A musical project in another european country

Hey,

I'm gonna try to make it short but I'd also like to explain it clearly.

I'm studying sound engineering in France with some friends, and we want to leave the country for the next year and mount a musical project, renting a big house in which we'll live, and which will also be our place to work.

Basically, the idea is :

- To make music : forming one or two bands (or playing solo) and playing live. That would also allow us to meet people who are involved in the city musical activity.

- To host some bands / artists for their repetitions.

- To record and mix some music (we'll put all our personal equipment together, and that already makes a kind of nice set for starting). Of course we'll record our music, but we also want to record some local bands whose music will suit our tastes.

The aim is to eventually turn into a label, proposing for the bands or artists a full follow up for their projects, from the firsts repetitions to the release.

We know this is a big and adventurous project but we're talking about it since several months and we're now beginning to make some meetings to talk about it more seriously. We still have to find out the better way to handle the project legally, and actually we have to find out a lot of stuff, but the fact is we all have decided to do it (on January 2012 I think).

So, finally, here is my questions : do some of you have suggestions about the place we could go ? Right now we're thinking about Leipzig, Germany, because we heard some cool stuff about this city, but we're not actually set on that place and are looking for some other places to compare with.

The two main criteria, for the city / country are :

- The general cultural background of the place (the place has to be very active on that side, and the politic of the country has to be favourable and helpful towards culture in general)

- The price of life in general. The less it's expensive, the more we'll be able to initiate the project with the money we'll earn before to leave France.

We'd also like to consider some countries from the centre of Europe but we don't know much about them. Czech Republic for example but we lack of information.

Sooooo, if you have any suggestion, think a place would be good for our project, please tell me, I'd be glad to discuss it. The reason I post it here is that internet is international and I think it could be interesting to have some ideas from different countries.

Thank you if you read that post,

Antape / Lucas

Up !

Chances are that it'll eventually take place in Leipzig. If you think having some information that could help us, please just let me know.

The more we'll know about the place, the more we'll be able to prepare the project.

Thanks,

Lucas

What you call a "project" I call dicking around with some friends in another country. Why not just go interrailing and get it out of your system.

Maybe they're looking to get some cultural exchange funding from the EU?

  On 3/11/2011 at 2:20 PM, jim said:

What you call a "project" I call dicking around with some friends in another country. Why not just go interrailing and get it out of your system.

Put the words you want on it but the fact is that each of us is not just going to leave with a guitar and two pair of socks. That's a move in a place we don't know and in which we want to settle. And then to convert the place in a studio for repetitions, recordings and eventually open it to some concerts and exhibitions (anyway I already wrote that).

Also, we all are about to finish three years of studies in sound engineering and even if these studies were good both on the theoretical and the practical way, the fact is that none of us really wants to try to work in the way we are intended to, i.e making coffee and buying cigarettes for two years before having no money left and eventually giving it up (because at the moment that's what happens 99% of the time for the trainees who wants to work in sound engineering - in france anyway).

So this is an important investment. We precisely don't want to go there to dick around and that's why we begin to do some reunions regularly, and that's also why I post some questions here. We want this to be prepared.

  On 3/11/2011 at 2:43 PM, Gocab said:

Maybe they're looking to get some cultural exchange funding from the EU?

Indeed we're looking for some funding. I don't know if it could be a cultural exchange one because at the moment our project isn't really oriented that way (we've decided to leave france mainly because right now it would be too hard and too expensive to do it legally there ; also moving is definitively a plus). Anyway that funding point is still to figure out as we didn't really began the searches on that side.