[Fmpro] ASCAP Cues and their great events

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael S Patterson [mailto:doc_absynthe at yahoo.com]
>Sent: Saturday, December 1, 2007 01:07 AM
>To: fmpro at nxport.com
>Subject: Re: [Fmpro] ASCAP Cues and their great events
>
>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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