Sept 1, 2010 – New York, NY – CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival has announced its first round of panels including:
From Crowd Surfing To Crowd Funding
Making Money In A Singles Market
How To Sell 500 Tickets In 5 Markets
Free Your Copyright, And The Rest Will Follow
Quantifying Analytics; Let The Data Decide
Getting Paid From The Song
Hey Mr. DJ, Put A Record On… A Real One
Tailored Plans For Modern Bands
Hip-Hop For Profit
Hitting Your Target: Using Adwords, Facebook Ads & Blog Networks To Reach Your Fans
Labels In The Black And How They Are Succeeding
So You Want To Be A Music Blogger, Who Cares?
Take Back The Mic
Challenging Hip-Hop Stereotypes
Taking It From The Home Studio To The Next Level
Taming Your Social Media Beast
The “Free Play For Free Promotion” Free-For-All
The 360 Deal Does A 180
The Sync Is Clogged
Today’s Featured Download
Your Brand Is Your Future
For full descriptions, visit http://www.cmj2010.com/panels. More panels and panelists will be announced in the coming weeks.
CMJ Music Marathon has also teamed up with SonicScoop to present “Studio Time,” a two-part program open to all CMJ badge holders, focusing on music production mastery, with ‘Mix Reconstruction’ and ‘Rough to Refined: Exploring Recording from the Demo to the Finished Product.’ “Studio Time” provides emerging artists, engineers and producers with recording and mixing insights and inspiration from expert music creators.
Along with panels, the first round of performing artists was announced this week, including acts such as: DeVotchKa, Surfer Blood, Two Door Cinema Club, School of Seven Bells, Bad Books (feat. Kevin Devine and Manchester Orchestra), Four Tet, and many more. Please go to www.cmj.com/marathon for more artists.
2010 brings the launch of CMJ Play, the first-ever intensive gaming and music seminar on October 20th, 2010. It will be a one-day summit featuring key gaming and music leaders hosted by CMJ Music Marathon in association with the Music Video Game Research Project at NYU Steinhardt at New York University’s Helen and Martin Kimmel Center for University Life, in the Richard L. Rosenthal Pavilion. Registration for CMJ Play is open at www.cmj.com/marathon. Registration fee of $149 includes admission to this one-day event, the interactive exhibit area, CMJ Music Marathon Exhibit Lounge and evening showcases during October 20, 2010 only (All CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival badge holders are of course welcome to attend).
CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival is one of the world’s most important platforms for the discovery of new music and cutting-edge films, and will take over New York City from October 19-23, 2010. Over five nonstop days and nights, CMJ will feature over 1200 live performances from over 30 countries in more than 75 of New York City’s greatest venues and theaters. In addition to hundreds of showcase performances, cutting-edge films and informative panels, CMJ 2010 will present over 70 panels including featured speakers, a music business law seminar, and College Day and will feature live music performances, exclusive parties, an exhibitor loft, a registrant lounge, an artist gifting suite, meet and greets, seminars, mentoring sessions, networking events, comedy showcases, Q&As, and special events.
For the latest news, artist updates, discount badge registration and more information visit: www.cmj.com/marathon.
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