-viewers all over the world to be part of EU-Music.
RE:NEW MUSIC is airborne! After five productive years of founding the project, establishing its partnerships and constructing its pillars for a sustained future, RE:NEW MUSIC's 90 new music projects will enfold throughout its 11 European countries over the next 17 months up until November 2010. The project's 12 partner institutions have appointed 22 ensembles who again have nominated eight works each from their own national repertoire of living composers. From this repertoire pool of a 176 high quality stamped works, the ensembles will choose pieces from outside their own country and build projects around them. For more information, log on to www.renewmusic.org/
European Border Breakers Awards 2009
6th Edition of the European Border Breakers Awards
The 2009 European Border Breakers Awards were presented to 10 artists on 15 January during a sparkling show attended by masses of fans during the EuroSonic/Noorderslag Festival and broadcast on Dutch television on 17 January.
Music and television legend Jools Holland presented the show and performed with his orchestra together with Ruby Turner and Gabriel Rios, a previous EBBA award winner. Gabriel Rios praised the award as a glittering asset on artist’s cv’s and as a means of getting more performances abroad.
EMO @ WOMEX WOMEX is the world’s biggest professional music Conference, Trade Fair and Showcase for world, roots, folk, ethnic, traditional, alternative world, local and diaspora music. WOMEX took place from 29th October to 2nd November in Seville (Spain) and EMO were present meeting colleagues, exchanging ideas and contacts; doing business – and still found time to hear so much great music! For this event EMO organized meetings between professionals and representatives of the European Commission. See the information womex.com
Culture sector Platforms
EMO is running the secretariat of “Cultural and creative industries” platform with the support of Alliance Mondiale du Cinéma – Europe. The meetings are taking place now to discuss different issues as much mobility, enviroment, SME’s, circulation of works and artists, interface "creation-industry" as exchange and export in a globalised world. The first plenary will be in the early December. Click here to check all the organisations involved.
Diversidad! Event The Austrian capital, co-organizer of the 2008 European Football Championship, welcomed on the 23rd, 24th and 25th of June the 1st European urban culture festival : DIVERSIDAD. For its first edition, the festival DIVERSIDAD took up its bet ! The concerts were sold out the whole 3 days and brought together for the 1st time the best of European hip hop. The Austrian audience could discover on this occasion all the urban culture diversity, with rappers, DJ’s, graffiti artists from all over Europe. Press-Photos and articles Press-Photos and articles
DIVERSIDAD EXPERIENCE - VIDEOCLIP!
You already can enjoy the Diversidad video experience. Check it out!
EMO's "DIVERSIDAD!" PROJECT IS SELECTED FOR THE 2008 EUROPEAN YEAR OF INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE !
The 4th of December, the European Commission held a press conference to present the projects that have been selected for the “European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008”. 7 projects among over 300 have been selected including “DIVERSIDAD! - Promoting Dialogue and Exchange through European Urban Culture”, presented by EMO together with MICA (Music Information Centre Austria) and DIVERSITÉS.
The project will take place all over Europe and especially in Austria during the European Football Championships 2008. The theme will be Hip Hop and Urban Culture, covered through a digital platform of exchange, conferences and seminars, live shows and forums, music singles and collaborative album, radio show and TV documentary. The aim of each activity is to allow artists to exchange inspiration, experiences and professional information, favouring artists’ mobility and circulation of music works overall Europe.
Europavox Professional Meeting : More Business, more Fun May 29-31, 2009 Come to Clermond-Ferrand, France and discover the best of the European music scene with more than 60 bands from 20 different countries over 2 days and 3 nights. With a team dedicated to assisting you before and during your stay to help you make the most of your trip, Europavox Festival will be the place to go if you want to increase your European network while discovering new bands. The exclusive industry event is selecting a qualified delegation of buyers and sellers from all over Europe in a small scale setting perfect to insure exchanges and connections. This year our special focus will be on Czech Republic for their EU presidency. Save the date in May, meet, greet, work, discover and have fun in the beautiful Auvergne region in the heart of France! So stay tuned! For more information, log onto europavox.com
Europavox Line up!
The line up for the 4th edition of Europavox has been announced.
The festival will take place in Clermond-Ferrand (France) from the 27-31 May 2009. Confirmed acts include: Bloc Party (UK), I'm from Barcelona (SE), Emily Loizeau (FR) and many many more.
My Urban Music Day is a meeting-place for professionals and music enthusiasts and to discuss the situation for the European Urban Music industry. It is a pre-event to the pan-European project EU-Music Days (European Urban Music Days) that has its premiere in Stockholm on July 1-4, at the same time as Sweden takes over the EU-chairmanship.
To celebrate the International Women's Day on March 8, the theme of the March-event is "Urban Women".
The event consist of 3 parts: SEMINARS - leading decision-makers of the music industry, cultural institutions and urban music enthusiasts come together to discuss urban music, the conditions for working with music today and how to develop the . WORKSHOPS - "Lady Streetdance" is a project initiated by female streetdancers for female streetdancers, with the goal of strengthen women and to discuss the image and the way women are represented. SHOW - Nine of the most prominent female urban artists perform live on the show "Urban Ladies". .
When: March 27, 2009 (Seminars: 14.00-17.00, Workshop: 15.00-18.00, Show: 19.00) . Where: Lava / Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden . How: All activities are open to the public, free of charge.
EU Music Days The starting-point for the big European music event of the Year - EU Music Days - just took place in Stockholm. Some of Sweden's most outstanding urban artists were invited to work together and share their experience on music production with the audience. The day started out with different hands-on workshops.
The idea behind the initiative My Urban Music Day was to gather artists to talk about European Urban Music and to show the audience how they work. This is the start of preparations for the arrival of the European Urban Music industry in Stockholm in July. During spring, similar workshops with other themes will be held in Stockholm, Paris, Madrid, Berlin, London and Brussels. [read more]
ETEP: European Talent Exchange Program
2008 brings us a new record with 187 shows by 64 European artists from 16 countries at 59 ETEP festivals in 19 countries. With over 730 confirmed festival shows on 60 major international festivals since 2003, ETEP is a successful Noorderslag initiative to stimulate the exchange of European music throughout Europe. ETEP brings new talent to the forefront by bringing together the leading European festivals with radio and other media.
On the other hand, during the press conference at Pukkelpop it was officially stated that the focus country of the 2009 edition of EuroSonic Noorderslag will be Belgium.
The European Music Office is delighted to announce the addition of three new members!
Catalan! Music (Catalonia) is the trademark under which Catalan-made music of all genres is presented to the world. It carries out the international promotional activities of the Catalan Institute for the Cultural Industries (ICIC), which aims to give more visibility to the promotion of Catalan culture industries. See the information catalanarts.cat
The Adam Mickiewicz Institute is a government cultural institution which aims to popularise Polish culture around the world and cooperate on cultural projects with other countries. The goal of the Institute's activity is to promote Poland abroad by popularising the historical and contemporary achievements of Polish culture, in accordance with the fundamental guidelines of Poland's foreign policy and cultural policy. See the information iam.pl/
Institute for Research on Music & Acoustics (IEMA) (Greece) is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation, which aims to develop and support research in the field of music and acoustic, as well as to provide systematic information and documentation in both these domains. See the information iema.gr
EBBA-WINNERS 2009
This years' winners of an European Border Breakers Award are:
Adele (UK) - 19 Alphabeat (DK) Alphabeat AaRON (FR) Artificial Animals Riding on Neverland Cinema Bizarre (DE) Final Attraction The D (FR) A Mouthfull Kraak & Smaak (NL)Boogie Angst Ida Corr (DK) One Lykke Li (SE) Youth Novels The Script (IRL) The Script The Ting Tings (UK) We Started Nothing
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