DAS PROGRAMM / THE PROGRAM WORD! CONFERENCE WORD! THE WIRELESS HiFi SYSTEM FILL YOUR HOME WITH MUSIC EDITORIAL BERLIN MUSIC WEEK BERLIN MUSIC WEEK, 3.–7. SEPT. 2014 Dear guests, Welcome to the 5th Berlin Music Week! We’re looking forward to sharing with you this new and constantly evolving event, which has become an indispensable part of the Berlin music scene. We would like to thank you for wanting to be part of it and for taking an interest in our work, which has been made possible by our fantastic team within Germany and abroad. We can guarantee that you won’t just have a huge amount of fun, you’re sure to also take away lasting impressions and inspiration for your future work. In the true spirit of this city, we’ve taken the soundtrack of the movie “everything was better in the old days” and tossed it in the bin. Instead, we set out to look for – forgive the megalomania, it’s part of it all – the future of music. We found what we were looking for in the hundreds of artists who applied for the Berlin Music Week. They will be hitting our stages at the award shows, the showcase festival First We Take Berlin, and the Berlin Fes- tival, as well as on trucks, rooftops or in the streets for the new First We Take the Streets. We also found the future of music in another kind of band –the startup companies that are bringing change and innovation to the music industry, opening up new possibilities. After last year’s successful premiere, we will be presenting the Music Start Up Corner 2014 featuring the best international business ideas. The Music Hack Day is going to cre- ate the kind of momentum that can be found somewhere between ingenuity and secret science. The new major players of the music industry will be part of it, as they share our aspiration to “hack out” new ideas during the Berlin Music Week. The future is also in the hands of the recorded industry, which has played a prominent and increasingly international role during the Indie Days at the Berlin Music Week. De- spite the financial challenges faced in the last few years, the industry remains a motor of innovation, helping to encourage young artists, develop talent and create digital market- ing channels. This is partly how our slogan “Music Released” came about – after all, mu- sic has been, and continues to be, released. Plus, music is breaking away from its physical constraints, with all of the risks and opportunities that this process involves. This 5th Berlin Music Week is actually going to be the last of its kind. The project is to be handed over to the Musicboard Berlin for a new beginning. While it’s easy to start feeling a sense of regret when it comes to difficult decisions like this one, it’s important to remember that every end is a new beginning. We would like to wish the Berlin Music Week all the very best for the future, and wish you, our guests, a terrific time in Berlin! 4 EDITORIAL VUT INDIE DAYS VUT INDIE DAYS The VUT INDIE DAYS have already established themselves as Germany´s essential event for recorded music. For three days, Postbahnhof Berlin will become a meeting place for the entire independent music industry offering great opportunities to connect with Ger- man and international independent companies. The VUT Indie Days are for the second time part of Berlin Music Week and encompass a broad range of events: Committees and plenums will be meeting internally under the heading PARLIAMENT on 3 September. The panels and presentations as part of the WORD! conference will cover relevant topics and current challenges for independents. Keynotes by internationally renowned speakers of the independent music industry are also part of the program as well as interactive parts like the matching sessions and workshops, which will bring together music companies. Additionally, VUT members will be part of the PRODUCT MARKET of Berlin Music Week and will present their products in the B2B section of Postbahnhof. The events are symbioti- cally linked with those of the other partners of Berlin Music Week; their planning was closely coordinated and all activities on 4 and 5 September 2014 in Postbahnhof are open without restrictions to all delegates. Last but certainly not least: After the successful premiere of the VIA! VUT INDIE AWARDS last year, VUT will once again celebrate independent artists and companies. On the evening of 5 September, the VIA! VUT INDIE AWARDS will be awarded in six categories based on qual- ity and not on sales figures. Last year Otto Normal (Best Newcomer), Modeselektor (Best Experiment), DJ Koze (Best Album), City Slang (Best Label) and Kid Kopphausen (Best Act) won an award. If you want to know this year´s winners, just come to the award show! 5 CONTENTS INHALTSVERZEICHNIS CONTENTS Editorial ......................................................................................................................4+5 Impressum / Imprint .......................................................................................................7 Services ........................................................................................................................8-9 WORD! CONFERENCE ...........................................................................................................12 Conference day 1 ............................................................................................................12 Conference day 2 ............................................................................................................53 LAGEPLAN ...................................................................................................................56+57 SPECIALS ..........................................................................................................................86 Most Wanted: Music ......................................................................................................86 Africa Music Convention ...............................................................................................90 Switzerland at Berlin Music Week ................................................................................. 91 Music Hack Day ............................................................................................................93 Music Start Up Corner ...................................................................................................94 VUT INDIE DAYS .................................................................................................................97 VUT-Workshops ............................................................................................................97 VUT-Meeting Sessions ...................................................................................................98 VUT-Products ...............................................................................................................99 VIA! VUT Indie Awards 2014 ..................................................................................... 100 The VUT Shout Outs ................................................................................................... 101 SPECIALS ........................................................................................................................ 102 Berlin Music Week Market ........................................................................................... 102 Showcase festival First We Take Berlin ....................................................................... 106 Premiere: First We Take The Streets ........................................................................... 107 New Music Award 2014 ................................................................................................ 108 PARTNERS ................................................................................................................ 110+111 6 IMPRINT IMPRESSUM IMPRINT HERAUSGEBER Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH Geschäftsführer Moritz van Dülmen Klosterstraße 68, 10179 Berlin www.kulturprojekte-berlin.de www.berlin-music-week.de Kontakt: [email protected] TEAM WORD! NEWTHINKING + ALL2GETHERNOW Andrea Goetzke (Concept), Eric Eitel (Program Interactive Music & Music Hack Day), Anna-Lena König (Product market, Music Start-Up Corner), Daniela Bentrup (Program Coordinator), Susanne Eiswirt (Communications), Philipp Sachse (Speaker Management) TEAM VUT Jörg Heidemann (Deputy General Manager), Katrin Bauer (Member Services), Robert Klamann (Project Coordinator VUT Indie Days/ VUT Indie Awards), Verena Blätter- mann (Head of Communications & Public Affairs) TEAM BERLIN MUSIC WEEK Moritz van Dülmen (Managing director), Björn Döring (Head of project), Florian Wach- inger (Project coordination), Paul Cheetham (International business coordination), Tom- my Nick (Public relations & communications), Sarah Schwaab (Marketing & sponsor- ing), Saskia Klug (Online marketing, social media management), Anja Krauth (Custumer relationship management), Aminata Oelßner (Administration), Elisabeth Krämer (Vol- unteer management), Lisa Canehl (Assistant marketing), Anja Wagenblast (Assistant communications), Katharina Seeger (Assistant production), Anabel Acuna (Assistant project management), Pia Frizberg (Assistant costumer relations), Julia Gudzent (Pro- gram coordination First We Take Berlin), Klemens Wiese (Project management First We Take Berlin), Markus Fest, Diana Späth (beide Projektmanagement First We Take The Streets), Marc Feldmann, Eric Landmann, Matti Schmid, Karl Nowak (alle Zentralrat Mitte/Sponsoring) DESIGN & LAYOUT BY Tobias