[Fmpro] ASCAP Cues and their great events

[Michael S Patterson]

I¹ve been holding my breathe till the official announcement but I
have a film premiering at the upcoming Sundance called HALF-LIFE.
For anyone who would remember, two years ago I had another film
THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED that premiered at Sundance. When I came
back, I posted here how I wasn¹t even aloud into the ASCAP Café (I even
whipped out my member card). Hopefully this year, I¹ll be able to get in
touch with those who put this function together.

I did get an apology email from ASCAP due to my posting here.

Is there anyone here who has contact info for the people at ASCAP that
put together the Sundance functions?

I¹d love to bring back a little bit of what Linda Kordek and Mark Governor
envisioned. 
 
Michael S Patterson



On 11/24/07 7:13 PM, "Mark Northam" <mnortham at gmdgroup.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> On 11/24/07 6:42 PM, "Marinho Nobre" <marinho at manommg.com> wrote:
> 
>> Not quite sure the Global Media event was placed the same year, but the one I
>> went I signed in through the ASCAP website as ASCAP members had a substantial
>> discount to sign in. I found about it from one of their newsletters.  Their
>> name was on every banner everywhere, so we are probably talking about
>> different events. Just surprised I did not know about yours, do you remember
>> if it was before or after theirs?
> 
> They do theirs in the spring (April), for the last 2 years The Composer Expo
> was in July or August. In 2008 we're producing 2 events:
> 
> The Composer Expo East - New York City - September 20, 2008
> The Composer Expo West - Los Angeles, September 27, 2008
> 
> We created The Composer Expo because, frankly, I was sick and tired of going
> to "Film & TV Music" branded events and shows where, despite the vast
> majority of music in film/TV is score, the vast majority of the time was
> spent talking about and promoting music supervisors and songs. The
> systematic minimization and marginalization of score music is just terrible
> at many of these events, and we wanted to create an event that was all about
> SCORE music - instrumental music for film, TV and videogames.
> 
> A perfect example of this is the "ASCAP Sundance Music Café" where 99% of
> the music is songwriters and bands, despite the fact that the vast majority
> of music in the films at Sundance is written by composers. This great
> concept was originally pitched to ASCAP LA by agent Linda Kordek and
> composer Mark Governor as a way to expose composers to a wider audience by
> creating a coffeehouse atmosphere where every table would have a CD jukebox
> full of score CDs from films at Sundance. Instead, in classic ASCAP style,
> composers are rarely seen, and instead it's been turned into a song-fest.
> 
> It's sad when generic music (songs) which are dropped into films are now
> being thought of as "film music" and paid top dollar while ORIGINAL music
> custom written for films (score) continues to be marginalized, minimized,
> and paid substandard rates by the PROs. I cannot imagine a single other
> industry where custom product is paid and treated so poorly compared to
> generic product. But you've got to hand it to ASCAP's ruling songwriters -
> regarding composers they've brilliantly managed to devalue, demoralize, and
> divide an entire industry. Now they're steadily working to redefine "film
> music" as song placements. Brilliant.
> 
> 
> Best,
> 
> Mark Northam
> 
> 
> 
> 
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