Nave of music / Red Bull Music Academy (Slaughterhouse, Madrid)

In March 2011, an earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan. In June of that year, the Red Bull Music Academy, a traveling musical school which since 1998 has been, among others, Berlin, New York, Sao Paulo and London, was to land in Tokyo. The disaster caused them to change plans quickly. "We needed a site and a project to build the space of five months," says Carmen, part of the team of the academy. "The Madrid City Council was ready, we made it very easy and gave one of the ships of the old slaughterhouse." In record time was enabled and was born "the ship of music": more than 4,000 square meters, a radio studio, recording another, a concert stage and nine rehearsal rooms surrounded by trees.
"It is proposed as a temporary structure (...) The order passed by creating, under emergency conditions, an infrastructure that, in addition to responding to needs and acoustic techniques, and enriqueciese acelerarara a series of intense artistic relations that would occur between musicians and in turn add a stage, "he says, architecturally this blog design. "This is as basic housing architecture, which is used to quickly rebuild devastated areas (Haiti, for example), as the first solution," he told his architect friend once.
It's been several months since the RBMA went through the capital (to give you an idea of ​​how it was) for a month, a camp of artists from around the world lived the music hall and put the note in many electronic Madrid rooms. Then the place, and great part of the rehabilitated Slaughterhouse Madrid, which devotes each of its ships to an art, was closed.
"What is to be done with something as amazing when you finish school?" Asked (repeatedly) when we had the chance to visit last November. Shared management between the City and the organization of LILW, the ship hosts events like the Day of Music. Also recently opened a call for him to use studies: musicians and bands Madrid "to develop its business in the city", indicate the bases, can be presented to the contest to use the facilities and record there.
For the rest of the public, however, and as explained from the slaughterhouse, is closed exceptions. Next, for example, free days during the middle of September Nordic. And we're sure not to be the only ones who would love the ship was permanently open.