Baltic Artists
A transnational independent artist community, a co-creative platform and NGO network for sustainable change within the music industry. We bring “Music industry know how”, networking, innovation and learning to the independent music scene entrepreneurs since 2019. Try out our prototype B2B open workspace! An online open workspace for the independent music business.
In August 2024 five people from the Baltic artists in development network traveled to LVIV in Ukraine to meet with the Ukrainian team and local, regional and national independent music people. The day after we left bombs were falling down on Lviv and killed a handful of people. Would we go back again to visit this beautiful cultural city and lovely people? 100%!
Another wonderful set of days with networking, sharing and learning, experiencing the heavy beauty of Malmö dressed in her December outfit, concert at Medley, creating flutes, playing DJ sets at the Rundgång record store, crowned with a sauna session and a dip in the freezing Öresund.
All the BAIDIANS are coming to Malmö on the beginning of December! Full schedule will be up ASAP! But networking with our regional music people is at focus and we invite you to an open network meet with BAID participants and organisations.
Baltic Artists in Development is doing a guest performance with three DJs from Ukraine, Estonia and Poland at the Rundgång record store in Malmö on 5/12 at: 4.30 to 6.00 pm. Come and meet and listen to Britt Randma (Estonia), Anna Aloka (Ukraine) and Piotr Kalinski (Poland).
Fika is back with two sessions at the Swedish, Malmö located new showcase festival Scanian Sounds. On Thursday the 14/11 at 15.00 CET Anna Aloka from Ukraine and Chandrani from Bengal Folkfusion band Krozzwindz will be seated in front of their laptops ready to meet with Scania Sounds participants from southern Sweden! Take a chance to meet both persons and grow your network and perhaps tour or organize tours in Ukraine or Bengal (India)!
Scania Sounds and Baltic artists in development partners up with this online speed meeting platform. Sit anywhere in the world and meet with participants at the Scania Sounds showcase festival. Log in and grow your network!
Learn about the mobility of classical music and art music in the Öresund area. Art Music Denmark and Musikcentrum Syd arranged this B2B network meeting at Musikhuset in Copenhagen and invited professional musicians, ensembles, concert organizers, classical music venues residing in Scania and Denmark
Baltic Artists Online B2B Open Workspace is Musikcentrum Syd's new ONLINE OPEN WORKSPACE that we are testing for an extended period of time. The platform is open to Baltic Artists in development alumni/participants and others from our external networks in the independent music industry, and we at BAID will also invite our international networks.
On Thursday the 15/2 the BAID 3.0 network traveled to Krakow for a four day meet. There was lots of networking and building connections for the future. The Network Team put together an exciting programe with talks & workshops about… Networking, gender roles in the music industry, working with agile methods as a music business entrepreneur, network mapping, workshop with the Innovation team.
We are in New York with a digital concept where our community artists sit right at home while we bring in music business people to meet with them. Prepare to get new contacts and networks in the North Americas.
BAID is inviting all alumni to take part at the performing arts conference APAP in New York on the 11th and 13 of January via ZOOM! Yes, you read it right! We are going to New York with a digital concept where you sit right at home while we bring in music business people to meet with you. Prepare to get new contacts and networks in the North Americas. All you need is a steady internet, and a computer.
Participants from four countries, Sweden, Poland, Estonia and Ukraine, gathered in Malmö for 4 days of prototyping the future of the independent music business.
Do you want to expand your international network? Become a part of an innovative music community? Develop your career and travel to different countries in this way? Then we have a great opportunity for you! 🔥
☝️ Deadline: Nov 30th, so hurry up!
Participants from four countries, Sweden, Poland, Estonia and Ukraine, gathers in Malmö for 4 days of prototyping the future of the independent music business. You can join to!
ONLINE AT NIMBUS - 15.00-17.30 20th of September!
Do you want to expand your professional music network between Denmark and Scania? And are you curious to learn about the mobility of classical music and art music in the Öresund area? Art Music Denmark and Musikcentrum Syd invite you to a network meeting in Copenhagen!
TUESDAY THE 8/10 AT 12.00-14.00 CET
Meet Andreas wendén for a NIMBUS lunch! Andreas is a lawyer with a degree from Juridicum in Lund. He has a past as a concert and club organizer in the Öresund region and as a label manager at the record company La Vida Locash in Stockholm.
Postponed!
Meet our lunch time guest Ran Nir! Ran is a producer, singer-songwriter, Score composer and educator in the field of music business. For the past decade, he lived in Berlin and recently relocated to Sweden.
Ran holds several gold records and a platinum single for his work with "Asaf Avidan & the Mojos". come and meet the Nimbus lunch time guest!
Scania Sounds and Baltic artists in development partnered up with BAID online speed meeting platform. This enabled participants to sit anywhere in the world and meet with IRL participants at the Scania Sounds showcase festival, thus creating a HYBRID event! The speed meeting platform is actually OPEN 24/7!
Imagine a world where AI shapes everything around us: music, art, literature, videos—all crafted by algorithms and sold through AI-run platforms, streamed on playlists curated by bots for bot listeners. This vision isn’t far-fetched; it’s a plausible, even troubling, reality for us artists. The scenario holds a certain irony: creatives sidelined while machines dominate the creative space, producing content without the human soul at its core.
Baltic Artists Online Open Workkspace is an online network platform for the independent music business. Based around the northern European hemisphere but open to world wide membership.
An online open workspace - Co-working space - open 24 hrs a day
B2B meetings “Meet an artist” concept
Digital showcases
Resources like workshops, lectures and a music business knowledge bank
In an industry where traditional gatekeepers often control access to networks and opportunities, Musikcentrum Syd has pioneered a unique approach to support artists. Our "Fika with an Artist" concept has become a significant door opener for both our members and our organization. This initiative, developed in collaboration with our members and extensive network, aims to create a more sustainable and transparent music industry. By facilitating direct interactions between artists and the international music industry, we provide a platform that empowers artists to build their networks without the usual barriers.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of the music and performing arts industry, maintaining artistic independence and fostering community-driven initiatives are crucial. We propose the establishment of a chain of cooperative-owned venues, known as the Musikcentrum, which will serve as stages for musicians and other performing artists. These venues will be managed and operated by their members, ensuring that the interests of artists and local communities remain at the forefront.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of the music and performing arts industry, maintaining artistic independence and fostering community-driven initiatives are crucial. We propose the establishment of a chain of cooperative-owned venues, known as the Musikcentrum, which will serve as stages for musicians and other performing artists. These venues will be managed and operated by their members, ensuring that the interests of artists and local communities remain at the forefront.
“The Music Edu Hub - MUEDU platform empowers you to raise the funds you need to create the educational content and experiences that will help back your MUEDU project. Whether you're looking to create online courses, physical workshops, or anything in between, our platform and/or tools and knowledge, makes it easy for you to connect with a supportive community and extended network of music people who wants to learn from professionals like you.”
Under this logo - “Discussion basis” yuo can find various texts, videos, or images as a basis for discussion, workshops to iterate from, to reimagine from. Free to use.
What showcases are and why they matter.
How to effectively prepare for showcases and do your homework
Dos and don´ts for making an impression om showcases
Networking techniques at showcases
Associations and networks in the music industry
Storyteller, BAID participant 2024, and artist Anders Hellberg shares his way of integrating AI into his work process in PR for independent artists as him self. Anders shows how he uses AI to serve as a personal assistant.
Tanya Korenika gives this short introduction followed by a workshop exercise on how to support and uplift marginalized community and why it is essential for a diverse and thriving music industry to drive towards equality and diversity.
The THETA SPACE is an experimental space where Baltic Artists in Development and its stakeholders asks questions on how to shape the future of the music industry.
We do this through ongoing research and prototyping in a Co-design process with our members and stakeholders from all fields in the local and global music family. You are welcome to contact us if you have any ideas, thoughts or other inquiries about the future of the music landscape that you want to discuss and/or explore.
BAID consultants and partners:
A community and a network of independent music people looking for support and development through out their career.
Newbies who wants to broaden their network and deepen their knowledge in order to be self sustainable and create new opportunities for them selves and the wider community.
Experienced music entrepreneurs who are looking to reshape their career and find tools & new horizons. All together in a peer-to-peer sharing and learning experience with the aim of shaping the future of music business.
Organizations that wishes to find new perspectives, new business and work models.
Baltic Artists & People is a community of artists and Music organisation on the independent music scene.
”If you help to change the people in the industry then you change the system from within. That can ultimately lead to real change within the music business.”
Ideas for a better music industry!
Managers and organisations collaborative ideas on how to improve the music business to create more and better opportunities for independent music entrepreneurs. This “creative ideas mapping board” is transparent and open to the public to grab ideas and run with it.
Music Connector is a simple, yet effective AI powered app for using, managing, and growing your networks of contacts in the music business. At its heart, it's a simple catalog, but instead of browsing through the hundreds of contacts, it leverages the power of LLM (Large Language Models) to make perfect matches in seconds. You're looking for a manager working with dark-electro-alternative-metal in Riga? If there's anyone in your network who is even remotely related - you can be sure to find them, using a super-simple, natural language chat-like tool.