Soundlings will be hosting a special Think Tank-meetup at the Buma Music in Motion conference the 16th of May! Buma Music in Motion is an event solely dedicated to the innovative use of music in media, where you can get inspired, share knowledge, do business, and discuss the future as well as current developments. At…
The Soundlings Collective organizes regular meetings to informally discuss current topics of interest for the broader field of music, art, sound, culture & technology. Think Tank Meetup #15 will be the second of a series of meetups that take place at the Dutch Game Garden. Discussion will be lead by Martijn Zandvliet (Volo Airsport). With these Think Tank Meetups we are homing in…
It already time for the 14th session of the Think Tank Meetups! This time around, our topic “How festivals can provide a more valuable and supportive environment for artists” was provided by Jarl Schulp, member of the Fiber Festival crew. Festivals have always been an exciting and inspiring way for an audience to experience the…
The Soundlings Collective organizes regular meetings to informally discuss current topics of interest for the broader field of music, art, sound, culture & technology. Think Tank Meetup #13 will be the first of a specific series of meetups that will take place at the Dutch Game Garden. Attendance is limited and by reservation. You can…
This edition of Think Tank will revolve around questions of mapping in the digital arts (and beyond). Mapping is the process by which we translate one type of information to another; for example, the question of how to best translate a button press into a complex musical response is largely a question of mapping. Mapping…
The 10th session of the Think Tank MeetUps is ready! This time we’ll talk about our individual perspectives and experiences when one falls in between disciplines. We’ll question the notion of ‘generalization vs specialization’ and lay our interdisciplinary struggles on the table. We’ll tap into the inner workings of multi-disciplinary creative environments. How to work out differences in…
Think Tank Meetup #9 will focus on a very essential question in modern day art. Re-examining artistic quality in a culture of market hype and equal access. How do we define artistic quality? In what way is it affected by market thinking? The discussion will take place at De Groene Gemeenschap on the 17th of…
Think Tank #8 will take us back to the financial side of music and culture. Due to economic and political circumstances its getting hard to fund big cultural projects the way it has been done for years. Our discussion is aimed at finding new approaches to getting things on track! The discussion will take place…
Towards a Hierarchy of Electronic Arts? There are several questions that, as a creator of electronic art, I struggle with at the onset of every new composition. Some of them are directly related to the project I am about to begin, and these are usually answered in one way or another during the process…
Here we go again! This time we are asking: Is music a product? Is it a service? Is it both? Is it software? Is it hardware? Is it an experience? Is it neither, and is it something else entirely? And perhaps most importantly, what are the implications of these different ways of thinking about music?…