Luxembourg Music Scene Meeting hosted by Sonic Visions
13h00 to 14h00 at Sonic Visions Bar
Meet Luxembourg’s Finest at Sonic Visions! Luxembourg has a boiling music scene composed of artists playing shows in Luxembourg & abroad and an increasing number of people working in music (promoters, studios, managers…). This will be the occasion to meet your peers and establish new contacts!
Free drinks and finger food for registered delegates. Limited capacity!
Register HERE
The Artist as a Start-up?
15h00 to 15h45 at Main Conference Room
A music artist can be inspired by a painter, writer or a filmmaker for his or her art. But how can the start-up branch or the entertainment industry inspire an artist or artist manager in his or her strategy to reach new audiences and build up a sustainable business? What are the differences and the similarities that can help emerging artists and music managers to enhance the potential of their projects and what does artists entrepreneurship mean in 2016? A panel of music professionals and artists will discuss the crossroads between start-ups, entrepreneurship and artist career development.
Host: Olivier Toth (CEO – Rockhal, Sonic Visions)
Speakers: Eivør (singer, composer), Emily Gonneau (Nüagency, Author of “L’artiste, le numérique et la musique”), Martin Guérin (CEO – Nyuko), Michael Roe (Artist Manager & European Label Manager – Sargent House)
« Oberkorn, it’s a small town » series* – Playing gigs in the Greater Region (FR, DE, BE, LU)
16h00 to 16h45 at Oberkorn Suite
Get practical tips & tricks from pros on how to get and play gigs in France, Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg: contacts & contracts, legal aspects, tour support, dos and don’ts… all you have to know as a band or artist who wants to tour in the Greater Region.
With Alain Brohard (Booker – L’Autre Canal), François-Xavier Kernkamp (Manager – SoundGoku), David Maier (Artistic Director – Worms: Jazz & Joy), Sam Reinard (Manager – Rocklab)
Popular Music Education: why, where & when?
16h15 to 17h00 at Main Conference Room
Popular music is a vital part of our everyday life and a valuable form of artistic expression embracing and combining many social and cultural aspects of modern societies. Whereas classical music benefits from a large panel of education and training courses and degrees, popular music is still linked in most people minds to a Do-it-yourself and self-made approach. But things are changing with more and more schools, colleges and resource centres offering courses, degrees, training and coaching programs in the field of popular music, be it on the instrumental and creative level or the business side.
A panel of experts & musicians will discuss the evolutions and the challenges of training and education in pop music and the relevance of a solid background in terms of business knowledge for artists and musicians.
With Hervé Jeanne (Bass player & Producer), Chris Maas (Session musician – Mumford and Sons), Gast Waltzing (Grammy Winner & Producer) and more speakers to be announced.
Creativity + Technology = new opportunities?
From 17h30 to 18h15 at Main Conference Room
Be it form the consumer’s point of the view or the artist & industry perspective, the musical ecosystem has changed drastically over the last ten years. New technical evolutions have influenced and are still influencing the way music is made, produced, performed and consumed. Alternative models to reach your fans and create your music are emerging constantly and monetisation of creative content on the web has become a major topic for everybody looking for artist development and creative business opportunities.
A panel of industry experts, creative entrepreneurs and artists will discuss what we can expect in terms of alternative and new ways to experience music today and in the future.
Host: Jake Beaumont-Nesbitt (International Music Managers Forum – IMMF)
Speakers: Magnus Hallberg (Country Manager Sweden – Believe Digital), Bernard Michaux (VR-AR Producer – REALAB), Louis Warynski (musician, producer – Chapelier Fou), Olivier Zephir (Technoport SA)
Launched in 2014 and co-financed by the EU, the Liveurope Platform enables concert venues to book more European bands and to collaborate internationally. Since the start of its activities, more than 800 European concerts have benefited from the support of Liveurope in the 13 member venues of the platform. The platform provides funding and networking for the participating venues, with the objective of increasing the cross-border circulation of European music.Join us to know more about this innovative support mechanism, its future ambitions and its model for expanding the network of participating live music venues. The presentation will be done by Fabien Miclet, who coordinates the platform from Brussels.
MMF Luxembourg Reception: Meet the managers and music professionals from Luxembourg
From 19h00 to 19h30 at Sonic Visions Bar
MMF Luxembourg‘s goal is to promote, inform and represent music managers and offer a network where managers can share experience and information. The reception will give you the opportunity to meet the people involved in the project.
Sonic Visions showcases
From 20h30 at Halle des Poches à Fonte
A selection of local and regional artists & bands will perform live at Halle des Poches à Fonte from 20h30. Doors: 20h00
More info about the line-up HERE.