tools

On this page, you can find practical tools and methodologies that can be either applied right away or that can serve as inspiration to create your own tool or methodology.

The Music Cities Manual

Sep2

Sound Diplomacy are strategic consultants delivering economic growth in cities and places through music and the night time economy. They published a Music Cities Manual : a set of tools, case studies and lessons to increase the value of music in cities, towns and places. They developed the “Music...

Prevent conflicts between live music places and local authorities or neighbours : the Club Kataster Project

Sep2

Complaints about sound emission are an important factor of a venue closing. With urban densification and gentrification, more and more people move closer to live music places. Besides increasing rents, these phenomenons may also lead to conflicts between cultural live music places and their neighbours. These conflicts may lead...

Understand the relationship between gentrification and small music venues

Sep2

Are small music venues being gentrified? This question is central to Trine Heide’s essay, MA student at the University of Copenhagen. She tackles the subject of Urban Theory and examines the links between gentrification and small music venues in the UK and in Denmark. What is gentrification? Gentriﬁcation is...

Webinar Agent of Change

Feb14

On the 12th of February 2019, Live DMA hosted a webinar on the question of the Agent of Change principle with Mark Davyd, musical activist and CEO of Music Venue Trust who succeeded in implementing the Agent of Change principle in the UK law in August 2018. What is...

Online Course on International Cooperation & Networking

Dec11

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cooperation

The European Music Council (EMC) and Live DMA (European Network for Music Venues and Festivals), developed an Online Course to help young music professionals from Western and especially from Eastern Europe to develop their own cooperation project and network of music professionals.Go through the course by yourself and ask...

They talk about us

Institutions must recognize that we do important work for culture in general and for the development of young artists in particular. And yes, recognition needs also to come from the citizenship. Sometimes people pass by a club and think that strange or dangerous things happen there. And it is...

Miguel Tudanca - (Madrid (Spain) )

I would say that cooperation is a success story. The important question is, at which levels and with whom you cooperate. If you always do it all by yourself, it is unlikely that you will reach many people. Of course, there are people who realize that they are doing...

Gunnar Geßner - (Hannover (Germany) )

For me, Live DMA is a fantastic place to share and gain knowledge, exchange ideas and get inspiration from fellow European colleagues. We have common challenges that we together are in a better position so solve.

Anders Tangen - (Oslo )

I strongly believe that we must defend a European spirit, especially in these moments in which some evil forces are attacking a philosophy of life in which music, its enjoyment and its diffusion are a magnificent tool to defend cultural diversity and freedom of expression.

Armando Ruah - (Madrid )

It’s important that music can be recognized as a tool of “being together” at first. Live DMA has the duties not to forget social and cultural aspects of the music sector.

David Dehard - (Brussels )

Live DMA’s vision is that decision makers, the whole scene and the broad public see the role that clubs and festivals play in the whole ecosystem.

Isabelle Von Walterskirchen - (Zürich )

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