Here is my Media Camp Music presentation presented at Athens Microsoft Innovation Center.
The presentation titled: Music today. What to do when the unthinkable future is already in the past.

More information on the 3rd Media Camp 2010 hosted by the MCA Team & the MS Innovation Center Greece

Here is how to solve the Internet Music Problem – Legalize It!

Beginning from his book  “The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution” in 2005 which the Media Futurist  Gerd Leonhard co-wrote with David Kusec (publisher Berklee Press) and followed by his book “Music 2.0″ and a plethora of speaches, presentations, lectures, seminars and documented positions through his blog, he emphasises on the need for change on policies, that supported the music industry up to now.

His enterprizing and subversive ideas -during the time his book was published- are  finding more and more supporters, today, due to his good documenting but also due to the big social changes happening all over the world, simultaneously to the large advances in technology, calling upon a re-examination on ways of thinking, of those involved in the music industry.

In his letter towards Lord Mandelson, the Priminister and Secretary State for Business, Innovation and Skills (HB), titled: “here is how to solve the Internet Music Problem – Legalize It!” , to my opinion, includes a complete proposal within the need for change and revival of music creation.

Find the initial letter here and it’s translation in Greek here.

Recent articles and proposals from my behalf, concerning the music industry can be found here:

Mουσική: ΝΑΙ! – Μουσική βιομηχανία: Τι;

Παρακαλώ μην μας ΚΛΕΒΕΤΕ!!

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The global economic crisis is a wakeup call to the world: we need to rethink and rebuild many of the organizations and institutions that have served us well for decades, but now have come to the end of their life cycle. The financial services industry, for example, does not just need fresh infusion of capital or some new regulations; it needs a whole new operating model — one based on transparency, sharing of intellectual property and global governance.

As the crisis has spread to other sectors in the economy and even other sectors of society, it is exposing structural weaknesses and modes of operation that no longer nurture social and economic growth. The recent collapse of many newspapers is just one storm-warning of more to come: conventional wisdom isn’t going to cut it for success in this century. We need to reinvent our institutions.

Another example: We face no challenge today that is more important than creating a green energy grid and reindustrializing the planet for sustainability. And for the first time in human history, the peoples of the world are building a global movement to solve this problem — a movement in which everyone is on the same side.

So while the burning of the global economic platform is propelling change, simultaneously the digital revolution is driving new opportunities and a new generation of digital natives is entering the workforce, people who think differently and bring a new and much-needed set of skills to our problems.

For more info about Don Tapscott, please visit: leighbureau.com/speaker.asp?id=13

Meet me at Podcamp Sunday March 15th at 3pm.

Podcamp is part of Medicamp Athens

In this meeting I’ll

a) brief podcasters on necessary steps to get a licence from all involved Greek Collective Societies in order to use commercial music of their choice on their podcasts.

b) Present Apple’s Garageband software for composing music and creating podcasts.

Podcamp logo was created by Constantinos Belias

MediaCampAthens will be held at Microsoft Innovation Center Greece on Saturday March 14th and Sunday March 15th.

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Logo designed by Constantine Belias

Tales of the water

I’m presenting you with a song from my latest album “Tales of the Water”.

The tracks name is “Fisherman of desires“

The album was recorded in my personal home studio with

the participation of 22 Greek and international soloists.

Enjoy