Kultur geht flöten! - Maik Pagels & Andreas Oesterling

Music is everywhere. On the cell phone, in the car, when cooking, when falling asleep. But hardly anyone asks
where it comes from, who makes it and who earns (how much) from it.

"Kultur geht flöten!" tells the story of commercial music - from its social beginnings to today's streaming reality.
beginnings to today's streaming reality. From a time when music was an experience to
playlists, algorithms and AI-generated songs. Why musicians today need millions of streams to
to pay their rent. Why music lessons are disappearing and what all this is doing to our society.
does to our society.
Music journalist Maik Pagels and concert pianist Andreas Oesterling combine entertaining
live music, entertaining anecdotes, facts and critical insights into the music and media business.
Maik Pagels knows this industry at close quarters: He is a music editor at Radio Bremen, was the
He was broadcasting manager at VIVA/MTV in the 2000s and worked for many years in private broadcasting at radio ffn.
Together with Andreas Oesterling on the piano, he sheds light on what's happening - and why
why it is worth listening more closely again.