Vidéo · Slash Program: 18 months, 8 artistes, 3 European cities

Slash Pro­gram — sea­son 2 is now com­plete ! Many Thanks to André Júlio Tur­quesa (Por­tugal), Dena (Bul­garia), Flo/So (France), Gisèle Pape (France), Isa­belle Nguy­en (France), Marta Del Grandi (Italy), Nik­las Runge (Den­mark), Nils Peschanski (France).

20 June 2022

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Our closing week in Aarhus (DK)

The third and last work­shop of our Slash pro­gram — sea­son 2 ended on May 8. It is now the time to share the high­lights and the pho­tos of this intense and enrich­ing week.

25 May 2022

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Thomas Cochini, engineer/slasher

Thomas Coch­ini is a seasoned vet­er­an of Trempo. After attend­ing the European Music Incub­at­or pro­gram in 2018, and the Accélérat­eur Cul­ture pro­gram in 2019, he has gone from stu­dent to mas­ter, becom­ing a train­er him­self. This musi­cian – who is(...)

25 May 2022

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Skygge, inspiration accelerator

Ben­oit Car­ré was invited to Trempo as part of Slash to extol the vir­tues of arti­fi­cial intelligence.

17 May 2022

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“The earlier you think about it, the easier it is to be ecologically-responsible”: a discussion with Gwendolenn Sharp from The Green Room

On Janu­ary 17 and 18, 2022, Gwen­dol­enn Sharp, founder of the asso­ci­ation The Green Room, spoke to the artists of the Slash pro­gram about eco­lo­gic­al respons­ib­il­ity issues. The aim was to see how to build a “sus­tain­able” tour as an(...)

15 February 2022

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“Music 2030” workshop report

“I think the pro­gram of this week get us to be more aware of the future of music. It opened a lot of hori­zons and pos­sib­il­it­ies as artist that we would not think of.” Isa­belle Nguyen “I was really happy(...)

01 February 2022

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Music 2030 : designing the contours of what tomorrow’s musician will be

Des­pite a non favour­able health con­text, the Slash 2 pro­gramme con­tin­ues with the second “Music 2030” work­shop. The object­ive of this intense week is to exper­i­ment with new approaches of cre­ation, diver­si­fic­a­tion of activ­it­ies, tools and prac­tices in order to(...)

13 January 2022

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“I now feel really energised and ready for more of these types of shows in 2022” Slash artist Flo/so at Trans Musicales in Rennes

Flo/so, an artist from the Slash pro­gram sea­son 2, had the oppor­tun­ity to play in front of 2000 people in the Green­room of Trans Musicales in Rennes at the begin­ning of Decem­ber 21. Here is a video that redraws his(...)

07 January 2022

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“Look deep inside your own roots, own that, and exploit that to the maximum” : a discussion with Juan Cubaque from Cézame

Dur­ing the first Slash work­shop at the MIL in Septem­ber, Juan provided a work­shop on sync. Meet­ing him in Lis­bon was the oppor­tun­ity to ask him some ques­tions about his work and the stakes of syn­chron­isa­tion for artists.

07 December 2021

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“Being as close as possible to the needs of creators”: an interview of Julie Poureau from la Sacem and Chloé Nataf from Trempo

For its second sea­son, the European train­ing pro­gram Slash, pro­duced by Trempo as part of the pilot pro­gram Music Moves Europe, co-fin­anced by the European Uni­on, also bene­fits from the sup­port of Sacem. Julie Pour­eau, Dir­ect­or of the Cul­tur­al Engin­eer­ing(...)

15 September 2021

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Slash program first workshop at the MIL festival

After a break forced by the COVID-19 epi­dem­ic, the European Slash Pro­gram is finally resum­ing! The artists and the Trempo team that coordin­ates the pro­ject will meet next week for the first work­shop of the pro­gram, in col­lab­or­a­tion with the(...)

10 September 2021

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SLASH 2: The selection process

The Slash pro­gram selec­tion occurred in Janu­ary 2021 and was divided in two ses­sions. The selec­tion work drew on a spe­cif­ic cri­ter­ia grid as well as hours of listen­ing and read­ing the applic­ants’ work.

12 March 2021

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Discover our nine artists selected for Slash-Season 2 !

They were nearly 180 can­did­ates, from 23 dif­fer­ent nation­al­it­ies, for only 9 final­ists. We are proud and glad to present to you the artists who will fol­low Slash — sea­son 2, our European train­ing pro­gram, dir­ec­ted by Trempo with the(...)

19 February 2021

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SLASH 2: The received applications

On 6th Decem­ber 2020, the Open Call to apply to the sea­son 2 of the Slash pro­gram closed. The selec­tion pro­cess is now over, but before reveal­ing the res­ults in a couple of weeks, here is an over­view of all(...)

09 February 2021

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How to seize the live streaming opportunity?

With the different lockdowns around the world due to Covid-19, we saw numerous live streams flourishing on the web, indeed, “live streaming is the closest digital analogue to an in-person show”1. With this new habit to listen to music this(...)

24 December 2020

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Entrepreneurial tools to manage your time as a musician

“I applied to this program because I really wanted to know more of the behind scenes. I can be a little bit of a control freak so I kind of like to know all the different parts of my work(...)

24 December 2020

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How to take care of yourself in these uncertain times?

“What would be your advice for an emerging songwriter-producer? To never stop evolving and to always seek out the best environment and conditions for its development.”

24 December 2020

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Key guidelines about music monetization

“Try to think broader than the music industry to create. Do not develop your career by only focusing on your artistic project but how your artistic project could help other people : brands, restaurants, museums, etc. You will get autonomy(...)

24 December 2020

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Key guidelines about music promotion

“I would advise not to neglect any aspect that surrounds the creative act. Composing beautiful pieces is not enough, especially in this time of health crisis when concerts are almost all canceled. Working on its messages and on its digital(...)

23 December 2020

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Slash report — season 1: the selection process

Based on European Music Incub­at­or and our aca­dem­ic mon­it­or­ing, the main tar­get-group of SLASH 1 con­sisted of indi­vidu­al musi­cians defined pro­fes­sion­ally as “emer­ging musi­cians” and “pro­fes­sion­al”. We also ref­ered to the aca­dem­ic defin­i­tion of “ordin­ary musicians”.  

22 December 2020

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Slash report — season 1 / What do we know so far?

“Some­thing I didn’t real­ize when I star­ted mak­ing music was thatany entre­pren­eur­i­al endeavor involves hir­ing people, cre­at­ing a com­pany, and becom­ing a busi­nessper­son. So, while you may know me as a musi­cian, in prac­tice I am also a boss… This(...)

21 December 2020

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Slash 1 is over ! Relive the last workshop of season 1

Des­pite the ups and downs linked to the European health situ­ation (French restric­tions and the inab­il­ity to travel), the Slash team bounced back to trans­form and adapt this work­shop to an online format.

03 December 2020

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Slash Program — season 2 : open call

Slash is a European learn­ing pro­gram ded­ic­ated to nine emer­ging pro­fes­sion­al song­writers-pro­­du­cers, who wish to step up their career.

04 November 2020

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Joanna Rives

Along­side four oth­er European artists, Joanna Rives was chosen to be part of the Slash Pro­gram, a Trem­polino pro­ject, back in Novem­ber 2019. Des­pite the can­cel­la­tion of the MIL Fest­iv­al in Lis­bon and the MaMA fest­iv­al in Par­is, where the(...)

03 November 2020

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Athens: day five

Fri­day, the 21th of Feb­ru­ary: The whole team went to the sunny ter­race of the Bour­bon, a café not far from the hotel, to change a little bit of the envir­on­ment. In the neigh­bour­ing estab­lish­ment, Chloé receives one by one(...)

21 February 2020

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Athens: day four

Thursday the 20th of Feb­ru­ary: much less nice break­fast when the rooftop is sprinkled by an unusu­al cold rain. The bad weath­er is com­ing prob­ably from Romain Lalle­ment, the second ment­or of Slash 2020, who brought it back from Nantes(...)

20 February 2020

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Athens: day three

Wed­nes­day the 19th Fof Feb­ru­ary: the arrival of ment­or Greg Vail­lant (soon to be renamed), the good news for Marta Cas­cales Alimbau (con­cern­ing her song Cor­ales), the dis­cov­ery of the Acro­pol­is by the whole team (oth­er than from a rooftop(...)

19 February 2020

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Athens: day two

Tues­day the 18th of Feb­ru­ary, the team is finally com­plete on this second day in Athens. Alice Hubble and Joanna Rives were in the big bath. On the pro­gram, coach­ing, coach­ing and more coaching.

18 February 2020

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Athens: day one

Monday the 17th of Feb­ru­ary, first day of the Atheni­an part of Slash, the train­ing pro­gram ini­ti­ated by Trempo. With the Acro­pol­is as a back­drop and the MIL show in the spotlight.

17 February 2020

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First workshop in Nantes : the daily report

Excit­a­tion was high when our five selec­ted artists — Alice Hubble, Marta Cas­cales Alimbau, Mar­tin Balt­ser, Joanna Rives and Simone Tang — arrived in Nantes on Novem­ber 26th in Nantes. After a first night out in a typ­ic­al French res­taur­ant(...)

05 February 2020

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Discover the mentors of our 5 chosen artists

All along the train­ing pro­cess (from Octo­ber 2019 to April 2020), all 5 artists selec­ted for the Slash pro­gram will be ment­ored by a musi­cian chosen accord­ing to their career his­tory and their aspir­a­tions. Ment­ors will give them advice both(...)

21 November 2019

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We’re proud to present you our five-artist selection

We’re proud to present you our five-artist selec­tion, chosen by our jury of music pro­fes­sion­als. They will attend both our work­shops in Nantes (Novem­ber 2019) and Athens (Feb­ru­ary 2020), meet new people, play music and learn all sort of stuff.(...)

12 November 2019

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