you the opportunity to present yourself as honestly as possible. The questions that probe deepest aren’t always the easiest – but then nothing worthwhile ever took just five minutes.
Every application must be turned in with an accompanying audio CD. If you make music, send us some of the stuff you produced, wrote, played or sang on. If you’re a DJ, send us a bedroom mix of your jams that's at least 30 minutes long. Might be a good idea to put best tracks first and include just enough material to get the point across. We want to get a feel for where you are at creatively, and a strong vision will always be more important than a polished pro sound.
Before you get stuck in, it would be great if you can read through this checklist:
To be selected, you need to make sure your application is complete and postmarked by March 18, 2014 – but the sooner you can send it, the better.
Due to local laws, you need to be 20 years of age by October 12, 2014.
Include two different photos of yourself in the application. One should be passport-sized, one a regular snapshot. Write your name and country legibly on the back of the photos.
Make sure your CD is an audio CD that is playable in a standard CD player. Be confident that we won’t share your application with anyone but the application jury, or use it for anything but the selection process. Unfortunately we can’t send your CD back.
Please write out the tracklist for your demo on a separate sheet of paper and include it in the CD's slipcase. Lectures and workshops at the Academy are held in English. Therefore the application form needs to be filled
out in English too, by you and no one else. We are not worried about poor grammar or spelling mistakes. We need all your contact details clearly written, because we will be in touch with you to let you know if you
have been selected as one of the participants for 2014.
We cannot accept any half-completed questionnaires (in fact, we throw them away), so please make sure you answer each and every question on there.
Send the whole application package (questionnaire, CD with track list, two different photos – including one
passport-sized headshot) to:
Red Bull Music Academy Applications Tokyo 2014
Boisseréestr. 9 – 11 50674 Cologne Germany
Unfortunately, we cannot return any material we receive, so you may want to keep a copy of whatever you submit for yourself. We also cannot provide individual feedback. But please sleep safe with the knowledge that all entries will be thoroughly considered by at least two different people from different backgrounds.
For further information, read the FAQ on www.redbullmusicacademy.com or drop a line to apply@redbullmusicacademy.com.
Thank you. Your time and effort are very much appreciated.
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Full Legal Name:
First Name:
Last Name:
Artist Name(s):
October 12 − October 24, 2014 November 2 – November 14, 2014 Zip:
Street & No. or PO Box:
City:
State:
Country of Residence:
Date of Birth (DD/MM/YYYY):
Mobile Phone (COUNTRY CODE/CITY CODE/PHONENR.):
Are you planning to move to another country before the Academy? Which country (in case you should know)?
Home Phone (COUNTRY CODE/CITY CODE/PHONENR.):
E-mail: Alternative E-mail: Website(s): Facebook: Soundcloud/Bandcamp: Twitter: Manager: Agent:
Which of the two workshop dates are you available for?
Gender: M F Trans Nationality:
1) Have you applied for the Red Bull Music Academy before? If so, when & how many times?
3) What’s your occupation? If you are a student, what do you study?
4) What’s on your demo? DJ-mix or your own original music? Released or unreleased?
5) How would you describe your style(s) of music?
6) What musical endeavour(s) have you been involved in during the last 12 months?
2) Indicate which of the following terms apply to you (of course, you may tick more than one!)
Producer
DJ
Instrumentalist: if so, tell us which instrument/s you play:
7) »This is where I am in relation to the musical universe« Please draw us a map!
8) What inspired you to become involved in music, whether as a DJ, producer, musician or in some other capacity?
When did that moment of inspiration strike?
10) Which three international and three Japanese artists would you like to hear lecture at the Academy?
What’s the one question you would like to ask each of them?
11) Where did you get your musical education or comparable experiences?
12) Who and what are your main influences?
13) Which technical set-up do you usually utilize for your musical activities? Please list the gear you use.
14) Do you prefer to work on music by yourself or with others?
16) On a scale from 0 to 10 (0 being “not at all”, 10 “brilliant”), how would you rate your own skills in each of the following areas?
Producing:
Engineering:
Software (specify the platforms/programs):
Live Instruments (which ones?):
Vocals:
DJing:
Other skills:
17) Which of these skills would you like to improve, and what would you like to learn about specifically?
19) If you have released any music, please let us know where, when and what it was?
20) Briefly outline your musical “career” to date – include high and low points.
21) We’d like to know how you organize your music/record collection. Which style demands the biggest space?
22) Do you contribute to any (music) media as a journalist, photographer, film maker etc.?
23) Please list the music on your application media (please include artists, titles & labels). Indicate clearly which tracks
are your own productions, whether they are part of a mix or separate tracks, or both.
PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU WRITE THE TRACK LIST DOWN HERE – AS WELL AS ON ANOTHER SHEET OF PAPER PACKED TOGETHER WITH YOUR APPLICATION CD (Yes, this means TWICE)!
24) Name the ten albums & tunes from your country (or city) that you definitely have to play to your fellow participants
at the Academy. We’d also like to know why each of them is worth talking about. Please include artists, titles & labels.
26) What are your ten all time favourite albums? What makes each of them special for you?
27) Imagine you’re the DJ of the night (even if you have never DJed). It’s peak time, everyone’s going bananas.
Which five tracks will you put on? Include artists, titles & labels.
28) A few hours later, you’re playing at the afterhours party. The sun is about to rise. Now you’ll have to think of another
29) It’s 7am. Which meal or convenience store snack is your favourite post-clubbing indulgence?
Which one do you avoid at all costs?
30) Fast forward to the next evening. Your in-laws are coming to dinner.
What music are you going to put on (and what are you gonna cook)?
31) What’s the title of your autobiography?
32) What do you collect besides music?
34) What’s the most interesting book you’ve read lately? Why should we read it, too?
35) Which are your three favourite movies?
36) What’s the one thing you can’t live without and why?
37) What was the funniest thing that happened to you in the last few months? Or, if nothing comes to mind,
38) If you have travelled, which places and countries did you like best? And, of course, why?
Did you find a place where you would like to live?
39) Which records have the ability to make you cry and why?
40) And while we’re on the subject of sobbing, when was the last time you cried anyways?
41) And what’s the one thing you would never put on Twitter?
43) What was your most significant experience of the last 12 months?
44) Please tell us five interesting facts about yourself:
46) What’s the one thing you wouldn’t want to miss seeing if you had just one afternoon in Tokyo?
47) Would you rather have a Hanami picnic at Aoyama cemetery with Yayoi Kusama, roam the back streets and
stores of Akihabara with Haruomi Hosono or go to a baseball game with Takashi Miike? What would be your three conversational topics?
48) Which anime, manga or gaming world would you like to step into? Also, which character would you be, and why?
50) Please name your top three music related online destinations.
52) Where did you first hear about the Red Bull Music Academy?
Indicate which of the following terms apply (of course, you may tick more than one!)
Former Academy participant (who?)
Red Bull Music Academy website Other Academy representative (who?)
Radio (which show?)
Other website (which?)
Former Academy lecturer (who?)
Local Academy event (which?)
Facebook (RBMA or other?) TV (which show?)
Record store
Former Academy applicant
Other Red Bull event (which?)
Myspace (RBMA or other?) Red Bull employee
Magazine or newspaper (which?)
Your agent
Academy ambassador (who?)
Twitter (RBMA or other?) Friend or relative
Application booklet or CD-ROM
Your manager
PR agency (which?)
53) After completing this questionnaire, make up your own question and answer it.
If you have any questions, please contact your local Red Bull Music Academy representative
(check http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/contacts for details), or email us at apply@redbullmusicacademy.com.
You will be notified by email by June 17th, 2014 if you are accepted as a participant. If not, you will be notified by email, too.
Please do double check that all your details on the front page are correct and written legibly. If your old uncle can read them, chances are we can, too.
Thanks once again, and good luck.
