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The Beyond Music Project

Join the movement, unite and go Beyond

How to
go Beyond

Each year we host a Beyond Music Project led by a world-renowned producer. The producer sets a musical theme around which members of our community join together in collaborations to develop pieces of music across cultures and genres. The most unusual musical formations are awarded with 80,000 US dollar in prize money. In addition, the best music pieces will form the Beyond Music album, which will be created by the producer.

The producer of the Beyond Music album Vol.1 was four-time Grammy Award winner Larry Klein. Legendary drummer Manu Katché was the producer of our Beyond Music album Vol.2.

For our Beyond Music Project Vol.3, we were delighted to work with 5-time Grammy Award winners Michael League & Bill Laurance. It was an exciting journey to the album Vol.3, which you can relive including all award winners, submissions, videos and photos.

Our Beyond Music Project Vol.4 will launch in the spring of 2023 and we will announce all information in time.

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Procedure &
Schedule Vol.3

1. Collaboration Phase

Connect with professional musicians, composers, singers and songwriters from all over the world within the Beyond Music community. Share your experiences and talk about possible collaborations. Work together to create an original piece of music that reflects the musical theme of this year's project (see video above). Your collaboration must involve a minimum of three artists, of which at least two hail from different cultural backgrounds in line with Beyond Music's idea of "connecting cultures through music". Any genre or combination of genres is welcome. You are free to choose the style of music and whether you create a purely vocal or instrumental piece.

Connect

2. Submission Phase

During the submission phase, artists can upload their collaborative works to the platform. The submission phase runs from 3rd May until midnight CET on 12th September 2021. Each artist can be involved in a total of four collaborations. The same combination of artists in a collaboration can upload a maximum of three music pieces for the project. Music submitted should be semi-professionally recorded.

Submit

3. Winner Selection Phase

In this phase, 16 pieces of music will be selected from all the submissions by the producer team Michael League and Bill Laurance. The musical performance will be judged on musicality, vocal and/or instrumental performance and originality. In addition, the music pieces must reflect the musical theme of this year. The winning teams will receive a total prize money of up to 80,000 US dollars and a share of the album revenues.

Discover the winners

4. Album Production Phase

The 16 selected music pieces will be re-produced and mixed by the producer team. The producer team will set up video conferences with each of the 16 winning artist teams to explain what they will do with their tracks. The artist teams will be involved in the development process during production and experience it with the producers so they can understand and support any changes to their submitted tracks.

Album process

Awards
and prize money

The 16 music pieces selected by the producer team will each receive an award. The prize money per award is a maximum of 5,000 US dollars. Each member of a winning team will receive 1,000 US dollars for the participation, up to a group size of five members. Collaborations of more than five artists must share the prize money of 5,000 US dollars equally. In addition, the artist teams will benefit from the exploitation of the music. You can find more about this in our Conditions of Participation.