Our Music As a Business
Our Music As a Business
The NZ
Music Managers Forum and the NZ Music Commission are proud
to announce the return of The Official 2013 Music Month
Summit on May 25th.
The theme for this year’s
summit is “Your Music As A Business”.
The
Summit is a FREE day of seminars featuring musicians, music
industry specialists and traditional business practitioners
who discuss and explain the behind the scenes intricacies of
the New Zealand music industry and how you should look at
treating your music as a business.
The Official NZ
Music Month Summit
Q Theatre, 305 Queen Street,
Auckland
Saturday May 25th
10am to
5pm
SEMINAR ONE – Your band as a
brand
Presented by Te Puni
Kokiri
10.00am –
11.00am
How and where bands promote and
distribute their music has evolved from the traditional,
resulting in a need for a change in their approach to
marketing. We ask why branding has become so important and
challenge the thinking… if it’s all about the music, is
branding a band selling out?
In this seminar you
will hear from experts who will give their thoughts on why
considered marketing and appropriate branding is so
important to the success of the music reaching it’s
audience.
Speakers: Mikee
Tucker – LOOP (Fly My Pretties, Tommy Ill,
AHoriBuzz), Ninakaye Taane-Tinorau - Tikidub Productions
(Tiki Taane), Phil Bell – Mai FM, Pete Dick –
Beck’s.
SEMINAR TWO – Radio & the
online world
Presented by NZ On
Air
11.30am –
12.30pm
With the changing music landscape and
how people listen to music, we discuss how radio is still an
important part of a band’s branding strategy and marketing
process. Does the public still listen to radio for the
music?
Is it radio or online platforms that have
contributed to the rise in single sales? This seminar
looks at what the impact of online platforms has had on
bands’ approach to
marketing.
Speakers: Chris
Caddick – RIANZ, Scott Maclachlan – Universal Music,
David Brice – The Radio Network, Brendan Smyth – NZ On
Air.
SEMINAR THREE – International Trade
Fairs
Presented by The NZ Music
Commission
1.30pm –
2.30pm
International Trade Fairs – How
important are they to your international
business?
A panel of music industry professionals
who have attended a variety of international trade fairs,
discuss the pros' and con's of bands or managers attending:
WOMEX, AWME, MIDEM, SXSW, Canadian Music Week, CMJ, Big
Sound, The Great Escape, Reeperbaan, Muse
Expo.
Speakers: Matt
Coleman – Let The People Speak Management (Jupiter
Project, Artisan Guns, Midnight Youth, Avalanche City, Tom
Lark, Titanium, Sound The Ocean, Massad), Janette Searle –
The Playground (Sola Rosa, Kara Gordon, Anna Coddington, Ash
Graham), Ben Howe – Arch Hill, Flying Nun &
Laneway, Alan Holt – NZ Music
Commission.
SEMINAR FOUR – Be your own
record company
Presented by PPNZ
Music Licensing
3.00pm –
4.00pm
Traditionally releasing an album was left
up to the major labels and intrepid independents. However
there are many bands that have successfully self-released
albums to extremely high chart debuts and critical
acclaim.
In this seminar our panel will talk about
putting together an album release strategy, giving you
insight into the tools needed to self release your album and
how to do it
successfully.
Speakers: Ben
Howe – Arch Hill, Flying Nun & Laneway, Janine Russell
– Noise PR (Beastwars, Iva Lamkum, Clap Clap Riot, Tama
Waipara), Kimi Coleman – Let The People Speak Management
(Jupiter Project, Artisan Guns, Midnight Youth, Avalanche
City, Tom Lark, Titanium, Sound The Ocean, Massad), Tana
Tupai – Self-Managed Artist (Tomorrow
People).
ONE ON ONE SPEED
NETWORKING
Presented by the MMF New
Zealand
For members of the Music Managers'
Forum each seminar will be followed by the highly successful
speed networking sessions, where members get the exclusive
opportunity to speak one on one with a range of the day's
speakers. If you are not yet a member but would like to
take part in these mentoring sessions, you can become a
member via www.mmf.co.nz prior to the
day.
For more information please visit www.mmf.co.nz
The
Official New Zealand Music Month Summit presented by the NZ
Music Managers Forum and The New Zealand Music Commission
and proudly supported by PPNZ Music Licensing, NZ On Air,
IMNZ and Te Puni
Kokiri.
ENDS