What does it mean to live a life for, and through, music? That’s a question we’ve been asking ourselves, and our many guest lecturers, since the first Academy in Berlin in 1998. Last year at the Red Bull Music Academy in New York City, we enlisted award-winning director Ralf Schmerberg and his artist collective Mindpirates to make a film about the electric impulses, inspirations and challenges that comprise a life in music. The result is something quite extraordinary.