FMC’s fearless Deputy Director Casey Rae-Hunter will be on TuneCore’s live webcast “The Sky’s the Limit? Musicians and the Cloud,” airing Thursday, July 21st at 2:00 PM ET. Casey will be chatting with TuneCore’s Founder/CEO Jeff Price about the recently announced cloud services of Amazon, Google and Apple; what these services mean for the independent musician with promises of easily-accessed storage space; and how songwriters receive public performance royalties from could-based service plays. Casey and Jeff will be broadcast live via TuneCore’s UStream channel.
Lissa Rosenthal just spent some quality summer time in the Midwest when she visited Chicago, Illinois, for the 2011 Dance USA annual conference. Lissa, FMC’s Executive Director, moderated a panel on Saturday, July 16th on “Music Rights – Demystifying the Process,” tackling the use of both recent and music in the public domain during performances, both live and recorded. More info on the breakout sessions and conference can be found here.
Jean Cook, FMC Director of Programs and musician extraordinaire, will soon begin production on her newest recording (she’s on more than 50 records, but who’s counting?) with celebrated post-rockers Beauty Pill. Partly inspired by Abbey Road Studio Two, which lets fans see where much of the Beatles’ catalog was conceived, Beauty Pill will be recording the entirety of their forthcoming release in a space completely open onlookers. Sessions will be held from July 16 through August 2 at the Artisphere’s Black Box Theater in Arlington, VA. The public will bear witness to any and all aspects of the process — jamming, rehashing new songs, reworking old ones, mastering, editing and everything in between. Sounds intense, but we know Jean is up to the challenge.
And last but certainly not least, we want to give a huge thank you to Nicole Duffey, our out-going Operations Coordinator and Jill-of-all-trades. Nicole has taken a very exciting opportunity with the USO and so will be saying goodbye to FMC after three fantastic years. We wish Nicole all the best in her new endeavor and thank her for every bit of incredible energy and creativity she’s brought to our community.