An innovation process in progress
We seek to research and define the music business interfaces between the Baltic sea countries. To create a network that can create a natural flow of communication, innovation and knowledge sharing. Finding technology to support a sustainable and long lasting collaboration between musicians, music business and music organisations on the independent music market.
4 Baltic sea area music organisations + 16 artists and independent managers in a community building process.
Head over to the Baltic Artists in Development website (Up and running prototype).
The latest event was held in Tallinn in December at the Music Estonia office in the creative district of Telliskivi. Days filled with workshops, showcase, exploring the local music scene and meeting with Estonian music business people.
THE EVENT DATES FOR 2022
UKRAINE 18-19 FEBRUARY - ONLINE ONLY!
KRAKOW 25-28 AUGUST
TALLIN 7-9 DECEMBER
FOCUS AREAS
Innovation COMMUNITY
Baltic artists and its sister organisations mentors participants to develop their entrepreneurship, especially in the fields of innovation within the music industry and also relating to the artistic discourse. This not only to educate but to give participants and the participating organisations tools to create innovations that leads to change. In the end creating change agents that paves the way for a sustainable music business.
Digital knowledge bank & Toolboxes
The knowledge bank content is fitted into both a digital knowledge bank as well as toolboxes for how to produce and communicate this knowledge. These qualities are then implemented in the development process and workshop facilitation. This digital bank can be used in an “Open Value Network” where a multidisciplinary creative process can create shared economic values, both for the individual in the expanded network and as well for the growing community.
INCUBATOR
The Baltic artists development focuses on creating a community with peer to peer practice based knowledge sharing, where alumni experts, organisations and external experts together creates a shared understanding in a speculative, experimental, exploratory process. This will hopefully lead to the development of change agents that creates sustainable innovation and a bit of disruption in a system that rests upon traditional structures and top down management.
Networks & Intramaterial flow
We seek to research and define the interfaces between the music markets with the aim to look ahead to an expansion of the network. A network that can achieve a natural flow of communication, knowledge sharing. Finding a way to use each other’s knowledge expertise when coaching our musicians and managers.
Collaborating together, three organisations with both similar and different conditions, has opened our eyes for new paths to take. Our main learnings that we would like to address in a second term is. Working more closely with the structure of the network. Networks are always relationships between persons, and people on a regular basis need to get to interact and renew discussions, actions and thoughts. That means that if a person leaves the network or a new comes in it might weaken the network. We need to set the foundation in the organisations, which are the stable pillars, while musicians and managers will come and go.
Workshop and process and key findings from Baltic 1.0 session 2020.
Process interface between east and west
The different cultures and languages meet new challenges and new possibilities arises. We aim to research these common challenges and create a structure for a process interface between the involved countries. New, work descriptions, new policy’s, new ways that can be integrated in our common structure. We discover, we learn and we map out a blueprint for the whole of the Baltic Artists organisation. A common understanding is built over time and it is a process that creates a common mindset built on human and cultural diversity.
Community & Artistry
"We seek to build from the strong foundation of these organisations and their solid community of artists, music business network and knowledge. And also to:
“Come closer to an established and accessible development platform for professional independent musicians and managers, that can follow musicians throughout their work life.”
The artist participants have a wide range of formal education and informal education and the knowledge they carry changes as times go by. We would like to build a formal network of participants that can learn, but also come back as consultants, seminar leaders, organizors, mentors and in other roles relevant for the music business. In order to do that we need to create visualize a template structure for this community together with all of the stakeholders involved. It is their SHARED VISION that builds the future of our joint organisations and its members.
Creative workshops exploring and developing ideas for the future music business with a focus on artists sustainable work/life balance.
On a lovely winters day in the Telliskivi area in Tallin, the Baltic artists participants joined a workshop exploring the driving forces of a community. The day started with warm up sessions to break the ice. The workshop findings are under scrutiny and will be shared later this spring.
OPEN IDEA BANK
The co-created ideas and concepts will be displayed in an OPEN IDEA BANK. This is a bank where ideas can be developed into new services, new products etc. We also invite members to collaborate and build upon these ideas and scale them into perhaps start-ups in the tech business.
organisational resources
The scenario below describes how the participants can draw support from their local organisations and that we as a collaborating facilitators can share a common understanding of the music business in the Baltic sea area. This builds a close companionship between organisations that is benificial for our community in a way that we speak the same language and can guide our community to our local networks and recources but also on a national basis as well as an inter regional basis.
In Tallin you have acces to all the expertise of MUSIC ESTONIA.
The Malmö crew can help you with coaching, webb, video and photopgraphy, initiate and/or co-own projects.
In Poland the Tak Brzmi Miasto can give you a acces to their incubator, academy and conferences.
Music export Ukraine is an NGO that know alot about artist support, cross-sector collaborations, international exchange programs, educational events, along with the only one export oriented music conference and showcase MCU in Kyiv.
Knowledge bank & toolboxes
We believe the creation of the toolbox is a tangible feature that the steady network can build itself around. We have a mockup that is not defined yet, but need to create more knowledge to fill it with. The knowledge in a trend sensitive business as music is seldom constant, but needs to be gathered, mediated, evaluated and changed over time and in learning collaborative processes
This could be implemented in a digital online resources library containing lectures and learning material in a wide range of formats, that a wide range of people in the music business could contribute to but also educate them selves.
“In the next step we aim to ake the toolbox work to a new level, and include the work done by our new partners. Define methods and processes that the partners can agree upon to share on the knowledge platform.”
KNOWLEDGE BANK USE CASE
This is how expert alumni in the network can share their knowledge to other members in the community. Our participants have a wide knowledge of many disciplines in the music business. A network can identify these expertise’s and transfer it to the community. This expertise is a value for both the individual and the community and can be seen as part of an income, both for the individual but also for the community at large.
A screen dump from a knowledbank website created from the learnings from the BAID process.
To see how such a bank could be built and used, please visit Musikcentrum Kunskapsbanken. A platform that could be integrated into the BAID platform.
digital online resources library
During the first stage of the Baltic artists in develoment we produced a wide range of learning material trelating to the music industry. This content have to be managed and distributed . One way of doing this is depicted in the mockup scenario below:
Video library
A video collection of all the lecttures, seminars and indepth interviews with teachers.
PODcAST library & Radio, text
An audio collection of all the seminars .
Contacts
This is a list of all the people that have been involved in the BAID process. People from all disciplines.
Guides
Templates, checklists and guides. Succesfully manage your album release etc
Video from the Tallinn session in december 2022 hosted by Music Estonia.
The incubator PROCESS
This scenario below was created in a workshop with the organisation and participants that defined the overarching structure of the experimental innovation process. Theory and speculative processes first then practice based, peer to peer multi disciplined projects based on the first sessions “Vision statements”.
“Knowledge transferring, participatory processes, empathy building and autonomous networks is nowadays hard value, both for artists and for organisations.”
Scenario: 1st INCUBATOR SESSIONS “The experimental speculative vision process” Rookie meet alumni experts and foresight experts”
This first sessions is peer to peer process with hands on practical lectures, creative, speculative workshops and seminars with working professionals in the music business in Poland, , Estonia, Sweden, and Ukraine. Rookies meet alumni and foresight experts.
Scenario: 2nd INCUBATOR SESSIONS “ Collaboration projects”
This second sessions is all about together with peers and your mentor. This is a project based implementning of what you have the vision you created in the first sessions. Peer review and peer support in an international project aiming for self sustained artists and managers (music business people) and music business innovation.
KEYWORDS:
WEB3 infrastructure, NFTs, multidisciplined collaboration, Open value network communities, Co-design, System thinking, empathy building, diversity, business disruption, Speculative future vision statements, foresight collaboration, embodied knowledge through practice.
