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ShareSlovenian Music week was held between 5th and 8th of February in Ljubljana. On four venues, organizers created more than 45 hours of programme. Most of the festival partners had already chosen Slovenian acts to perform on their festival.
Music production with Gregor Zemljič
Producer and creator of electronic music Gregor Zemljič showed us a few of his main discoveries during his many years of work in music production.
Today’s guests were discussing about how much support the Slovenian market gives to young talents on the electronic music scene, led by the writer and owner of PR agency TrickyDisco! PiArt, Gregor Zalokar.
Big labels and a field of music clones
Luka Zagoričnik, music editor of an online music magazine Odzven, explained some differences between publishing music at home and abroad, its distribution and the impact of digital technologies.
Internet station: In 10 years we may not be at the top, but we will be on the way
Guests from Zagreb, Belgrade and Trieste were talking about the future of the internet radio stations. The conversation was led by Radio Terminal (Žiga Klančar, Tomaž Pezdirc), they talked about copyrights, differences between commercial and alternative stations and financing.
AIPA: Creative copyrights in music videos?
Borut Bernik Bogataj lectured about copyrights in the field of audiovisual contents. He outlined the key issues in the implementation of these rights, wishes of artists and their labels and the co-authors lack of knowledge of the rights that actually belong to them.
Igor Bašin, a journalist and music critic, gave some great advice on how to write a quality music review of a record, concert or festival and how to publish it on different mediums. He also explained the meaning of music criticism as a relationship builder between an artist and his audience.
Finland promotes metal creativity
The founder of agency Metalheim, Teemu Souminen revealed in today's lecture the international metal music industry from a small market’s point of view.
Matjaž Manček: Why is it so hard to book great musicians?
Matjaž Manček, former radio editor, music journalist and currently head of music programming at CUK Kino Šiška, presented main problems with booking big names in Slovenia and many possible situations, which can occur when dealing with music managers.
Slovenian Music Week’s second edition will take place this week. STG Jam session will be the symbolic opening and the first of many events within the festival. Join us for the opening tomorrow, 5th February at 8 pm.
IPF and SAZAS advisory - point
The advisory point will be available for any questions or to gather information regarding royalties, copyright and other related topics.
A heads-up for metal fans and artists: Teemu Suominen will be joining us at the SMW
Teemu Suominen is the head of Metalheim. His lecture entitled “The International Metal Music Industry from a Small Market's Point of View” will be held on Wednesday, 6 February at 15:00.
Slovenian Music Week will provide five STG listening rooms on February 6, 7 and 8, in which a song of every selected performer will be played, and a committee consisting of six members will state its opinion. At least four members of the committee will be from abroad and consequently not acquainted with performers, thus ensuring an unbiased viewpoint.
REVEALING THE FESTIVAL PROGRAM FOR STG 2013
This year's Slovenian Music week, taking place between February 5-8th, will host no less than 18 local and foreign music performers. They will perform in three locations; at Komuna hall in Kino Šiška, at Orto bar and at Menza pri Koritu, and their performances will not overlap.
Bring your item and trade it! This year at STG there is an opportunity for you to trade your music items, such as an old record for another, a fanzine for a wooden flute, a posters collection for an old learning book on music, etc.
Additional SMW program - guitar workshop
Join us on Mitja Žibert's guitar workshop Thursday, 6th Feb. and Friday, 7th Feb. at 1 pm at location M Hall. Bring your guitar and lots of good energy – prepare yourself for two hours of learning and playing.
Producer Greg Haver has selected Furry Walls
After listening to all 12 STG performers, he was enchanted by the energy and creativity of Furry Walls. During STG he will record a song with the band in the RSL recording studio in Novo Mesto, and you will be able to follow their progress via live stream at MMC Multimedia Center (www.rtvslo.si).
Workshops led by the online music magazine Odzven
As part of the Slovenian Music Week, the online music magazine Odzven is organizing a workshop on writing music criticism and reviews.
Send your mp3 and you might be one of 25 performers, listened and analyzed in public at STG 2013.
Slovenian performers at STG 2013
111 musical performers applied for tender, among which an international committee selected 12, who are going to perform live at the event. No less than six international festival partners will be joining the second edition of the Slovenian Music Week from February 5-8.
Slovenski teden glasbe se je predstavil na Waves Vienna. Poleg sodelovanja na konferenci, smo bili tam prisotni tudi z glasbo. Slovenske barve so zastopali Zebra Dots.
It’s a sultry March evening and Clash are about to achieve one of the ambitions all right-minded folks should definitely add to their to-do list if time-travel is ever invented: attending the premiere of ‘This is Spinal Tap’.
The first Slovenian Music Week is behind us
The first Slovenian Music Week took place between March 21-25 at various venues in Ljubljana. Six countries joined the event which was characterised by 20 different events, and over 40 guests from home and abroad participated in workshops, lectures and open panel discussions.
A new epicenter of musical energy is emerging in the heart of Europe. We named it Slovenian Music Week, and it will take place between March 21-25 in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia.
How to make a good video on a low budget?
Workshop is hosted by Matic Majcen, editor of web magazine Podoba-Glasba
Workshop is hosted by doc. dr. Marko Milosavljević.
Who are the festival guest on Slovenian Music Week?
András BERTA,
Who are the international guests of Slovenian Music Week?
Daniel Miller, Si Hawkins and Tim Cooper.
Slovenian music week will take place between March 21-25 on various locations around Ljubljana. Programme by days:
Over 75 musicians already registered
Accepting applications on our website www.stg.si only until February 15.
Invitation to apply as volunteers at STG 2012
Slovenian music week is inviting volunteers to help with the festival organization
Slovenian music week is expanding Slovenian music into the European market. We will try to help musicians achieve a breakthrough into foreign music markets, guide them and offer them support in their development.
The project will debut at the end of March, from March 21-25, on four different locations in Ljubljana during which full-day workshops, press conferences and in the evening time concerts will take place.
During the festival we will require creative, energetic and apt individuals, capable of leading a smaller group of people, who are fluent in English, active on social networks and resourceful when dealing with crisis situations.
We want coworkers who like dinamic and exciting work. They already have some experience dealing with musicians from abroad, are themselves musicians or artists of some kind, can easily communicate with foreigners and are above all extremely sociable. They follow music and trends, and music is of key interest to them.
In case you recognize yourself in the description above, you might be the right person for the job!
The work itself will take place in the morning, afternoon and evening and it will also involve loads of fun with like-minded individuals.
Send your cv with personal and contact info no later than 26.02.2012 to the following email address: info@stg.si. After the entry forms are received, suitable candidates will be called for a personal interview.
You are invited to become one of festival’s first benefactors, as well as help shape and co-create all the subsequent ones as a volunteer. Application is only valid for slovene residents and foreigners who will be living in Ljubljana in the period from 20.3. till 26.3.2012
Become a part of it!
STG Team
SLOVENIAN MUSIC WEEK 2012
21 – 25.3. 2012
Slovenia is going to organize its first Slovenian music week. It is an important musical and cultural event which will include interactions at a local and international level. Its goal is to encourage international presentation and development of music artists and performers.
STG will crosscut everything that Slovenia has in store; it will gather local and foreign experts for selected music genres, enable exchange of opinions, and a selected »know-how«, as well as provide for casual socializing of musicians and everyone else with a will to create in the field of music. The basic goal is above all to initiate and speed up the process of making music for Slovenian artists, encourage them to be more active in order to appear on home and foreign markets and to help open up doors of foreign institutions for the productive ones.
What will STG programme offer?
With its lectures and workshops the festival will open and process important subjects such as copyright for musicians, functioning of music associations (such as SIGIC, SAZAS, IPF), publishing trends, music journalism… Visitors will be able to listen and participate in discussions about »music breakthroughs«, about music’s contemporary visual image, at the PR workshop they will find out how to prepare an efficient »band-kit« etc. Guests in lectures and workshops will be home and foreign connoisseurs alike. Visitors of the festival will get an opportunity to obtain information and guidelines directly from experts and key participants on the music scene.
Purpose of the event:
The purpose of STG is to further develop Slovenian music scene and its participants. Promote new and fresh music energy. Introduce significant potentials of Slovenian music and promote the current music scene.
We are positive that STG can help Slovenian musicians achieve recognition home and abroad. The purpose of the event is to support musicians and everybody else active in the music industry. We would like to raise awareness and open doors for Slovenian musicians across Slovenian borders and highlight quality local music. Slovenian music week will unite all aspects and genres of music into one package, which will then be presented to a wider audience and foreign experts, build a bridge between culture and economy and support mutual understanding. We would like to draw as many experts and institutions as possible to this project, especially the ones that have helped with the development of the Slovenian music scene in the past. This integration is to take place on a local, national and international level.
Opportunity:
STG is an opportunity for all music experts, aficionados and musicians; to get to know one another, connect, communicate, share experience and knowledge, to contemplate about their favourite subjects, socialize, casually share experience and skills. It is an excellent opportunity to bring out the best this region has to offer and promote contemporary bands, artists and genres. Let’s enable potential Slovenian music gems to introduce their work in an international environment, help them establish key contacts and important relations with key figures of the world music scene.
Slovenian music week is thus becoming a new tourist product, bringing out not just rich cultural artistry of a country, but also opening it to the outside, presenting it to the world and establishing long-term contacts for further cooperation.
Who is it intended for?
Performers (musicians, DJ-s), music managers, booking agents, music events organizers, club owners, music distributors, festival producers, film directors, internet companies, radio and TV stations ...
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