Appendix 6 - International Music Council

Wallonie, Festival d'Été de Bruxelles. Citizens of Brussels can spend their lunch break in
the House of Musics and visit concerts and conferences for free. The House of Musics
documents musical activities and lets space for musical activity.
Folk Experience Museum, Belgium: music museum about folk, traditional music in
Flanders and in the world. Interactive parcours, information about history, instruments,
song books, dances, musicians, festivals etc. computers with touch screens, lots of film-
and audio-fragments, dance floor where you can try out the steps, statements of musicians.
http://www.folkdranouter.be/folkexperience/index.htm
Wereldculturencentrum Zuiderpershuis in Antwerp, Belgium: The Centre for World
Cultures Zuiderpershuis is an Art Center which presents artists from all over the world.
Our goal is to contribute to the artistic communication between different cultures and
communities and to benefit the cultural exchange south-north-south.
http://www.zuiderpershuis.be
De Krijtkring, Brussels: music centre that hosts six ensembles that play hybrid musics on
high quality level.
"DOM", Moscow – Moscows most prominent club of alternative music. This is a private
initiative, the goal is to bring non-mainstream high quality music from abroad to Moscow
and to open the stage for promising Russian musicians. There is no explicit commitment to
diversity, but there is also no limitation to any certain music styles, and the idea is to give
place to different genres. Every non-mainstream Russian band considers it as an honour to
play in DOM, so the pool of creative projects is big enough to present a multicoloured
picture.
6.8 Musicians
Musicians are usually specialised in a certain music genre, but they are free to create hybrid
music forms or to turn to other music forms or traditions. Describing their own music,
many bands use combinations of music styles like “punk folk rock”, which shows that the
idea of diversity is often important for their musical identity.
6.9 Music critics
There is a public discourse about music and musical diversity in the media: feature pages,
radio programs, music magazines. The existence of this discourse is crucial for creating
awareness and the forming of an opinion about the subject in the society. In some countries,
e.g. Russia, music review is not so developed, and musical diversity is hardly discussed.
Even in Western Europe, where music journalism functions well, musical diversity rarely
makes headlines.
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