ELECTRONIC MUSIC CONFERENCE 2018
announces final program
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A ticket reselling case study; the wellbeing of managers, artists and promoters; the Nightlife Industries Association and how media balance editorial integrity with commercial interests are among the interesting subjects set to be discussed in the new program additions to next week’s essential Asia Pacific music industry event. Speakers from BBE, Rhythm & Vines, Bolster, triple j, Red Light Management and more join artists including Set Mo, CC:Disco, Sunshine, and Simon Caldwell for the EMC 2018 conference program.
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Tickets/Program
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Rounding out the already vibrant content on offer, Electronic Music Conference – the leading electronic music industry event in the Asia Pacific region – have released details of their final 2018 program additions today, announcing a series of new speaker additions and details of several new talks ahead of the action next week. With over 90 speakers about to descend upon EMC, this year’s conference is shaping up to be a truly enormous and comprehensive event, making attendance vital for anyone working in, or passionate about, electronic music in 2018 and beyond.
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Anand & Jess Krishnaswamy & Steven Papas – FOMO Festival
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The national and international team behind Set Mo gather to reflect on the wins and challenges of the Sydney duo’s exhilarating and relentless year of releasing eleven singles, touring Australia and abroad and continuing their songwriting output in On the Couch with Set Mo, facilitated by James Mathison. Promoters Anand Krishnaswamy, Jess Krishnaswamy, and Steven Papas will discuss how they’ve turned FOMO into one of Australia’s leading national touring festivals in just three years in Team BBE: In Conversation with the FOMO champions, facilitated by Sony Music’s Petrina Convey.
Ticket reselling and ticket fraud at Australian festivals and events will be the subject of a presentation by Rhythm & Vines’ Kyle Bell, Eventbrite’s Chris McDonnell and Tixel’s Jason Webb, using the New Zealand music festival as a case study. The go-to agency for many of Australia’s biggest festivals and tours, Bolster have been making data work for Pitch Music & Arts, Beyond The Valley, Strawberry Fields, Ultra Australia, Future Classic and more. In Finding clarity in the mix: using data to cut through the white noise online, Bolster’s Oliver Hall takes us on a data deep dive, demystifying today’s digital marketing landscape. Hall will also join dance music media experts DJ Mag’s Editor Charlotte Lucy Cijffers of London, Sydney’s own Andrew Cotman, of Stoney Roads, with Brynn Davies facilitating, on the panel Media & Native Advertising: Balancing editorial integrity with commercial interests.
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Set Mo
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Four very different, but equally awesome music managers Greg Carey (The Rubens), Lauren Mikkor (Running Touch), Lexy Dobbin (Red Light Management / GG Magree) and Zac Abroms (Vice Royalty/ Alice Ivy) compare their experiences with approaching their own business models and what growth has looked like to them in Grow your own: why a managers business is just as important as their artists.
In an era when #EverybodyWantstobeaDJ, and the internet has made it possible, there’s been a commodification of DJing culture, and an increased focus on branding over substance. EMC has curated a selection of masters of their craft – CC: Disco!, Sunshine, Robbie Lowe, Simon Caldwell, amd Mo’Funk – DJs whose skills and ingenuity have always been at forefront of their successful careers – to converse on the lost artistry of DJing in The Art of DJing. Another DJing discussion from Music NSW’s Emily Collins, AIM’s Lauren Neko and Live Nation’s Renee Hermsen will dive into the various perspectives on the ongoing question Should DJing be considered ‘live music’?, with State governments around the country still yet to clearly identify whether a DJ performance is deemed a live music performance or not.
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CC: Disco!
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With the global dance music community currently prioritising a mental health focus for electronic musicians following Avicii’s tragic death earlier this year, Headspace and Bass CEO Bec Robertson will host three hugely important sessions on Wellbeing and Mindfulness: one for promoters, venue owners and event organisers, another focused on artists, and a third session aimed at managers. Each session will provide invaluable, practical advice for improving mental clarity and wellbeing, tailored to each group.
Representation of people of colour, LGBTQI+ folk, and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds is critical to the cultural health of our events and festivals: in The Art of Inclusive Programming ADE’s Jesler Amarins, triple j’s Dave Ruby Howe, Loren Granich (A Club Called Rhonda) and Inertia’s Uda Widanapathirana will share with VibeLab’s Mirik Milan the ways they have finally honed their skills in programming with diversity and inclusiveness.
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Headspace and Bass CEO Bec Robertson
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The benefits of BlockChain will be illuminated for consumers, creatives, industry and business in an explanatory session hosted by Emanate, with Blond:ish and Gazecoin assisting in demonstrations. The session will guide attendees through the features of BlockChain including instant payments, digital contracts, and global access. Launched on November 7, the Night Time Industries Association has a growing membership of leading creative, hospitality and cultural organisations and a clear policy agenda which will undoubtedly capture the attention of the political parties as they prepare to kick off their own state and federal election campaigns in the new year. Learn more about the important work of the NTIA in The Night Time Industries Association: is this the answer to Sydney’s nightlife issues? with the NTIA’s Michael Rodrigues, Music NSW’s Emily Collins, and Tyson Koh, presided over by Electronic Music Conference Executive Producer Jane Slingo.
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Flexmami
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There’s more to support from the DSPs than simply playlist pitching and placement. Digital marketing specialist Sam Mobarek hosts a Beyond Playlisting: Marketing to DSPs workshop that’s an essential for independent labels, managers, self-managed or self-releasing artists.
Style icon Flexmami will host a Creative Styling session, candidly unveiling the steps stylists take to improve their client’s looks, followed by an interactive, hands-on styling workshop where attendees work on their own image. Another focus on the visual comes by way of talk Lights and Music, where an esteemed group of some of Australia’s leading LX designers and VJs, including Kimberley Bianca, Dan Morgan, Morph and Spook, share their case studies and processes for designing unforgettable productions that take performances to a world class level.
Sampology and Kids At Midnight share with us the methods they are using to hark back to a bygone era in Approaching old sounds the new way, demonstrating methods involving latest technology combined with vintage hardware.
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Sampology (at EMC 2017)
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Recent WA Music Award winners FEELS will present an Ableton live production workshop with Ninajirachi, while in a Techno remix workshop, Brux, CKD and Trinity 2018 will guide attendees through a techno reinterpretation of an iconic 2008 Australian anthem. Beth Yen, Hood Rich and Stace Cadet will give classic house anthem Music is the Answer an update for 2018, and bass baddies Sippy and Oski see if they can get us flinging trap arms when they take on the 1998 classic Right Here, Right Now in their remix workshop. Nightlife’s Jay Mogis will lead Transparency: Clear as mud! including an interactive tech-based approach to transparency in practice, followed by an open Q & A., and attendees at EMC can learn about getting premium sounds with minimised expense in High Value Sounds: Studio on a budget with Acaddamy, Amastro, Jay Sounds & WYN.
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EMC 2018 SPEAKERS (In alphabetical order)
Acaddamy *NEW*
Amastro *NEW*
Arlo Enemark, Xelon *NEW*
Anand Krishnaswamy, BBE *NEW*
Andrew Cotman (Stoney Roads) *NEW*
Aniela Swiatek (Thinking Loud) *NEW*
Alessandro Pavanello (Kanjian Music) (China)
August Cohlmia, Alchemist Group (China)
Ben Tucker (For The Love)
Bec Robertson (Headspace and Bass) *NEW*
Beth Yen *NEW*
BLOND:ISH (Canada)
Brux *NEW*
Brynn Davies *NEW*
CC: Disco! *NEW*
Chad Cohen, United Talent Agency (USA)
Charlotte Lucy Cijffers, DJ Mag (United Kingdom)
Chris McDonnell (Eventbrite) *NEW*
CKD *NEW*
Dan Morgan *NEW*
Dave Ruby Howe (triple j Unearthed / EMCPLAY LIVE) *NEW*
David Whitehead, Roland *NEW*
Double Agent
Eamon Chiffey (Trebl Group)
Emily Collins (MusicNSW) *NEW*
Feels *NEW*
FlexMami
Frank Rodi (APRA AMCOS)
Fryderyk Kublikowski, Splore Festival (NZ) *NEW*
Gilles Peterson
Greg Wilson
Hayden James
Human Movement
Hood Rich *NEW*
Ian Bron, Paradigm Agency (USA)
Jessica Krishnaswamy, BBE *NEW*
James Frew, Emanate *NEW*
James Mathison*NEW*
Jane Slingo (Electronic Music Conference) *NEW*
Jason Webb (Tixel) *NEW*
Jay Mogis, Nightlife *NEW*
Jay sounds *NEW*
Jesler Amarins (ADE) *NEW*
John Watson (ELEVEN: a music company)
Klaus Heavyweight Hill
Kids at Midnight *NEW*
Kimberley Bianca *NEW*
Kyle Bell (Rhythm & Vines) *NEW*
Leanne de Souza (Association of Artist Managers)
Lauren Mikkor
Lauren Neko (Australian Institute of Music) *NEW*
Leotrix
Linda Marigliano, triple j *NEW*
Loren Granich, A Club Called Rhonda (USA)
L.O.U.
Lynne Small (PPCA)
Matt Bird (White Skye)
Michael Rodrigues, Time Out / Night Time Industries Association *NEW*
Mickey Kojak
Mike Warner (Chartmetric) (USA)
Mirik Milan, VibeLab (NETHERLANDS)
Mo’Funk *NEW*
Morph *NEW*
Murat Kilic, Gazecoin *NEW*
Ninajirachi *NEW*
Oliver Hall (Bolster) *NEW*
OSKI *NEW*
Paul Stix (undr Ctrl) *NEW*
Petrina Convey, Sony Music Australia *NEW*
Renee Hermsen (Live Nation) *NEW*
Richard Mallett, APRA AMCOS
Rob Harker, Supermodified Agency (ASIA)
Robbie Lowe *NEW*
Ryan Everton, Globelet (NZ/AUS)
Ryan Wilson, Listen Up Asia (Hong Kong / AUS)
Sam Mobarek (Mob Music) *NEW*
Sampology *NEW*
SASHA (United Kingdom)
Set Mo *NEW*
Simon Moor (Kobalt) *NEW*
Simon Caldwell *NEW*
Sippy *NEW*
Spook *NEW*
Stace Cadet *NEW*
Sunshine *NEW*
Steven Papas, BBE *NEW*
Toni Tamborine (Neighbourhood) *NEW*
Tyson Koh, Keep Sydney Open *NEW*
Trinity *NEW*
Uda Widanapathirana (Mellum / Inertia) *NEW*
White Sky (AUS)
Wyn *NEW*
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Electronic Music Conference will take place at Sydney’s University of Technology next week, across two action-packed days. Those passionate about electronic music culture will have the opportunity to attend keynotes, In Conversations, workshops, masterclasses, breakout sessions and networking events, as well as enjoy a curated evening program of after dark parties, film screenings and club nights, EMCPLAY: a showcase of both exciting new emerging electronic music talent and revered artists.
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Wednesday 14 November – Thursday 15 November, 2018
Dr Chau Chak Wing Building, UTS Ultimo
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