About this website

autofunk.dk is the personal work and leisure journal of Christian Villum, aiming at mapping projects, activities, networks and ideas as they emerge and spring forward.

Christian Villum is a reflective laptop caféntrepreneur, webactivist, networker and socially conscious male born in Denmark.

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current projects and ventures
Main occupations are my studies at Aalborg University (Master in Culture, Communication & Globalization) and working part-time as a music publisher with T.G. Publishing. Alongside this I run my own maverick label Urlyd Audiovisual Recordings, act as one of three managers of art- and technology venue Platform4, and function as chairman of label association Labelkollektiv. Furthermore, I run the small project management agency MindTheDot and its more artistic sub-department Spraengfarlig. Last, but not least, I manage wholesale vinyl and cd distribution outfit Labelkollektiv Distribution, do promotion-work for various Danish labels as the manager of Labelkollektiv Promotion and constitute one third of the out-of-the-box creative consulting agency Gratis Luft.

I also do some freelance writing - ao. on my contemplative blog Freeform101 and as a music biz blogger at Bandbase.com - and dj a little on various occasions under the monikers Vilde V, Christian Villum & DJ Ond Blomst. As a dj, I am affiliated to the now defunkt (but soon to be revived) Aabtek dj-collective, member of Urlyd dj-team and part of Aalborg Tærror Crew.

upcoming whereabouts and projects

FEB.28.2010 - Villum - Handing in master thesis, Aalborg/DK
MAR.08.2010-MAR.13.2010 - Villum - Busi-leisure, New York/US
MAR.13.2010-MAR.22.2010 - Urlyd - SXSW Festival, Texas/US
APR.10.2010 - Gratis Luft - Hosting Atrap Fest, Frederikshavn/DK
APR.21.2010-APR.25.2010 - Villum - AAU @ Study World, Berlin/DE
JUN.18.2010-JUN.23.2010 - Villum - Leisure time, Ibiza/ES

...past whereabouts can be found here and past dj-gigs here.

my latest tweets
@villum: Fede navne på årets festival!
@platform4: This is going to be huge: / - from the people behind The Pirate Bay
@urlyd: Tone performing tonight at Kraftfeld, Winterthur, Switzerland /
@labelkollektiv: RT læser 2 gode danske anmeldelser, Alcoholic Faith Mission: (5 stjerner...
@freeform101: Danish activists demand to know why their governments block ACTA transparency

Blog

Heading for New York and #SXSW

Today I am heading for New York to stay for the next week before heading on to SXSW in Austin with the electronic duo Tone from my small label Urlyd Audiovisual Recordings. They play a gig in New York before we leave; at Littlefield in Brooklyn on Friday March 12 - come out if you [...]

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Back home in Denmark

After 6 months - that went by all too fast - I have now moved back to Denmark again, getting ready to hand in my master thesis on Friday (still a lot of work to before that). It was sad to leave Berlin and our nice apartment in Kreuzberg, but all things come to an [...]

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Tone confirmed for SXSW #urlyd #sxsw

After a year of exciting ventures into Europe – with the international release of the Small Arm of Sea-album and several tours around Europe, Tone has now set sail to head west. In March, the duo and I will head for the prestigious SXSW Festival in Austin TX in the United States. Leading up until [...]

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Urlyd presentation at SAE Institute, Berlin #urlyd #berlin

Tonight I have the pleasure of making a presentation of my little recording label, Urlyd, at a workshop at the SAE Institute here in Berlin. The workshop is held på Creative Commons Germany and focus on the flexibility offered to musicians and labels by the CC licensing suite, and Urlyd will act as an example [...]

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Me – famous? Interview in Prestize Magazine #prestize

Now this is s a bit fun: In this month's issue of Prestize, I am portrayed in a full page interview - and presented as "one of Aalborg's famous faces". Quite funny. The interview can be found in the online version of the magazine here.

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