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Red Bull moves academy to Madrid
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 14 April 2011
Organisers of Red Bull’s Music Academy – which each year brings together a team of young creative people in a different location to collaborate with each other and leading practitioners from across the music spectrum – have announced that this year they will host their main programme in Madrid, in a new cultural complex being developed there called Matadero Madrid.
The original plan for 2011 had been to stage the Academy in Tokyo, and work had already begun setting that up, but organisers reluctantly decided to relocate their main event after last month’s earthquake and tsunami made the logistics of staging things in Japan very difficult.
A spokesman for the programme told CMU yesterday: “While we are happy to announce that we have found an exceptional location for this year’s edition of the Red Bull Music Academy, we would also like to emphasise how difficult the decision was not to hold the Academy main event in Japan”.
They added: “Although the kick off date is set for October, the work on the Tokyo edition started back in April 2010. When the terrible events of March 11 struck in North East Japan, we had to make a timely decision about a potential relocation, and it quickly became apparent that going forward with these plans in Tokyo right now would not be possible”.
“But out involvement in and contribution to the musical landscape in Japan will not stop. We will build on the strong networks and close ties that have evolved throughout the process of preparing the Academy and continue to host workshops, gigs, RBMA Radio sessions and festival stages as we did at SónarSound Tokyo, as well as setting up international showcases for Japanese culture: in Madrid and beyond”.
The Madrid Academy will run from 23 Oct to 25 Nov. More at www.redbullmusicacademy.com
