Panelist and Speaker Bios

Paul Anthony CEO, Rumblefish, Inc.
Panel: Publishers: The New Record Label?

About Rumblefish: Rumblefish, Inc. has been a pioneer in the development of strategic music branding and licensing services since its founding in 1996. The multidisciplinary agency helps organizations build stronger customer relationships through music -- first, by developing distinct music identities that express clients' unique brand attributes; and second, by creating music branding programs that enrich their customers' brand experiences. Rumblefish recently launched the first online Music Licensing Store(SM) (MLS) to make licensing music fast, easy and affordable. MLS offers a broad range of authentic, independent music for use on television programs, films, Web sites, podcasts and more. Rumblefish clients include NBC-Universal, HBO, Nike, The North Face, adidas Originals, Red Bull, MTV, Mitsubishi and Pabst Blue Ribbon. For more information, visit www.rumblefish.com Paul is a regular speaker at trade shows and seminars internationally and an intellectually property expert regarding the use of music related copyrights. Outside the world of music, Paul is a published author & photographer and has a habit of thrillseeking.


Kevin Arnold Founder/CEO, IODA
Panel: Cashflow: Revenue in the Digital Age

IODA founder Kevin Arnold is a terminal music fan and music technology geek. In 1993 he created the seminal indie rock music festival Noise Pop in his adopted hometown of San Francisco, and for the past 11 years has watched it grow from a one night shindig to an internationally renowned sprawling week-long celebration of quality music, film, and independent culture. Noise Pop has become an institution in the Bay Area, and continually strives to foster the growth of local up-and-coming musicians while showcasing the best of regional and national independent music. Somewhere in there he got a computer day job, worked his way through a stint at database technology leader Oracle, and eventually ended up at the online music company Listen.com. As Director of Data Services for Listen, he was able to combine his loves for music and technology by guiding the growth and development of Listen's complex music metadata database systems, data integration tools, and music royalty data warehouse. While the prospect of creating compelling legal music services that catered to individual tastes in new ways was exciting, the realization that they would be focused overwhelmingly on major label music wasn't. Kevin is also the founder and chairman of Bay Area music nonprofit The Popular Noise Foundation. PNF was created in late 2000 at the height of the "dot-com boom" in San Francisco, when the sale of a local music rehearsal space building to a tele-communications company underscored the urgent situation of many musicians and artists in the City that could no longer afford to live and practice their art. PNF has operated programs to study the space needs of musicians in the city, promote live music entertainment, and educate the public on the local music community, and is planning a Musician's Grant Program to connect local musicians with resources from the community to further their art. In 2004 Kevin was invited to join the Advisory Board of the Future of Music Coalition, a forward-thinking not-for-profit organization dedicated to educating the media, policymakers, and the public on issues at the intersection of music and technology, and collaborating on creative solutions to challenges in this space. With IODA, Kevin brings this dedication to music and the prosperity of the independent community together with a unique understanding of the digital music world and the technical knowledge to build a solution that can benefit the independent rightsholder community at large as well as the growing digital music industry.


Michel Arpin Vice-chairman, Broadcasting and member of the Commission, Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission
Panel: Station to Station, Across the Nations: Radio Now and in the Future

MICHEL ARPIN MICHEL ARPIN was appointed Vice-Chairperson, Broadcasting, on August 31, 2005. Before this appointment, he worked as Senior Regulatory and Governmental Affairs Advisor for the Astral Broadcasting Group. Mr. Arpin has been working in the television and broadcasting industry since 1963. In 1984, he was appointed Vice-President, Planning, and Corporate Secretary for Radiomutuel Inc. In December 1982, he was President of the regional stations of Mutual Broadcasting Canada Ltd. Mr. Arpin joined Civitas Corporation Ltd. as Director of Corporate Development in December 1979. From 1971 to 1979, he held a variety of positions within the CRTC, including Director of Operations (1977) and Director General, Programming (1978). He has also served as Vice-Chair and Chair of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB), Director and Secretary-Treasurer of the BBM Bureau of Measurement, Director and President of the Association canadienne de la radio et de la télévision de langue française, as well as Director and Corporate Secretary of MusiquePlus. Mr. Arpins term ends on August 30, 2010.


Alexandre Auché Director/Booking Agent, High Food International Booking Agency
Panel: International Touring and Visas


Stacy Baird Technology and Intellectual Property Consultant, former Senior Policy Advisor to U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell and advisor to U.S. Congressman Howard Berman
Panel: Format Wars: Digital Rights Management and Interoperability

Mr. Baird has served as Senior Policy Advisor to U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell, a member of the Senate Commerce Committee and a thought leader on issues relating to technology and entertainment. Baird served as Technology and Intellectual Property Counsel to the Senator when she was a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. He worked extensively on landmark legislation including the USA Patriot Act and the Homeland Security Act, 2002 immigration and border security reform, the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act ("No Child Left Behind", the Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization Act (TEACH Act), Senator Cantwell's legislation to assist victims of identity theft and legislation to address methamphetamine abuse. Previously, Mr. Baird was Brookings Legislative Fellow to U.S. Representative Howard Berman, Ranking Democrat on the Courts and Intellectual Property Subcommittee of the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee. He advised Congressman Berman on the Internet and intellectual property issues as these areas collided with the advent of Napster. He was responsible for Representative Berman's 1999 patent reform bill to address Internet 'business-method' and biotech patents, and was a principle negotiator on the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (E-SIGN Act). Prior to entering the field of law, Mr. Baird was a recording engineer in Los Angeles and San Francisco for 13 years. He enjoyed working with a wide range of artists including Madonna, Stevie Nicks, Elvis Costello, Los Lobos, The Tubes, Bill Summers, Dead Kennedys, The Avengers, and producers T Bone Burnett and Rick Nowels. He began his career working as engineer on such noteworthy projects as Brian Eno and David Byrne's "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" and the soundtrack for Francis Coppola's Academy-Award winning "Apocalypse Now." Mr. Baird currently advises on technology, intellectual property and public policy issues. He lives in Hong Kong and Hollywood with his wife, an International Lawyer, and son.


Bernie Bankrupt musician, Lesbians On Ecstasy
Panel: Young Musicians Panel

Bernie Bankrupt is originally from sunny Summerland, BC and has lived in Montreal since 1992. Coming from a background in theatre and multi-media performance she made the transition into electronic music in 1999 with the duo Boyfriend. Boyfriend started out making music for karaoke videos and ended up with residencies in art centres in locations such as Riga, Latvia and Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec. The Lesbians On Ecstasy began in 2003 as a one-time performance at a feminist electronic art event entitled Les Htmelles. Since then the group has been invited to perform all over North America and Europe in art galleries and squats, rock venues and nightclubs. The Lezzies are a plunder music project, taking inspiration from the lesbian back catalogue by referencing folk artists and punk bands alike, re-writing lesbian history for the dance floor. The new album is focused on womyn's music from the 70s, both in terms of content and style. One of the obsessions of The Lesbians has been to develop their own way of playing live dance music, using an electronic drum kit, bass guitar and an array of synths. Last year Bernadette started the BEMF (Bernie's Electronic Music Festival) with skill-sharing afternoon workshops and sloppy late-night parties. She has also served on the Board of Directors at StudioXX since 2004 and is in the process of completing her MA in Media Studies at Concordia University in Montreal.


Eric Baptiste Director General, CISAC
Panel: In Perfect Harmony: International Copyright Issues

Born in 1961, Eric Baptiste became Director General of the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC) on 1st February 1999. CISAC is an international organisation grouping 210 authors societies in 109 countries. Under Baptistes impetus, CISAC strives to be a proactive organisation in the service of its members, developing innovative solutions to facilitate the digital use of creators works. In addition to his activities within CISAC, Eric Baptiste has remained faithful to his commitment in favour of new talent in French music and is currently: " Secretary General of the board of Francophonie diffusion (since 1997) " Founder and Vice-President of Radio NEO, a non-commercial radio exclusively devoted to new musical talent in the French-speaking world (since 2000) After graduating from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (IEP) and the Ecole nationale d'administration (ENA), Eric Baptiste has been: " Chairman of the working party on relations between the radio and the music sector, set up by the French Ministry of Culture (2001 and 2002) " CEO Radio 95.2 Paris (1996 - 1998) " Executive President of Musiques France Plus (1995 - 1998) " Chairman of trade association Vive la Radio (1994 - 1998) " Adviser to the chairman of Radio France International, and VP in charge of international development and partnerships (1995 - 1996) " General Manager of Radio France International (1990 - 1995) " Auditeur and then Maître des requêtes to the Council of State (1986 - 1990) In 2006, Eric Baptiste received the French medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters


David Basskin President, CMRRA Ltd.
Panel: Cashflow: Revenue in the Digital Age

David A. Basskin is President of the Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency Ltd. (CMRRA) and Counsel to the Canadian Music Publishers Association (CMPA). He was educated at the University of Toronto, from which he received his B.A. in 1974 and his M.B.A. in 2003. He attended Osgoode Hall Law School, where he obtained his LL.B. in 1977, and his LL.M. in 1999. Mr. Basskin was called to the bar of Ontario in 1979. Prior to joining CMRRA and CMPA, Mr. Basskin worked as a Law Clerk to the Chief Justice of the High Court of Ontario, as Corporate Secretary and Legal Counsel to CTV Television Network Ltd. and was a member of the legal department of Nelvana Limited, a major Canadian producer of films and television programs. Mr. Basskin joined CMRRA and CMPA in 1989. CMRRA is Canada's largest music licensing agency and licenses music publishing rights on behalf of thousands of music publishers and copyright owners to record companies, internet music distributors and film and television producers. As CMRRA's President, Mr. Basskin directs the negotiation and administration of the industry-standard agreements for the licensing of music reproduction and distribution on CD's and the Internet. Mr. Basskin also acts as Counsel to CMRRA's parent body, the Canadian Music Publishers Asso-ciation (CMPA) and acts as CMPA's advocate in such areas as copyright reform, the information highway, telecommunications and broadcast policy and appears before parliamentary committees, the CRTC and other government bodies.


Daniel Beirne Doctor, Said the Gramophone
Panel: Meet the Mini-Me-dia

Born in Ottawa. Lives in Montreal. Writes about music. Acts in plays. Makes movies. Walks around like an idiot.


Howard Bilerman Studio Producer, .
Panel: Producers' Panel: What's Wrong with Music?


Jean-Robert Bisaillon Founder, SOPREF - YouYou Veille stratégique
Panel: La Boutique Québécoise: The Vibrant Francophone Music Industry

Jean-Robert Bisaillon has created SOPREF in 1997, following the Forum des musiques amplifiées, a conference aimed at giving a voice to alternative and self-produced musical artists of the province of Quebec. He had been an active musician and manager of his bands prior to that. He also worked as a sales rep for several years at Cargo Records during their good Montreal days& He now is secretary of the board for SOPREF and LOCAL Distribution (collective distributor), participatory economy structures for musicians. He is also present on the boards of Musicaction (public financing body), SPACQ (authors and composers), Francouvertes (band contest) and APLAS (small concert venues). He has just co-writen with Jean-Noël Bigotti, an indie music trade guide between France and Quebec/Canada, published by SOPREF and french structure IRMA. He is the editorial columnist of BANDEAPART.FM a new music web and radio initiative from Radio-Canada, available on Sirius at band 93. www.youyou.ca http://bandeapart.fm/edito.asp http://www.myspace.com/youyouca


Raymond Bisha Radio Promotions Manager - North America, Naxos
Panel: Consonance/Dissonance: How Orchestras are Navigating Change

2006 - Radio Promotions Manager  North America; additional duties include Canadian sales and marketing of the Naxos Music Library. 2005 - Podcast host / producer; research, write, record and produce podcasts for international distribution. These weekly 20 minute podcasts appear on Naxos.com, iTunes, towerrecords.com, plus dozens of other music sites around the world. 2004 - 2006 National Press and Promotions Manager, National Sales Manager for the Naxos Music Library: (an on-line listening library) with responsibilities to manage Canadian sales staff, coordinate with USA head office staff, set all targets and strategies to successfully launch product and maximize sales. Responsible for product presentations at conferences, trade shows and sales meetings, sales calls, reporting and tracking of results. 2001  2003 Deputy General Manager, Naxos of Canada (interim position during company re-organization), plus National Press & Marketing Manager: Duties included transition management to re-structured company, management of all operational issues, marketing planning and implementation, radio and print advertisement design, copywriting and production coordination, promotion of Naxos in new media and markets 1994  2001 National Promotion and Marketing Manager: Naxos of Canada. Duties included all contact with Canadian media and reviewers, website design and maintenance for Naxos of Canada, marketing planning and implementation, special events planning 1990  1994 Producer / Studio Director, CBC Radio Two: Duties included daily programming of Stereo Morning including music and interview features, studio direction of program live-to-air, program direction while on location outside studio 1989  1990 Tour Manager, Canadian Opera Company: Duties included planning and producing opera touring activities in Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland. Job included management of touring opera company, orchestra and technical support staff; liaising with sponsors, local production staff, volunteers; day-to-day financial management of touring company in accordance with tour budget guidelines. 1987  1989 Television Production Manager, Canadian Opera Company: Planned and implemented a $1.8 million project to produce 3 operas for television / video. Production partners included CBC Television, Telefilm Canada, Ontario Film Development Corporation, Primedia, Canadian Opera Company. Projected completed on time and within budget. 1984  1987 Professional orchestral musician: based in Germany (French Horn). Work placements included Landestheater Detmold, Remschieder Staatsorchester, Beethovenhalle Bonn, Cologne Opera Orchesta, Staatsorchester Solingen, Luxembourg Radio and Television Orchestra, Brussels National Opera Orchestra 1982  1984 Free-lance professional musician: based in Toronto: National Ballet of Canada Orchestra, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra London, CJRT Orchestra, Symphony Nova Scotia


John Black Audio-Visual Collections and Services Coordinator, Marvin Duchow Music Library of McGill University
Panel: Losing Music: Preservation and Storage

My position at the Marvin Duchow Music Library is Audio-Visual Collections and Services Coordinator. I have worked in the Marvin Duchow Music Library for thirty years now. My hobbies include collecting recordings in most genres of music, although the majority of my collection is western classical music.


Mario Bouchard General Counsel, Canadian Copyright Board
Panel: Could P2P Networks be Monetized?


Mario Bouchard General Counsel, Canadian Copyright Board
Panel: How The Money Moves


Denys Bouliane Professor, McGill University / Schulich School of Music
Panel: Consonance/Dissonance: How Orchestras are Navigating Change

Denys Bouliane is considered one of the most prominent Canadian composers; since two decades his music has received much international attention in festivals like ISCM (International Society for Contemporary Music), Musik der Zeit Köln, Musik der Zeit Stuttgart, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Pro Musica Nova Bremen, Frankfurt Alte Oper, Wittener Tage für Neue Musik, Darmstadt, A*Devantgarde in Munich, Tage für Neue Musik Zürich, Wien Incident in Jazz, Salzburg stART Festival, Gaudeamus MusikWeek, Holland Festival, Ars Musica Brussels, Rencontres internationales de Metz, 38è Rugissants in Grenoble, Musiques en scène Lyon, Royaumont Voix Nouvelles, Radio-France Présences, Canterbury Festival, London South Bank, Music of Today, San Francisco Wet Ink, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Telluride Colorado, Québec Musiques-au- présent, MNM (Montréal/Nouvelles Musiques) international Festival, Toronto Massey Hall Festival, Toronto Encounters, Winnipeg New Music Festival, Ekatarinenburg Music Festival. His works have been regularly broadcast in North America and throughout Europe, commissioned and performed by such Canadian ensembles as the SMCQ (Société de musique contemporaine du Québec), the NEM (Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Montréal), the Fibonacci Trio and the Bozzini Quartet, New Music Concerts, Soundstream, by European ensembles such as Ensemble Köln, Ensemble Modern, MusikFabrik, the Stuttgart Windquintet, the Calamus Quintet, Contrasts (West Germany), KlangForum Wien (Austria), the Delta Ensemble and the Nederlands Blazers Ensemble (Amsterdam), the London Sinfonietta, the Nash Ensemble, Lontano and Continuum (London), lItinéraire, Court-Circuit (Paris), orchestras like lOrchestre symphonique de Québec, lOrchestre symphonique de Montréal, the Toronto Symphony, Esprit Orchestra, the Winnipeg Symphony, the National Arts Center Orchestra (Ottawa), the Philharmonia Orchestra (London), the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Heidelberg Philarmonisches Orchester, the Bochumer Symphoniker, the WDR Sinfonieorchester, the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg. He is currently Composer-in-Residence at the National Arts Center Orchestra in Ottawa, a position he occupied from 1992 to 1995 at the Orchestre symphonique de Québec and in 1995-96 at the Heidelberg Philharmonisches Orchester in Germany. Bouliane is equally very active as a pedagogue, conductor and new music organizer in Canada and abroad. Since 1995 he has been Professor of composition at McGill University and since 1996 Music Director of the McGill Contemporary MusicEnsemble. He has been regularly guest lecturer at several universities, conservatories and international festivals, as well as a contributor to radio programs and specialized periodicals in America and Europe. He has been guest to the Darmstädter Ferienkurse, the Kölner Hochschule für Musik, the Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart, the Musikkonservatorium in Zürich, the Royal College of Music in London, the Trinity College of Music, the Moscow Conservatory, the University of Toronto, the Université de Montréal, the Escuela Superior de Musica (CENART) and the Conservatorio Nacional de Musica in Mexico, the Northwestern University, the Levine School of Music in Washington, the Peabody Conservatory and the Manhattan School of Music.


Michael Bracy Policy Director and Co-founder, Future of Music Coalition
Panel: Policymaking: How to Make an Impact


Michael Bracy Policy Director and Co-founder, Future of Music Coalition
Panel: Station to Station, Across the Nations: Radio Now and in the Future

Michael Bracy is a partner in the government affairs firm Bracy Tucker Brown & Valanzano. He also co-founded the Future of Music Coalition and currently serves as a board member and Policy Director and co-owns Misra, an independent record label based in Austin, Texas. Michael is known for his policy work in front of Congress and the FCC, including media consolidation, radio regulation (including Low Power FM), and ensuring public interest principles are at the heart of the legal structures that will help dictate new technological frameworks. Michael is a recognized public advocate both for the music community and for the need for increased citizen participation in the policy process. He has testified before the Congress and the FCC, and speaks often on these issues at conferences and in the media, including CNN, MSNBC, National Public Radio, Washington Post, New York Times, Billboard and elsewhere. Michael attended Georgetown University, where his courtship with his future wife, Kelly, began in earnest when they co-hosted a radio show on the campus station. After graduation, Kelly and Michael spent seven years in Seattle, where Michael worked in the educational communications field specializing in producing and directing live, interactive educational and government television programming. Kelly and Michael have three children, Eliza, Sophie and Owen, and live in Arlington, VA.


Laura Brownell Director Symphonic Services Division, American Federation of Musicians
Panel: Consonance/Dissonance: How Orchestras are Navigating Change

LAURA BROWNELL was appointed Director, Symphonic Services Division, American Federation of Musicians, in August 2004 after serving for ten years in a similar capacity for the AFM Canadian Office. Prior to joining the AFM she worked for many years as a symphonic and free-lance musician in the Toronto area. Her AFM experience includes dozens of symphony, theatre, and electronic media negotiations as well as active involvement in issues at the industry level in both Canada and the U.S. She has served on joint labor-management committees of the American Symphony Orchestra League, Orchestras Canada, and the Canadian Conference of the Arts. She holds a Bachelors degree in Violin Performance from the University of Michigan and a Master of Industrial Relations from the University of Toronto.


Win Butler Musician, Arcade Fire
Panel: Young Musicians Panel


David Byrne .,
Panel: Record Companies: Who Needs Them?

Born Dumbarton, Scotland. Currently lives in New York. Attended Rhode Island School of Design and Maryland Institute College of Art. MUSIC: David Byrne is well known as the musician who co-founded the group Talking Heads (1976-88) in New York. On record and in concert, the band was acclaimed by critics and audiences alike; more importantly, however, they have proven to be extremely influential. Talking Heads took popular music in new directions, both in terms of sound and lyrics, and also introduced an innovative visual approach to the genre. During his time with the group, Byrne was involved with several other projects. " The Catherine Wheel. (an evening-length ballet score for choreographer Twyla Tharp) " Music Videos, director. " My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, a record incorporating "found" voices such as radio preachers, talk show guests and Arabic singers (re-release with additional tracks in March 2006) " The Knee Plays- a brass band-and-spoken word score for a theater piece, The Knee Plays, directed by Robert Wilson. " Stop Making Sense. 1984, directed by Jonathan Demme, winner of Golden Globes, best documentary " True Stories, 1986, feature film directed by Byrne " The Last Emperor, 1987, DB collaborates on score for Bertolucci film, wins Oscar. " Luaka Bop, Byrne's record label, was founded in 1988 " The Forest, 1989, an orchestral score with mostly wordless vocals for theater piece dir by Robert Wilson " Ilé Aiyé: The House of Life, 1989, a documentary on African religion in Brazil More records followed " Rei Momo, collaboration with 15 of the best Latin musicians in New York. " Uh-Oh, 1992, funk and Latin grooves were combined together " Between The Teeth, a concert film of that tour. " David Byrne, 1994, a stripped-down record " Feelings, 1997, collaboration with other bands and artists " The Visible Man, 1998, a record of re-mixed versions of songs from Feelings. " Sessions at West 54th Street, 1999, a weekly one-hour music show which Byrne hosted. " In Spite Of Wishing And Wanting. 1999 a collaborationwith the Belgian Dance Company Ultima Vez, " Look Into The Eyeball, 2001. Subsequently Byrne toured with a six-piece string section. " Lazy, 2002 David's collaboration with the DJ group X Press 2 was released in the UK. The song went to number 2 on the UK charts within its first week of release & number 1 on the US dance charts, along with topping the charts in Syria and Turkey. " Young Adam, 2002, a score for the David MacKenzie film for which David gathered together a comprehensive group of musicians from Scottish bands; Belle & Sebastian, Mogwai, Appendix Out amongst others. David also worked with director Stephen Frears composing the song "Glass Concrete and Stone" for his film Dirty Pretty Things. Somewhere around 2002 Talking Heads were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. About a year later, in 2003, Talking Heads released a lovely boxed set which includes a DVD of all the band's videos. In 2005 a Brick was released with the complete studio catalog on dualdisc with previously unreleased audio and video material. " Grown Backwards, Spring 2004 release and tour. " Here Lies Love, a project about Imelda Marcos with musical contributions from Fatboy Slim, premieres in Adelaide AUS in March 2006. ART David Byrne has been involved with photography and design since his college days and has been publishing and exhibiting his work for the past decade. Like his film and musical projects, his artwork is often described as elevating the mundane or the banal to the level of art, creating icons out of everyday materials to find the sacred in the profane. Byrne's works are about interiors, both physical and emotional, as much as exteriors. Museum shows in Germany, Italy, and Japan have mixed these pieces with audio elements, acoustiguides, and sculptural elements. Since the beginning Byrne has mixed exhibitions with public art: billboards in Belfast and Toronto, subway posters in Stockholm, fly posters during the presidential election in NY, LA and Chicago and lightboxes in the streets of San Francisco and Sydney, Australia. More recently there was a 215-foot long flow chart covering the 5th Avenue side of Saks 5th Ave, multiple-choice questions on the Tokyo subways, an audio piece in the World Financial Center in NYC, PowerPoint installations in a building lobby on Times Square, and an audio installation in Stockholm that turned a building into a giant musical instrument. Four books have appeared in recent years, each a kind of piece on its own. The first, Strange Ritual (Chronicle Press, 1995) mixed text and image in a notebook-type format. The second, Your Action World (Edimar, Italy, 1998 and Chronicle, 1999), was modeled after corporate reports and inspirational and motivational literature. The third book, The New Sins / Los Nuevos Pecados, looks like a bible and was created for the Valencia Biennial, where copies were placed anonymously in hotel drawers. The book was published by McSweeney's in the USA and by Faber & Faber in the UK, and there is a Bulgarian edition as well. The most recent book project, Envisioning Emotional Epistemological Information (Steidl/PaceMacGill, 2003) focuses on Byrne's use of the presentation software PowerPoint as an art medium. This deluxe book contains a DVD of 5 PowerPoint presentations set to music. Arboretum, a book of "tree drawings", is being published by McSweeney's in September 2006. Byrne is represented by Pace/MacGill Gallery in NYC, where he had a solo exhibition in March - April 2003; another solo exhibition is scheduled for October - November 2006.


Brian Camelio President, ArtistShare
Panel: DIY Online Distribution Models: Licensing and Selling your Music Online

"I got to thinking: what's the one thing you can't download, the one thing that the artist can hold on to? The answer: the creative process. That's the product we're offering: the creative process." - Brian Camelio ArtistShare was conceived and developed by Brian Camelio in the fall of 2000. ArtistShare's concept was simple: Allow artists to fund their projects directly through their fan base. Allow fans access to the creative process of the artist as the project is being created. "In my view, the ArtistShare approach solved everything. Artists could deeply connect with their fans, generate funds to follow their artistic dreams, retain all rights to their work and create their art without any limitations whatsoever. For the fans it is a dream come true. I am a true fan of music and even after being involved with it professionally for most of my life I am continually fascinated with the creative process." ArtistShare has proven extremely successful in funding the creation of new music. In 2003, ArtistShare produced the first ever GRAMMY-winning recording with internet-only distribution. ArtistShare has since enjoyed continued success, successfully funding a number of artistic projects for artists such as Rick Moranis, Jim Hall, Bob Brookmeyer, Danilo Perez, Maria Schneider, Brian Lynch, Allan Harris, and Monday Michiru to name a few.


Torquil Campbell Band Member, Stars
Panel: Young Musicians Panel


Andrew Cash musician, Canadian Music Creators Coalition
Panel: State of the Nation

Andrew Cash Andrew Cash is an award winning Toronto based composer, songwriter and journalist. He has released eleven albums over the past twenty years, including three with the seminal Toronto post punk band LEtranger, three solo records and four with the Cash Brothers, a collaboration with his songwriting sibling Peter Cash. His latest is a collaboration between the Cash Brothers and fellow roots rock travelers The Skydiggers. His work has garnered him both a Juno and a SOCAN songwriters award. He is currently completing a new solo record. As well as composing a wide range of soundtracks for television Cash is also a well known journalist, social critic and full time shit disturber who currently writes a regular column for Torontos Now Magazine. He is a founding member of the Canadian Music Creators Coalition


Ann Chaitovitz Attorney-Advisor, United States Patent and Trademark Office
Panel: How The Money Moves


Ann Chaitovitz Attorney-Advisor, United States Patent and Trademark Office
Panel: In Perfect Harmony: International Copyright Issues

Ann Chaitovitz is an attorney-advisor specializing in domestic and international copyright law at the Office of International Relations of the USPTO. Ann handles bilateral and multilateral copyright and related rights issues in the Asia Pacific region and North America. She also represents the U.S. in various multilateral fora, such as WIPO's Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights. Ann also participates in the development and implementation of U.S. domestic copyright and related intellectual property laws and policy. Ann joined the USPTO in October 2005 with 15 years of copyright experience representing songwriters, publishers and recording artists. Prior to joining the USPTO, Ann worked as a labor associate at New York law firm Milgrim, Thomajan & Lee, then as a staff attorney at the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), where she practiced copyright law, and finally, as the National Director of Sound Recordings at the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), the labor union representing recording singers, as well as performers and broadcasters in radio and television. Ann served on the Boards of Directors of the Alliance of Artists and Recording Companies (AARC) and SoundExchange and participated in the American Assembly on Art, Technology, and Intellectual Property. She holds degrees from Amherst College (BA, cum laude) and New York University School of Law and serves on the Future of Music Advisory Board.


Stewart Cheifet Director, Audio & Video, Internet Archive
Panel: Losing Music: Preservation and Storage

Stewart Cheifet is the Director of Audio & Video for the Internet Archive, based in San Francisco. In this capacity he is responsible for all movies, videos, television programs, music, lectures, radio programs, and educational courseware. Mr. Cheifet has had a long career in the field of media and technology and has been called 'the original TV techie'. He pioneered the field more than twenty years ago when he created and launched the award winning public television series 'Computer Chronicles'. The series has been translated into five different languages and broadcast in more than one hundred countries around the world. He also anchored another public television series devoted to the people, culture and business of the Internet, called 'Net Café'. He has been a guest commentator on technology for National Public Radio's 'All Things Considered' and he hosted a weekly web-radio talk show called 'Talking about this Week', produced by About.com in association with Broadcast.com. Cheifet has been a commentator, anchor, and emcee at major technology events around the world including Comdex TV News, the Computer Museum's Computer Bowl, Discover Magazine's Technology Awards, Upside's Showcase, Upside's Digital Living Room, Windows Magazine's Win-100 Awards, the European Technology Roundtable & Exhibition, and the Software Publishers Association's Codie Awards. He was formerly a television correspondent for the PBS 'Nightly Business Report' covering high-tech in the Silicon Valley and the Pacific Rim. He has also worked in various capacities for ABC and CBS in major locations around the world, including New York, Los Angeles, London, and Paris. He also served as CEO of two media companies involved in convergent technologies. Cheifet is a graduate of the University of Southern California with a degree in mathematics and psychology. He also holds a doctorate in law from Harvard University and he was a post-graduate Benton Fellow in technology journalism at the University of Chicago.


Mario Chenart Performer and songwriter, .
Panel: La Boutique Québécoise: The Vibrant Francophone Music Industry


Terryl Brown Clemons Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General of New York
Panel: Station to Station, Across the Nations: Radio Now and in the Future

Terryl Brown Clemons is the Assistant Deputy Attorney General of the Division of Public Advocacy in the New York State Attorney General's Office. She is responsible for assisting with the management, operation and administration of the Division's nine bureaus - Antitrust, Charities, Civil Rights, Consumer Frauds, Environmental Protection, Health Care, Internet, Investment Protection and Telecommunications and Energy. From May 2003 - October 2004, Terryl served as Acting Deputy Attorney General of the Division of Public Advocacy during the Division Directors sabbatical. Prior to her appointment as Assistant Deputy Attorney General in 1997, Ms. Clemons served as the Deputy Bureau Chief of the Civil Rights Bureau and before that as an Assistant Attorney General in the Litigation Bureau defending actions brought against the state, state agencies and state officials. Before joining the Attorney General's Office, Ms. Clemons worked in private practice and also work overseas for the Dutch law firm, Naua Dutilh. Terryl received a B.A. from Pace University; and a J.D. and MBA from the University of Pittsburgh. She studied international law at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and international trade law in Africa at the University of Nairobi in Nairobi, Kenya.


Jean Cook Outreach Director, Future of Music Coalition
Panel: Consonance/Dissonance: How Orchestras are Navigating Change

Jean Cook has been playing violin since 1979. She is a founder and Executive Producer of Anti-Social Music, a New York-based new music collective, and currently records and tours with Beauty Pill, Gena Rowlands Band, Ida, and Jon Langford. She has worked as both a curator and publicist for Washington Performing Arts Society and produced the multimedia indie opera The Nitrate Hymnal. Other past projects include producing the radio program "The Twentieth Century String Quartet" on WKCR-FM in NYC and directing operations for Air Traffic Control, a political action group helping musicians to be more effective in the 2004 election cycle. She began working with Future of Music Coalition to help them expand the work they do with the classical and jazz communities in January 2005.


Shannon Coulter Director of A&R, Magnatune.com
Panel: DIY Online Distribution Models: Licensing and Selling your Music Online

Shannon Coulter is Director of A&R for Magnatune.com, an online record label that launched May of 2003 with the motto "We are not evil". Since that time, Magnatune has signed over 220 artists and has become known for its musician-friendly approach to label operations including sharing profits equally with musicians, forming non-exclusive agreements with them, and allowing artists to retain full rights to their own music. Magnatune is also well known in the open source community and successfully applies both open source and Creative Commons-based principles to its catalog, ensuring that the artists are heard by the widest possible audience. Magnatune sells music directly from the Magnatune.com site and recently launched an innovative web-based tool that allows filmmakers, videographers, and others to easily obtain indie music for use in their projects. Magnatune is based in both London and Berkeley, California.


Mathieu Cournoyer Band Member, Malajube
Panel: Young Musicians Panel


Patrick Curley President, Third Side Music
Panel: Publishers: The New Record Label?

Patrick Curley is an entertainment lawyer and president of Third Side Music, a music publishing and copyright administration company created in 2005 by the good folks at Ninja Tune and Plateau Music.


Brian Current Composer,
Panel: Young Musicians Panel

A 2005 Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the 2003 Barlow Prize, Brian Current has established himself as one of North America's leading young composers. His music, lauded and performed internationally as well as broadcast in over 35 countries, is renowned for its energy, wit and daring bravado. Other recent prizes include the Selected Work (under 30) at the International Rostrum of Composers in Paris and the Grand Prize in the CBC National Competition for Young Composers, Canadas highest distinction for composers under 30 years. Raised in Ottawa, Brian Current studied music at McGill University in Montreal with Bengt Hambreaus and John Rea. He later completed his Ph.D. in composition on full fellowship from the University of California at Berkeley in 2002, where he was also active as a conductor. In 2000 he was chosen as a participant in the National Arts Centre's conductor training workshop with Jorma Panula and Pinchas Zukerman. He has since been featured conducting his own music with outstanding ensembles throughout the country. Brian Currents music has been performed across North America and abroad by the American Composers Orchestra (Carnegie Hall), the Oakland Symphony, the Esprit Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony, the Winnipeg Symphony, the Warsaw National Philharmonic, the Deagu Ensemble (Korea), the CBC Radio Orchestra, the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, and others. Upcoming engagements are programmed at the New York City Opera's Vox Festival and the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art. In 2002, his work For the Time Being opened the inaugural concert of the Warsaw Autumn Festival, conducted by Antoni Wit. The piece has now been released commercially on the Atma label. A commercial disc of his orchestral works is scheduled for release in 2007 on the Centrediscs label.


Chris Dahlen Contributing Writer, Paste Magazine, Pitchforkmedia.com, The Onion AV Club
Panel: Avatars with Guitars: Music for Games

Chris Dahlen is a freelance writer who covers business, technology, and pop culture. He is the games editor for Paste Magazine, a contributor to newspapers including The Onion AV Club and SF Weekly, and since 2002 has been on staff at Pitchforkmedia.com, where he writes "Get That Out Of Your Mouth," a monthly column on the latest developments and disasters in independent art. He lives in Portsmouth, NH with his wife and son.


Eric de Fontenay Founder/President, MusicDish
Panel: Cashflow: Revenue in the Digital Age

Eric de Fontenay has spent his career steeped in what has been called the "digital revolution". In the 90's, he worked on a variety of policy issues surrounding the communication & broadband sectors for telecommunication carriers and regulators across the world. With the emergence of the Internet, Eric established MusicDish (formerly Tag It) in 1997 as a new media firm utilizing emerging technologies and models to produce, package and distribute original web-based content. Making an early bet the music sector, Eric launched what has grown into some of the leading voices in the growing debates challenging and shaping the industry through its trade e-publications MusicDish and Mi2N. Under his leadership, MusicDish expanded into artist development through saturated marketing and online branding, using innovative strategies such as syndicated and relationship marketing, online street teams and p2p viral distribution. Eric continues to be a frequent speaker at conferences worldwide and today manages Toronto-based 'kaiso' band Kobo Town.


Jeremy deBeer Professor, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law
Panel: Could P2P Networks be Monetized?

Professor Jeremy F. deBeer is a law professor at the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Law. He specializes in intellectual property and related areas of law and litigation. Professor deBeer holds degrees from Oxford and Saskatchewan. He was involved in numerous high-profile music/copyright cases while working as legal counsel to the Copyright Board of Canada and as a law clerk at the Federal Court of Appeal. His research revolves around various aspects of intellectual property law and policy, and he has written extensively about copyrights, digital rights management systems and levies. He teaches, among other things, Digital Music Law. This survey of the legal, technological, cultural and economic developments in the global music industry is the only one of its kind in Canada, and one of a handful offered worldwide. Professor deBeer often advises government agencies, law firms and private organizations on music-related legal and business issues.


Gourmet Délice Manager/Record label, Bonsound/Blow the Fuse
Panel: La Boutique Québécoise: The Vibrant Francophone Music Industry

Gourmet Délice - Owner/Founder of Bonsound, a management and booking company (Malajube, Champion, Les Breastfeeders, Call me Poupée, The Dagons, Eleni Mandell...) | Musician with Le Nombre, Sunny Duval


Don DeVito Producer, Bob Dylan/Tony Bennett
Panel: EDP: Supergroup


Don DeVito Producer and A&R, Columbia Records
Panel: Producers' Panel: What's Wrong with Music?

Don DeVito, has produced records for Bob Dylan, Aerosmith and Billy Joel , and has spent more than thirty years as an A&R executive with Columbia Records, a company owned by Sony Music Entertainment Inc. Don has worked in an A&R capacity with all of the many artists signed to Columbia Records which included Aerosmith, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd, James Taylor, Janis Joplin, The Byrds, and many more artists. His many relationships with artists, producers, managers, record company executives and entertainment attorneys has helped him introduce new technologies to the music/artist community. From CDs to 5.1 surround to SACD, DVD to Dual Disc, not to mention Quad and Mini-discs.


Nick Diamonds musician, Islands
Panel: International Touring and Visas


Peter DiCola Research Director, Future of Music Coalition
Panel: Station to Station, Across the Nations: Radio Now and in the Future

Peter DiCola is a PhD candidate in economics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He received his J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School in May 2005, and was awarded the Henry M. Bates Memorial Scholarship. Currently, he serves as the Research Director of the Future of Music Coalition while he works on his dissertation. He has research interests in the fields of telecommunications law, intellectual property law, law and economics, labor economics, and industrial organization. He is the co-author, with Kristin Thomson, of Radio Deregulation: Has It Served Citizens and Musicians?, which was cited by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Prometheus Radio Project v. FCC. He has also written a chapter, 'Employment and Wage Effects of Radio Consolidation,' for a forthcoming book titled Media Diversity and Localism (Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates).


Bertis E. Downs Advisor, R.E.M., Athens, LLC
Panel: International Touring and Visas

Bertis Downs Athens, Georgia Since graduating from Davidson College in 1978, Bertis Downs has lived in Athens, Georgia where he received his law degree in 1981 from the University of Georgia's School of Law. He has taught there as an adjunct ever since. His specialty is entertainment law, and he has represented R.E.M. throughout their career. Downs has maintained his interest in teaching, both through the entertainment law course at the University of Georgia and speaking at various national continuing legal education groups such as the Practicing Law Institute and the American Bar Association Forum Committee on the Entertainment and Sports Industries. He has lectured widely at law schools including William and Mary, Chicago, Harvard, Duke, Emory and the University of North Carolina @ Chapel Hill. Downs has been married to Katherine since 1986 and they have two daughters, Adelaide and Eliza. His civic and sociopolitical interests include historic preservation, human rights, the death penalty and the changing legal and business landscape relating to the digital age.


Matthew Dunn CEO, MusicIP
Panel: Recommendation Engines and Music Discovery

CEO of music discovery startup MusicIP, Dr. Matthew Dunn is a 20-year tech veteran. His career highlights include 8 ½ years at Microsoft Corporation, Senior VP & CIO for Intrawest Corporation, founding Executive Director of HTNG (non-profit), and an additional 10 years in the theatre. Dr. Dunn holds a PhD in Digital Media from the University of Washington, a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Texas, and a Bachelor of Arts from Colorado State University. Significant achievements include numerous patents, published papers and articles, as well as frequent keynoting and public speaking engagements. And, yes, he is a musician.


Noémie Dupuy Partner, Wave Generation
Panel: Avatars with Guitars: Music for Games

Noémie is a founding partner of Wave Generation as well as the company's Director of Operations. Prior to co-founding Wave Generation Noémie amassed extensive experience as a producer working in Paris for MCM Euromusique, in New York City at ATC Management and 3 years as the director of audio/video and localization for French based video game Publisher Ubisoft. At Wave Generation, Noémie is responsible for the development and launch of Wave Generation Music, a new division created to capitalize on future trends within the interactive and video game industries. Wave Generation: Wave Generation is a privately owned corporation established in the spring of 2001. Based in Canada, Wave Generation is a global leader in the creation, production, licensing and marketing of all audio content. Since its inception, Wave Generations top management have focused on solidifying relationships with key players in the interactive entertainment, wireless, television and film industries. This strategy has secured the companys position as one of the industry's most comprehensive audio companies.


Bob Ezrin Producer, Ezrin
Panel: EDP: Supergroup

BOB EZRIN Bob Ezrin is one of the most influential producers of all time with a successful career that spans 35 years, crosses all genres of music and continues to evolve to this day. Bringing a musician's sensitivity and sensibilities and businessman's acumen to his collaborations, Ezrin is credited time and again with helping artists to achieve their fullest potential, and in the process has left an impressive canon of work that continues to inspire musicians and music lovers alike. He has been called "the Producer's Producer," and the arc of his career reads like the progression of popular entertainment. He has produced, mixed and played on legendary albums for some of the world's leading artists including: Alice Cooper, KISS, Pink Floyd, Lou Reed, Roberta Flack, Peter Gabriel, Rod Stewart, Hanoi Rocks, Nine Inch Nails, The Jayhawks, Kurupt, Jane's Addiction and The Darkness. One of his most noteworthy productions is Pink Floyd's "The Wall," a seminal masterpiece that is often credited as one of the greatest albums of all time. Ezrin is also highly respected for his many years of work in live performance, film, television and radio production in the US, UK and Canada. He most recently produced "Fade to Black," a film starring Jay-Z. Recently, he created new theatrical, television and live events with @radical.media in New York. He also produced The Deftones (Maverick) and has just completed the first album of new supergroup Army of Anyone (Sony/BMG). Currently, he is working with Universal Music Canada on talent development and the creation of a next generation music company. A noted pioneer of innovative recording techniques and new technologies as well as an accomplished musician in his own right, Ezrin has been breaking new ground in studios all over the world since he began producing at the age of 19. He has influenced generations of musicians, engineers and producers over the course of his career and continues to enjoy working with people who inspire him with their craft. In April 2004, Bob Ezrin was inducted by CARAS into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. In addition to his legacy in entertainment, Ezrin is also a successful entrepreneur having founded several companies including 7th Level, a pioneer in interactive entertainment and a leading developer and publisher of CD-ROMs. Ezrin was Co-Chair and later CEO of 7th Level, which floated on the NASDAQ in 1994. He also co-founded Enigma Digital, a groundbreaking developer of Internet broadcast and community building tools and operator of the Internet's most successful live radio stations, KNAC.COM and grooveradio.com. In 2001, Enigma Digital was sold to Clear Channel Interactive and Ezrin was named Vice Chairman of the group, responsible for new strategies and technologies. Equal to his passion for music is his commitment to community service. He is a trustee of NARAS and a governor of the Los Angeles Chapter, a co-founder of Music Rising, an initiative to replace musical instruments lost in the hurricanes of 2005, Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation, and a founder of MusiCan the musical education initiative of CARAS. Bob Ezrin was born in Toronto, has 6 grown children, and recently moved back to Toronto with his wife and two dogs after more than 20 years away.


Geoff Farina ., Musician
Panel: Losing Music: Preservation and Storage

Geoff Farina is probably best known for the abstract lyrics and genre-flouting guitar style he developed over the past 12 years with his band Karate, or as one-half of The Secret Stars, the seminal early-90s duo that passed around home-made cassettes of songs now covered by the likes of Ida and Death Cab for Cutie. More recently Geoff has arranged music for National Public Radio, composed original film music for Cinamazero's annual Schermo Sonoro festival in Pordenone Italy, and is currently part of the Roman punk/folk group called Ardecore, or "Burning Heart," a theme taken from one of the traditional Roman folk songs they perform. Geoff is currently consultant to a Clarkson University project to preserve an archive of concert recordings engineered by Juma Sultan, one-time percussionist with Jimmy Hendrix. The project recently won a National Endowment for the Arts "Access to Artistic Excellence" grant, and will preserve concert recordings of Sam Rivers, Albert Ayler, Pharoh Sanders, Sonny Murray, James Ulmer, and other now-legendary improvising musicians of the late-60s and early-70s.


David Fewer Staff Counsel, CIPPIC
Panel: Policymaking: How to Make an Impact


William Terry Fisher Professor, Harvard Law School
Panel: Distribute. Share. Compensate.


Ken Freedman Station Manager, WFMU
Panel: Losing Music: Preservation and Storage

Ken Freedman is Station Manager of renowned independent freeform radio station WFMU, Jersey City, New Jersey. Since 1993, he has been an innovator in the use of new audio technologies by non-commercial broadcasters. He is also on the Board of Directors of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB).


Dave Frey Team Leader, Silent Partner Management
Panel: Cashflow: Revenue in the Digital Age

Indepently promoted shows in Chicago in the early 80's, moved to NY in '85 to work as an agent at Tour Consultants and then Music Business Agency, booked talent for New Music Seminar until gettting hired by Ron Delsener Presents in '88, established exclusives in smaller venues for Ron at Irving PLaza, The Marquee, Roseland, and Academy, went to Bill Graham Management in '90, established Silent Partner Management after Bill's passing with Blues Traveler in '92, managed Blues Traveler for 9 years, established and ran HORDE Festival for 7 years, signed Cheap Trick in '98, Joey Ramone in 2000, ran Yahoo Outloud for 2 years, and currently represents Brazilian Girls, Cheap Trick, The Damnwells, Local H, and Ramones.


Brett Gaylor Director, EyeSteelFilm
Panel: Visual Re-mix: Sampling in a New Dimension

Brett Gaylor has been a key creative member of the Montreal production company EyeSteelFilm for over 5 years as an editor, music supervisor and director. As a digital activist, he is the web producer of the Homeless Nation.org, a web project dedicated to bridging the digital divide - allowing everyone to participate in online culture. He is currently in production on a feature documentary film, Basement Tapes, which examines the threat to the future of creativity posed by overzealous copyright regimes. The film will be a celebration of the emerging Free Culture movement. Brett is one of Canadas first videobloggers and is the founder of the Montreal VideoBloggers collective. He has been working with youth and media for over 10 years, and is a founding instructor of the Gulf Islands Film and Television School.


Michael Geist Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law, University of Ottawa
Panel: Format Wars: Digital Rights Management and Interoperability

Dr. Michael Geist is a law professor at the University of Ottawa where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law. He has obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Master of Laws (LL.M.) degrees from Cambridge University in the UK and Columbia Law School in New York, and a Doctorate in Law (J.S.D.) from Columbia Law School. Dr. Geist has written numerous academic articles and government reports on the Internet and law and was a member of Canada's National Task Force on Spam. He is an internationally syndicated columnist on technology law issues with his regular column appearing in the Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, and the BBC. Dr. Geist is the editor of In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law, published in 2005 by Irwin Law, the editor of several monthly technology law publications, and the author of a popular blog on Internet and intellectual property law issues. Dr. Geist serves on the Privacy Commissioner of Canada's Expert Advisory Board and maintains privacyinfo.ca, a leading privacy law resource. He has received numerous awards for his work including Canarie's IWAY Public Leadership Award for his contribution to the development of the Internet in Canada and he was named one of Canada's Top 40 Under 40 in 2003. More information can be obtained at http://www.michaelgeist.ca.


Sandra Gibson President and CEO, Arts Presenters
Panel: International Touring and Visas

Sandra L. Gibson has served as the President & CEO of Arts Presenters since July 2000. In that time Gibson has been instrumental in positioning the association to take a leadership role in advancing the field of performing arts presenting. In 2001 under her guidance, Arts Presenters joined with the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to sponsor the first nationwide survey of the performing arts presenting field. The results of that assessment culminated in a position paper titled 'Toward Cultural Interdependence', a Call to Action to Arts Presenters members and the wider field, and a new strategic plan for the association in 2002. Gibsons 27 years of experience in the arts management, cultural programming and presenting began with her role as program representative for the Department of the Arts at UCLA Extension and continued with her tenure at the American Film Institute (AFI), where she held a number of senior level positions, including successfully managing the seven-acre, four-building Los Angeles campus with a $10.9 million budget and serving as Director, Independent Filmmaker and Distribution Program, an NEA re-granting program. From 1990-98 Gibson was the Executive Director of the Public Corporation for the Arts, the Long Beach Regional Arts Council. Immediately prior to joining Arts Presenters, Gibson served as Executive Vice President and COO at Americans for the Arts, where she had previously served on the Executive Committee and merger team that formed the organization in 1995-96. A professional musician, Gibson holds a B.M.E. in Music from Wittenberg University, an M.M. in Historical Musicology from Northwestern University and has completed coursework for the PhD in ethnomusicology at UCLA.


Erik Gilbert VP Content Acquisition, IODA
Panel: Consonance/Dissonance: How Orchestras are Navigating Change

Mr. Gilbert is the VP Content Acquisition for The Independent Online Distribution Alliance (IODA). IODA provides comprehensive digital distribution and marketing services for the global independent music community. By aggregating the broadest digital catalog of quality independent music in the industry, IODA provides music services the most efficient access to a significant but difficult to reach category, while fulfilling the needs of independent rightsholders for low-cost digital music infrastructure and distribution. IODA represents a rapidly growing catalog of over 500,000 masters. Mr. Gilbert is also co-founder of Coup d'Etat Entertainment LLC, a record label based in New York; additionally, Mr. Gilbert manages various music publishing interests and works with an artist roster that includes Josh Ritter and Lori Carson. In 1999, Mr. Gilbert co-founded and served as President of the label 75 Ark Entertainment. Under his guidance and with a roster of established artists that included Dan the Automator (producer of multi-platinum act Gorillaz), the label achieved sales of over $2M in its first year of operation. In his role as President, Mr. Gilbert was responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations including A&R, domestic and international distribution, sales and marketing, legal and business affairs and had direct P&L responsibility. 75 Ark Entertainment achieved recognition as an innovative and groundbreaking company, quickly becoming one of the most important independent hip-hop labels in America: the label was named one of the 'top five labels to watch' by Spin Magazine in early 2001. Mr. Gilbert was early in identifying the marketing potential of file sharing on the Internet and 75 Ark Entertainment subsequently became the first label to establish a working relationship with Napster. ZDNet recognized 75 Ark's 2000 Internet campaign for the album Deltron 3030 by Dan the Automator as the most innovative of the year. Concurrently, Mr. Gilbert served as the VP/General Manager for the San Francisco based Internet company nicheMusic.com. Mr. Gilbert was responsible for overseeing development of the Company's music product division, spearheading partnerships with WOMAD and Alta Vista. Prior to 75 Ark Entertainment, Mr. Gilbert served as General Manager of the New York-based independent label Asphodel Records, signing and working with artists as diverse as The X-ecutioners (now signed to Sony), Mix Master Mike (The Beastie Boys DJ), DJ Spooky, Diamanda Galas and Ryuichi Sakamoto. Rolling Stone Magazine named Asphodel one of the 'Top 15 independent record labels in the world' in 1998. While at Asphodel, Mr. Gilbert developed a successful worldwide distribution network, building upon the experience garnered in his previous position as Label Manager for San Francisco independent Heyday Records. Mr. Gilbert was additionally responsible for developing the Company's music publishing division. Mr. Gilbert began his career in the entertainment industry in 1984, when he became the legal beneficiary to some 300 published compositions written by Joseph George Gilbert. These included numerous songs from the 1920's and 1930's, many co-written with composer Lawrence Wright; many of these compositions were number one pop hits in England. Mr. Gilbert managed the worldwide administration of these compositions, securing covers and negotiating sundry publishing deals. Concurrently, he was a Director of Markham Research Services Limited, a company specializing in shareholder relations on behalf of major corporations in the UK. Mr. Gilbert has extensive experience in music publishing, digital music, A&R, international marketing and distribution, contractual and business affairs and knows a little too much about intellectual property and copyright law.


Bryna Gootkind Manager, Black Sheep Management
Panel: DIY Online Distribution Models: Licensing and Selling your Music Online


Richard Green Acting Manager, Music Section, Library and Archives Canada
Panel: Losing Music: Preservation and Storage

Since 2002 Richard Green has been Acting Manager of the Music Section, Library and Archives Canada, formerly the Music Division, National Library of Canada. Previously he was Head of the National Library of Canadais Recorded Sound and Video Collection from 1996 until 2002. Richard is President of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA), an international association with over 400 members representing more thn 60 countries. He is also a member of Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) where he currently serves on the Board as a member-at-large. Richard has more than 30 years experience working with many different aspects of recorded sound as a researcher, writer, broadcaster, retailer, librarian and administrator. Of all the activities he has undertaken with the Library, Richard is particularly proud of the web site, The Virtual Gramophone: Canadian Historical Sound Recordings http://www.collectionscanada.ca/gramophone/index.html . It has been extremely popular with web users and has been frequently cited many times as a model for other institutions to follow. It is a source of pleasure and inspiration in his work.


Michael Hausman Owner, Michael Hausman Artist Management, Inc.
Panel: How The Money Moves


Michael Hausman Owner, Michael Hausman Artist Management, Inc.
Panel: Publishers: The New Record Label?


Graham Henderson President, Canadian Recording Industry Association
Panel: State of the Nation

Graham Henderson became President of the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) in November 2004. Prior to joining CRIA, he was Senior Vice-President of Business Affairs and eCommerce at Universal Music Canada. There he had managed Universal's e-commerce strategy and was instrumental in the launch of Puretracks.com, Canada's first legal digital music download service. Graham began his legal career in 1987 at Canada's largest law firm, McCarthy Tétrault where he became a partner in 1992. In 1993 Graham left McCarthy's to found his own practice. Graham joined forces with Stephen Stohn and Susan Abramovitch in 1997 to start Stohn Henderson, a law firm which rapidly became the leading entertainment law boutique in Canada. His clients included a veritable who's who of Canadian music at the time (among them Alannah Myles, Crash Test Dummies, Leahy, Loreena McKennitt, Randy Bachman, The Northern Pikes, The Pursuit of Happiness, Somerset Records and True North Records). Graham teaches entertainment law and 'The Art of the Deal' at the University of Toronto, where he earned his LL.B, after completing an MA in English Literature. Graham also holds a double major in English Literature and Fine Art History from Guelph University. Graham lives in Toronto with his wife Margo Timmins of Cowboy Junkies and their son Ed.


Paul Hoffert Professor, Harvard University, York University
Panel: What's Wrong With Music?

PAUL HOFFERT, C.M. Mr. Hoffert is Berkman Faculty Fellow at Harvard University, Fine Arts Professor at York University, Chair of the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund, and Chair of Guild of Canadian Film Composers. He is former President of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, former Chair of the Ontario Arts Council, and a founder of the Canadian Independent Record Producers Association (CIRPA). By the time he was twenty-six, Mr. Hoffert was an established jazz recording artist, television performer, off-Broadway musical author, film composer, and had studied mathematics and physics at the University of Toronto. That year (1969) he co-founded Lighthouse, a rock band with horns and strings that sold millions of records, toured the world and earned three Juno Awards as Canadas # 1 pop band (1971-1973). He was inducted into the Canadian Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. in 1992, he founded CulTech Research Centre at York University, where he developed advanced new media such as video telephones and networked distribution of CD-ROMs. From 1994 to 1999, he directed Intercom Ontario, a $100 million trial of the world's first broadband-connected community that landed him on the cover of the Financial Post and in the Wall Street Journal He presents his recipes for thriving in the Information Age in his best-selling books: "The New Client" "All Together Now", and "The Bagel Effect". In 2001 he received the Pixel award as the new media industry's "Visionary of the Year". In 2005, Hoffert received the Order of Canada for his contributions to music and media.


Dick Huey CEO, Toolshed Inc.
Panel: DIY Online Distribution Models: Licensing and Selling your Music Online


Ian Ilavsky Co-Owner, Constellation Records
Panel: A State of Independents: The Changing Definition of Indie

Ian Ilavsky was born in Winnipeg and moved to Montreal at age 18 in 1988. He co-founded SGR (Students for Global Responsibility) at McGill in 1989, and abandoned his studies in History and Philosophy in 1991. He co-founded Constellation Records in Montreal in 1996, having previously played in local bands Sofa and Sackville while working nightshifts at a neighbourhood bagel bakery. While forming Constellation, Ian also co-curated the Musique Fragile concerts series in Montreal from 1997 to 1999. He has recorded or assisted on recordings by Sofa, godspeed you! black emperor, Fly Pan Am, Sackville and Frankie Sparo. He plays guitar in punk-rock group Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band, drums and bass in noise duo Diebold, and various objects in electro-acoustic computer assemblage project Re:. He has also played on records by Hangedup, Frankie Sparo and Carla Bozulich, among others. Ian co-hosted the "New Era Building" program on CKUT in Montreal from 1996 to 2004 and served on the propaganda committee of Solidarity Across Borders in 2005, designing and editing the collective's newspaper and helping to co-ordinate the 7-day "March On Ottawa" in June 2005. He continues to work at Constellation full-time, between tours with Silver Mt. Zion.


Peter Jenner Manager, Sincere Management, Secretary General, IMMF
Panel: Could P2P Networks be Monetized?


Peter Jenner Manager, Sincere Management, Secretary General, IMMF
Panel: State of the Nation

After gaining a First Class Honours Degree in Economics at Cambridge University, Peter Jenner became a Lecturer at the London School of Economics at the tender age of twenty-one. His career in academia lasted for four years after which he left to devote his attention to managing an up-and-coming modern music group which had caught his attention. The band's name was Pink Floyd. Peter then put on a series of free concerts in London's Hyde Park which culminated with The Rolling Stones in 1969. Now, after more than twenty-five years in the music business, the list of clients he has worked with reads like a Who's Who of musical successes. He has managed T Rex (fronted by Marc Bolan), Ian Dury, Roy Harper, The Clash, The Disposable Heroes of Hiphopracy, Robyn Hitchcock and Baaba Maal. Peter has managed Billy Bragg's career for more than fifteen years and also manages Eddi Reader (the voice of Fairground Attraction). Peter Jenner is also chairman of the IMMF (International Music Managers' Forum), a director of the UK MMF (Music Managers' Forum), a council member of AURA (Association of United Recording Artists) and a director of Artspages. In 2004, Peter Jenner worked in tandem with Jenny Toomey to put together the successful and provoking Tell Us the Truth Tour of the USA, featuring Billy Bragg, The Nightwatchman, Steve Earle and Lester Chambers to name a few - working together to raise political, media and fair trade awareness.


Darren Jukes VP Marketing, Audiobaba Music Genie
Panel: Recommendation Engines and Music Discovery

For over ten years Darren has helped create and grow new and established companies. Among his current clients, Darren consults with two Vancouver companies in the music recommendation space, Audiobaba Music Genie and SongCatalog. Having worked with marketing expert Al Ries (author of over a dozen books including "The Origin of Brands" and "The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding"), Darren's primary expertise is marketing strategy, positioning and category development. Darren has an MBA and CMA and is currently working on his first book, "Swimming Lessons for a Drowning Business".


Rick Karr Journalist and Educator, neuUNIT(U.S.), Inc. and Columbia University
Panel: EDP: Supergroup

Rick Karr is a broadcast and print journalist whose work examines technology's impact on culture and society. He most recently worked as correspondent and co-writer of a 90-minute PBS documentary on the future of the internet and the media which airs nationally on October 18, 2006 as part of the series Moyers on America 2006, hosted by Bill Moyers. Karr has reported for PBS shows including NOW with Bill Moyers and Journal Editorial Report. He spent 10 years as a reporter, host, and correspondent for National Public Radio News. Karr is also an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he currently runs the radio reporting program. His own radio work continues to appear on NPR's Day to Day and On the Media, and his writing has appeared in The Nation, New Musical Express, and elsewhere. He's currently writing and developing TechnoPop: How Technology Makes and Un-Makes Music, a book, documentary TV series, and blog that examine technology's effect on the sound and business of music. The project won him fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Center for the Public Domain. Karr is also a musician and producer who records with the songwriters' collective Box Set Authentic. He studied at Purdue University and the London School of Economics and Political Science and lives in Brooklyn with his wife, video artist Birgit Rathsmann.


Joseph H. Kluger Associate, AEA Consulting
Panel: Consonance/Dissonance: How Orchestras are Navigating Change

Joseph H. Kluger is an Associate with AEA Consulting, which specializes in strategic, operational and facilities planning for an international array of arts organizations, public and private funders, and policy makers. He has extensive experience in strategic planning, financial analysis, organizational design, facilities development, conflict resolution, contract negotiation, media relations, fund raising, leadership development and innovative problem solving. Since joining AEA in 2005, his projects have included developing a business plan for the merger of two opera companies in Cleveland, providing strategic counsel to the Pacific Symphony Orchestra in lease negotiations for its new concert hall, and facilitating a strategic planning process for the Please Touch Museum (Philadelphia). Mr. Kluger also provides executive coaching services to arts and culture leaders, who are committed to experiential learning through behavioral changes, which enable them and others with whom they work to attain individual and organizational goals. He has participated in experiential leadership development training through the Senior Executive Leadership Program of NTL Institute and the Executive Coaching Workshop at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is also qualified to administer Level B psychological assessment instruments, including the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®), Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation-Behavior (FIRO-B®), Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI), and Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT). Prior to joining AEA Consulting in 2005, Mr. Kluger spent 27 years in symphony orchestra management, most recently as President of The Philadelphia Orchestra Association (1989-2005), where he played a catalytic role in the development of the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, raised over $130 million for endowment (including a $50 million lead gift from the Annenberg Foundation) and increased involvement of the musicians of the Orchestra in governance and decision-making. He also instituted innovative strategic collaborations, including an electronic media joint-venture with the musicians of the Orchestra, shared ticketing and administrative services with Kimmel Center, Inc., and consolidated administrative operations with Peter Nero and the Philly Pops. He joined The Philadelphia Orchestra in 1985 as General Manager, after seven-years with the New York Philharmonic, where he had been on staff in a variety of positions, culminating in the position of Orchestra Manager. Mr. Kluger is an internationally recognized expert in the classical music industry on recordings, broadcasts, the Internet and other electronic media activities and served for over ten years as the Chairman of the Orchestra Managers Media Committee of the American Symphony Orchestra League. He has served on the Boards of numerous non-profits, including the Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Arts and Business Council of Philadelphia, the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, (of which he is a past President), and Governor Rendells Arts and Culture Transition Team. He currently serves on the Boards of the Marian Anderson Award, Sunderman Conservatory at Gettysburg College, and the Board of Overseers of the Curtis Institute of Music. Mr. Kluger received a Masters Degree in Arts Administration from New York University in 1979 and his Bachelors Degree in Music in 1977 from Trinity College in Hartford. He is also a member of the Wharton School Fellows program of the University of Pennsylvania and a Fellow of the Salzburg Seminar. Mr. Kluger is a frequent guest lecturer on leadership and arts administration at the graduate and undergraduate level at Wharton, Penn, NYU and Drexel. At Trinity College, he was a Presidents Fellow in Music and a teaching assistant in Music Theory and Music History. He has studied piano and voice, the latter including a summer at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. Mr. Kluger has also been both a director and performer in numerous amateur musical theater productions. Mr. Kluger and his wife Susan Lewis  an accomplished broadcast journalist, writer and attorney  live in the Philadelphia region and have four children.


Bob Kohn Chairman & CEO, RoyaltyShare, Inc.
Panel: Cashflow: Revenue in the Digital Age

Bob Kohn is Chairman and CEO of RoyaltyShare, Inc., the leader in Web-based royalty processing and reporting solutions for the global entertainment industry. Founded by executives with years of experience in digital distribution and music royalties, RoyaltyShare provides a suite of on-demand services dedicated to simplifying the increasingly complex and necessary task of managing sales and distribution information and calculating royalties. Kohn is the co-author of Kohn On Music Licensing (Aspen Law & Business, 3rd Edition 2002), a 1,600 page legal treatise that USA Today called, the bible on legal issues in the music world. In 1998, he founded EMusic.com, Inc., the pioneering MP3 music-download service which was acquired in 2001 by Universal Music Group. Until recently, Kohn served vice chairman of the board of Borland Software Corporation where he previously served as senior vice president and general counsel. Prior to that, he was an associate attorney at the law offices of Milton A. 'Mickey' Rudin, an entertainment law firm whose clients included Frank Sinatra, Liza Minnelli, and Cher. Kohn serves on the editorial board of the Entertainment Law Reporter and has taught law at Monterey College of Law in Monterey, California. He is a frequent lecturer and panelist at industry conferences, including most recently conferences co-sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce held in several cities in China. He also has made numerous appearances on television news programs as an authority on copyright and entertainment law.


Nathaniel Krenkel Label Head, Team Love
Panel: DIY Online Distribution Models: Licensing and Selling your Music Online

-7 years Sony/ATV Music Publishing: A&R -Manager of Bright Eyes -Partner of Team Love Records


Grant Lawrence Radio Host, CBC Radio 3
Panel: The New Deciders: Metafilters, Blogs, Podcasts

Grant Lawrence is the leading voice of CBC Radio 3. He can be heard hosting CBC Radio 3's all-independent Canadian music podcast, recently called "the best thing to come out of CBC since the Beachcombers"*. Grant also hosts Radio3's live Saturday night broadcast on CBC Radio Two and Sirius Satellite Radio, as well as a daily weekday drive-home show on CBC Radio 3/Sirius 94. An encyclopedic force on independent Canadian music, Grant's passion and energy burns brightly on everything he takes on. When not at his post at the CBC, Grant still manages to spend time behind the microphone. For the past 18 years, he has been the singer for the internationally acclaimed band The Smugglers. Grant is also the infamously fiery goaltender for the arts-based hockey team the Vancouver Flying Vees. Grant Lawrence began his career with the CBC in 1997. Making his start as a researcher in the inaugural season of RadioSonic in Vancouver, Grant became a producer and then host for RadioSonic and RadioEscapade. Want to know more? Visit the Radio 3 website: http://www.cbcradio3.com/ *Vancouver Magazine Grant Lawrence Who are you? Grant Lawrence. Where did you grow up? The village of Dundarave-By-The-Sea, in West Vancouver, British Columbia Canada. Where do you live now? The village of English Bay-By-The-Sea, in downtown Vancouver. What do you do at CBC Radio 3? I'm the host of various shows on CBC Radio 3, including our weekly podcast, our live Saturday night show which airs simultaneously across Canada on CBC Radio Two and all over North America on Sirius Satellite Radio. I also host a live shift weekdays on Sirius, 5:00PM to 8:00PM Eastern, 2:00PM - 5:00PM Pacific. How did you get into radio? I never, ever thought I would be in radio. It all started when I was invited to "call in from the road" when my band the Smugglers were on tour for pretty much the entire 1990s. I first began calling in to David Wisdom's late night program called Night Lines. Because of various time differences and degrees of drunkenness, the calls were really ribald and dirty, and became relatively infamous for their total lack of uh, politeness. It was no-holds-barred radio. During one phone call from a pay phone in New York City, the convenience store I was in was robbed at gun point while I crouched down on the phone with drunken courage describing the events to Canada. Another time in Atlanta, Georgia, in a really kooky area called Little Five Points, a street vendor's boa constrictor slithered up the payphone unbeknownst to me until its tongue flicked my ear and I completely freaked out. Eventually, as the Smugglers toured overseas, I would call in from all over the world: Europe, Japan, Australia, New Zealand. Those calls caught the ear of one Leora Kornfeld, who was the host of Realtime in the mid 90s, the live show that came on in the primetime on Saturday nights before Night Lines. In the summer of 1997, both Real Time and Night Lines were unceremoniously and suddenly cancelled, and Wisdom was brought into primetime to co-host a new show called RadioSonic. Leora hired me in January 1998 as the researcher / mail boy / coffee-getter for that show. Both Leora and Dave eventually left RadioSonic and I moved through the associate producer and producer roles, finally became the host of RadioSonic in September 2001. In September 2003, the RadioSonic name was dropped in favour of the all-encompassing CBC Radio 3, and in September 2005, the show went back to its live format for the first time since Realtime, ten years earlier. That's where I am today. What is your field of expertise? Canadian music, 1977 - present, primarily. I'm pretty good on the international front between that period as well but occasionally make the odd massive blunder. I can hold my own back to 1954 or so on the rock n roll front. Do you make music yourself? Yeah, I've been the lead shouter of the Smugglers from 1988 to present, though we are in semi-retirement currently. We've released eight full length albums in that period. The early ones are all out of print, the more recent ones can be found on Lookout! Records of Berkeley, California. What was the first album you bought with your own hard earned money? Elvis Presley's Gold Records Volume 3 on cassette, 1984. What was the first concert you attended? The Gruesomes at Club Soda, Vancouver, BC, 1987. What is your most shameful/glorious musical moment? I once shit my pants in Saskatoon. It was the morning after a Smugglers concert, and back then (early 90s) the bands would stay in the brothel-like upstairs band room, where, legend had it, every band in Canada had been "sucked, f*ed and chucked". The morning after the show, I stumbled out of bed and thought I was letting out a morning "toot" but unfortunately I didn't realize the precarious looseness of my bowels, as they sprayed the inner wall of my ginch / gonch with molten poop. Instantly I took off the gonch and threw them out the second story window. Curious, a couple of the other band members looked out and saw that the gonch had landed directly onto the roof of our VW touring van. Thinking this was some type of sign, I then reasoned, naked from the waste down, that being as poor as we were back then that I might eventually need the underwear again, and that I should simply apply a piece of duct tape to the gonch and let the weather of Western Canada wash the gonch while on the roof! Perfect plan! A week later, we were winding our way through the Western States, finishing the tour, in line to come back into Canada at the Peace Arch Border crossing just south of Vancouver. It was a busy, sunny Sunday afternoon and the border was packed. The line up was crawling at a snail's pace and everyone was bored, including the two hot sisters in the backseat of the car in front of us. They kept turning around to check us out, and I returned the attention by waving and making flirtatious gestures from the shotgun seat, unbeknownst to their parents in the front seat of their car. Suddenly I remembered the rooftop gonch. Leaning out the window and feeling around with my hand, there it was, soaking wet from the morning rain and shit-stained, but still there! I balled it up in my hand and lobbed it. It landed perfectly on the trunk of the sisters' car, where, sure enough, one of them reached onto the trunk, grabbed the gonch and brought it into their car with them. There was a moment of calm as the girls inspected the mystery gift, then the entire car erupted from within - screaming and yelling, the car rocking from side to side, the gonch being whipped around like a hot potato. It entered the car from the right rear window and after thirty seconds of chaos, it exited the car from the from left driver's window, coming to a landing on the perfectly emerald lawn of the Peace Arch. The father turned to glare at us, but seeing five filthy, leering faces staring back at him, he thought better of a challenge, and simply put on his indicator and eventually changed lanes and pulled away. I knew that underwear would be of further use. This is an example of my resourcefulness. Is there any particular music that gets under your skin? Classical music in the morning drives me crazy. I listen to Brave New Waves at night, which airs on CBC Radio Two, which is basically a classical music network besides the odd detour like BNW and R3. The staccato violins and complicated symphonic arrangements literally sound like some type of torturous mathematics to my ears and hurts my head. I hate that shit. What are the top 3 Canadian songs of all time? 1. The New Pornographers "Letter From An Occupant", 2000. 2. Colour Me Psycho "Untamed World", 1987. 3. Dolores Claman "Hockey Night In Canada Theme", 1968. Any guilty musical pleasures I should know about? Billy Joel. Why should I trust you? You shouldn't until you get to know me.


Jeff Leake Assistant Program Director, XM Satellite Radio
Panel: Station to Station, Across the Nations: Radio Now and in the Future

Leake works for XM Satellite Assistant Program Director The Verge XM 52


Larry LeBlanc Canadian Bureau Chief, Billboard
Panel: State of the Nation

Journalist/broadcaster/researcher Larry LeBlanc has been a leading figure in Canadian music for four decades. Canadian bureau chief of Billboard, the U.S.-based music trade he has been associated with since 1991, Larry was also the co-founder of the late Canadian music trade, The Record. In recent years, Larry has acted as a consultant for The Canadian Competition Bureau, The Canadian Private Copying Collective, the Canadian Assn. of Broadcasters, and the Neighbouring Rights Collective of Canada. Larry has had his own music program on Toronto radio stations as Q107, CKFM, and CJCL, and has worked extensively at CBC Radio, including being the music producer for "Morningside" and "Dayshift" programs. He has been a regular music commentator on "Canada A.M" for 30 years, and has been featured on numerous CBC-TV, CTV, YTV, MuchMusic, and Newsworld programs in Canada as well as VH-1, and EEntertainment in the U.S. His byline has appeared in such publications as Rolling Stone, Guitar Player, and Maclean's. He has been extensively quoted on music issues in hundreds of publications including Time, and the New York Times.


Daniel Levitin Professor, McGill University
Panel: What's Wrong With Music?

Daniel J. Levitin is associate professor of psychology at McGill University, where he holds the Bell Chair in the Psychology of Electronic Communication and the FQRNT Strategic Chair in Psychology. He is an Associate member of the Department of Music Theory, Program in Sound Recording, Program in Music Technology, and Department of Integrated Studies in Education. He earned his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology with a Ph.D. minor in Music Technology from the University of Oregon with Mike Posner, his B.A. from Stanford in cognitive psychology with Roger Shepard, and did post-doctoral training in psychoacoustics at Interval Research Corporation and in neuroimaging at Stanford University. He has also studied at M.I.T., UC Berkeley, and Berklee College of Music. As a musician (tenor saxophone, guitar and bass), he has performed with Mel Tormé, Nancy Wilson, and members of the Steve Miller Band and Santana. Levitin served as Vice President of Artists & Repertoire at 415/ Columbia Records (now Sony Records) from 1984- 1988, as President in 1989. After 415 was sold to Sony, Levitin ran a successful production and consulting company whose clients included every major American record label and several film companies. He has produced or consulted on albums by artists including Stevie Wonder, Steely Dan, and Chris Isaak. From 1996 - 1998 he worked at Interval Research Corporation, the Silicon Valley think tank owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, collaborating with computer industry pioneers, including the inventors of the laptop computer, the laser printer, and the computer mouse. At Interval, Levitin developed new musical instrument controllers currently in use by Laurie Anderson and Michael Brook. In 1999, Levitin helped to form one of the first internet music distribution companies, MoodLogic, which sold to the AMG group in May 2006. He also served as a consultant for the U.S. Navy Underwater Weapons Station, Apple Computer, Sirius Satellite Radio, and MusicGenome. In 2000, Levitin became a founding member of McGill University's Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology. Levitin has published more than 40 peer-reviewed scientific articles, and over 300 popular articles about music and music technology in commercial and trade magazines including Billboard, Electronic Musician, Mix, and Grammy. For his technical and marketing contributions to the recording industry, Levitin has been awarded 12 gold or platinum records, and two of his projects received Oscar nominations. He currently directs the McGill Laboratory for the Study of Music Cognition, Perception and Expertise. He is the author of the book "This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession" (Penguin, 2006), currently a Top 30 Best-Selling non-fiction book in the U.S. and Canada.


Daniel Levitin Professor, McGill University
Panel: Recommendation Engines and Music Discovery

Daniel J. Levitin is associate professor of psychology at McGill University, where he holds the Bell Chair in the Psychology of Electronic Communication and the FQRNT Strategic Chair in Psychology. He is an Associate member of the Department of Music Theory, Program in Sound Recording, Program in Music Technology, and Department of Integrated Studies in Education. He earned his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology with a Ph.D. minor in Music Technology from the University of Oregon with Mike Posner, his B.A. from Stanford in cognitive psychology with Roger Shepard, and did post-doctoral training in psychoacoustics at Interval Research Corporation and in neuroimaging at Stanford University. He has also studied at M.I.T., UC Berkeley, and Berklee College of Music. As a musician (tenor saxophone, guitar and bass), he has performed with Mel Tormé, Nancy Wilson, and members of the Steve Miller Band and Santana. Levitin served as Vice President of Artists & Repertoire at 415/ Columbia Records (now Sony Records) from 1984- 1988, as President in 1989. After 415 was sold to Sony, Levitin ran a successful production and consulting company whose clients included every major American record label and several film companies. He has produced or consulted on albums by artists including Stevie Wonder, Steely Dan, and Chris Isaak. From 1996 - 1998 he worked at Interval Research Corporation, the Silicon Valley think tank owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, collaborating with computer industry pioneers, including the inventors of the laptop computer, the laser printer, and the computer mouse. At Interval, Levitin developed new musical instrument controllers currently in use by Laurie Anderson and Michael Brook. In 1999, Levitin helped to form one of the first internet music distribution companies, MoodLogic, which sold to the AMG group in May 2006. He also served as a consultant for the U.S. Navy Underwater Weapons Station, Apple Computer, Sirius Satellite Radio, and MusicGenome. In 2000, Levitin became a founding member of McGill University's Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology. Levitin has published more than 40 peer-reviewed scientific articles, and over 300 popular articles about music and music technology in commercial and trade magazines including Billboard, Electronic Musician, Mix, and Grammy. For his technical and marketing contributions to the recording industry, Levitin has been awarded 12 gold or platinum records, and two of his projects received Oscar nominations. He currently directs the McGill Laboratory for the Study of Music Cognition, Perception and Expertise. He is the author of the book "This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession" (Penguin, 2006), currently a Top 30 Best-Selling non-fiction book in the U.S. and Canada.


Gary Lucas Recording Artist, Mighty Quinn Records
Panel: What's Wrong With Music?

A world class guitar hero, a Grammy-nominated songwriter, an international recording artist with over a dozen acclaimed solo albums to date, and a soundtrack composer for film and television, GARY LUCAS is on the move in 2006. Dubbed legendary leftfield guitarist by The Guardian, Guitarist of 1000 Ideas by The New York Times, and a true axe God by Melody Maker, the British world music magazine fRoots recently hailed Gary Lucas as without question, the most innovative and challenging guitarist playing today. He was also cited recently by the editors of DownBeat Magazine as one of their Hot 66 6-Stringers alongside John McLaughlin, Richard Thompson, B.B King, Pat Metheny, and other greats. GARY LUCAS tours the world relentlessly both solo and with several different ensembles, including his longtime band GODS AND MONSTERS, whose members have included the late singer JEFF BUCKLEY. Gary co-wrote two of Jeff Buckleys most famous hits, Grace and Mojo Pin, from his million-selling album Grace (which MOJO just named the #1 Modern Classic Album in their March 2006 issue over albums by Radiohead, U2, etc). Their early collaborations can also be heard on the recent JEFF BUCKLEY and GARY LUCAS album "SONGS TO NO ONE", which charted internationally with worldwide sales approaching 100,000. Other notable recent GARY LUCAS releases include THE EDGE OF HEAVEN, an album of Garys lush arrangements of classic Chinese pop tunes from the 1930s, which received international raves everwyehere from Rolling Stone to the Wall Street Journal to the Hong Kong Music Weekly. Gary also recently released a compilation of the best of his early band and solo work entitled OPERATORS ARE STANDING BY, which garnered a 4-star MOJO review: The album confirms Gary Lucas as THE psychedelic guitarist for the post-modern set. Gary has played and collaborated with Leonard Bernstein, Captain Beefheart, Jeff Buckley, Lou Reed, John Cale, Nick Cave, David Johansen, jazz greats Roswell Rudd, Steve Swallow, Joe Lovano, Dave Liebman, and Billy Bang; Mary Margaret OHara, John Zorn, Peter Stampfel, Patti Smith, Claudia Brucken (Propaganda), Paul Humphreys (OMD). Future Sound of London, Joan Osborne (Gary co-wrote her Grammy-nominated song "Spider Web" from her triple platinum album Relish), Matthew Sweet, Iggy Pop, Van Dyke Parks, Adrian Sherwood, Bryan Ferry, Richard Barone, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Bob Neuwirth, Geoff Muldaur, John Sebastian, Allen Ginsberg, DJ Spooky, Dr. John, Graham Parker, Bob Weir, Fred Schneider (B-52s), Warren Haynes (Allman Brothers, Govt. Mule) and many others. Some of these collaborations can be heard on his recent 20-year rarities retrospective album "Improve the Shining Hour" which also features his film and tv music for ABC News (he has scored documentaries for the shows 20/20 and Turning Point). Hes also produced albums for downtown composer/saxophonists Tim Berne and Peter Gordon,, and for the French avant-rock band Tanger. He recently scored the Oscar-nominated Maysles Films documentary "Lalee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton" for HBO, which screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York as part of their Maysles Films 50 Year Retrospective, and about which Variety wrote: "Gary Lucas' Delta blues guitar music adds vivid color to this report from America's forgotten underbelly."


Lindsay Lynch Operations Manager, MapleMusic.com
Panel: DIY Online Distribution Models: Licensing and Selling your Music Online

I have been a part of the Canadian Music Industry since the tender age of 17 when I could be found sneaking into 19+ shows and creating and running websites for Local Rabbits, The Flashing Lights and Plumtree. Upon graduating from York University (English BA), I began working at FACTOR as a Receptionist and then later Communications Coordinator. From there, I moved on to MapleMusic where I presently serve as Operations Manager for MapleMusic.com. My responsibilities here are managing and updating the site, bringing on new stores, organizing new product builds and setting up and running promotions and sales.


Benjamin Masse President and Founder, Double V3
Panel: Recommendation Engines and Music Discovery

Since 1998 a strong conviction, that the Internet can help both associations and the stakeholders of the cultural scene to organise and develop, has motivated and directed Benjamin Masse's professional work. Mr. Masse's activity in the cultural domain is particularly noteworthy in music. Since 2001, he has been the elected president of the board of SOPREF, a social economy enterprise that assists musicians' professionalisation. Beyond this, Mr. Masse was elected administrator of ADISQ, which works for the survival and flourishing in Québec of independent, strong, original, and innovative musical production. Masse has also sat as an elected administrator of Culture Montréal. This last organisation aims to articulate a strategic plan for cultural resource development in the urban milieu. Benjamin Masse holds a Diplôme d'Études Supérieures in management from the HEC Montréal, a Master of Arts in Anthropology from the Université de Montréal, and a B.A. (Hons.) from McGill University in Anthropology. Double V3 is a leading developer of highly interactive multimedia Internet applications and recommendation tools, using machine learning algorithms, and neural networks for the entertainment industry (music, films, tv). musicBOT powers radiolibre.ca, an Internet-based personalized radio operated by Astral Media Radio, one of Canada's leading media companies.


Michael McCann Producer / Composer, Behavior Music Inc.
Panel: Avatars with Guitars: Music for Games

2 time Genie-nominated Michael McCann's work as composer, producer, and sound designer, has been recognized and showcased worldwide. Working under his studio name, Behavior Music, Michael's client resume includes names such as VHI, Ubisoft, Alliance Atlantis, Deutsch Inc., MTV, Ogilvy & Mather, The Movie Network, and many more. Michael has just completed scoring the latest Tom Clancey - Splinter Cell game for Ubisoft: "Splinter Cell - Double Agent". (XBOX 360, PC, PS2) This will be the 4th installment of the extremely popular Splinter Cell game, which has already sold millions of copies around the globe. Double Agent will be released worldwide in late October. Portfolio, music, and lots more info are available at www.behaviormusic.com


Mac McCaughan Worker, Merge Records / Portastatic
Panel: The New Deciders: Metafilters, Blogs, Podcasts

Mac McCaughan started Merge Records with partner Laura Ballance way back in 1989. He continues to run the label as well as make records with his bands Superchunk and Portastatic, who also occasionally perform live concerts. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with his wife Andrea and daughter Oona.


Walter McDonough General Counsel, Future of Music Coalition
Panel: Cashflow: Revenue in the Digital Age

Walter F. McDonough is the General Counsel and one of the founders of the Future of Music Coalition. Mr. McDonough also serves as a board member on the United States performing rights society Sound Exchange and the AARC. He has written for several publications, including Performer magazine, and been interviewed by National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" and "Eye on the Media", the Washington Post, Billboard, Music Business International, the Tennessean, and the Boston Globe, among others. Mr. McDonough has traveled throughout North America to speak at the American Bar Association Intellectual Property Annual Conference, Canadian Music Week, Pop Montreal, MUTEK, NEMO, CMJ, the Nashville Independent Music Conference, the Future of New Orleans Music Conference, South by Southwest, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard Law School, the University of Alberta and the American Bar Associations Annual Intellectual Property Conference. Mr. McDonough is also an attorney who represents, among others, the Dresden Dolls and Mission of Burma. He is an adjunct professor of copyright law at Suffolk University Law School. Mr. McDonough was an associate at Carroll Guido & Groffman in New York City, one of America's leading music law firms, a former assistant Massachusetts Attorney General and a law clerk for the Honorable Edward F. Harrington of the United States Court for the District of Massachusetts.


Walter McDonough General Counsel, Future of Music Coalition
Panel: In Perfect Harmony: International Copyright Issues


Mike McGuire VP Mobile Devices and Consumer Services, Gartner
Panel: Recommendation Engines and Music Discovery

Mike McGuire is a vice president, research, Mobile Devices and Consumer Services, Gartner Dataquest Research. McGuire covers mobile media trends, consumer services and content-protection and DRM issues. Topics include the consumer adoption of online music services and emerging business modelsMike Prior to his current assignment, McGuire oversaw Gartner's research in the online music segment, as well as legal and regulatory issues that media companies face. Topics include the consumer adoption of online music services, the effects of peer-to-peer technologies on the media industry and emerging business models. Mr. McGuire and Allen Weiner are responsible for Gartner's "Media Titans" research series of reports. Prior to re-joining Gartner in 2000, Mr. McGuire worked with mobile computing start-ups in the San Francisco Bay Area and Southern California. He was at Dataquest from 1994 through 1997 as senior and principal analyst for the mobile computing program. He worked for four years in hi-tech marketing and PR with companies ranging from Acer to GRiD Systems and Geoworks.


Mike McGuire VP Mobile Devices and Consumer Services, Gartner
Panel: Could P2P Networks be Monetized?


Mike McHargue President, Pixel Records, Inc.
Panel: Avatars with Guitars: Music for Games

Mike McHargue, 28 and a husband and father, is the founder of Pixel Records, a recording company with a fresh and engaging approach to the music business. Mike started the recording company in 2002 with the idea of allowing artists to reach the world through digital technology with ease and simplicity. As a passionate musician for 18 years, and having worked professionally in technology for more than 12 years (even hacking together his first campus-wide network at the ripe old age of 12 years old!) Mike was perfectly placed to bring together what have at times been two conflicting worlds into harmonious and happy co-existence. In his role as a team leader in a cutting edge marketing firm, McHargue has gained a reputation for and influenced the industry in disruptive marketing, landing national and international coverage for his companies and bands operating with near-zero advertising budgets. In addition to running Pixel Records, McHargue is a touring musician, network administrator, IT consultant and in IS management. Pixel's most recent and highly successful venture is a "virtual venue" in the game Second Life. Inspired by the authenticity of the live music experience that musicians were creating, Mike envisoned a whole new venue called Muse Isle. Applying himself to this challenging new environment, Muse Isle became an instant success, both in Second Life and in the wider world. Muse Isle was recently featured in Rolling Stone, Wired, pitchforkmedia.com and many other international publications. The future for Muse Isle sees it being used as the first point of contact for many new musicians wanting to experience these exciting new performance possibilities, as together the performers and Mike McHargue realize the Pixel Records philosophy of helping artists reach the world through digital technology.


Martin Merlino Martin Merlino Marketing and Promotion Director, Audiogram Records
Panel: La Boutique Québécoise: The Vibrant Francophone Music Industry

Martin Merlino was born in France in 1968. He moved 5 years ago to Montreal. His career highlights include 5 years at Cegetel Corporation (1st French cellular company) as communication manager, 10 years in several French advertising and promotion agencies as CRM consultant, and 3 years as General Manager of Publicis Montreal (worldwide advertising group). Martin finally burned his ties in 2003. He works now as Marketing and Promotion Director at Audiogram Records, an independent record label based in Montreal.


Alistair Mitchell CEO, Puretracks Inc.
Panel: Format Wars: Digital Rights Management and Interoperability

Alistair Mitchell Chief Executive Officer, Puretracks Inc. Mr. Mitchell brings over ten years of senior level experience to Puretracks, including leadership positions in the media, marketing and internet sectors. An award winning documentary and recording producer with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and later a senior manager within Bank of Montreal's corporate marketing and communications group, Mr. Mitchell founded Puretracks and spearheaded the launch of one of North America's first licensed digital music providers. Under his leadership, the Company has developed rapidly, securing key relationships with major content providers, strategic equity investments, and a leading position among digital music providers in both Canada and the US. Recipient of the international Gabriel Award for broadcasting achievement, and frequent speaker on the digital media sector, Mr. Mitchell holds a Dean's list MBA from the Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto, and a Bachelor of Music from McGill University.


Stacey Mitsopulos Lawyer, Taylor Mitsopulos Burshtein, Entertainment Lawyers
Panel: Publishers: The New Record Label?

As of March 1st 2006 Stacey, along with Chris Taylor and Lynn Burshtein, have formed the firm Taylor Mitsopulos Burshtein. Prior to that, Stacey was at the music law firm of Sanderson Taylor since January of 2002. After graduating at the top of her class at The University of Western Ontario (Honours B.A.) she earned her Bachelor of Laws at the University of Windsor in 1996, and was called to the Bar in 1998. As her client list clearly demonstrates, Stacey is a strong supporter of independent musicians across the country, frequenting artist showcases, continually exploring new prospects, and helping bands land record deals via her extensive contacts in Canada, the U.S., the U.K./Europe, Japan, and Australia; she also co-ordinates showcases for new and upcoming artists looking to get exposure in the industry. Prior to Sanderson Taylor, Stacey worked in the Legal Department of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), where she negotiated film and television contracts. She also gained corporate/commercial experience at the national law firms of Bennett Jones, and Heenan Blaikie (where she articled). Staceys expertise include drafting and negotiating all legal aspects of music industry contracts, and advising clients (artists/indie labels/songwriters/publishers/managers) on many aspects of Canadian and international entertainment law, including licensing, production, distribution, copyright, and personality issues. Some of Stacey's clients include: " Amy Millan (Arts&Crafts) & Stars (Arts&Crafts) " Broken Social Scene (Arts&Crafts) " Constantines (Sub Pop) " Hot Hot Heat (Warner) " The Organ (Mint/604)


Laura Nenych Professor, Ryerson University
Panel: In Perfect Harmony: International Copyright Issues

Laura Nenych has been a full-time Professor since 2003 at Ryerson University, in the School of Radio and Television Arts in Toronto, Canada. She recently completed her LL.M. in E-Commerce Law at Osgoode Hall Law School. She teaches in the areas of Entertainment Law, Audio Production, the Music Business, and Media Management. Prior to joining Ryerson, she spent five years as the Director, Legal and Business Affairs at EMI Music Canada/Capitol Records/Virgin Records. Her research interests relate to copyright reform, e-commerce, and how the Internet affects the music business. She continues her part-time practice in law, strictly representing entertainment clients. She has frequently been interviewed by national television, radio, and print media as an expert on the music industry, copyright reform, podcasting, and satellite radio. She has been a speaker at Canadian Music Week, North by Northeast, The Blues Summit, and the Canadian Women in Communications conferences. She sits on the Board of Directors of the Broadcast Executives Society, and is also a member of numerous legal/music industry groups.


Molly Neuman Director Label Relations, eMusic
Panel: A State of Independents: The Changing Definition of Indie

Originally from Washington, DC, Molly Neuman began her career in music as the drummer for the seminal riot girl band Bratmobile. After graduating from The Evergreen State College in 1992, she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and began to work at Lookout Records in 1994. In 1997 she became a partner and has been instrumental in the signing and development of such artists as The Donnas, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Ted Leo/Pharmacists among many others. In 2001 she co-founded Indivision Management, an artist management company dedicated to preserving artists autonomy in their careers while providing them with complete management services. Molly's key clients are The Donnas, Ted Leo/Pharmacists and The Locust. In 2006 she founded Simple Social Graces Discos a new record label dedicated to a world full of friends. The first three bands slated for release are Barcelonas Les Aus and Madrids Grabba Grabba Tape and Campamento Ñec Ñec, currently the best of the Spanish/Catalunyan underground. Also in 2006 Molly joined eMusic.com as director of label relations and was elected to the board of A2IM, the U.S. independent label trade association. Molly continues to play music with friends because this is what keeps her heart light. She is also obsessed with speaking Spanish, cooking, eating, feminism, politics, reading and laughing. She is based in New York City.


Terry O'Brien Relationship Manager, SOCAN
Panel: Publishers: The New Record Label?

TERRY O'BRIEN - BIO Based in Vancouver, BC, Terry O'Brien is the Western Region Relationship Manager for Canada's performing rights organization, SOCAN - the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada. Prior to joining SOCAN in 2000, Terry was Vice President & General Manager of BMG Music Publishing Canada Inc. He has thirty years experience in the music industry as a music publisher, composer, musician, recording artist and producer. His music has been used in games from Electronic Arts and in shows on Discovery Channel, MTV and TBS. In 2002 Terry started his own DIY record label, Disappearing Music, and has released three CDs of ambient soundscapes.


Glenn O'Farrell President and CEO, Canadian Association of Broadcasters
Panel: Station to Station, Across the Nations: Radio Now and in the Future


Heather Ostertag, C.M. President and CEO, FACTOR
Panel: Station to Station, Across the Nations: Radio Now and in the Future

With 29 years in the Canadian music industry and 6 of those years as the President of FACTOR, Heather has dedicated her career to the advancement of Canadian talent. As the President and CEO of FACTOR, Heather is required to liaise with government, broadcasters and the music industry at large. She is the current chair of the Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA), is a life-time director on the Board of Directors for the East Coast Music Awards and is a member of the Order of Canada.


Richard J Paradis President, Le Groupe CIC
Panel: Policymaking: How to Make an Impact

Richard Paradis, has worked both in the public and private sectors, holding different research and policy making positions at Bell Canada (1975-76), the CRTC (1976-78,1982-83), the department of Communications in Ottawa (1983-86) and the Quebec department of Communications in Quebec city (1978-82). Since 1987, as President of Le Groupe CIC, he has led numerous research projects and developed in-depth knowledge of radio, sound recording, cinema, television, cable, telecommunications and cultural industries. Richard was chief of staff for the Minister of Social Development and for the Minister of Canadian Heritage from 2004 to 2003-2005 In addition, Richard teaches regularly, since 1986, at the department of Communications at l'Université de Montréal, courses about the History of media, Communications policy, Cultural Industries, Social Research methodology, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Richard has been a member of a number of impressive Boards in the past few years including the Canadian Television Fund, the Canadian Alliance for the preservation of audiovisual works, the Banff Television Foundation, the Canadian cultural exports advisory committee, the Quebec cultural Observatory, the Société des auteurs-compositeurs dramatiques (SACD), the Société civile des auteurs multimédia (SCAM), etc. Richard is regularly invited as a special commentator for news and public affairs programming on the CBC , Newsworld, SRC, RDI as well as in the written press such as La Presse, the Globe&Mail, Toronto Star, etc.


Sandy Pearlman Visiting McGill Scholar and Producer, Blue Oyster Cult, The Clash
Panel: Could P2P Networks be Monetized?

Visiting Professor at McGill University. Woodrow Wilson Fellow in the History of Ideas. New School Fellow in Sociology and Anthropology. Relentless brainstormer of the ever-tightening embrace of Music by Technology and Technology by Music. Producer, creator, songwriter, manager and theorist for many of the most important bands and musical trends of the last 25 years: Blue Oyster Cult, Clash, Black Sabbath, Dictators, Pavlovs Dog, Dream Syndicate& Described by the Billboard Producers Directory as the Hunter Thompson of rock, a gonzo producer of searing intellect and vast vision. Gonzo enough to be played by Christopher Walken in Saturday Night Lives infamous skit on the making of The Reaper (which Pearlman produced f