Va pasando el tiempo y vamos acumulando proyectos, clientes y experiencias que hemos querido registrar en nuevo site en castellano dirigido a empresas, organizaciones y gobiernos interesados en invertir en sus procesos de investigación e innovación.
Hemos recopilado algunos de los servicios que hemos venido prestando a diferentes entidades, a través de encargos puntuales, proyectos, investigaciones de largo plazo y sondeos puntuales, para presentar herramientas más accesibles a todo tipo de organizaciones comprometidas en dar un paso hacia adelante bajo los actuales cambios del mercado, el consumo y las comunicaciones.
El entendimiento del momento y el mercado presentes, así como la proyección a futuro de conceptos, retos y nuevos paradigmas, se presenta como una tarea interesante y a la vez necesaria, en el mar de transformaciones que suceden en el mundo actual.
Nos alegra ofrecer un site cada vez mas participativo, cargado con noticias y documentación de libre disposición donde todo el mundo pueda consultar, preguntar, aportar y debatir temas de actualidad en cuanto a tendencias, innovación, investigación y comunicación cultural.
Consumption in the music biz has created massive fast food for hungry fans, Bands that look good on stage and in the pictures and repeat beats for a year or two. We are still open for solid projects able to hold themselves creatively and in a couple of years when world music is not interesting to anybody can come along with fresh gourmet food for starving audiences.
Almost one year of planning, negotiation, confirmations, revisions and last-minute changes were necessary to complete the participation or retroVisor (a Colombia world music band) in Wassermusik 2010.
Wassermusik is a festival created in 2008 by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin that features music, film, lectures and other artistic expressions around the topic of water. It can be related to the oceans, rivers or life surrounding water landmarks of the planet. The HKW is a place for international contemporary arts and a forum for current developments and discourse. We have perceived it as an ideal location where contemporary culture can be seen but also be experienced, and music bands may have a place to spread their word and creativity.
Our link with HKW started one year ago at the MMVV a live music market held on Vic, a small town near Barcelona where we use to attend to keep up to date in the local music business. There we meet Detlef, who with a very sharp idea about the type of projects he wanted in his festival program talk o us in a friendly and open way, just the way we like it and it looked like the kind of project Algo Bueno loves to be involved with.
By then, our music projects were going slow since the local music circuit seemed to be reduced to a few music halls around Barcelona, that payed very little, based on entrance sales, not very motivating creatively, economically or ¨communicationally¨ speaking. No interesting musical projects or bands showed in the horizon, all bands and singers were looking, sounding and performing like something we had seen before a thousand times.
Music had become a little bit of a world of templates were stylish formulas blind the creative minds in search of success. We still wanted to give music a try, but the local music market was not helping.
So again we looked into our friends. retroVisor is a musical project that started exploring dialogs between the colombian traditional music and electronic sounds in a way that seemed very committed to environmental and social issues around he world. One of my best friends from the arts school was involved creating the visuals for the band and exploring a new career in music, so it was the time to be there and lend a hand. In 2008 we signed our first contract with the band to help them promote their work in Spain and Europe, with the purpose to experience the way live and digital music revolution would change the world of communications and culture.
Last year, during a show in Amsterdam , we discovered that the band had signed another contract with a manager in Switzerland. It was surprising since we had not been notified by anyone, but as we were talking friends business here, we had no problem sharing projects and supporting the band our research of the music biz was intact and growing. It seems none needs anybody in this business since digital distribution have made things easy for the bands to be connected to venues, audiences and fans. Artists can auto edit, manage their shows, sell their music, get live show contracts and get involved in other projects to promote themselves anywhere in the world.
But, is there enough time and mind to create, be excellent, sell, negotiate, blog, reach the fans, make the biz, and still be committed to ideas or some substance?
We have now discovered why all bands look the same, sound the same and forget their commitments and identity, there is simply no time to do everything or team that can handle it. Either creativity, identity or promotion may fail when a small group of people have to multitask this way. Bands adopt ¨templates¨ to be able to get along with the amount of work they hold in their backs, for being authors, artists, managers, bloggers, look pretty and try to convince the world they are original and innovative. Few of what we have seen during the last 3 years have an essence and a creative proposal that may last long or hold strong with the demands of fans and media.
Few events and festivals care about what the band has to say. Many don´t even have side events like workshops, lectures or artists talks to let the fans get deeper into their artists worlds. The stage seems to be enough. The crisis around musical editions, CDs and DVDs leave just the band´s blog (when updated) or MySpace profile with a few information about the band´s vision of the world and the development of their image.
We are still open to projects able to hold themselves creatively and in a couple of years when world music is not interesting to anybody can come along with fresh gourmet food for starving audiences that attend solid festivals like Wassermusik in Berlin.
Consumption in the music biz has created massive fast food for hungry fans. Bands that look good on stage and in the pictures and repeat beats for a year or two. Like Burgers we are loving it, because it widens the space for corporate sponsorship and fast projects to reach huge audiences. But like burgers, we are also hating it because it diminishes the quality of pop music and pop culture around the planet.
After a year and a half of meetings, brainstorming, delays, lacks of contents, changes and all sorts of exciting situations our collaboration with Secot has produced a useful and informative site in both Spanish and Catalan languages.
After a year and a half of meetings, brainstorming, delays, lacks of contents, changes and all sorts of exciting situations our collaboration with Secot has produced a useful and informative site in both Spanish and Catalan languages.
This site is aimed to will serve as a tool for information, fundraising, recruiting and social presence for this organisation in Catalonia. The commited collaboration of Toni Calatayud ex-CEO for Walter Thompson Spain and Ramon Prats, made possible a bridge between an organisation with more than 200 members and our creative team at Algo Bueno Studio to materialize their needs and requests.
Secot is a non profit organisation with headquarters at the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce that offer support to entrepreneurs, small companies and government. their team counts with most of the CEO´s and VP of multinational companies and big national corporations that have recently retired and wish to stay active in business givng back to community, after years of company service. So this guys know a lot and have a lot to say together.
During this year we have learnt slow cook taste better and even when sometimes fast times are on top of us, well done things are more rewarding than fast-food-like projects. This organisation has taken the time to discuss, test, rethink and evaluate all processes in a way that only a really experienced executives can possibly think today.
Thanks for showing us the taste of a well cooked project in fast food times.
DAMAGED BY Richard Brooks is the body of work we have chosen this summer to be featured as the cover of FUEL. His worked seemed clean direct and had this kind of tragic beauty that caught our eye.
DAMAGED by Richard Brooks, is the body of work we have chosen this summer to be featured as the cover of FUEL. His images seemed clean, direct and had this kind of tragic beauty that caught our eye.
Richard says: ¨I used dolls to represent victims of people trafficking. The dolls are resin based and, like the people they represent, fragile. The full series starts with a set of black and white portraits that speak of the ideali…sed image of the person who is then damaged by being trafficked.I chose a map as a device to address the issue of people trafficking, influenced by a couple of Guardian articles – a 2008 article included the key phrase “down your street” and a 2009 article included “across small towns and large cities”. The repetition of the map and the smaller images is indicative of the recurring nature of the problem of human trafficking. I was shocked to discover that there are currently more people enslaved by people trafficking than at the height of the transatlantic slave trade.The colour portraits, represent the damaged individuals.The prints are deliberately in glossy, reflective laminate. This was chosen so that the work interacts with the viewer, with the viewer glimpsing something of their own reflection. This added another layer to the work that speaks of our shared culpability in the suffering caused by people trafficking.
Other contributors participating in the summer issue of FUEL are:
Ingri Haraldsen, Claudio Parentela, Alvaro Sendra, Gracie Weinrib, Lavv Photography, Kara Seaman, Whathetreesee, Volathevist, John Broadley, What Surreally Matters, Studio Zlamal and Levi Miller.
Algo Bueno produces one live event and coordinates a video recording studio for the PCR 09 Medical Convention
This year Euro PCR 2009 has been held in Barcelona from 19th-22nd May it is the official congress of the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI). Canadian Media Broadcast Team from WebMD hired Algo Bueno to develop the Executive Production of a Stage Live Conference, filmed by 5 cameras and edited live in a postproduction room in the back of the stage.
The Live Show
3 Experts and a host would be in front of a 120 people audience to discuss about Timing of Inhibition of Platelet Aggregation at the America Room at the Zero Hotel.
The Small Studio
At the same time starting on may 19 a small studio for interviews was set at the AC Hotel to record individual interviews with other scientists for the regular program of WebMD´s website a total of 12 interviews where recorded.
A team of 20 people ( 5 cameramen, 2 make up artists 2 producers, 4 assistants, 1 Stage manager, 1 sound technician, 2 lighting technicians and 3 stage grips) was coordinated by Algo Bueno to develop on time and perfect shape the requirements of our clients.
Design Thinkers Group Spain 