American music magazine Billboard is presenting a new event aimed at “celebrating the passion that is changing the music landscape.” By bringing together artists, music business entrepreneurs, investors and other key parts of the industry, FutureSound hopes to instigate some meaningful conversations about the next evolution of the music biz.

One of the oldest trade magazines around, Billboard has long been the source of information and its charts have become a measuring stick when it comes to commercial success. In recent years, the very meaning of success has changed, as well as the work done and paths followed to achieve that success, and it is the new challenges that face a modern musician that need to be addressed. Seeking to align its huge user base with some of the key players, Billboard has created the FutureSound conference, a combination of keynote discussions, solution sessions, workshop roundtables & networking. Given the turbulent music industry in California, San Fransisco seems a fitting location for such an event.

FutureSound sees something of a divide still between the creative artists who want to achieve their goals, and the creative developers and entrepreneurs who invent applications and offer services for those artists. Throw in the dilemma of rights-holders and the issue of receiving payments in a digital world and you have a complex situation. Bringing all sides together and presenting different sides of the situation will hopefully find solutions and middle ground on key issues, those being: The Challenges of Entrepreneurship, Music Licensing, and Leveraging the Social Web.

Billboard FutureSound 2011

November 17-18, 2011
Terra, San Fransisco
Use promo code FBK11 and get 15% off the FutureSound registration rate
Register here.
Facebook event page.


by Lee Jarvis.

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Tunecore is an online distributor for independent musicians. In short, they can get your records up on iTunes, Amazon, eMusic and more, without the need for a record deal or a major label. Since launching in 2005, they have helped thousands of musicians achieve their goals, and have become one of the good guys in the new music industry: their motto being, ‘Sell your music, not your soul’.

I regularly read their blog (and you should too), which contains all sorts of useful information and guidelines for indie artists. As part of their onward march to education and empowering the indie world, they are now hosting a seminar titled “How To Get Your Money”, and if you are involved in the music biz or looking for a music job in New York, I recommend you check it out, see what you can learn, and mingle with some bright creative and business minds.

The event takes place on Tuesday, August 16th at 7pm, and is completely free. Although it is only open to Tunecore artists, you should really look to join Tunecore anyway, hence the advance notice I’m giving you

Here’s the details…

When: August 16th, 7:00 PM EST
Where: New York City

Presented By:
Jeff Price – CEO/Founder TuneCore
Jamie Purpora – President of TuneCore Publishing Administration

What will the seminar cover?
– Discover if you have money sitting for you right now, waiting to be collected;
- Where your money is;
- How you can get it;
- What your copyrights are and how can you enforce them.

Attendees Receive:
- Free pizza
- Free TuneCore t-shirts
- Free copyright booklets

If you would like to attend:

- RSVP to: getmymoney@tunecore.com
- Please put “Attend Seminar” in the email subject.
- Please provide your full name, artist name (if different), TuneCore email address, and phone contact in the body of the email so we can make sure you’re on the guest list.
- TuneCore Artists only, please!

For those of you who are not in NYC, fear not! They will be recording the seminar and posting on their blog soon after the event. Again, that alone will be worth signing up a free account for.

by Lee Jarvis.

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Looking for something to help you find Music Jobs in LA? Want to learn new skills to help get more out of your music?

Top artists and producers share their secrets at The Producers Conference, a broad set of creative clinics and interactive classes for computer musicians. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to get the inside track on advanced production techniques, song writing, mixing methods and more.

The Producers Conference, Los Angeles, USA
November 14th, 2009. 1 PM to 6 PM. Doors open at 12:30 PM.
King King
6555 Hollywood Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90028 (map)

Get Your Ticket Now!
Tickets are $30.00.

Conference Schedule

1:00-1:10pm – Gerry Bassermann
Record: Design Concept and Interface – Creating with ‘flow’
Gerry Bassermann lays out the why, what and how behind the development of Propellerhead’s recently released Record software. Discover what makes Record so powerful yet transparent.

1:15-2:00pm – Matt Piper
Unleashing Creativity with Record
Line 6’s Propellerhead Product Specialist Matt Piper will demonstrate how he stream-lines his creative workflow while offering arrangement tips-n-tricks; covering Record’s arrange window contextual tools and navigation, comping editor, groundbreaking tempo control, multiple racks, new devices, Line 6 technology, Reason integration and enhancements, file and audio formats, new authorization paradigm, and more.

2:00-2:50 – Artist Discussion
The presenters discuss topics like: maintaining creativity during production, careers and roles in the music biz, and answer questions from the audience.

3:00-3:50 pm – Kurt Kurasaki (aka Peff)
Signal Flow and Effects in Record
Peff discusses his development work on Record, especially the creation of many of the insert effect combinators and the design concepts behind this part of the Record Sound Bank. He’ll demonstrate the processing power of the mixer channel strip in combination with these insert effects and show how to clarify and enhance music tracks.

4:00-6:00 pm – Artist Presentations

About The Presenters

Gerry Bassermann
Gerry Bassermann is Propellerheads Director of North American Markets and an accomplished musician. He holds several degrees in music composition and performance and currently owns and operates OpusNine ( a project studio in the Los Angeles Bay area). For over twenty years, he has worked for many prominent music companies, as a product designer, demonstrator and musical consultant.

Matt Piper
Matt Piper, author of Reason 4 Ignite, is Line 6’s Propellerhead Product Specialist. Piper is an accomplished musician who makes innovative use of Propellerhead software for music production as well as for live performances with improvisational groups and DJ’s in the thriving underground electronic music scene in Los Angeles.

Peff (aka Kurt Kurasaki)
Kurt Kurasaki, author of Power Tools for Reason 3.0, is a noted Reason user with credits in Keyboard and Computer Music Magazines. He also works with Propellerhead Software as a sound designer and tutorial developer. Known as Peff throughout the Online ReBirth and Reason Communities, Kurt is one of the originators of ReBirth Mods.

Joe Solo
Joe Solo is a composer, producer, and songwriter for his own company Solo Productions, Inc. Previously he served as a composer for BMG’s Killer Tracks, Fox Sports, and worked as a songwriter/composer for Paramount’s Famous Music Publishing. Solo also co-wrote two hit songs, Sweet baby and Glad You’re Here, with Grammy Award winning artist Macy Gray and is currently working on a song for her new album, to be released in 2010.

Michael Elsner
Michael Elsner’s professional career began in 1998 when he moved to Nashville,TN. He began working on projects with such artists as Michael McDonald, Sixpence None The Richer, and Jon Anderson from YES to name just a few. During the four and a half years spent in Nashville, Elsner toured with various artists and in the studio producing and/or playing on countless sessions.

Since June of 2003, Michael Elsner has been living in Los Angeles, CA, where he have played on sessions for Miramax Films, Chrysalis Music Publishing, and various television, album and film projects. Select examples of these include the Ella Enchanted soundtrack, The Ex List, The Young & The Restless, and The Bold & the Beautiful. He have signed publishing deals with a number production music libraries and Elsner’s songs have been placed in various television shows and commercials, including High School Musical 2, Hannah Montana, CBS’s Cold Case, Beyond the Break, ABC’s ‘TV’s All-Time Funniest,’ History Channel’s ‘Modern Marvels,’ Baywatch, ESPN, as well as commercials for Audi, Mazda and Rent Way.

I hope that some Music Jobs Blog readers will be interested in this event. Please report back here if you attend!

Lee Jarvis.

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