Culminating Experience projects are completed in fulfillment of degree requirements for Berklee's Graduate Studies programs. Browse project titles and abstracts below and click on individual entries to access project files and further details. You can also browse project titles by year.
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Culture, Influence & Strategy: The Ascension of Digital Media in the Music Industry
Dannielle Kellogg
2017This study is centered on the concept of utilizing influence and the importance of cultural relevancy and strategy, detailing how social media has shifted the roles of who establishes the tastemakers. The research garnered supports the argument that the future of branding and marketing in today’s society of oversaturation, should indeed be inclusive of embracing cultural implications and the strength of online influence. Consequently, the way in which the industry positions artists, brands and campaigns needs to continue to evolve beyond traditional methods, allowing for firms to be proactive in their strategies versus reactive.
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Externship in Entertainment Law
Hannah Lebel
2017An externship within the legal sector of the music industry, focused on bringing elements of AR into contract and copyright law.
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Coastline Carnival
David Manzo
2017Coastline Carnival will be a music conference and festival located in downtown Asbury Park, New Jersey. The festival will make use of already existing music venues and create a unique boardwalk atmosphere for both delegates and festival goers alike.
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AMDG Productions- Strategy and Business Plan
José Maria Moutinho
2017The CE will be a business plan for my start-up, AMDG Productions, a Portuguese theatrical production company, which operates under a social business model.
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Midem Artist Accelerator Program
Chiara Michieletto
2017Fully integrated in the MIDEM live team and will play an active role in the first business career booster for emerging talent powered by Midem".
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“Port Royal Festival”: Business Plan
Michail Moatsos
2017As my Cumulating Experience project I would propose to work on the generation of a business plan for a boutique heavy metal festival in Athens area in Greece. I would like to establish a festival that targets both local and foreign fans of heavy metal music, that combines the touristic attractions of Greece, like beautiful seaside landscapes and a high-quality curated festival billing with a variety of bands from local and upcoming to major and established bands that have never played in Greece before. The long-term goal is to create a community of fans that are gathering at least once a year in the festival and integrate this community in the general society. Our theme and philosophy is to be known and respected for our passion of heavy metal music and provision of a great festival experience, through hospitality, communication and affordable prices.
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Finding the Externship
Celia Palau Lodge
2017The goal of my proposal this semester is to find my dream externship in either Artist Development in an independent record label in England, or as a Licensing Representative in publishing company.
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Working In Sync
Catherine Pastrana
2017The main objective of this project will be to complete an externship with Solid As A Rock Publishing in hopes to gain a professional experience and broader network.
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Roche-Bassal Entertainment
Devonte Roach
2017This CE project was born in the most natural and unexpected way. Initially the idea was to work together on two different projects that would’ve included Michael’s CE for artist management and Devontè’s CE about artists as a startup.
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UNPAID & MISSING ROYALTIES OF THE MUSIC INDUSTRY: FINDING THE BLACK BOX
Rahul Rumalla
2017The goal of this research paper is to document and analyze the various scenarios that lead to misallocation of royalties within the music industry’s supply chain and to uncover the truth behind what happens to these missing royalties every year. The research will be specifically focused on the US market.
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Externship
Ashley Snyder
2017I would like to work with an artist development/management company for my CE.
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The Importance of Music on the Early Development
Paola Solís Colón
2017In this research project, the main focus was to understand the ways in which music affects children’s early development. To gather this information, there was a literature review done about neurological and scientific experiments done about the motor skill, language, social, and auditory memory. An evidence of a sensitive period for music education before the age of 7 was noted throughout the literature review and is advised to take into consideration by parents. Also, a study on the musical toys and electronic games was fulfilled in order to understand if these follow the scientific research and if they helped create a musically rich environment. In fact, these products do take into consideration and other proposals on products were made. For example, the development of an app that records a mother’s voice in a low pitch that will help newborns in their auditory development. Also, the creation of musical electronic books in the future.
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Externship
Giulia Spadaro
2017I would like to get an externship with ONP Productions and help them in the leading up to (and work the festival) and help out with their En Route Shows.
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COMM Coordinator - TEDx Berklee Valencia 2017
Shareli E. Swayne Ramos
2017For the CE I have selected TEDxBV2017. As the Communications Coordinator for this established operational project, I serve as a liaison between all departments; artistic, sponsorship, and marketing, to meet deadlines and facilitate all internal communications aspects of the project.
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TEDxBerkleeValencia- My Experience as Artistic Coordinator
Taylor Tobak
2017The Artistic Coordinator for TEDxBerkleeValencia 2017 is responsible for leading the creative process from start to finish. Responsibilities include developing the theme and speaker selection, creating promotional materials, analyzing general content, and stage management on the day of the event. The Artistic Coordinator must participate in weekly team and Creative Department meetings to discuss progress, new promotional materials, venue selection, and other artistic aspects. The artistic team makes the incredible experience of TEDxBV a creative and inspirational event for both the audience and the speakers. This position begins in September 2016 and continues through the event on April 29, 2017, as well as after the event to begin working on TEDxBV 2018. As Artistic Coordinator for TEDxBV 2017, I have the amazing experience of participating as one of the main creators of the entire event, and truly making this year’s TEDxBerkleeValencia even better than the last.
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EighthNote Artist Consultancy Business Plan
Neyha Vashist
2017The following business plan outlines the details of a startup called EighthNote Artist Consultancy. This company is a sole proprietorship that provides musical artist with the necessary branding, marketing and public relation services required to successfully penetrate the music market, specifically Canada. The company focuses on the balance between qualitative observation and quantitative analysis from the multiple data analytic softwares available for artists.
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CoCreatIn Business Plan
Rafael Vásquez Fino
2017CoCreatIn born out of the ideal of enabling collaboration and holistic growth of the music industry in developing markets. We want to be the LinkedIn of the music industry, by creating a platform made from and for professionals in the music industry. The perfect place to network, learn and find opportunities in this exiting field.
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Externship Consulting Project
Elias Wuermeling
2017The proposed project is the collaboration in the form of an externship with an established music business entity.
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A&R Externship
Nikita Zabinski
2017I would like to gain an externship within the A&R sector of the record industry.
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FUNDRAISING FOR NON-PROFIT MUSICAL ORGANISATION IN INDIA – ANAHAD FOUNDATION
Abhinav Agrawal
2016This Culminating Experience deals with successfully raising funds for the Prakriti project and also to create the structural and functional structure for the company. This CE will focus both on corporate and individual funding and shall help to define the possible stakeholders of the company. The CE if successful, will be an inspiration for other musical enterprises in India and will help bring back the musical heritage of India which is fading away due to a changing culture.
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American Country Music and its Exportation to Europe
Luca Balbo
2016My passionate interest in American country music and my will to better export the genre in Europe explain my choice. I’ve been always wondering why the country music superstars making millions of dollars in US seemed to be completely unknown and were reduced to a tiny niche market in the old continent. I really wanted to dig into it. In this paper, I talk about the current economical and cultural impact of the genre within the American and European music market and make a summary of the challenges country music faces in Europe. This project involved the creation different surveys that targeted people from all over Europe and interviews with artists and music industry professionals. The data collected from those surveys and interviews were then compiled and analyzed in order to make assumption regarding what European truly think about country music and which strategies could improve the outreach of the genre.
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Know Your Cut
Alicia Caillier
2016Manifesting in two-parts, my culminating experience involved drafting a business plan for a boutique agency, Know Your Cut, that facilitates partnerships between emerging music artists and independent fashion brands, as well as producing a multi-media music, fashion and technology event in Valencia, Màquinas y Màscaras, that served as a case study for the potential success of these types of collaborations. This reflective paper outlines how my course work the project over the past year, the inspiration and strategic thought behind it, and how it did and did not meet my expectations.
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The potentiality of the Greater Caribbean as a unified Market
Antonio Celia
2016Develop a research paper which will second as a market study on the intrinsic, yet seemingly divergent relationship between the markets Greater Caribbean (Northern Colombia, Cuba, Trinidad, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Coast of Mexico, etc); their difficulties, their similarities and the bigger idea of looking at the Caribbean as one interconnected network and ever-expanding consumer market which boasts perhaps one of the most rich and diverse genre-based regions in the world but that still needs to consolidate in a more formal and transversal way.
