This months guest is Jan Lankisch. We discuss the challenges and the spirit with which he curates the Weekend Festival for the past 14 years. https://www.weekendfest.de/Parallel to curating a festival, he runs a record label and produces records. Jan provides insight into the communal nature of the festival and how actually booking artists you love created long lasting friendships and led to releasing and producing records.https://www.weekendrecords.de/You can read more about Jan Lankisch's work as an artistic director and designer on his website.https://idomanythings.com/about/The study about festivals made by initiative music, miz and livekomm mentioned can be found in german here:https://www.initiative-musik.de/studien/#FestivalstudieRecorded at River Studios Cologne by Nick BenoyFilmed and Directed by Jorgos Katsimitsoulias
In the second episode of the Enchoris Podcast we focus on the challenges of merging orchestral performances with handcrafted live electronic music.
We are discussing with Barbara Volkwein, the founder and artistic director of Groove Symphony how combining club culture and symphonic arrangements creates a unique inclusive experience in the concert hall.
We talk about her love of electronic and symphonic music and her quest to bring diverse audiences to the concerthall. She shares anecdotes from the past 20 years of the project and explains the complexity of staging a concert with live electronics.
What happens when you bring some of the world's best electronic musicians, arrangers and orchestras together?
Learn more about Groove Sympony at
https://groovesymphony.de
Recorded at River Studios Cologne by Nick Benoy
Filmed and Directed by Jorgos Katsimitsoulias
The focal point of the first episode of the Enchoris Podcast are the problems that Music Venues are facing in Europe. We are discussing the findings of a study that our first guest Christof Schreckenberg of Creative Tide conducted together with Enchoris in Munich that analyses the factors that contribute to the existential threat that clubs are experiencing post pandemic.
Inflation, rising prices, gentrification, regulations and bureaucracy and creating an environment in which it is very hard for music venues to survive. In this episode we discuss the key findings of the Munich study and anecdotes from the behind the scene interviews that were conducted during the research period.
A summary of the study in english can be found by clicking the following link on the creative tide website.
https://creativetide.de/essentials-of-the-munich-music-venue-study-2024.html
What became evident in this process is the social impact the music venues have, and the multiple ways in which they improve the quality of life in a city. More than a place for creativity and music to be performed and experienced Music Venues are hubs for creative communities, safe spaces for marginalised groups and a catalyst for the creative economy.
Christof Schreckenberg is the CEO of Feldstärken Gmbh https://feldstaerken.de/ and Creative Tide www.creativetide.de
Recorded at River Studios Cologne by Nick Benoy
Filmed and Directed by Jorgos Katsimitsoulias
