Toronto, Canada (Top40 Charts/ Red Bull
Music Academy) - The Red Bull
Music Academy is an event that travels the world. A yearly celebration of all the journeys and breakthroughs, all the dreams and intricacies that go into the music we love. In between checking gear, chatting on tunes, and spinning in clubs, you'll get a rare glimpse into local musical hybrids in different countries each year. Believe! And in your free time, you can talk to people from around the world who started revolutions in sound. They're the people we look up to, and they're looking to you for a fresh perspective in turn. Previous Academies have visited Berlin, Dublin, New York, London, Sao Paulo, Cape Town, Rome, Seattle and Melbourne – all beats blazing, all faders up.
This year's edition will touch down in Toronto, one of the biggest and most cosmopolitan cities of North America, nestled on the shores of Lake Ontario. Home to the second-highest population of foreign language-speaking residents in the world, Toronto's grids hum with diverse culture and architecture, criss-crossed with parks, rivers and tree-covered ravines. Independent galleries and record stores pop up west of Chinatown, while vibrant clubs and music temples can be found on the back streets of Little Italy. There are many native tongues here, and music is one of them. The main stage for Canada's thriving Hip Hop scene, Toronto has a heavy Jazz tradition, and explodes with cross-pollinated musical lineages from deep House, Disco and the miniature/crashing scapes of Canadian Techno, to big-bottomed space Dub, Electro Rap and experimental indie Rock. From Mathew Jonson to Black Uhuru, and from Gino Soccio to Oscar Peterson or D.F.A. 1979: there's plenty of fresh heritage to uncover. So set the metronome. It's time to count down to T-dot.
Anyone interested in joining this year's Academy in Toronto must follow a few simple steps. Prospective applicants should pick up an application CDR from their local vinyl emporium or download the application form here between March 23 and May 04, 2007. They should then send the completed questionnaire along with a mix-CD or selection of his/her own music, and a current photo to the Red Bull Music Academy between March 23 and May 04, 2007.
Once the application period has ended, sixty of the most promising applicants will be invited to the workshops in Toronto. Flights and accommodations will be covered by the Red Bull Music Academy. If invited, participants should plan on being a part of either Term 1 (September 23 – October 05, 2007) or Term 2 (October 14 – October 26, 2007).
By July 06, 2007, all applicants will be notified via email whether they have been invited or not. Those who have applied previously but have yet to be invited are certainly encouraged to give it another shot. As quite a few second -or third- time applicants have learned, perseverance can certainly pay off. Make sure to check our calendar to find out about infosessions near you featuring special guest speakers. You can also keep track of further news by signing up for our newsletter, and click back for regular updates and new features, covering all styles of electronic music today, by those who make and live it.
