EVENT: Tokyo Music – Live Scene with Corona
THEME: How COVID-19 is affecting the Live Music Scene in Tokyo, and the latest solutions
SPEAKERS: Matt Ketchum (@Kaalajp, ALT-music scene platform); Kenneth Fields (AfroBeat DJ); Joshua Barry (@Zaiko_io, events and music streaming platform)
TIME: Thursday, November 12 (19:00 to 20:30)
LOCATION: Online (YouTube and Facebook livestream) / Link in bio
HOST: John and Nina
*Powered by Millennials of Tokyo
About JOSHUA
Joshua is a founder and chief business development officer (CBDO) at Zaiko. He has a background in sales, client relations, new market penetration and growth hacking. A serial entrepreneur, he founded Zaiko in order to disrupt the events and ticketing industry. Today, Zaiko is a leading player in the industry (for online and offline events) in Japan: recently, the company launched a live music streaming service, ZAIKO LIVE, that allows artists to distribute and monetize their content directly to their fans.
@LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-barry-37b85a8/
About ZAIKO
“ZAIKO builds technology that allows the digitalization of events for artists, event organizers and content creators of all types. Using ZAIKO, they are able to hold global, digital events and provide interesting experiences for audiences. ZAIKO offers the latest and best technology to anyone, no matter whether they are a large company or an independent artist, and we pay between 80-97 percent of all revenue back to event organizers, including tickets, tips and subscriptions.”
@Zaiko: https://zaiko.io/
About KEN
DJ Kenmstr started as a mobile DJ locally in Yokosuka, the Philippines, and Singapore from 2014 to 2016. He later expanded to Tokyo from 2016 to 2017, before relocating to Bahrain, where he performed in some of the most popular clubs around the country. Bahrain is also where he first was introduced to Afrobeats. Returning to Japan in 2019, he was inspired to create Afrojapan, which has a goal to bring a slice of the Motherland to Japan.
About MATT
Matt is the founder of Kaala, a collective operating in Japan’s extreme music underground that officially began in 2015. Together, they’ve booked countless shows, worked with Japanese, Czech, and US festivals, amassed a trove of data on bands, venues, labels, and events active in the scene, and even released a few albums. Matt himself has a long history as a musician in Japan’s extreme music ecosystem, playing with Darkcorpse, Retch, and now Worship Pain, and has been curating concerts in the Greater Tokyo Area since 2011. His main interest is navigating the “visceral experiences” that occur within the ever-evolving live music space, and is currently exploring novel approaches to scene development via vacant properties in the Japanese countryside.
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