Music Finland promotes music in a web-based showroom
Music Finland opened a web-based showroom to reinforce the export of Finnish music overseas. The digital area allows music fanatics worldwide to discover the Finnish music scene.
The prolonged actuality (XR) showroom showcases varied artists and music imagery from Finland – flavoured with in all probability probably the most well-known Finn of all time.
Music is a vital a part of life for many people. It cheers us up, helps us dwell in unhappiness, and makes us journey down reminiscence lane – music units the temper for any state of affairs.
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Music Finland, Business Finland‘s unit for music export, arrange a web-based showroom to showcase Finnish music overseas – and invite music lovers worldwide to discover the setting of the Finnish music scene.
A digital expertise as a promotion device
Motel Finlandia is an experimental on-line area for exporting Finnish music and selling music within the Metaverse. The digital motel is impressed by film administrators Aki Kaurismäki and David Lynch.
The primary model of digital Motel Finlandia was launched throughout SXSW in March 2022. Music Finland utilized the digital Motel Finlandia to advertise the bodily showcase occasion, additionally titled Motel Finlandia. Motel Finlandia was greeted with pleasure on the SXSW occasion, and it has gained curiosity globally as properly.
Through the showcase occasion, the web area’s guests may get a drink voucher from the digital motel and declare the drink in the true world.
Though a easy exercise, not too many examples exist. Constructing a connection between the digital and bodily worlds was a vital ingredient in Music Finland’s advertising and marketing bundle in Austin.
“We created one thing actually totally different from what music export has been like. These experiments are a requirement for renewing the operations,” stated Turo Pekari, Innovation and Enterprise Improvement Government of Music Finland.
Content material and experiences all year long within the on-line area
The digital Motel Finlandia allows Music Finland to keep up constant messaging throughout its occasions all year long and to fill the time between them with related content material and experiences.
The primary model of on-line Motel Finlandia introduced one gig, and new artists are added to the lineup throughout the fall and winter of 2022–2023. The second launch additionally contains extra interactions for the guests to discover the eerie motel and music imagery.
Motel Finlandia is sort of the other of what individuals may assume when getting into a digital area. The texture is deliberately unusual – not futuristic, however extra of that point has stopped. The digital Motel Finlandia lives in its personal dimension, and historic layers seem little by little.
Music within the Metaverse
Motel Finlandia was Music Finland’s first step in the direction of digital worlds. In November 2022, Music Finland participated within the Decentraland Metaverse Music Festival with two performances from Maija Kauhanen and Handshaking.
“The Metaverse shall be a spot to spend time, eat, and create content material. Massive manufacturers and document labels are already in The Sandbox and Decentraland. It’s apparent that it’s an unexplored area for shoppers to discover content material and observe artists they love,” Pekari wonders.
The web showroom takes its guests on an odd journey to a secluded motel within the wilderness of Finland. Motel Finlandia lies someplace between the true world and the otherworldly. Who’s the well-known Finn within the bar?
Welcome to Motel Finlandia, the place Finns will not be what they appear:
