Your text doesn’t have to necessarily be about the festival directly, you can also compile your thoughts about sub-themes around netaudio or free music, that are important to you and that can be interesting to others as well.

We hope that you can still remember and if possible can write them down in English. Just let Antina (antina (at) netaudioberlin.de) know if you want to contribute, but maybe do not feel so confident with your English as we are sure, we can find a solution (with small messages or an interview if that is all you can put forward).

Texts / drafts should be ready by the end of April. So that we can edit in May and publish in June.

We would be very happy to hear from you again.

Live and with love,

The Netaudio Berlin Team

Hi Folks,

the Barcelona-Berlin netlabel música vermella has announced three days of condensed netlabel activity @ Rauchhaus – a former squat and now alternative housing project in Berlin Kreuzberg. On Thursday 11-02 at 19h there will be a Dubstep Masterclass, Friday 20-02 a circuit bending workshop (same time).

On Saturday a netlabel meeting is announced to connect the Berlin netlabels, to discuss strategies of common promotion, the setup of a new event series (after the first and very successful netlag party circus…) and think about future forms of co-operation. Netaudio Berlin will be attending and not only support this event but also introduce some further netaudio persectives for 2010.

From 23h there’s a Electro / Dubstep / IDM party organised with a decent linup:

Raza Roja live [audio-visual project/ Barcelona]
Yarkovy live [abstract Dub/ France]
Madame live [IDM/ Breakcore/ Barcelona]
Pisu live [Dubstep/ Berlin & Barcelona]
Wermonster live [Psydub/ Berlin]
4 Cantons [IDM/ abstract HIP HOP/ Berlin & Barcelona]

For further infos check the flyer!

Two days ago, the Transmediale – one of the most influencal Electronic Arts Festivals – opened their gates in Berlin. After the joined Netaudio Berlin and London project in 2009, where we organized a night full of cc music within the Club Transmediale, in 2010 the c-base will present some highly interesting aspects of the open culture movement…

Underneath Berlin-Mitte, the relics of a space station from the future were discovered in 1995. Upon this revelation a group of researchers, activists, artists and enthusiasts founded the association known as c-base. Their aim is to promote the further examination and possible reconstruction of this presumably most unique cultural heritage of the future humankind. At transmediale.10 c-base will present PHUTURAMA – Salon Subconference for spekulative and fictional design (in German). Within its own programme PHUTURITY NOW!, c-base presents examples of this vast field of design as a tm.10 Satellite.

A little aside our usual perspective on open music events we would like to draw the focus on the OPEN MOON project  – which we think is able to demonstrate the power and range of the ideas of open culture. It is also a quite abstract level which might also extend the way of thinking about it:

“A world-wide move towards conquering the moon’s surface once again is gathering pace and Germany is part of this move. Previous such initiatives have failed largely due to the lack of interest of the general population. However, Open Moon’s education programme intends to change this by calling upon the wider community to engage in the project and prepare society as a whole for space. We do not believe that space should be for the privileged rich few, or those working in the space industry. We believe space should be for all of us.

And Open Moon is more:

Open Moon is a think tank and a test laboratory for tomorrow’s technological development.
At Open Moon we are combining great potential, companies, corporate networks, affiliated business groups and open innovation to solve the complex technical requirements of this competition. Our minds are open to all possibilities and, therefore, our ambition does not stop here. The effect of our co-operation will be to find new technical solutions, products and business ideas we cannot even imagine today. We will use our existing knowledge to design and test the rules of tomorrow’s innovation management.

Open Moon is the place to be, to be a part of taking this competition to the next level. Everyone who is involved is participating in the worldwide marketing of the GLXP. Declaring our sponsors and sharers is an important part of the competition rules. You will not find a more efficient global spot for your skills. You are welcome.“

The open phuture starts NOW!

Some selected events:

Excellent start for the netaudio movement in 2010! After the announcement of the Netaudio Festival in Lisbon end of the year another European country launnched its platform: netaudio.fr is now supporting the netaudio affairs in France! After Netaudio London and Netaudio Berlin, the Spanish netaudio.es, nettare in Italy, Netaudio Russia resp. Moscow and Netaudio Poland two more initiatives will now extend the European network of netaudio groups.

Netaudio France is initially driven by the country’s most active netlabel Fresh Poulp Records. Geoffrey Marchand, labelhead and event organizor gave the initial impulses for the new forum. His label has been focussing on Dub, Oriental Grooves, Hiphop, Dubstep, Downbeat and Fusion sounds. Amongst their artists are names like Normaa, Roots Ista Posse, I-Massive, Rafiralfiro, Dubosmium and many more excellent musicians.

Until now, three more acteurs joined the platform: Al Dente Rec., a techno and minimal (and a little dub influenced) label promoting artists like Eggbox, Tsunami Wazahari, Focus, Funkatone, Blair’Baxter and more.

AntiBlues is concentrating on HipHop, Ambient and Electro, featuring artists like Volfoniq, Aide auditive, Altf4, Autoctone, Vernon Lenoir and others. Finally, netaudio.fr today announces their fourth partner joining the platform: Original Dub Gathering, a French netlabel strictly dedicated to Dub! Releases from Ondubground, Vlastur, U Stone, Dawa HiFi, Panda Dub and more.

Hopefully, more French netlabels will join this promising network to even increase the dynamic development of the free music scene in France. Doubtless it has loads of excellent tunes to spread – so give netaudio.fr a try!

Adjust yourself to “sharing” – because Cologne Commons will rise again for a second time! In summer 2010 there will be again a conference and festival for free cultural goods. Yes – you can trust your eyes – the second Cologne Commons is not only about beautiful music. Instead is is about cultural goods in general. The “creative commons” did not focus on any specific art form or cultural expression. This is the reason for the 2010 claim of Cologne Commons:

„be shareful“!

Foto:  CC (by) skippyjon@flickr.com

Aside live music, the genres movies/ films and literature will get their place within Cologne’s only event for free cultural goods: Cologne Commons take part from 11-12. June 2010 @ KunstWerk and Gebäude9. It will again give dozens of artists a platform which they need to give away their creative outputs for free. Filmshows, concerts, readings, workshops and discussions about the handling of free accessible cultural goods without frontiers are wainting to get “copied, used and spread around”.

Cologne Commons is looking forward to your visit in June 2010!

There’s a newsletter in German language (so far…) – it keeps you up to date!

So get your holidays planned properly – for there might be three or more netaudio festivals in autumn 2010: London, Lisbon and … Casablanca!

For further infos, check:

myspace
blog



See you in London 2010, checkout netaudiolondon.cc for further details!

Alive again – and still with love
Netaudio Festival Berlin 2009 crew.

You might see first pictures here.

Live sets are circulating through the web already, many of them
on Nightclubber forum, based in Argentina… Download:

The Marx Trukker / live
Pheek / live Mirror: Pheek / live
Marc Schneider
Falko Brocksieper
SCSI-9 / Live
Holger Flinsch / live [wrong labelling!]
Juno6 / live
Klartraum / live
Roots Ista Posse / live
Rafiralfiro Trio / live
Niteffect / live

Ceci n’est pas une pipe / live [QuarterBit / Public Spaces Lab]

The complete radio stream (cutted and lebelled) can be found here.

Radio Transmissions of the festival:

Deutschlandradio Kultur (Breitband, Live vor Ort, Sa 10.10.09 14-15 Uhr) site / download
Fritz, Trackback (Sa, 3.10.09, 18-19 Uhr) site / download
Fritz, Trackback (Sa, 10.10.09, 18-19 Uhr) site / site / download
MDR Sputnik, 360Grad (Sa, 10.10.09, 10 – 14.00 Uhr)  download
On3-Radio (Bayerischer Rundfunk) (Mo, 12.10.09, 15.00 Uhr) Nachbericht, von Nadine Kreuzahler site / download

Video Snippets of the festival:

music

Volfoniq
Quarter Bit
6.R.M.E.
Das blaue Monster
Apoll
Jenz Steiner
Dubatech
Roots Ista Posse
Rafiralfiro
Metastaz
Strad
Moogulator
Peak
Urbanoise 1 2
Dirk Markham 1 2 3 4
Zavoloka & Kotra (Kvitnu)

other

Berlin Wall of Sound
Visual Berlin / VJ Sniper
Andrew Dubber
Max Marlow pt. 1 2 3 4
Mark Donnarumma
Instant Delay
Metroccolis

well – posting these words on a rainy late morning, just a couple of hours ahead of the Netaudio Festival. Maybe some of you can imagine what a festival like this does to the people who are organizing it. Every kind of experience in life is pressed into one year of preparation, every mood, every feeling. It all started with the successful request to the Hauptstadtkulturfonds…

The experiences of 2007, when we did the first issue of Netaudio Berlin Festival, left no other option than do some serious fundraising in the forefield of a follow-up. Two years ago the festival worked out only because the artists abandoned the idea of any payment – often even paying for travel costs and organizing accommodation by themselves. We squatted a devastated building on a former railway construction site in order to have enough space for three different floors – but we did not pay enough attention on organising a diversified musical programme to justify these three floors. We simply wanted to include everyone who asked to participate. In 2007 we were deeply involved in the electronic music scene in Berlin – and also in the field of netaudio – as an outcome of the netlag party series at RAW.tempel. Therefore 90% of the music programme was techno, minimal and techhouse. And beside the fact, that we had to bring literally everything into the squatted premises – from electricity, toilets, bar, equipment – to all items related to light and sound (not to forget the audience…) we soon got in to trouble. One of our soundsystems collapsed just when we wanted to start the Saturday night. We had to organize a new PA, ringing our supplier in the middle of the night – without any idea where the extra-money would come from. Artists were disorientated about when or if they were playing and some VJs left the scene with the idea that there would be no more programme on that floor. In the end, all of us were paying more money than we could personally afford. But we also had so much excitement about all the other things which had worked: the highly recognized day programme with workshops, lectures and discussions, the internet stream with more than 1.300 request from 28 different countries, the stuffed-to-intimate Friday night with so many old and new friends, two floors full of excellent musicians on the Saturday, with invitations to radio shows and a wonderful atmosphere at the Sunday brunch – as well as a excessive after hour with horrible pictures and mistakes last committed at the age of 17… We simply had to do it again…

So – after we celebrated the positive answer from the Hauptstadtkulturfond we experienced the past beautiful months of dreams, ideas and enthusiastic planning. New faces were showing up with fresh input and diversity of styles, with manpower and creativity. A promising spirit knocked on the door from our partnership with netaudio London – who we are playing netaudio ping pong with (their excellent game also presented on the festival daytime programme on Saturday) and who we hand over the responsibility of organising the festival to on alternate years. We were invited to Bologna to join “nettare” – the first Italian Netaudio Festival – and even to Moscow who referred to the Netaudio Berlin Festival when announcing their activities of bringing some netaudio artists on stage.

After we closed the Call for Entries in June we faced the first serious challenges: How to say “no” to so many brilliant and beautiful projects? To netaudio enthusiasts and top-level musicians? Suddenly the clouds began to cover our sunny dreams while feeling all the disappointment, the sad and short replies or the cold silence of non-communication…

On the other side the first shapes of a programme appeared with an incredible follow-up of so many artists we have always wanted to invite. Amongst them some big names – and also some artists who had never before been given the chance to play at such an event – because their sound and music was not meant for the dancefloor – or they simply live somewhere in the wilderness where once a week a fourwheeler is delivering the post… So we packed as many artists in our schedule, extended the night programme of the festival to a third day and the day programme to a second. But with this load of artists – even more than most of the “big” commercial festivals – we imported a brutal task of dealing with all the needs of the artists – and all the different ideas of how communication should be done. We saw the need to set up a temporary office – but finding cheap office space in Berlin is like discovering Aladin’s magic lamp in your living room… When we finally got a suitable space there was the constant lottery of a stable internet connection and other difficult circumstances… Two members had to find a new flat during the summer, while one of us was delivered the joyous news of becoming a father – with all these personal circumstances in the forefield it seemed like such a major change in life. Three of us lost their regular jobs, while one of our members spent some nights in prison. We had excesses at friend’s festivals, tears of joy, sadness and confusion. Last but not least we’ve been facing unknown dimensions of challenges to deal with in the form of German embassies abroad, in order to solve the visa issues for our non-EU artists. In fact even hours before the festival start there are still some visas missing – and with the refusal of Dubosmium’s visa from German embassy in Morocco a sad shadow was already thrown over our effords…

Beside all this: Especially in the last weeks and days we really have had so much positive feedback and enthusiastic announcements from fans, artists and also the media. All of us are really trying to do everything necessary to prepare the festival as well as we can. So we hope you can enjoy these Netaudio days and nights, add some remarks to the discussions and take some new ideas back home. We hope you find new friends and get inspiration for whatever you are into. Within the idea of creative commons, creativity is something to share – but also common activities and common sense are the assumption for creativity. If you feel inspired by anything – just let the person(s) know! If you have suggestions for further development – just bring them into discussions! If you need hints or help or external advice on any aspect related to Netaudio – you should be aware of all the humans around you, open minded and free thinking – maybe just waiting for someone like you… With your help and interaction we can continue doing things like this–

Live and with love.

Netaudio Berlin Crew

Sad news for Dubosmium and Netaudio Berlin . Abdellah aka Dubosmium, invited to play in Berlin for the Netaudio Festival Berlin  (plus some appearances on an extended tour in France), has had his VISA refused by German Embassy in Rabat, Morocco -  and for this reason won’t be able to play. We’re all very sad about this news – for we really tried hard to convince the Embassy of the outstanding character of Dubosmiums role in in african/arabian netaudio movement. We also were pointing at the involvement of the Hauptstadtkulturfonds to make this festival happen – as well as the correlation between the Netaudio Festival 2009 and the 20th anniversary of the teardown of the Wall.

Disregarding all our arguments German Embassy was not even upright enough to tell a reason for their decision.  We think it’s a shame how poor those German representatives in Morocco behave. It clearly shows that there is no spirit of overcoming existing borders between cultures and nations guiding this institution. Besides this arrogant and ignorant behaviour it should also be mentioned, that all other German Embassies were co-operative and supporting Netaudio Berlin Festival with permitting all bands and musicians to play in Germany (although VJs were not regarded as artists in the German Embassy in the Ukraine). This might also demonstrate the lone and shameful politics of German Embassy in Morocco.

Here you can read the press release from our Frensh partners Fresh Poulp Records

Roots Ista Posse [Fresh Poulp Records / Jahtari] from Paris will replace Dubosmium on the Experimental Floor @ Club Maria Berlin on Thursday – though he would perfectly fit on the 8bit/Dub Floor on Saturday… Anyhow: a little dubby 8bit-tunes on the experimental floor can’t be wrong also…

Breitband selbst versteht sich als Navigator durch die Welt der digitalen Kultur. Jede Woche setzt sich die Sendung kritisch mit aktuellen Entwicklungen in neuen und alten Medien auseinander. Themen sind immer wieder Brennpunkte zwischen Internet, Politik, Journalismus und Musik. In der Rubrik “Netzmusik” berichtet Breitband wöchentlich über Netlabels und Netzmusiker.

Bereits bei dem von Netaudio Berlin leidenschaftlich unterstützen Branchenmeeting „Alltogethernow“ (a2n) besuchte uns die Journalistin und Moderatorin Christine Watty während unserer Diskussionsrunde zu „Netlabels als wesentlicher Baustein der Independent- Musikkultur“, führte Interviews mit dem cc-Experten und Netaudioaktivisten wie Volker Tripp (iD.EOLOGY) sowie dem Netaudio-Künstler und Blogger Ronny Kraak vom Kraftfuttermischwerk.

Christine Watty: “Breitband ist eine Sendung in Deutschlandradio Kultur. Genauer: Das Magazin für Medien und digitale Kultur und läuft jeden Samstag von 14:05 Uhr bis 15 Uhr. Darin gibt es unter anderem auch die Rubrik “Netzmusik’, in der wir Musik vorstellen, die zum freien Download im Internet zur Verfügung steht. Dazu schauen wir auf Portale wie myspace, c-tube und ähnliche, auf Musik-Blogs, die Releases von Netlabels präsentieren, surfen durch die ganze Musikwelt im Internet – und picken das heraus, was wir interessant und beachtenswert finden, ohne Genre-Begrenzung. Wir verlinken auf der Seite www.breitband-online.de die jeweiligen Homepages, so dass auch unsere Hörer nach der Sendung zur Musik finden. Jede Ausgabe von Breitband, inklusive der Musik-Besprechungen, steht auf unserer Seite zum Nachhören als Podcast bereit. Musik-Vorschläge für Breitband übrigens gerne jederzeit an mich!“

Für all jene, die beim Festival nicht dabei sein können, heißt es also einschalten – bundesweit!

Breitband – Magazin für Medien und digitale
Kultur, jeden Samstag ab 14.05 Uhr im
Deutschlandradio Kultur.
In dieser Woche präsentieren Christine Watty und Martin Risel die Sendung. Mehr dazu unter
www.breitband-online.de