Center for Music Ecosystems

🥁 🔈 💫 We are delighted to present our inaugural Impact Report summarizing our activity and impact over the two years of January 1 2023, to December 31, 2024. We hope our impact report will demonstrate CME’s commitment to music policy and allow for a detailed, transparent examination of our output. We would like to thank our many partners, our team of consultants and board of directors for their support in 2024 and beyond. We’re just getting started. #musicpolicymatters https://lnkd.in/ehwUnftT

🎷 👯 💫 Time for something a little different, as we extend an invite to all our friends, network and beyond to join us at the CME 'Music Policy Christmas Party' on Thursday 19th December: 12pm London / 1pm Paris / 2pm Cape Town / 7am New York / 5.30pm Delhi / 9pm Tokyo / 11pm Sydney. As the holiday spirit sets in, we cordially invite you to join us to 'festively reflect' on a year of music policy. Grab a drink and a mince pie and come and join us online for a 1.5 hour get together where we’ll discuss music policy wins and losses over the last year on a global level, with whoever is in the room at the time. Come and make new music policy friends, have a rum and eggnog in front of the warming glow of your laptop screen and, bonus: don’t worry about beating the masses to get an overpriced cab home at the end. Please complete the below RSVP form, and we'll send a calendar invite with Zoom link. https://lnkd.in/gKhz42wa #musicpolicymatters

🔈 Read on, as we unveil our 10 selected cities for the third iteration of the #MusicPolicyResilienceNetwork, a landmark transnational collaboration that implements pro-music and culture policies that foster resilience in remote, rural, and isolated communities. A warm welcome to Dera Ismail Khan, #Pakistan... 🥁 🌟 with whom we will work to create a more structured music ecosystem, where artists are better supported throughout the creative process, leading to greater sustainability of individuals and the cultural sector. Presently, this is not a reality, despite the quality and richness of the city's art and music itself. The research will focus on education and skills development. See the below video from Maqsood Ur Rehman, Founder and Director of Sandaara School of Music and the Arts. Maqsood adds: 'Finally! Our city got some attention, Thank you MPRN for giving us this opportunity to be on a big stage with other cities around the world. Dera Ismail Khan is one of most diverse cities in the subcontinent, with a rich musical culture. MPRN has provided us with the opportunity; now it's over to us. Dera Ismail Khan will show its unique colors to new and greater audiences worldwide.' #musicpolicymatters

We’d like to add our voice to support our colleagues in France: considered by many as the world leader in cultural policy, where #Nantes – a city widely admired as a dynamic cultural hub – and the Pays de la Loire, proposes budget cuts of up to 100% to many esteemed cultural organisations. France has always led the way in cultural policy - being the first country to establish a collection society (SACEM), a Ministry of Culture (1961), and a network of provincial music offices (Le Pôle) to invest in talent. They have a cultural development bank. They created and put €80m into CNM - Centre national de la musique - essentially the first Ministry of Music in the world. Their research output is enormous, and they progressively tax more prominent players in the music ecosystem and direct that investment into the grassroots. That cuts of this scale can happen in France sets a worrying precedent. One of those organisations affected is Trempolino, one of Europe’s leading music hubs, as well as Le Nouveau Pavillon / Eurofonik which exists to promote often-sidelined contemporary traditional musics, as well as countless other organisations, artists and cultural professionals, not to mention the longterm implications for the public and cultural life at large in this entire region of France. Sign the petition and stay informed here: https://lnkd.in/euXFNYdb #musicpolicymatters Photo: Le Nouveau Pavillon

We're looking forward to sharing our two year impact report in the coming weeks – a first for us as an organisation – as well as couple of festive announcements and networking invitations, that we hope will be of interest to our music policy friends and peers 👯 🎷 🥁 If you'd like to stay in the loop, please do subscribe to receive our email newsletter, via the link at the foot of the homepage. Newsletters are quarterly - we promise not to flood your inbox 🌊 🚫 💌 https://lnkd.in/e7FNtB4z

🔈 Starting today, we are excited to unveil our 10 selected cities for the third iteration of the Music Policy Resilience Network, a landmark transnational collaboration that aims to implement pro-music and culture policies that foster resilience in remote, rural, and isolated communities. A very warm welcome to #Darwin, Australia... 🥁 🌟 where together we will work to harness momentum around an increased awareness in the region of the opportunities music policy can create, aligning the work with like minded geographically and demographically similar regions to provide case study examples and practical steps for action. In the words of Mark Smith, Executive Director at MusicNT, the lead organisation for music in the Northern Territory: 'The opportunity to include Darwin as part of this Music Policy Resilience Lab Program has the potential to redefine how Darwin and the broader Northern Territory uses music and the creative sector to spearhead its economic and cultural future. With a recent change of government now is the ideal time to open up partnerships with global experts and create and foster connections to similar towns and regions across the globe. We are excited to commence this program and look forward to the benefits it can bring for the region.' #musicpolicymatters

Welcome to the fifth and final post in our series on ORCA (The Organization for Recorded Culture and Arts). Appendix - The Music Industry: Mapping the Complex Ecosystem What would the music industry be without all the people that make it go? While ORCA is an organization of independent record label members, the indies are only one piece in an interdependent puzzle of infrastructure, expertise, and support that brings music to your stereo, and benefits to your community. The final Appendix section of ORCA’s ‘Setting the Stage’ report—titled ‘The Music Industry - Mapping the Complex Ecosystem’—zooms out to provide a survey of the full ecosystem of stakeholders contributing to the music industry’s $41.5 billion of economic value. This section demonstrates the diversity of contributors to the industry—from artists to labels, publishers, media, the live industry, managers, and more—and the ways that their work intersects to support artists and drive the music industry forward. It describes, for example, the ways that distributors and streaming platforms (DSPs) intake and connect music with global audiences; how music publishers nurture songwriting talent, and catalyze collaborations and opportunities for songwriters; the important role of rights collection organizations in tracking the usage of music and ensuring artists and songwriters get paid; the contributions of key stakeholders who make live music go, like booking agents and promoters; and more. Taking the artist as its starting point—because nothing happens without the artist—this fnal section of ‘Setting the Stage’ is a guide to the diversity of expertise and hard work that is required to help artists bring their work to audiences. Explore the ecosystem now, over at: https://lnkd.in/gfb2sxwY #musicpolicymatters

It was an honour for us to be welcomed to Pristina, the young heart of Kosovo, earlier this month at the invitation of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), where, alongside our partners Robbert Baruch ★ of Universal Music Group, Vikram Gudi of ELEPHANT and Jordi Puy at UNISON RIGHTS SL, Angharad Cooper and Ieva Oxenbury represented CME during two panels at Pristina Music Conference, alongside visits to Defy Them studios and the Kosovo Ministry of Culture, evoking the transformative power of music as a catalyst for sustainable development, establishing a case for recognising music as a tool in advancing the development agenda, and focusing on the music industry’s potential to drive job creation and GDP growth, enhance cultural tourism and promote social inclusion. A warm thank you to all our partners and hosts - we can't wait to continue the conversation. #musicpolicymatters

💫 👏 🏙️ We are delighted to announce the new, 2024 city cohort of the #MusicPolicyResilienceNetwork. Over the next 18 months, we will be working with the following cities to lift the lid on their music ecosystems and identify how music can effect positive change across multiple policy areas in their municipalities – producing in-depth, actionable research for each location – as well as peer reviews, international best practice case studies, masterclasses and networking. A very warm welcome to... Cuenca (Ecuador) Juan Pablo Viteri Morejón Cumberland (Maryland, USA) Julie B. Westendorff Darwin (NT, Australia) Mark Smith MusicNT Dera Ismail Khan (Pakistan) Ede (Nigeria) Mogbolahan Ajala, Prince Adewale Laoye Folkestone (UK) Adam Jeanes Sophia Stutchbury Galva (Illinois, USA) Homer (Alaska, USA) Yngvil Vatn Guttu South Tarawa (Republic of Kiribati) Tooma Tewenibeia And a thank you to our generous funders Nordisk Kulturfond and the Mortimer & Mimi Levitt Foundation. Stay tuned for more information. https://lnkd.in/eEu_pCrm

💫 💬 New article by Shain Shapiro PhD, Center for Music Ecosystems founder and Executive Director, in Forbes today. 'Despite its ubiquity and low barrier to access it - either as a creator or a consumer - music has rarely been invested in as a development finance asset. This is because, in many countries where music is part of daily life, it is regarded more as a utility than an economic good. Music - whether one performs it, unwinds to it, or uses it to bring their community together - happens after a place is developed and has infrastructure rather than a core tenet of the infrastructure itself. While music is all around us, the systems and infrastructural requirements for it to provide paths to jobs, skills, and development are not.' Dive in here. #musicpolicymatters https://lnkd.in/emYxf6ZJ