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ECAS ///
European
Festivals
Network
Futuresonic is a part of ECAS, a new network of European non-profit independent
new music festivals.
Futuresonic 2007 will host the second meeting of the ECAS network, with new music
festival directors from across Europe converging on Manchester, and meeting with
local event organisers and artist groups.
This is an opportunity for events, artists, producers, music activists, independent
music labels and collectives from the UK and across Europe to meet their EU
counterparts and present their work, meet one another and start or intensify
artistic collaborations and business co-operation.
The ECAS network involves festivals ranging in scale from 30,000 to 300, and
from across Europe, from Sweden to Serbia. The inaugural meeting took place
on 28th January 2007 at Berlins Club Transmediale festival, the public meeting
and Q&A session formed part of CTM's talks program. This unique event brought
together 20 festival directors from 15 European countries to publicly debate
issues surrounding the nature and artistic merits of staging and promoting these
types of 'not for profit' events.
The second meeting will take place at Kro Bar during Futuresonic 2007. The
ECAS planning meeting will be followed by a public meeting at 4pm on Thursday
10th May, on the opening day of Futuresonic 2007. The aim is to introduce UK
and Manchester based artist groups, events and agencies to this international
network of new music festivals.
The Futuresonic meeting will be hosted by EVNTS, to enable the ECAS delegates
to gain first hand contact with Manchester's creativity practitioners, and to
expose the EVNTS community to key cultural producers from across Europe.
EVNTS is a community of new and emerging artist groups and event organisers.
Since 2005, the EVNTS community has grown from a strand of the Futuresonic
festival into an community of music and art groups, with meetings outside the
festival as well as a regular presence in the festival programme.
After the meeting the European festival directors and EVNTS community will
have the opportunity to visit a packed programme of events across Manchester,
and to initiate collaborations and exchange.
Confirmed Festival Directors
Visiting Futuresonic Meeting
(More To Be Added)
Numusic (Norway) : Martyn Reed/Stein Bjelland
Futuresonic (UK): Drew Hemment
TodaysArt (Netherlands): Olof van Winden
Les Siestes Electroniques (France) : Samuel Albert/Bertrand Causse
Ecelectica (Estonia) : Kaarel Isak
Dis-Patch (Serbia) : Relja Bobic
Ultrahang (Hungary): András Nun
Club Transmediale (Germany) : Oliver Baurhenn/Jan Rohlf
Sperm Festival : (Czech republic) : Michel Brenner
Rokolectiv : Cosmin Tapu / Michaela Vasile
Musikprotokoll (Austria) : Susanna Niedermayr (Curator)
Supersonic (UK) : Jenny Moore/Lisa Meyer
Venn (UK) : Mark Slater
Exchange and networking with likeminded initiatives and festivals from around the world has been a substantial element within the Futuresonic festival over past years. This professional meeting provides a platform for international festival organisers and music promoters to make first contacts and inform each other and the audience about their organisation, its projects and intentions. The meeting is open to the public. A number of festival organisers will present their work in short lectures.
ECAS
The intention is to create an opportunity for European events, artists, producers, music academics, music activists, independent music labels and collectives to meet their EU counterparts and present their work, meet one another and start or intensify artistic collaborations and business co-operation.
With the expansion of new technologies and media, music is more than ever before trespassing physical and mental borders, going beyond national identity, and making the geo-political provenance of music production less and less relevant. The ECAS association, is a Trans Europe wide project set up to promote and propagate new movements in all aspects of new and advanced music and explorations in related arts.
This non-profit project, organized on the basis of responsible, mutually supportive economic and artistic exchange, aims to encourage innovation and diversity in the electronic arts, the widest possible access to know-how, free choice for the public and the durability and transmission of works through new, fair and ethical broadcast and distribution channels.
ECAS would act as a invaluable on-line link between the partners and create a incubation area for new ideas and ways of distributing and presenting new movements and technologies in art and music. It will enable local independent festivals and organisations to develop regional/national and international partnerships and to share their different areas of expertise and networks in business, media, arts, sponsorship and production.
The first phase of the project consists of an informal 'intentions network' agreement between 15 European festivals of artistic and academic excellence.
Eventually ECAS partners will be invited to participate in each other's festivals by programming events, presenting their own projects, utilising their networks and promoting their regions contribution to the advancement of new music and arts.
The first European City of Advanced Sound is scheduled to take place in Stavanger Norway during European Capital of Culture 2008. This will take the form of a "Festival of Festivals" in Stavanger with programming selected from all participation countries. ECAS is also discussing the possibility of providing a platform for Liverpool 2008 projects.
The most recent ECAS festival to take place was Sperm.
