Internet-Driven Pop Festival Integrates Europe

Internet-Driven Pop Festival Integrates Europe

MAASTRICHT, The Netherlands, November 19/PRNewswire/ -- The organization of the European Cybermusic Festival (ECF) invites
professional and amateur musicians in Europe to pre-subscribe to the 2009
edition of this festival. The ECF is a brand new European pop festival with a
unique and very challenging formula: European musicians from different
countries and of different nationalities play together in a pop group, and
produce their music by using the Internet!

The ECF aims at all professional and amateur musicians in Europe (17
years and older), who are able to sing, or play guitar, bass, keyboard,
drums, or any other instrument. On the ECF website
(http://www.cybermusic-festival.eu), participants are offered the possibility
to search for other musicians in Europe and to create a new music group.
However, if the group wants to join the ECF competition, its members must
have must have different nationalities and live in different countries.

Current home recording technology makes it possible to exchange music
files via e-mail or internet. Participating musicians therefore don't need to
travel and meet with their pop group in order to produce music in a recording
studio; they rather could use their own recording equipment at home.
Participants with no such possibilities at home could make their own
arrangements with a local recording studio.

In the festival's first round, competing music groups are asked to submit
one original song (MP3). The 50 best evaluated pop groups are asked to submit
two additional original songs (MP3) in the second round. Finally, the 20 best
evaluated pop bands are invited to perform one of these 3 songs and compete
for the ECF Award in the grand final in Maastricht on New Year's Eve
2009/2010. The organization of the ECF aims at broadcasting this grand final
on television throughout Europe, comparable to the Eurovision Song Contest.

For now, the ECF Award only refers to honour and fame. Money or label
contract prizes are not announced yet, hoping to attract really interested
musicians throughout Europe. Also, the system of pre-subscription is
introduced to create fair chances to participants who want to create a
musical group, early 2009, when the real competition starts.

The ECF is organized by MediaMaas.nl, an innovative Dutch media firm in
Maastricht, the Netherlands. The ECF initiative contributes to the ambition
of the city of Maastricht to become European Capital of Culture in 2018.

More information: http://www.cybermusic-festival.eu

Source: MediaMaas.nl

Maurice Oude Wansink, Email: press@mediamaas.nl

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