History Of Electronic Music

2012 was a great year for live performance there was lots of old heroes coming back to do it, there was more money involved in it, the technology became more complex and image became a major influence. 2012 was a year that made me think of how image actually influences live performance in this article I will be going back in time and will be exploring the history and comparing how image effects live performance now and how it used to effects then.

Tupac Hologram

The tupac hologram marked a new step for technology, even though technology grew rapidly in the last 20 years. For those who never saw the performance of 2012 with Snoop Dogg, tupac and dr dre and for those who have seen it, it's still hard to believe how amazing the event was, this is because tupac came to join the party. Although Tupac never resurrected the producers of the event managed to make a $100,000 hologram version of Tupac. So people don't freak out the tupac hologram version is a recording from his 1996 performance at the house of blues. Tupac's performance live at the house of blues had standard LED lights and a projector that had house of blues written in white. At that time visuals was a major part of performance, so now I want to go deeper than that, earlier than that to explain how we see live performance developed with time.

Major Equipment In Live Performance

LED Lighting:

Electroluminescence which is what LED technology was built upon was discovered in 1907 by a british radio researcher and his assistant. Henry Joseph made an experiment with silicon carbide and a cats whisker. During the 1920's a radio researcher Oleg Vladimirovich was studying what electroluminescence is, and in 1927 he published a paper called Luminous Carborundum even though this didn't create the original LED light it became a major influence to the future of LED lighting. In 1962 Nick Holonyack a engineer for an electronic company invented the first visible light, it was red LED. A few years later LED light went on to be developed and now it is a major equipment for live performance. Now in the 21st century LED light has many shapes, many sizes and can be controlled through many devices and in some cases it reacts to sound.

Video Panel: 

A video panel is a LED display. Within a video panel there is groups of red, green and blue diodes and it operates together to form a full coloured pixel mostly in a square shape. Though this is used for a lot of different things it is now the most useful piece of equipment in live performance. Whether you use them for display of a video or have your bands name written in a large display.

Smoking Machine:

A smoking machine in live performance is very useful, the reason why the smoking machine is so useful is because the smoke that the machine provides helps to section the lights making the LED lights more visible for the audience to see. The smoke machine works by heating up propylene glycol and triethylene glycol mixed with 20% of water. This makes the smoke spread out quite similar to a cigarette or smoke on fire without causing any side effects or injuries.

Live Performance During The 60s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcYrmYeyFsM

During the 60's, performances was based more on how the band sounded, the focus also was more on the audience. The people going to see live performance during the 60's were more worried about having fun, dancing, more then actually seeing people perform live. As the years went on equipment and technology became more advanced, stage performances went from being at the centre to the front of the venue. Everything that was being created gave focus to the performer. 30 years later technology became a must in live performances.

Live Performance During The 90s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb4qyuR7_cc

Live performances during the 90's were quite different due to a lot of people experimenting with new sounds, new image and new style of music. The 90's was also a great year for visuals, bands like guns and roses and performers like michael jackson were all very extreme in terms of finding new ways to showcase their image. Although these are not the people I will be talking about, if you do watch any performances during the 90's you would see how advanced technology became. A band that I really want to focus on is 9 inch nails and the reason I want to talk about them is because they always had a step ahead when it came to visuals. In 1994's wood stock event they amazed me with the amount of things they had going on stage, but what was unique about them was that there was songs that made audience focus on the singer and other songs that made you focus on the lyrics. But that is not unique, what was unique was that they made the visuals and the lights influence the audience on wether they wanted the audience to focus on the singer or the song.


How The Media Uses It
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYwNOO9N5lM

Years went by and what once was knew became old, but one thing that didn't age was 9 inch nails style of visuals in their 90's. Their style of using visuals in their performances can still be seen today in almost every music reality show. For example: in this video Bruno Mars sings a song about love and if we were to stand there watching him perform that song without any of the visual effects we would not pay attention to the lyrics. But what is very interesting about this performance was that the video reacts to the drums, making it seem much more dramatic then what it is.

Next Step For Live Performance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbuQuvoc0YE

Were in the year 2013 and what is really exciting is, as time goes on technology gets more and more advanced, and as for the visual side of performance it gets more and more complicated but yet simple for our minds to react to music and visuals as one piece. This video with Flying Lotus shows how people in this era are writing songs to match visuals, and how performers are now trying to get the audience to see what's in their minds with video technology.

Personal Statement

Music has been part of my life for many years and ever since I can remember I always enjoyed the atmosphere that I got from listening to it. As I became a bit older it became clear to me that I wanted to pursue what I always enjoyed. I first became familiar with the engineering side of music at the age of 12, I was chosen to manage the sound in my church because back then I was the only person available that had enough responsibility to do the task. At first it was very complicated because I did not know what I was doing. But after I started to pay more attention to how music sounded and how I could make it sound good instead of getting worked up about what buttons to use. In my own way I tried my best to learn how to play instruments like: electric guitar, bass, acoustic guitar, once I started to learn about these instruments I started to realise how they actually worked within a song and I started to really get addicted to music that had a great quality sound to it.

At the age of 18 I realised that I needed to be bold and realistic about my decision to do music and the reality of the music industry, so I applied to do a level 2 course at Westkings College where I am currently study. When I was initially interviewed I was very honest about my situation and I also explained what I wanted to get from the industry and I told my teachers that I wanted to be in a course that could have a wide range of aspects that I could learn from, especially the business side of it and she told me the course was perfect for me and that was 3 years ago, I have progressed onto level 3 and this is my last year and I can honestly say that it was the right move for me I am 20  and I have a realistic view of how the music industry works and what I would have to do to get a career within it. At Westking College they also offered me help from people who actually worked within the industry themselves, they offered me work experience in which I had to sell merchandise for one of the tutors band, they offered me facilities and a good knowledge of how the equipment works. One of our technician who also happens to be a sound engineer explained to us in a very unique way how sound actually works. He gave us a basic but clear way of understanding sound and now I want to gain a stronger understanding of how to mix and master the ways in which you manipulate sound and also learn many more things that I have not learnt yet.    

I am devoted about what I do, I demonstrated this by working in environments that had a similar atmosphere to the future career I want to fulfill. My first experience was in church as a cameraman, as well as being a cameraman I was also the one that dealt with the sound in live situations, this made me aware of how sound works and it also gave me an understanding of different skills that I needed to learn in order to be good. Having had experience as a cameraman I had the chance to film live performances, I have managed to see how bands interact in live situations, how sound engineer mix, and how effective the positioning of all the equipment is.

Even though I was not interested in media I have gained a lot of personal friends within the media industry, this is because I have had a chance to work as a cleaner in a video production company called hatrick, there I gained connection to people that eventually offered me work experience there and I felt honoured because they only expected post graduates to do work experience. My week there was very interesting they talked to me about how the media industry works about how the technical side is actually done, how they work as freelancers and they also gave me a few tips for me to be a successful in the future. 

In Westking College I have had many opportunities to work with artists throughout the college, this happened because I made myself available for help to make their portfolio the best it could be that meant that I had to work with other producers to get the best quality songs we could out of the recording. 

Before I got into production I was a performer and I had a chance to understand what a performer needs, what a performer wants, how to speak to them, and also how to get the best out of them. In my spare time i like to compose my own songs to keep my creativity alive. I have had a lot of different jobs that gave me different skills, I started out in cleaning which gave me the skills to be organised then I went to work as a part time technician installing Internet for a company that worked for virgin media and I also worked in a cafe which gave me communication skills.

My current course has a lot of privileges in terms of giving me skills and making my practical work better but I am looking for a course that can take me to the next level on my insight. I also chose this course because in some ways it is related to my current course. Even though the academic work is vital in the career that I want I am also looking to expand my network and going university is going to give me a wider connection and closer connection to the music industry then my current course. I believe that I have within me what it takes to take myself to the next level and choosing audio engineering and production to study at this university will surely get the best out of me.I did some research and I came to a conclusion that audio engineering and producing is my chosen course at this university and if I was to be accepted I would work to make a start in my chosen career and I will use the skills I have gained in the university to do so. I would look forward to making new friends in the university so I could create a wider network for myself in the future, this would help my career choice because to get a job in the music industry you need to know the right people.

Roles and Contracts

ROLES AND CONTRACTS

Live performance:

Live performance is one of the main attributes with in the music industry its where the artist gets to show what he/she has to offer. its where lots of important jobs come in to place and it also involves a lot of contracts that could make or break a career in this blog. I will be talking about a few of my plans for now and the future and I will also be talking about what is a good contract and what contract could leave you broke if not thought about properly. The three areas that I’m going to be talking about are Artist, Tour manager and stage manager.

Artist: an artist is a key role for live performance and it would be impossible to have the music industry without an artist. Live performance as we know has lots of jobs and there is non-more important than being an artist.
Salary/hours/working environment – An upcoming artist should work 24/7 it’s a job that involves a lot of training to become good at. The type of environment the artist will be working at is not really specific but different. In most causes the artist will be at a recording studio or touring on different stages up and down the country.
Duties – The duty of an artist is simple, rehearse the songs they have and perform it live to hundreds or maybe even thousands of fans. When they rehearse they have to be precise. It has to be timed and they cannot fail, how hard they work will determine how far they’ll get in the industry and it could also make them more active towards performing more events. Things they could do to make sure they are ready to reach that level is to be healthy by exercising and eating healthy and making sure they get regular check-ups from local doctors.
Skills/Education needed – skill is a must for performers and what musicians do to master these goals is practice, they often have private lesson to master their skills. Musicians like to be good at what they do and most musicians in our days need to learn theory. Learning theory is a great way to understand the basics and to have a great knowledge and understanding of what music is, joining courses that teaches the artist how to perform is a great way to boost confidence and also doing other part-time jobs to understand different industries and business. It is also important for an artist to be social and interact with fans to widen their fan base. I’m planning to work in the industry myself both in the studio and in the performance side. What I’m doing now to help me succeed is a level 3 course that teaches me different areas of the industry that is producing sound engineering, djing and theory. What I do on my spare time to help me with the performance is practice at least 2 hours a day and book as many gigs as I can to get my confidence up in performing.
Job satisfaction - it’s a great job to have when everything is well and your touring all over Europe but it can cause anxiety if it’s not going well but overall it’s great.
Type of contract –
360 deal: the 360 deal is where an artist gets an advance that has to cover all of the costs for the production of their album and the costs for tours and events, also recording time. To sign a 360 deal an artist has to often be recognised by an agent or someone that has connections with a major label. The contract has rules and conditions to follow and for some artist it might be too hard to follow or unreasonable so signing a 360 deal might not be recommended for anyone, because with a 360 deal the money gets shared between everyone that works and helps the artist. So the artist can do a lot of work with the performing and producing music but for the artist to get major in the music business people like the manager, publishers, recording studios etc has to do a lot of work to get the artist recognised so the money goes to all these people so that leaves the artist left with only a little bit of money so %5 or %10 of the money with the 360 deal.
Management Contract: A manager is often needed by an artist once the artist has a bit more work. Usually the artist likes to focus on the creative side of music so often they leave all the business to the manager. The manager has lots of different tasks and that means they cannot get a specific budget so often a manager gets 10 – 20 percent of the total income of the artist.With this contract the manager is in control of the artist once the artist signs the certain contract, with the income money the manager in some cases will get more of the money then the artist.
Risks associated with employment/contract type:
360 deal: not having enough control, not getting a specific amount of money, depth is a few of the risks that you take signing a 360 deal. 360 deal can be very attractive at first that’s why its really important to have a lawyer looking for any unexpected deals or hidden charges.Tour manager:A tour manager controls the whole group he is responsible for everything. For example making sure the group is safe and happy, he needs to make sure that everything is up to date. He also needs to make sure he knows the dates for tours. Once the artist is in a different country they are responsible for getting the crew to the country, they are responsible for food accommodations, travel, also extra commands that the crew needs, first aid kit for any injuries and emergencies.

Tour Manager:


Salary/hours/working environment - they work throughout the year without a permanent contract, they work as a freelancer witch means they only get payed for the hours that they work instead of a stable budget. The hours that a tour manager works usually is as long as the tour lasts witch is 24/7. Their working environment can be quite stressful and you would not often see the tour manager hanging around and relaxing because the tour manager has to run around from the hotel to the venue to the car to wherever the artist wants to go in the place of the tour, venues for interviews, photo shoots and video shoots etc, basically every specific place in the tour so the tour manager can do his job and keep an eye on the artist and the crew to make sure things are going to plan.
Duties: the duties for a tour manager is: booking flights, booking events of the tour, booking travel such as buses,planes etc, booking a hotel or somewhere to stay for the whole crew, making sure everything is on time, making sure the crew and the artist is up to date with interviews and shows and shoots. Taking care of everyone and if someone is injured or there is an emergency the tour manager takes care of it. Overall the tour manager is like the father of the artist/band and team, so its absolutely vital to have a tour manager thats friendly and easy to get along with.
Skills/education needed: usually a tour manager has to be all rounded, meaning having a good education in english,maths, and also having an understanding in depth about the music industry or just knowing how the industry works. having good organisation, social skills and responsibility could be enough to get him working in the music industry.
Job Satisfaction: the good thing about being a tour manager is being able to to travel around, learning new skills within the industry, meeting new people, working with different artist's. But Overall its nots a very satisfying job to have because its not creative, it involves long hours, it is a very stressful job with never ending tasks, you often would only choose to work as a tour manager if the money is good. Also its a competitive job because it is not a permanent job there are loads of tour managers out there so you might not be hired for a while and be left with no work throughout the year and not having enough experience could prevent you from getting enough jobs as a tour manager.
Type of contract - short term contract, a short term contract is a job that lasts for a short period of time. With tour managers their job could last for a few days, a week, a month, or in most cases tour managers are found working throughout the summer season. Tour managers work with freelance because they don't work full time and they get hired for short period of times. So because tour managers work for short period of times they usually can only sign the short-term contract. But whats important about working freelance is that they work for themselves so any contracts would only be for a short period of times.
Risk associated with employment: stress is a common aspect in this job due to the long hours and short amount of sleeping and some extreme cases, distress might even turn into depression depending how extreme the hours are and the tasks are.

Business Plan

Building A Small Home Studio:

The first thing i noticed while searching for equipment is that the prices varie, My first step was to plan.
Price searching is the hardest thing before actually getting into action because having a good plan leads to targets being met, so for my studio plan i planned everything from prices to locations and to rights.

Prices:

i intend to build myself a small home studio specifically for doing mix down and producing beats, the following list is the equipment i already have for the studio.

Equipment Already Owned:

*BOSE headphones - £159 - the reason i need these headphones i because past 22:00pm it is illegal to play music out loud, so these bose headphones are very comfortable for long hour use, the sound is very clear and useful for mix downs and creating beats because the quality comes out clearly on bose headphones.

*Macbook Pro - £999 - Macbook pro is a specific computer for a specific software that i use, the reason why this computer is useful for music making is because it has a lot of power to support the work load of the software that i use.

*RAM (specifically for the mac) - £108 - my macbook pro first came with a 4GB hardrive, so i updated my ram to 16GB to support the amount of music that i make and not make my computer slow.

*Software For The Mac:
 Logic Pro - £155 - Logic pro is the software that i learned to use, it is very useful because it is very simple and it is very to pick up, the useful thing about logic pro is a lot of big companies like native instruments makes plugins for the software so there are unlimited things that you can do to make your sound unique.

 Massive Plug-in (within Logic pro) - €400 - massive plugin is a plugin that has loads of different instruments within in making my options less limited then having the normal logic instruments samples

*Acoustic Guitar - £120 - the acoustic guitar is useful to record a real acoustic guitar sound.

*Electric Guitar - £70 - the electric guitar is useful to create melodies and solos. 

Equipment That I Need:

*Scarlett Studio Interface - £120 - the scarlett studio interface is needed for me to connect the mac to the studio monitors.

*KRK Studio Monitors - £259 - the krk's are specific type of studio monitors that i will be using to make my beat more clean, the sound is clean and detailed because of the quality for the monitors.

*AKG C414 B-XLS Condensor Microphone - £660 - having a good microphone is useful to have a good recording which makes it easy to mix down, so i chose to buy the c414 condensor microphone.

*Microphone Stand - £20 (for 2 mic stands) - the microphone stand is to hold the microphone to record the vocals. 

*Midi Keyboard - £79 - the midi keyboard lets you play the midi data samples within logic.

*Jack Lead - £2.70 (x3) = £8.10 - jack lead is to connect the guitars to the amp or the interface.

*Samson SAPS01 Studio Quality Pop Filter - £13.19 - the pop filter plosives from having an effect on the recording.

*XLR Cable - £5 (x2 = £10) - the xlr connects the microphone to the interface.

*Midi Cable - £3 - the midi cable connects the midi keyboard to the computer.

*ACOUSTIC FOAM TREATMENT SOUND PROOFING 24 TILES - £31.19 - it stops natrual reverb from effecting the recording.

*Guitar Stand - £10 (x2 - £20) - the guitar stand holds the guitar safely instead of just laying the guitar on the floor.

Booking A Studio:

Because i want my home studio only for mix downs and producing, due to the amount of noise you can make whilst recording, the location that my studio is being set up is not appropriate so i am going to record instruments in a proper studio. (This will only happen when Vocals and guitars etc needs to be recorded together).

The Price: 

Because i am under 25 if i pay £15 for my membership i get to use the Roundhouse studios for £1 an hour. 

The Main Purpose:

The main purpose for me creating my own studio is mainly for mix downs, the space that i have within my house is good enough for me to use for mix downs, mastering and creating beats, so at first i would charge £20 for mix downs, £20 for mastering for people who know my work and for my mates.
The beats that i make will be mainly for me to advertise my work via Social networks, Soundcloud, band camp, Itunes and friends. 

Marketing Yourself

What i do?

I am a wannabe artist and a upcoming producer, i currently do a level 3 course that helps me acheive skills and improve my ability to this course, over the past 2 years has developed my performing skills, my producing skills and my overall theory of music. I currently want to work on my producing skills and sound engineering skills so i can get knowledge not only on the practical side but also on the academic and technical side of the industry. The reason why i want to have this amount of knowledge on this side of the music industry is because i want to creat my own independent label and release all my work as a artist and a producer independently without any strings attached.

Marketing materials:

The people that would likely be my target fans are people who buy music and also enjoy experimental songs. I likely age of these target audience are about 16 - 28 years of age. The reason why is because
16 - 18 year olds would most likely get the parents money to buy my songs and 20 - 28 year olds would probably buy it then selves. Sources that i would mainly use to get my fan base increased is sound cloud, twitter, band camp, proffesional blog, wordpress, youtube, facebook and instagram .

Soundcloud:
Soundcloud is useful to share mp3 files for free so listeners can stream it for free from any where that has internet acess, its also useful to share high quality music with wave file.

Twitter:

Having a lot of followers on twitter means that you have a lot of people hearing what you have to say and whatever post that you post within the social network can be highly credited. A useful thing to do to promote me as an artist on twitter is to post links to other websites witch show off my skills as a producer and a artist or post about what time my ep is coming out and dates for tours and gigs.

Facebook:

Facebook is useful as a network that promotes other useful websites that promote items.

Bandcamp:

The good thing about band camp is tht band camp is specially made for upcoming artists and producers and its easy to post eps and albulms or songs for free on this site and if registered you can also get a profit from the sales, and the people buying the item can choose the amount they want to pay witch sometimes can be a sucess for the artist. I myself will be making a target to publish a ep on bandcamp as soon as possible.

Wordpress:

Wordpress is where i have my blog that links up every networking site that i have meaning that i have music from soundcloud, links to instagram, link to twitter, facebook.

Instagram:

Instagram is kind of new to the promiting business, its a great way to get me as an artist and producer closer to my fans, having pictures of day to day life helps people identify not only with your music but with day to day life, witch is very useful to attract new dedicated fans.


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Self - Management & Professionalism

Freelance work:

A freelance worker works for them selves, the way that they manage themselves is by having control of their performance side and business side, they have a flexible contract meaning that they could choose to manage the money how they want. Also that means that there is a lot more organisation involved for the artist. As a freelancer you have to professional for example you wouldnt just work for a singer or a producer you wouldn also have to have a job to earn money to be able to pay for your career as a producer.
Freelancer signs temporary contracts for a certain amount of time this is known to be a session contract. Some other freelancers sign fixed term contracts witch would aply for a project or a job that would last for a while.

Finance in freelance:

The more difficult part of working as a freelancer whether in music or in a different business is the finance and knowing if you come under income tax and do a self assessment or personal allowance is key place to start.
Money makes the world go round and knowing how to control it is a crucial part in any business and as a freelancer you can choose to have someone controlling your budget, or you could save money and control the budget yourself, meaning you have to decide if you need extra money for the tours or maybe money for new gear, but also having enough money to pay tax.
One way to reduce the amount of tax that you pay is to keep reciepts of every cost that you had associated with your work, meaning if you wasted money on buying a computer for producing, instruments or even what ever things that are associated with your work you could get money taken off your tax to make the tax easier to pay. This form is called tax return and can be found in the hm avenue website.

Good and bad of working as a freelancer -

Good:
Being able to do whatever you want and whatever you like creatively and financially is a great option to have if your an independent person. Having a good organsiation skills, also being social could actually make you see profits and it is also great if you want to do other things other then music and keep music as a hobby because you will be allowed to be more flexible with your time choosing dates, time for whatever you like.

Bad:
The bad thing about being a freelancer is that having all this freedom could sometimes turn into a headache and a massive disaster if the artist is unorganised or unsocial, it could lead to stress, banked robbed and in extreme occasions leading the artist homeless. But these are extreme cases that could be a putt off to become a freelancer.

Being professional:

Being professional is sometimes just means following a task, but being a professional as a freelancer means taking responsibility of everything for example: how much money you need to rent a coach for a tour, making sure of time and the venue, controlling what comes in and what comes out of the bank, if you need to put your own money to secure the bands financial state. All these different examples is a few things that you need to be aware of when taking the decision of becoming a freelancer, being flexible with the time and having social skills meaning using the internet or meeting new friends within the industry, having a knowledge of the industry itself, being polite and friendly, being good with targets and time set for a specific release or tour dates are all commandments for a freelancer to follow if they are going to be successful in the industry.

Me as a freelancer:
If i was to become a freelancer i would make sure i would have a good knowledge all round, based on the business, based on the creative side of the music, i would make sure that i would have enough experience as a performer, work hard to increase my fan base as an artist, make friends with upcoming producers, create a portfolio both for the music that i produce and music that i would perform as an artist, i would also make sure to gain experience in mixing to get extra money, and i would also make sure that i had a job outside the music industry that would pay me a stable budget.

What im currently doing to meet my targets is a level 3 course in music production and sound engineering, im also learning about the music industry, learning to develop as an artist and also the theory in music. Im currently trying to creat a portfolio with a few of my recent work to show off my skills and im also working hard to socialise with people that work in the industry. I currently have a job with a stabled budget that can support me to make a start.

Royalties

Royalties:

Artists and composers are very important in the music idustry and they do a lot of creating and making music and get their music commercialised all over the tv, radio, adverts, movies etc. Whenever their music gets played they need to get payed because its their music and their right, whenever a composer or an artists music is being performed they get payed for it.
For the artist and composers to get payed for their work they need to apply for royalties so the collection agencies of the royalties can keep a contract that the artist or composer signed and have rights from the composer and artist. So once the artist or composer has joined the collection agnecies for the royalties they save records of the artist or composer's music and rights of what the composer has written and the artist has written and they track whenever their music is played and then the artist or composer gets payed.
The artist's recorded songs get played all over but there are different royalties for different rights meaning there is 3 types of collection agencies.

Collection agencies of royalties:

PRS - (performing right society)
MCPS - (mechanical copyright protection society)
PPL - (phonographic performance limited)

PRS - prs is when the writers and composers music gets performed, they get the money for it. The performer does not get money for performing the writers and composers music because the royalty collection angency is for composers and writers and their original recordings. For example either a composer, writer and artist write a original song from scratch and create everything in the song and they then go and record the song and then publish is, so once their song is published to be broadcasted the prs will record every single time that song has been played and they automatically get payed but if it is a band that created the song the prs has to split the money between the band and the most important role gets more then the other band members.
To join prs you have to pay 10 pounds to join for life, but this gets deducted from first payments. In april, july, october and december is when the payments are done.

MCPS - the royalties of mcps is collected from the sale of recordings and the owner of the copyright of the recording.
This means the record label that has signed with the artist, composer and writer own the recording and whenever the recording of the song has been sold the owner of the recording and the composer gets payed for it, so through mcps they collect every time the recording has been saled and the owner and composer gets payed. No one else can get payed only the owners and the composers because the mcps is made for them and works around them.
If a composer is unpublished they are still eligible for royalties of mcps.
The publishers would collect the money for the artist only if the artist uses a publisher. But if an artist comes and performs on the recording they dont have rights from mcps because they are just performing and they are not the owner of the copyright of the recording.

PPL - ppl royalties collects from a performance of a song, a broadcast of a song so the musicians performing on the recording get the royalties of ppl.
So only people that are performing on the recording have rights to get collections from ppl royalties.
So this means when someone performs in a song doesnt matter how long they get payed everytime they perform in the song and the song gets broadcasted. This applys to instrument players such as: piano, guitar, drums, bass etc. Singers or any sort of voices, rappers etc.
It does not cost to join mcps.


When a song is used on tv or film it earns either the composer, writer and artist money, so whenever the song is played on tv or film it gets the artist and composers and writers money.
Publishers of the artist or composers and writers give permission for the company using the specific song to use license for the song and gives you a synchronisation fee.
For example: a artist wrote an original song and recorded it, so the recording gets published around and a director has heard the recording and wants to use it for their film so the director has to get a lisence from the recording label that worked with the artist so they can use it on their film, because once the director has the lisence and pays the record label for the lisence the director can use te song for the film but only for the film, if the same director wanted to use it for another film they have to get another lisence for that film and be able to use it in the film.

The reason why royalties, copyrights and lisence are so important is because without the royalties there would be no organised method to pay the artists, composers and writers, and it would cause a mess in the industry with payments and there could be occasions where some artists, composers and writers dont even get payed for ther hard work and efforts. So it is good that there are 3 different types of royalties because it organises the paying methods and it makes the artists etc feel safe and secure and know that they would get payed for their rights. The way these 3 types of royalties get seperated for the rights of 1. Writers get payed for their original work being played 2. Owners and composers of record labels get payed for when the recordings get saled and 3. Performers on the recordings get payed for when the recording gets played. It all becomes simple but then there is lisences and copyrights with the recordings this is important to have in the music industry because lisences is for people to be able to use the songs and broadcast them and copyrights is for people to have rights to own the song by buying the song. Without lisences and copyrights the owners of the recordings meanig artists, writers and composers would not get payed properly maybe not at all because people would just be using the songs for free and the artists and owners would not get their money that they deserve. So this is why it is good that there are copyrights and lisences because it keeps the industry organised and people get payed for what they deserve and no problems occur.

Areas of the music industry

The music industry is a very active business, there are so many different jobs and areas involved with the music industry. But i am going to talk about four areas of the music industry that i find interesting and that are involved hugely with the music industry, these four areas that i will be talking about is: live performance, music publishing, record companies and artist management  These four areas are very active in the music business.

Live Performance - Live performance is one of the most important areas because when a artist gets their manager and the manager helps the artist gets published and then books them a live performance session. In the live performance the artist has their chance to show what they have to offer and build a fan base by connecting with the audience and getting the audience to show their material to the rest of their friends. Sell their EP's or Cd's in the live performance to get people interested in the artist's music and show it to the rest of their friends and family. The live performance session is really important for the artist because it helps the artist build a fan base and connect with the audience by telling the audience information like their twitter or Facebook page so the audience can go and follow their pages and get their friends and family to follow as well. It is also very important because if the artist performs really well the audience can see the artist is not fake and they have true talent.

Music Publishing - Music publishing is where the artist's gets their music published into entertainment like film soundtracks, TV adverts, music stores etc. The problem is with music publishing if the artist didn't compose and write the songs, the composers and writers get the money for their composing and writing. The artist gets money for performing the songs but the song writers and composers gets %50 of the money. The artist would get fame for performing the songs and being on the image of the albums and singles but the song writers and composers have their names published that they are the composers and song writers and they also get more money. So for that reason it is better if the artist composes their own songs so they earn more money and people would respect them more.

Recording Companies - Before the artist's music gets published the artist needs to record their tracks, but before the artist records in a recording studio, the artist manager and the artist need to find the the right recording company to sign with because not very recording company is going to want to sign with this certain artist, so the recording company has to sign a contract with the artist manager. But the artist manager and artist manager have to be careful  that the certain recording company they sign with isn't hard to work with and are friendly with the artist and the artist management.

Artist Manager - For an artist to get majorly famous they need an artist manager to help them but not in all cases but usually the artist needs an manager to book the artist gigs, book the artist interviews, get the artist connections with people, socialize for them and goes to meetings with the artist. The artist manager and the artist have to have a good connection with each other, have a good relationship as in get a long and trust each other, it is very important that the artist can trust the manager because some managers can use the artist and take their money and if something goes wrong the manager can give the artist a bad repetition because of the managers bad past and lie to press to give the artist a bad reputation. So the artist has to be careful and not rely on too much help.

Freelance world: self management

As a professional working as a freelancercould be a piece of cake, because as a professional you need organisation, goodwith time, and also needs to be ready for everything the business is going tothrow at you.

A freelancer needs to depend on himself thatmeans working low budget in more than one job.

Professionalism:

·      Positive attitude – having apositive attitude is the foundation of a freelance producer. Setting your mindto the right steps is vital. To stand out in the business industry you need tobe positive even if you get a negative feedback being able to turn a no in to ayes is not easy.

·      Attitude – doing a task withpurpose only happens with attitude.

·      Skill - a question aproducer needs to ask himself is “am I going to stand out, am I skilled enoughto make it. If not learning more about theory could help.

Tax – as a freelance I need pay every little percentageof tax by doing this I need keep track of time so I don’t become late for the finalpayment day.

What I need to do to make myself more confidentin my work is to learn more about the software that could involve doing a newcourse a buying a Mac and learning more about theory having a part time job could help.so Iwould be able buy what I need what I would also think about is saving the receiptsof every equipment the e.g. headphones speakers   ReasonI will do that is because as a producer I’m entitle to tax relief by proving tothe government I’m a producer through my recognised jobs. tax relief helps to give discount on your tax you get this discount buy buying equipment.