Baltic Artists in development
A community of independent artists in the making
An innovation process in progress
We seek to research and define the music business interfaces between the Baltic sea countries. To create a community and a network that can create a natural flow of communication, innovation and knowledge sharing. Finding technology and governance systems 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 + 32 artists and independent managers in a community building process.
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.
Focus areas
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.
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.
Knowledge bank & toolboxes
We believe the creation of the toolbox is a tangible feature that the steady network can build itself around. 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 take the toolbox work to a new level, and include the work done by all partners. Define methods and processes that the partners can agree upon to share on the knowledge platform.”
