ABOUT US

Why does Musika Peripherika exist?

The project partners recognized the knowledge gap that validates far too much "peripheral" European music remains under-promoted and under-valued. Traditional and other non-mainstream music forms are often remunerated improperly, ignored, and/or not presented with clear meta-data or wise practices in general.

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What’s the goal for the next 2 years?

The main goal of Musika Peripherika is to feature and promote all manners of peripheral music (peripheral from geography, genre, or any other measures lacking presence or concern in the music industry and communities) as well as investigate how rights registration procedures can be streamlined and new revenue streams created for artists.

 

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How will we achieve the goal?

 

Step 1

Mapping European music traditions and languages by recording a documentary film, a 5 episode TV series, and web tutorials, promoting the proper digitization and data preparation of EU music and audio-visual heritage.

 

Step 2

By using a new .music Unique Identifier metadata code for each creator involved, Musika Peripherika maps out all creators involved in the music composition as well as in the audio-visual creative process.

 

Step 3

MP will then test a new open rights framework for registrations with rights societies, in an automated, trans-European fashion. In parallel with the filmings, MP will inform the participants of their rights in the most remote communities of Europe.

 

Step 4

The films and recorded music, along with the corresponding metadata, will build up a new European Open Rights Data Framework of musical and A/V rights to test ways through which we can increase the speed and transparency of rights distributions across Europe.