I‘m already at a festival that day. But let me/us know when there will be another event where one can apply. And let us know how things went when it’s over, maybe rexord perfomances and share them? Good luck with what you’re doing, great you’re out there!
Rest assured, I’ll keep you posted 🫡
Current state of affairs:
The open call window for requests closed yesterday. Next week we will have a meeting to curate the line-up. After that we will contact all selected artists to ask for confirmation of their participation.
(Non-selected will recieve a message too, ofc. It’s simply impossible to provide enough slots this time, but we will have a ‘waiting-list’.)
From mid August we will start to publish the names of the confirmed acts one by one to hopefully build up some public anticipation for the event.
[All via instagram.com/emom_ffm]
That’s all for now, just wanted to keep y’all in the loop 
Also on a side note: New Logo, yay!
We have been invited to our local non-commercial citizen RadioX today, thursday 12th.
We’ll be live on air from 6pm. Talking a bit about the upcoming event this saturday and play a couple tunes as well.
We’ll be guests at a show called X-wie-Raus, which is a daily format presenting all kinds of cultural events in the area.
Livestream at radiox.de
Will the radio show or a video stream be available in the aftermath? Wish all of you a lot of fun and hope everything is going well! Hope this will become a regular thing.
What a beautiful evening. It was great to perform and exchange ideas with @Geneoart, @Pablo76 (and other non-electronauts)
My personal highlight was gregor glogowski. Performing with the background noise of a mixer.
I had a great time. It was an absolute pleasure meeting everyone there. The vibes were on point!!!
It’s still uploading, it will take time 
but please share with everyone!!!
Thank you very much!
I moved the link to DM
The radiohost will provide link… I’ll share when ready.
We will have a meeting next month to discuss how to move forward after this amazing experience. I think it’s safe to say that we will do this again 
I’m glad it went well. 
Good to hear! So enough people came and you made enough money? How did you advertise the event, did people know everything will be live there before / did they notice or care? Would be very interested if you shared some experiences, as I can’t tell whether people actually notice or care whether things are live.
[tl/dr:] If you’re thinking about organizing an EMOM: DO IT! It’s an amazing experience.
I’d like to share my experience as a first time organizer of a local EMOM night.
I have difficulties to decide into how much detail I should go, so if you want to know more about specific aspects of the whole project let me know and I’ll elaborate further 
Alright, let’s start from the back:
We had about 75 guests during the course of the evening [edit: which is an amazing outcome for the premiere of a formerly unknown cultural event on a saturday night in Frankfurt with loads of other offers] and the mood was always great. The admission was free, but we made about €250,- in donations at the door.
We also asked at the door how people got to know about the event and were surprised to learn that the Insta-ads almost had no effect (except for the view and follower numbers, but not in people showing up). Most frequent answer was word of mouth.
One of the most often heard comments was that the audience really enjoyed the variety and spectrum of sonic artistry. Everything being live also played a role in that. We took care to set the order of acts in a manner of music//experimental sounds//music//exp. sounds… I think ‘expectation management’ worked out quite good, also due to our lovely moderator introducing each artist to the audience. Some acts people were dancing, some acts people were sitting and listening closely.
The planning process
First and foremost: Teamwork makes the dream work!
We are a core-team of 4 but many more lent a helping hand with ‘little’ things. And as you can tell by the age of this thread planning started almost half a year ago. We consciously avoided to push things unnecessarily to avoid stress: Take your time when tackling something like this. Labors of love should be fun, not pressure. It also helped to determine certain responsibilities within the team. (Sound, light/visuals, pr and so on…)
Two other things were required as the crucial base for everything else: The room and the PA.
It was clear this needed to be the first things to be sorted out. Everything else would then (hopefully) just fall in place. We were extremely lucky to acquire both for free through personal connections. Super important milestones in realizing the event.
We were then able to set a date and publish the open call to artists. Next milestone was to recieve enough requests to make sure we can fill the night with interesting acts.
(We didn’t dare to reserve walk-in slots because there was no way to guess if enough artists would show up spontaneously. Maybe next time…)
Another point budget: We had none and almost got away with it.
In the end we had costs mainly for promotion (Insta, Posters, Stickers) and drinks (for the artists and the team).
We were able to mitigate the financial loss a bit by what was left in the ‘solidarity funds’ (pay what you want) from the door, after we paid out some gas money to the artists. We split the pot evenly, but many donated their share to the cause.
A thought for the future:
We will attempt to raise some public funding next time. We would really prefer to be able to pay our sound-technician, graphic-designer, photographer and so on.
Also: Keep in mind that time is the most scarce and valuable resource, always. The execution of the evening itself took almost 3 full days because: We needed to bring the PA a day early, prepare the room, and of course we had to break everything down the day afterwards, even clean the toilets. So most of the team and supporters invested themselves friday through sunday.
What else? Communication is king! We used an online whiteboard tool to structure our planning, document the process and protocol our meetings. Coordinating and delegation of all tasks necessary is a ‘job’ in itself and someone in the team needs to take that responsibility and keep an eye on the big picture/maintain that whiteboard so everybody is on the same page. Where are we at?, what’s still missing?, and so on.
Sidenote: Priorities is also a thing. It’s helpfull to differentiate between ‘absolutely necessary’ and ‘nice to have’ things. That makes it easier to decide on what to focus when things become tight.
Can’t thank any of the involved people enough! <3<3<3
Now goeth forth and spread the EMOM virus!
#emommovement
This is a cut version of the radio-show, as provided by the host. Only our interview.
There were tracks played by Astrokill, Geneoart and Robots of the 80s.
This was a great read, thanks a lot for taking the time! Not really interested in planning one myself, but I’d love if there were more of these events. So I was curious about your experience and what this says about the chance of there being more of these events.
Thanks.
I hope this helps to encourage people to give this a go
I think the concept is pretty mature. You can kind of just follow the formula and make it work.
Takes a lot of wo/manpower though, in the end it’s all about the networking.