Live Incubator
SCALA, SPOT and Fermaten Launch Cross-National Project for Young Industry Professionals
Press release available here.
Soon, a new project will come to life, focusing on young entrepreneurs in music. Live Incubator is being created with support from the European Cultural Region and Tuborg Foundation, among others. As the project’s title suggests, it aims to function as an incubator for future talents in the music industry, fostering collaborative projects and ideas.
Live Incubator is created and developed in collaboration with the venue Fermaten in Herning and the Aarhus showcase festival SPOT. The latter will also host the final Live Incubator camp in Aarhus in May. Based on common challenges in the industry and taking advantage of innovative ideas that can arise internationally, 10 young individuals from Midtjylland, Denmark and 10 from other European countries will collaborate to create projects that can thrive in the present and extend into the future. Project leader Esben Aarup from Fermaten shares his insights about the project:
“It’s only been half a year since Maria Kaimaklioti (from SCALA, Cyprus) and I came up with the idea of bringing together newcomers in the music industry to develop new projects and foster more collaboration across Europe when we were at a conference in Budapest. That the project is already becoming a reality is truly significant for us, and we’re incredibly excited to get started.”
Partnership and Organization
Just as Live Incubator is created for future collaboration, the partners behind the project form a constellation of forces with diverse experiences, contributing to creating the best conditions for new players in the industry.
For many years, Fermaten has focused on working with young organizers and talent development in the smaller cities, while SPOT’s DNA has always been to create a platform for new talents and the best conditions for international collaboration. It is precisely in the intersection of these focus areas that the idea of Live Incubator has emerged – with support from CDEU and Tuborg Foundation and in collaboration with the Cypriot organization, SCALA, which will also contribute to parts of the process.
Selection of Participants
The project is now a reality, set to unfold this spring with the selection of the 20 participants as the first part of the process. Ten Danish and ten international participants will engage in online workshops in March and April, as well as a boot camp during the SPOT 2024 week, culminating in a presentation as part of the SPOT+ industry track – hopefully generating projects and ideas that will come to life in the world afterward.
Since the project’s inception in December 2023, a nomination committee from, among others, the SPOT Festival and Fermaten has mapped potential participants from the music industry in Midtjylland aged 20-30. Based on this work, the selection and composition of participants will take place in the coming weeks. Additionally, suggestions for other potential candidates are welcome through contact with SPOT’s director Rikke Andersen at rikke@spotfestival.dk or by filling in the Submission Form here.
Live Incubator is a collaboration between the SPOT Festival, Fermaten, and SCALA, and the project is supported by the European Cultural Region and Tuborg Foundation.
