Minutes 11.02.21
Attendees: Phil, Sofia, Matteo, Jonah, Dimitris, Maud
Facilitator: Phil
Minute-taker: Maud
General Updates:
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Musicorama Meeting
- Musicorama are keen to collaborate with us
- They are on board with the plan of connecting different spaces, being more collaborative – doing what the other can’t do
- Their set up is like a full recording studio with a control room etc
- Here we don’t have that space
- It would be interesting to develop our relationship with them rather than just being an extension of Khora
- We’re in touch with Kostas from Musicorama – most are Greek musicians
- Kostas built the Musicorama studio in 2/3 months which cost around 15k
- He came to see the basement, he will give us a shopping list of things we need to build our studio
- Phil to chase
- Previous experience with Musicorama hasn’t always been good as they broke/damaged/failed to return our instruments
- Sofia and Dimitris think we can self-build a studio more cheaply
- Dimitris will share links/with Jonah come up with our own shopping list for a self-build studio
- Sofia and Dimitris keen to bring in more Athenian opportunities
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Instruments
- Jafra has half of our instruments – including the piano
- Difficult to move a piano without professional help
- But Khora moved the piano to Jafra in the first place without professional help
- Khora approved around 100 + VAT to help us move the piano
- Matteo to organise getting the piano back
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Discourse Forum
- A9b.org
- Update documents there
- Upload minutes there
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Tuesdays
- Met three times in total
- Listening sessions – contemporary music, new voices, non-western music
- Linked to Sofia but also Kareem – although he didn’t come previously
- Tuesdays at 6pm – 30 min buffer time
- Details will be shared on Telegram
- At the moment the group is internal
- Sofia to contact Kareem
- Phil to also contact people to pull more people in
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GDPR
- Khora needs GDPR/cookies to be added to its website
- It is a square space website – should be very easy to do
- Phil has the website logins – will come in to do it
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Computer Classes
- Chris a kitchen volunteer wants to donate computers and set up an online education programme
- He wants to use the Soundlab space to do us
- Currently no because illegal
- Phil to get back to Chris about classes
- We also want more information about the classes themselves
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Radio Show
- Refugeworldwide.com
- Radio station based in Berlin, guest DJs do mixes to raise awareness about causes, direct funds to organisations
- Non profit platform that would raise the profile of Khora
- They have given us a carte blanche to do what we want
- We could produce a 1 hour long show – mix formats, interviews, live music etc
- They will put it out
- If they like it they might give us a regular spot
- Current ideas:
- Crossover between Greek and refugee
- Agency of the refugee voice
- More about refugee content
- Conversation between refugees and others – talk about cultural trends
- Content of displaced people
- Activist music – how music is activist in Athens
- Use Khora voices – conversation with Alee, Yourganos
- Some musical element
- Hassoun – rap
- Kanou – hip hop
- Khalid filmed the queue outside Katehaki for a project
- Sofia has 2 leads:
- She plays with a musician in the opera called Nasouand, he is Iraqi and multi instrumentalist
- Alex (KAST)’s soundscape recordings from Ritsona camp
- Cover activist space – not necessarily music
- We will edit it into a good show
- Lo-fi/field recordings are fine
- All of us to think of a name, segments, content – discuss on discourse
- Phil to check whether it would be paid/unpaid/research the station more
- Phil to create a document – digital white board, idea for segments, thread on discourse
Action Points:
- Maud to get telegram
- Sofia to check what the budget is with Alison/Khora
- Dimitris to send links/with Jonah create own shopping list for a self-build studio
- Phil to chase Kostas for the shopping list
- Matteo to organise getting the piano back from Jafra
- Sofia to contact Kareem about Tuesdays
- Phil to also contact people to pull more people in for Tuesdays
- Phil to sort GDPR for Khora’s website
- Phil to get back to Chris about computer classes
- Phil to check whether the radio show would be paid/unpaid/research the station more
- Phil to create a document – digital white board, idea for segments, thread on discourse – for the radio show
- All of us to think of a name, segments, content – discuss on discourse for the radio show