The rooms our partnerships opened.
The Media Tribe has never trained in isolation. These are the institutions, festivals and companies we have worked with, and what each one meant for the students who walked through the door.
First edition, put up quickly so the conversation can start. Photographs are low-resolution stand-ins from the archive and will be replaced; sections marked coming are being written.
Rikskonsertene (Concerts Norway), now Kulturtanken
The Media Tribe was one of four key partners in India to Concerts Norway, the Norwegian government's music agency, under a Music Cooperation memorandum signed in Oslo by Tom Gravlie, Director of its International Department, and Ashish Manchanda, supported by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs through the Embassy in New Delhi. Alongside it, Musikkutstyrsordningen (the Norwegian music-equipment scheme) partnered on live-sound training from 2016 and administered the student festival internships.
Guests from Norway in the past have included engineers who taught at the Mumbai studio, TMT delivered the Rikskonsertene keynote in January 2016, and the cooperation is the reason four Media Tribe students worked festivals in Norway.



Students we sent overseas
Through the Concerts Norway cooperation, four Media Tribe students went to Norway to work, not to watch.
- Mohit Shandilya worked the Øya Festival in Oslo, 2017, on Concerts Norway's recommendation.
- Aniruddha Purushe worked Inferno Festival, Oslo, 2015, and filed his own field report.
- Vedika Chandran travelled with Aniruddha on the Norway programme.
- Lionel Crasta, now vocal producer and vocal engineer on five tracks of RÜFÜS DU SOL's Surrender, producing in Los Angeles.
Students also worked the student venue in Trondheim, and a two-day Media Tribe workshop was delivered in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, in May 2015.

Chauraha, the SAARC showcase
Six artists, one from each of six SAARC countries (India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives), on one stage in Mumbai, produced with Kulturtanken as part of the SAARC project and staged at Totem Pole 2017. Media Tribe students worked the production.



Jaffna and Bangladesh coming
The Jaffna Music Festival trip and the two-day Media Tribe workshop in Sri Lanka from 27 May 2015, and Ashish Manchanda's visits to Bangladesh through the Concerts Norway cooperation. Dates, hosts and photographs are being pulled from the archive.
IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi
The Media Tribe partnered with IIT Bombay's Mood Indigo in 2015 and signed a memorandum with IIT Delhi's Rendezvous in 2017. Aman Moroney ran a Media Tribe cohort at IIT Bombay (Powai) as visiting guest faculty, and Media Tribe workshops have run for IIT Mumbai and in Nagpur.

Prithvi Theatre coming
A long-standing collaboration with Prithvi Theatre and the Kapoor family; Media Tribe students have worked Prithvi Fest. Details and photographs are being confirmed with Prithvi.
Full Sail University
Ashish Manchanda is a Full Sail University Hall of Fame inductee and its 1997 valedictorian. When the Full Sail team came to India in 2019, The Media Tribe hosted them in Mumbai, including Angel from Full Sail's team visiting the TMT studio. The relationship continued with a guest lecture in 2019 and work with Full Sail's The Incubator in 2022.


MUSEXPO 2018, Los Angeles
The Media Tribe was an official partner of MUSEXPO 2018 in Los Angeles. A Media Tribe group travelled with Aman Moroney, including Sayantika Ghosh and Prathamesh Tambe, and the Boon Castle team presented at the MUSEXPO showcase.
Palm Expo, Mumbai
India's professional audio show. The Media Tribe has been at Palm Expo since 2016; Ashish Manchanda's four IRAA awards were received on its stage, and in 2018 he chaired the panel "Breeding the Next-Gen Talent".

Rachana Sansad and Live At The Tribe
The Media Tribe ran its courses in the premises of Rachana Sansad, Prabhadevi, for around three years, and hosted Live At The Tribe there: a monthly platform for young bands and artists, with the engineering handled by Media Tribe students. Annual Day 2012 was staged there with Ranjit Barot and The Local Train.

KickStart coming
Ashish Manchanda spoke at the KickStart music conference; the festival's full record, venue and dates are being pulled from the archive and the web before this section is written.
Manipal City & Guilds
In 2015 The Media Tribe signed a centre-authorisation agreement with Manipal City & Guilds for City & Guilds UK, accrediting the institute as a partner in the territory.
Workshops running now coming
The Media Tribe is on the road: workshops led by Aman Moroney in Ranchi, Kashmir, Shantiniketan and Mumbai through 2026. Dates, hosts and photographs from the TMT Instagram are being added.
The claims on this page are supported by agreements, letters and reports in The Media Tribe's archive. Photographs are stand-ins until the originals are located; people pictured are being asked before higher-resolution images go up.
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