From February 17 – 21, 2024, the Avant Première festival will once again transform Berlin into the epicenter of music and dance performance films, where creators and industry professionals experience four days of screenings, pitching sessions, and networking. Avant Première, the major … read more »
Open Call for Projects: LIVEMX
Supported by the European Commission’s Music Moves Europe framework, LIVEMX aims to help strengthen and develop the European music sector to adapt and thrive in a dynamic industry. The initiative has just announced its first call for projects, open now until January … read more »
Austrian Music Fund to Receive Major Boost Starting in 2024
Great news for Austrian music: the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sports announced that it will be making an additional €1.5 million available to the Austrian Music Fund (Österreichischer Musikfonds / ÖMF) for the support of Austrian musicians in … read more »
5 Million Pesos: Tobias Vedovelli Surround
5 Million Pesos is the monthly concert series of young jazz in and from Austria, a presentation of Radiokulturhaus Vienna and the Ö1 jazz department. Due to illness, this concert has been postponed and will be rescheduled in early 2024! We’ll keep … read more »
She Hopes You’re Watching: Viji is the FM4 Soundpark Act in November
So Vanilla is the debut album by FM4’s Soundpark Act of the Month, Austrian-Brazilian musician Viji: twelve songs about living with – and next to – one another. Viji’s debut album doesn’t make you wait long. There’s no intro, just a chord … read more »
Freedom and Absurdity: A Portrait of Christof Ressi
Christof Ressi’s compositions combine internet culture and computer games with contemporary and electronic music and jazz. He was awarded the prestigious Erste Bank Composition Prize, and Jeunesse is devoting an entire concert to his works on November 4th – featuring, appropriately, the … read more »
Turning Back the Tide, Part 2: Standing Up to the Streamers
Back in 2020 – at the height of the COVID pandemic – Spotify CEO Daniel Ek famously stated: “…you can’t record music once every three to four years and think that’s going to be enough.” Coming from a non-musician with a net … read more »
Open Call: Building Bridges Coaching & Mentoring Program
After a mission to Switzerland in the spring and a songwriting camp in September, the Austrian Music Export pilot project Building Bridges is preparing for its next chapter: a coaching and mentoring program with industry experts. Applications are now open to Austrian … read more »
Austrian Music Highlights: October 2023
Autumn in Vienna: after a long stretch of weirdly pleasant weather, the clouds and dampness have finally returned, bringing that gray watery light that, to us, signifies that the year is leaning hard toward winter. You’re at home, baby. But some people … read more »
Turning Back the Tide, Part 1: How the Streaming Economy Erodes Music
No cake, no candles, probably no bouncy castle, either: Affine Records – the label that has brought us artists like Dorian Concept, Cid Rim, and Wandl, among others – is turning 15. But according to label founder Jamal Hachem, “there’s nothing to … read more »