A commons based business model in music production: Splendor Amsterdam
Since 2013, Splendor Amsterdam unites composers, musicians and stage artists, that came together to form an artist-run cooperative that independently exploits a music venue in...
Since 2013, Splendor Amsterdam unites composers, musicians and stage artists, that came together to form an artist-run cooperative that independently exploits a music venue in which the musicians have complete autonomy. In this initiative, an old centrally located Amsterdam bathhouse was transformed into a professionally equipped music house, which is operated in its entirety by a group of 50 top-flight professional musicians (among which players of the main Dutch orchestras such as the Concertgebouw Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic and the Radio Orchestras, as well as names from the world of opera, jazz, electronics and ethnic music) that felt the necessity for...
