|
|
|
| Some of Australia's top recording artists (and one major overseas guest artist speaker) explore the empowerment of musicians by new technologies from Internet to Interactive, new ways of doing deals or creating your own recording or production company plus innovative promotion & marketing. We'll also deal with other ways of exploiting music and copyright in allied areas and the digital age. Confirmed panellists include Tim Freedman (Whitlams), David Hirschfelder, Diana Ah Naid, James Morrison, with a keynote by Billy Birmingham (Australia's 12th Man & EMI artist) with more TBA |
Rights, Collections & New Markets For Music‹From The Internet To Compilations, Premiums, Special Products, Film & TV‹No longer just singles & albums, music is being used as a selling tool for a broad range of products from phone cards to fashion catalogs & the markets for music in ads, games, TV & film open new opportunities for musicians & their managers. But there's a minefield of rights, royalties & new areas of music business realities & legalities to consider. Steve Hindes (Big Backyard), Richard Mallett (APRA), Lindy Morrison (PPCA), Emmanuel Candi (ARIA), Nina Stevenson (Lawyer) & more. |
|
|
|
| From A&R's Ears To Business Affairs' Wallets - Avoiding A Million Dollars Worth Of Mistakes - Top talent scouts, lawyers and business affairs managers reveal the way to attract attention and not lose interest of recording companies or publishers. There are only so many positions to fill in the rosters of major and indie record companies with a limited number of signing potentials and a wealth of artists trying to snare them. Talent versus dealmaking confirmed panellists are Colin Daniels (EMI), Phil Mortlock (Origin), Adrian Fitz-Alan (Sony), Craig Kamber (Polygram), Brett Oaten (Lawyer), Karl Richter (Zomba) & more TBA |
Radio & Records, Pay TV & The Internet - Sending Australian Music to the Millennium - There's a new wave of broadcasting & narrowcasting heading down the pipeline of broadband cable and satellite as well as the Internet. Newly self-imposed quotas for airplay of Australian music and the effects of this new industry code of practice; the impending digital broadcasting revolution; the status of new broadcast licenses and aspirant community broadcasters; newly created radio station on the Internet & opportunites on airplay on anything from the local terrestrial broadcaster to Pay TV to Webcasting Radio. Confirmed panellists are Barry Chapman (Channel [V]), Alex Dean (9intey6ix.1), Arnold Frolows (Triple J), Anthony Ghergetta (Wild), Rob Logan (2Day), Simon Mumford (Triple M Sydney). |
|
|
|
| Australia's top entertainment company managing directors reveal their predictions, concerns, ideas and strategies for music marketing & media into the new Millennium. As the buyouts, mergers and consolidation of music companies hits critical mass this year, and with the impact of parallel importing and shrinking markets hit Australia, how do we face the future? What tactics & techniques will record companies have to use to keep market share and rebuild the Australian recording industry? Confirmed are Denis Handlin (Sony), Paul Dickson (Mushroom), Sebastian Chase (Phantom), Paul Krige (Universal), Jeremy Fabinyi (Festival), David Williams (Shock) and Chris Moss (WEA). |
A new language of acronyms have sprung up in the music business and digital distribution dreams pose both opportunities & threats as they challenge the commerce of music. A2B or RIO and other digital download players battle for market share and dominance; the Y2K Millennium Bug looks likely to cause disruption; MP3 and other online music sites for free or paid tunes; and the emerging DVD video/audio format plus other new technologies are redefining the industry and delivering new tools or toys for consumers to accept or reject. There's a world of experience & vision in this panel which includes Robert Flynn (Liquid Audio), Clive Mayhew Begg (CD NOW), Mark Gavini (Apple), Chris Gilbey. |
|
|
|
You don't need silver discs to be a record company or recorded artist; nor a "bricks & mortar" physical storefront to be a retailer; nor a transmitter and record library to be a radio station. We go beyond the technologies discussed yesterday and probe the structures & strategies needed to create your own hybrid label, enhanced online store or other spin offs to put music in the eyeballs & earholes of global consumers.
Confirmed speakers include Clive Mayhew Begg (CD NOW), Victoria Doidge (Chaos Music Market), Robert Flynn (Liquid Audio), Chris Gilbey (Evolve), Jeff Harrison (Gaslight Records & Chairman of Australian Music Retailers Assn.), Barry Chapman (Channel [V]), plus more TBA. |
Breaking out of the local pub circuit to go interstate or overseas is vital and there are touring networks to tap into beyond the agencies as well as assistance available from the government for exporting your act. But there's also a new arena for concert performance on TV and the Internet to take advantage of in addition to the live stage. Christopher Rix (Pegasus), Owen Orford (Trading Post), Darren Clark (Shawthing QLD), David Jarrett (Tardis SA) Rob Caruso (Seeing Ear WA), Sue Spence (Australia Council) & more TBA. |