PHILADELPHIA MUSIC PROJECT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
Artist Friendly Record Labels/Distribution Outlets Monday, November 6, 2006 Settlement Music School, Presser Auditorium 416 Queen Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147
RSVP Deadline: Monday, October 30 To RSVP for this event, please complete the accompanying form and return it by fax to 267 350 4998 or call PMP at 267 350 4960
9 – 9:30 am Registration 9:30 am – noon Roundtable noon – 1:30 pm Lunch
featuring
Philip Blackburn (moderator), innova, American Composers Forum Rick Reed Emusic Jane Ira Bloom Artistshare Recording Artist Lyn Liston American Music Center
The Philadelphia Music Project convenes a panel representing innova, Artistshare, Emusic, and the American Music Center, all of which have developed artist friendly business models for recording and distributing music. Panelists will present an overview of their work, discussing donor and fan cultivation opportunities, copyright ownership, and financial investment and control of recordings. The panel will also explore the capabilities and impact of emerging technology on the music industry, including internet radio and online digital retail outlets. “Some of my close friends—mostly Jazz musicians— were being pushed around by unethical record companies. It made me angry to see my friends being taken advantage of—I just felt like there had to be a more musicianfriendly way.” Brian Camelio, Founder and Director, Artistshare
This event is produced by the Philadelphia Music Project, an Artistic Initiative funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts, administered by The University of the Arts. Free Parking is available.
Philip Blackburn, Director, innova records, Director of Artist Services, American Composers Forum A native of Cambridge, England, Philip Blackburn attended Cambridge University on a choral scholarship. He subsequently moved to Iowa City to study composition with Kenneth Gaburo, receiving his Ph.D. in 1989. He has taught classes in experimental instrument building and free improvisation, directed vocal and instrumental ensembles, and composed works and installations for tape, video, chamber ensemble, and dance. His works for untrained performers explore the connections between music and meditation. His major series of publications, “Enclosures,” on the American composer Harry Partch, has earned wide recognition (including an ASCAP Deems Taylor award). Philip writes on Vietnamese music, the sociology of music, and the use of sound in public art. He designs CDs, is developing a Sonic Playground project, and serves on the board of the East Side Arts Council. Rick Reed, Label Relations Manager, Emusic Rick Reed has been a professional musician for 35+ years, having worked with several bands and artists, both touring and recording. He’s performed on stage with and / or recorded with Slash, Marty Chambers, Warren Di Martini, Tony Sales, Molly Hatchet, Vinnie Vincent, and numerous others; famous and not so famous! He’s also been featured vocalist in over 200 national radio and television commercials, including spots for Budweiser and Domino’s Pizza. Rick began his digital music distribution “gig” at MP3.com in 1999 and moved to eMusic in 2003 as a Label Relations Manager. In that position, Rick is the liaison between over 130 labels and eMusic. Ensuring that releases hit street date, managing a huge flow of content, providing content for on and off site promotions, funneling new, hot and high profile content to editorial and merchandising staff for consideration for features, interviews, site placement, etc. are just a few of the things on the daily task list. In 2006 Rick has been a featured panelist at SWSW in Austin, Texas, Indie Impact (Memphis Chapter of the Grammys) in Memphis, Tenn., and the Latin Alternative Music Conference in New York City, on topics related to the inner-workings of digital music and how artists and labels both can benefit from it utilizing all the tools available to them. Jane Ira Bloom, composer/saxophonist/recording artist, Artistshare Soprano saxophonist/composer Jane Ira Bloom is a pioneer in the use of live electronics and movement in jazz. Winner of the Jazz Journalists Association Award & the Downbeat International Critics Poll for soprano saxophone, the IWJ Jazz Masters Award, and the Charlie Parker Fellowship for jazz innovation, Bloom, a former NASA artist, was also honored by having an asteroid named in her honor by the International Astronomical Union (asteroid 6083janeirabloom). She has performed at the National Air & Space Museum’s Einstein Planetarium, Carnegie Hall, MOMA, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Space Center, the Houston Astrodome, as well as clubs and jazz festivals worldwide. She has received numerous commissions including the Philadelphia Music Project’s 2003 support for Unexpected Light - a unique collaboration of improvised sound & light with world renowned lighting designer James F. Ingalls. She has composed for the American Composers Orchestra, the St Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, and the Pilobolus, Paradigm, and Philadanco Dance Companies integrating jazz performers in new settings. Bloom is on the faculty of the New School for Jazz & Contemporary Music in NYC. She has recorded and produced 12 albums of her music dating from 1977 to the present. In 1976 she started her own Outline record label and later recorded for ENJA, CBS, and Arabesque Records. Her latest CD Like Silver, Like Song on the innovative ArtistShare label appears on numerous top ten jazz lists and is available at: www.janeirabloom.com. Lyn Liston, Director of New Music Information Services, American Music Center Lyn Liston has worked in New Music Information Services at the American Music Center since 2000. Prior to joining the staff there she worked for four years in music promotion and publishing at Boosey & Hawkes, where she promoted the B&H catalog to orchestras, chamber music groups, opera companies, soloists, and others, and spearheaded the promotion of music to US and Canadian choreographers and dance companies. In addition to music publishing, she has worked in the recording industry as a packaging manager for Sony Classical and in the dance industry as Booking and Public Relations Manager for H.T. Chen & Dancers. Ms. Liston received a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of South Carolina and a Master of Music degree in classical guitar performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. In Cincinnati, she worked for Music Teachers National Association/American Music Teacher magazine, where she was Editorial and Publicity Assistant. After receiving her MM degree, she taught music history to non-music majors at the University of South Carolina at Spartanburg and at Gardner-Webb University in North Carolina, and always required students in those courses to listen to contemporary music by American composers.