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SPOT seminars and keynote speeches: the music industry at your fingertips.
Like every year SPOT Festival will again offer a variety of seminars and speeches dealing with the challenges the music industry is facing and the opportunities arising from them. Speakers this year include among others the world-renowned futurist Gerd Leonhard, former chairman of music studies at Salford University Sheila Whiteley and co-founder of The Orchard, one of the world’s largest digital distribution companies and manager of The Raveonettes Scott Cohen. Here’s a full list of the events offered in English: (free access...
read moreSeminars on Friday the 4th and Saturday the 5th of May
SPOT Festival offer a variety of seminars and speeches dealing with the challenges the music industry is facing and the opportunities arising from them. Here you find all the seminars and panel discussions offered in English. Access is free with SPOT-wristband/ticket. Presented by Promus: Music & Media Pitch Germany Friday the 4th of May at 10:00 – 13:00, Place Promus, Vester Allé 15, 8000 Aarhus Pitch your music or project to German music and media professionals. During the meeting you will have the opportunity to...
read moreA Charitable Opening Night
At this year’s SPOT opening the music will be provided by Danish/North-West African singer Nabiha and electronic wizzkid Mike Sheridan, the official opening speech will be held by the Minister for Culture Uffe Elbæk and the proceeds of the ticket sale will benefit Danish Red Cross. The opening night of SPOT Festival on May 3rd is arranged by The Concert Hall, Aarhus, Jyllands-Posten, Danish Red Cross and SPOT. The Danish Minster for Culture Uffe Elbæk will open the SPOT Festival 2012 officially with a speech and then Nabiha and Mike...
read moreAarhus Jazz Orchestra presents: Slayer Big Band Project
Usually you would not think that heavy metal music and a big band would have anything in common. But there are more similarities than you would think. The audience will witness a crazy combination of ripping metal guitars, a female vocal, jazz wind players and roaring drums, when Aarhus Jazz Orchestra presents their Slayer Big Band Project at this year’s SPOT Festival. At first it might not seem as if Slayers hardcore metal and jazzy big band music can be combined, but the two genres actually have more in common than you would think. Several...
read moreRock’n’roll Animation
Make an animated music video in two weeks. This was the challenge given to four talented directors by SPOT and the Animation Workshop last February, and the results can be seen on spotfestival.dk this month. Everyone knows animation takes time. 24 drawings per second equals 1440 a minute – that’s enough to make most of us break out in a sweat. So when SPOT and leading Nordic animation school The Animation Workshop asked four directors to do a 3-4 minute music video each in two weeks, the task must have seemed daunting. Enter Andrey...
read moreIn the SPOTlight: Lay Low
From Reykjavik to Aarhus via Sri Lanka… Lay Low is the stage moniker of the Icelandic singer/songwriter Lovísa Elísabet Sigrúnardóttir. Born in London to a Sri Lankan father and Icelandic mother, Lay Low’s musical abilities draw influences from her remarkably wide geographical heritage. We recently caught up with her and took the opportunity to ask her – among others – about her upcoming SPOT perfomance: When did you start playing music and why? - I started out playing music when I was young, piano lessons that my...
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