The Ear Up Music Global program continues onward to Guangzhou and San Francisco

Six Hong Kong bands will perform at leading music festivals

20/12/2017 – The Renaissance Foundation (RF) launched the Ear Up Music Global program, a music scheme sponsored by Create Hong Kong (CreateHK) of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, in 2017 to provide young music talent in Hong Kong with the opportunity to perform on the global music stage, and increase their international exposure to more established music acts.

The “Ear Up Music Global” supports 4 mentors who are music veterans and 6 mentees who are up-and-coming singer-songwriters or bands to perform at music festivals outside Hong Kong.

From September to November 2017, the “Ear Up Music Global” selected Wong Jing, the mentor who is paired up with Linda Chow, the mentee, and tfvsjs, the mentor who is paired up with Adrian Lo, the mentee to perform at the music festivals of Zandari Festa in Seoul and Sound of Munich Now in Munich respectively. To enrich the trip, RF further organized networking opportunities and visits for the two pairs while they were in Seoul and Munich.

In Seoul, the pair visited a government funded independent music hub called Platform 61 Chang Dong (http://www.platform61.kr), which incubates new independent youth talent. In Munich, the pair visited the headquarter of legendary German jazz label ACT Music (www.actmusic.com) and German performing rights organization GEMA (https://www.gema.de), among others.

Continued in 2018, the “Ear Up Music Global” arranged the third and fourth mentorship groups to visit Guangzhou and San Francisco for performances and exploration of the latter’s local music industry.

The last two groups selected under the program are the mentor Supper Moment and their mentees, namely Empty, Siu Yuen and The Sulis Club, and the mentor GDJYB and their mentee SoundTube. Supper Moment, Empty, Siu Yuen and The Sulis Club will be heading to Guangzhou of the Mainland to perform at the Live Wild Non Stop Gigs on 27 – 28/1/2018 while GDJYB and SoundTube will play at The Noise Pop Festival in San Francisco, USA on 19 – 25/2/2018.

All the mentees in the third and fourth mentorship groups are some of the alumni of the 2016 edition of the Ear Up Record Label Creation and Incubation Program, another program organized by RF and sponsored by CreateHK that helped empower 12 young Hong Kong music talent through education and mentorship.

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文藝復興基金會發佈Ear Up Music Global計劃第二階段

6組香港原創音樂單位赴廣州及三藩市音樂節演出及交流

2017年，文藝復興基金會啟動了「Ear Up Music Global」計劃，旨在為香港年輕音樂人才提供赴海外表演及交流之機會，亦讓多元豐富的香港原創音樂在國際視野中得到更多關注。該計劃由香港特別行政區政府「創意香港」(「創意香港」)資助。

「Ear Up Music Global」計劃安排由4組資深音樂人擔任的導師及6組新晉音樂單位組成的學員，分別參與4場香港以外的音樂節。2017年9月及11月，「Ear Up Music Global」計劃選出的導師黃靖與學員周華欣，以及導師tfvsjs與學員Adrian Lo，分別前往韓國首爾的Zandari Festa及德國慕尼黑的Sound of Munich Now演出。為使旅程更為豐富，文藝復興基金會於當地為導師及學員建構了交流與訪問的平台。

首爾之行中，我們參觀了由當地政府資助、旨在培育青年創作人才的獨立音樂中心——Platform 61 Chang Dong (http://www.platform61.kr)。慕尼黑之行中，我們參訪了德國傳奇爵士廠牌ACT Music （www.actmusic.com）以及德國表演權利組織（PRO）GEMA （https://www.gema.de）等機構。

「Ear Up Music Global」計劃踏入2018年，將繼續安排第3、4組師生嚮導，分別前往三藩市及廣州演出，並探索當地音樂產業。

經遴選的2組師生嚮導包括導師Supper Moment及學員Empty、楊智遠及The Sulis Club，以及導師雞蛋蒸肉餅（GDJYB）與學員SoundTube。導師Supper Moment與學員Empty、楊智遠及The Sulis Club，將於2018年1月27至28日前往廣州參與在野音樂周演出；導師雞蛋蒸肉餅及學員SoundTube，將於2月19至25日一同前往美國三藩市參與Noise Pop音樂節 （The Noise Pop Festival）。2組師生嚮導均會在演出之餘，於當地進行音樂參訪與交流。

Empty、楊智遠、The Sulis Club及SoundTube皆為2016年「搶耳音樂廠牌計劃」選拔而出的學員。有關計劃同樣由文藝復興基金會主辦、「創意香港」資助。

 

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