Indian music culture “onair” in Berlin... - promotion initiative moves from the Elbe to the Spree.

(10/03/2011-FHH) - Germany is celebrating the 22nd time on the "Day of Reunification" (official holiday) and the promotion initiative IMC - India meets Classic (Hamburg) snatches at the German capital Berlin. From a training & civilian community radio located close to the Alster lake moving to the World Culture Radio in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg the serial and new media productions will go "onair" at Multicult.FM (Berlin).

2005-2011 ...

For the promotion initiative IMC - India meets Classic the year 2011 is an important year of production, the sixth in an unbroken sequence (first broadcast: 28th Nov 2005). Significant turnouts have been operated for expansion, increase in professionalism and internationalization:

- February 2011: IMC receives after a 3 year application period its own radio channel in the "Internet Archive", the world's largest archive on the Web with a legitimate/legal status as "virtual university library"

- June 2011: The IMC radio production studio occurs during the summer break 2011. The operation of regular productions commenced in July.

- May-August 2011: Expansion to three other radio stations in Switzerland (Schaffhausen) and Austria (Upper Austria, Salzkammergut)

- October 2011: After four months of testing the entire production portfolio of IMC programs is to be absorbed in the "German Broadcasting Archive" (DRA - Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv) under leadership of ARD Foundation

- 11/11/2011: With the inauguration of MultiCult.FM's new Radio cafe in Berlin for IMC - India meets Classic Indian and Indian E-music will begin officially a new era as second home on the river Spree.

Hamburg - Berlin ...

Until today and for the launch in Berlin in November 2011 it seems a good omen that the radio productions of IMC - India meets Classic began with recordings of a live performance (Tabla Group Hamburg) at the Festival of Cultures in September 2005. The 3-day open-air festival in Hamburg was an offshoot of the original "Carnival of Cultures" in Berlin.
MultiCult.FM also started its first broadcasting via FM (88.4 and 90.7 MHz) at Whitsun weekend 2010, with reporting about the Carnival of Cultures in Berlin.

Thus, the formats IMC - India meets Classic and Indian E-music will be "onair" from 11 November 2011 on as Hamburg-Berlin axis, in the first two major cities of Germany which have together 5.3 million inhabitants. It is stated: Indian musical culture in the Elbe-City and Spree-Capital City.

MultiCult.FM has the focus on broadcasts by authors. There are professionals at work as Klaus Martin Hoefer, who can be heard on Deutschlandfunk and WDR radio, and his scientific journal cogniRADIO on MultCult.FM. - Or Wolfgang König, who is radio producer since 1989, former employee of Radio Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB), Music journalist and musician.

The World Culture Radio ...

MultiCult.FM runs as a multi-lingual channel (in Chinese, English, Catalan, Kurdish, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Spanish and Turkish besides German) by a professional team of journalists led by Chief Editor Brigitta Gabrin. Gabrin herself was born in Romania and grew up with German as her mother tongue.

In Germany is still widespread the idea of the demand for integration in terms of one-sided adaptation and subordination which contradicts entirely the self-understanding of the promotion initiative IMC - India meets Classic and its proclaimed purpose of broadcasting for the knowledge transfer and an inter-cultural dialogue between South Asia / India and Europe / German language areas (Austria, Germany and Switzerland).

MultiCult.FM defines "inter-cultural" as an equal footing with each other, aligned on an open dialogue. MultiCult.FM lives the philosophy of programming and permits diversity (by independence), appealing to all ethnic groups, and thereby calls for personal responsibility and connects broadcasters, producers and listeners.

The self-understanding of MultiCult.FM is "Go Glocal - Go Global & Act Local". It is not about mainstream content and quotes, more it is about qualitatively content. MultiCult.FM is a "Tune-In Programme" for "special interests groups".

Lothar JR Maier the founder and producer of IMC - India meets Classic: "multi-cultural isn't dead in Germany, which shows us the every day life on the streets, at work and in face-to-face encounters between people." De facto Germany is an immigrant society. In the recent history of migration, which flowed through the centre of Europe for thousands of years, since 2005 Germany has a gain of 600,000 people with an immigrant background.

... further Lothar JR Maier: "Learning together of each other, mutually enriching, in multi-lingual diversity and in critical, empathic dialogues, only then we people (throughout all provincial, national, intellectual and religious boundaries) will master the challenges of the 21st century, such as resource scarcity, climate and environmental protection. In practice, this is already happening in many places. That it is possible MultiCult.FM demonstrates as an inter-cultural broadcaster in Berlin and other media projects such as the English-language news magazine 'The Local' same produced in Berlin. "

Ideology of Broadcasting for Berlin ...

From its beginning in 2005 the program concept of the promotion initiative IMC - India meets Classic was invested for the long term, i.e. not surfing on the short-lived trend wave 'India & Bollywood ". Indian classical music as it presents itself today is a result of more than 2000 years old music system (Ghandarva Veda), out of which the Western classical music had developed in the European Middle Ages via Greece (keyword: pentatonic / 5 notes music).

The ideology of broadcasting of IMC - India meets Classic was always conceived as InfoEduTainment format, no entertainment in the Western sense, instead "learn to listen" the Indian ragas. With this mission/policy IMC - India meets Classic will go "onair" again in Berlin at MultiCult.FM.

Social responsibility ...

Indian classical music and the Indian music system was always designed as so called 'healing music'. The structure of ragas in a modal form, the Indian instruments and Indian vocals are a training of consciousness. The Indian music maestros (instrumentalists, singers and percussionists) act as a kind of mediator. Indian-classical music is for the audience 'per se' a kind of passive music therapy.

Recent studies show that mental disorders are still on the rise. For many years the WHO (World Health Organization) has warned. The dramatic increase in adults, in children and adolescents damages any modern society of the information age in its substance, particularly the Western, post-industrial countries like. Annually suffer 38.2% of all EU residents (164.8 million people) with a clinically significant mental disorder. People with mental disorders, diseases or mental disabilities that can lead to crippling, not only the health care system, more so the social stability of communities, family and national societies as a whole are burdened.

Lothar JR Maier: "I am encouraged to know with MultiCult.FM, its editorial team and the chief editor Brigitta Gabrin as a psychologist and thoroughbred journalist a station which character is profiled as a real world culture radio, and herewith having for our social ambitions in terms of a "music therapy" effect a reasonable understanding and receiving adequately support of air time."

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The promotion initiative IMC - India meets Classic had been founded in 2005 to establish new music therapy program, based on Indian Classical music by promoting an inter-cultural dialogue between South Asia/India and Europe via unique radio formats which follow the self given policy as InfoEduTainment program.

The radio program for Indian Classics is regularly "onair" since March 2006; the 2nd "live show" for Indian Electronics (Indian E-music) since January 2010...

More details ....

IMC - India meets Classic presents ... www.imcradio.net
Indian e-music - The right mix of Indian Vibes! - www.imcradio.net/emusic
IMC's Internet Archive: http://ia.india-meets-classic.net
IMC's policy - www.imcradio.net/policy
Promotion initiative and the social idea - www.imcradio.net/about

promotion initiative "IMC - India meets Classic"
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