On this page, you can find the Culminating Experience (CE) Projects for all graduate students from the Berklee College of Music master’s program Global Entertainment and Music Business (GEMB) from 2015 – present. Click on any title for more information and access to the full paper and other deliverables (if available).
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Flits Music
Matej Zak
2015Flits is a social platform that allows concertgoers to find trending music events in their location. Its core added value with relation to existing services is providing multimedia (text, photo, audio, video) real-time user-generated updates from ongoing events. Although, we focus in its initial phase only on local small and medium size music venues (e.g. Facebook as a service for students on Harvard Campus), the business has a scalable model that can be applied in any musically rich urban area all around the world covering not only music, but also all kinds of other artistic events.
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Disrupt, Disintermediate, Disseminate: Twitter and the Music Industry
Tyler William Budd
2014Description: This work takes an analytical and critical approach in evaluating the theoretical concepts and applicability of the third party application Twitter and its use within the music industry.
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Culminating Experience Reflection Paper
Kareem Clarke
2014Description: This student focused on the different ways to brand himself as a DJ after graduating Berklee. The student details various perspectives on networking and performance.
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Around The World in Indie Days
Aalap Deboor
2014Description: This student offers a paper on conceptualising and producing an indie music TV show.
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Marketing for TEDxBerkleeValencia
Cristina Domínguez Fraile
2014Description: This student organized a TEDx event at the Berklee Valencia campus featuring 12 speakers from all over the world. The topics of the talks ranged from dance to creating your own sound to food synced with music. This student was the marketing manager.
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Playback
Jad El Alam
2014Description: This student has created a online digital music platform to promote unsigned artist, allowing for music streaming, merch distribution, tour information, and other information of the like.
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Hit Brewery
Trevy Kiy
2014Description: This student created a plan to establish a joint recording studio and craft brewery in Southern California.
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Is The Music Industry Killing Creativity?
Vanessa Martínez
2014Description: This student wrote an analysis of the music industry exploiting artists by manipulating their creative direction to try and fit a commercial platform. The student used Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, Kool Keith, Outkast, and Lupe Fiasco as examples.
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Play GSA: Local Bands on Stage
Felix Mayr-Melnhof-Saurau
2014Description: This student created a business plan supporting Austrian musicians by providing a circuit of live venues, as well as a guaranteeing financial compensation.
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The Season Finale: A Thoughtful Thesis Review
Rozelle McBarnette
2014Description: This student created a music publishing company called TROZ Music Publishing. The company focuses on serving musicians in the Caribbean and other US territories, supplying them with professional opportunities and making them aware of alternate revenue sources.
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TEDxBerkleeValencia
Alejandra Beatriz Menéndez González
2014Description: This student organized a TEDx event at the Berklee Valencia campus featuring 12 speakers from all over the world. The topics of the talks ranged from dance to creating your own sound to food synced with music. This student was the marketing manager.
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Seek Business Plan
Alexandra Morancy
2014Description: Seek is a booking agency/app that creates secret shows with bands and then slowly teases details about the concert to concert goers/app users. Seek is an attempt to spice up the pre-show experience.
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Culminating Experience Reflection
John Moses
2014Description: This student was tasked with creating new musical content with a large library of live material that Burlington, Vermont live venue Signal Kitchen.
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TEDxBerkleeValencia
Aishwary Narolia
2014Description: This student organized a TEDx event at the Berklee Valencia campus featuring 12 speakers from all over the world. The topics of the talks ranged from dance to creating your own sound to food synced with music. This student was the production manager.
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Direct-to-fan in India (Consulting Project)
Tanya Nath
2014Description: This student was interested in expanding the service offered by the company PledgeMusic to India. She surveyed the Indian market on the value of this kind of service, and reported back to PledgeMusic
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Operational Project “The A69s”
Daniel Omphroy
2014Description: This student assembled a band to manage, brand, and market in an attempt to book consistent gigs and network in Spain and around the world.
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21 and Unsigned: A Study on How to Launch the Career of a Recording Artist
Samuel J. Pisano
2014Description: This student studied to the art of A&R, and the ways it has changed since the old major label record model has diminished. He studied A&R tactics to try and further his own music career.
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Play It Forward
Ankie Titulaer
2014Description: This student created an online interactive music education platform called Play It Forward. This tool allows children from all over the world to receive music lessons for free.
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CLU Business Plan
Christian León Uribe Martínez
2014Description: This student has created a management/booking agency to support mid-level and well known independent music projects in their professional career.
