The team at New Music Strategies
For the past few years, New Music Strategies has been a blog about music on the internet. And the need for me to do that has changed as time has gone on.
As I’ve hinted over the past couple of months, it’s time for a transformation – and New Music Strategies is becoming something new.
Today in a city called Groningen in the north of the Netherlands, I brought together a small group of some of the finest minds in music and culture in Europe (who also happen to be some of my favourite people), and together we formed a new company under the New Music Strategies banner.
We are equal partners in the business, and we all have different skills and expertise. We’ll introduce the members of the team soon, but I thought this would be a good moment to explain who we are and what we do.
WHO WE ARE:
We are a pan-European strategy group for music culture, creativity and development. We are based in the UK, the Netherlands and Germany, and represent a wide range of expertise in the music and cultural industries.
WHAT WE DO:
Initiate ideas and projects, and work in partnership with organisations to make the most of music in response to transformative media technologies. We use our creativity, curiosity and expertise to make a difference and simplify the new music environment.
In other words, we work with people we like on cool projects about music and culture – and help bring more music to more people in more places.
FOR INSTANCE…
We help music businesses make strategic decisions about innovative projects.
We work with NGOs to use music to achieve their objectives.
We generate new ideas with music organisations.
We create information products and run workshops within existing industry events.
We combine our expertise to initiate innovative projects that enhance and celebrate music culture.
And a lot more.
WHAT’S IMPORTANT TO US
Music
Creativity
Culture
Sustainability
Shared knowledge
Simplicity
WHAT WE DON’T DO
Make you famous on the internet.
Manage bands.
Predict the future.
Of course, what we do will take place here at this website – and you can expect to see this site change quite radically over the next week or two.
If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch.
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Very exciting. Best of luck
The Sheffield cassette SAE will be in the post this week btw
Regards!
Very interested and excited to see what comes of of this. Huge luck (but i don’t think you’ll need it)
Olly
Best of luck with this! (When you really start thinking about the possibilities its pretty amazing.. everything is going to change and has already started changing whatever the music industry and general cynicism dictate.)
Hi guys. I look forward to hearing more about this initiative. Living in NZ, I think the online possibilities for musicians “down under” could be be even more significant for us. Kia kaha!
You’d need cooler Macs before I’d hire you
Sounds interesting. Consider this space watched.
Hi. We’re a heavy metal band called Spine Crusher. You should hear our guitarist shred! We require the help of New Music Strategies to turn us into stadium filling rock gods, and with the new drum kit our drummers just bought, we think this is possible. We will split all profits with you.
This sounds really interesting. Been following this blog for some time. and I encourage you to keep working on this project. Also, Groningen is probably a cool place. I’ve never been in the Netherlands myself, but I’ve known people there for 10 years over the internet. Hehe, Good luck!
Interesting, and all this happened in Groningen? :-)
Curious who exactly is in the team… some spine crushers probably
Good luck achieving sustainability!
I’ve already tweeted about this but just to reiterate, great news this I believe. Steve Lawson, Andrew Dubber and who else?? Looking forward to meeting the team.
All the best,
R
Good luck with the New New Strategies :-)
This sounds intruiguing, looking forward to what you come up with, consider yourselves watched and followed
Good luck with the new venture. I’ll be paying attention to whatever you guys do.
Sounds fantastic…am adding you to my RSS reader right now…
Hi,
this is a very interesting initiative. People out there need help to move from radicated ideas of the music business to innovative models.
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Your E-Book wrote the manifesto for smallfishrecordings.co.uk
I never said thanks – Thanks!
The expansion of your project can only be good news for us, so good luck.
I just read the e-book and feel a bit left behind, but that’ll pass. The future holds truly fascinating possibilities for this industry and I can hardly wait to see what will happen.
Thank you for your positive attitude and even more for passing this information on to the next generation of artists and businesses who have to find the way to success.
I’ll “check this out”.
All the best
Paul Pretorius
All the best in the new incarnation of your project!!!