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NYS ARTS presents
BOOTSTRAP YOUR MUSIC
Tips, Tools and Resources to help build your music career |
NYS ARTS BOOTSTRAP YOUR MUSIC is a series of online seminars {Webinars - Short for Web-based seminar, a webinar is a presentation, lecture, workshop or seminar that is transmitted over the Web offered in real time.} After you sign up we will give you the web address, log in information and phone number.
High speed internet access and telephone are required.
The NYS ARTS Blog is up throughout the series to help you share and get information and post questions.
We encourage participants to take advantage of this wonderful resource.
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 COPYRIGHT & CONTRACTS: Goldmine or Minefield
Webinar Course 3
1 Session | Wednesday, August 13 | 12:00 - 1:30pm
There is still time to sign up!
Musicians do you need answers to these questions?
~ How do I prevent others from using my music?
~ Can I sample and use other people's songs and recordings?
~ Who owns the rights to the music I write and play with my band?
~ What if I want to fire my manager?
~ What if the band splits up? Can I take the name?
~ Who owns the rights to a collaboration between a writer, a playwright and a musician?
This 90 minute course will teach you the answers to these and other questions as well as contract and copyright basics in the music industry.
Session costs only $10
Register & Pay for this Session
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About the Instructor
Barbara T. Hoffman
Barbara T. Hoffman is a well known arts and entertainment lawyer with more than 25 years experience representing artists, writers, film producers and directors, software content producers and people in the music industry. She was the founder of the Washington Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and is a past chair of the International Bar Association Committee on Art Law and the New York City Bar Association Committee on Art Law. Hoffman holds degrees from Brown University and the Columbia Law School. She is admitted to practice in the New York, Washington and District of Columbia state and federal courts, and the United States Supreme Court. |
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ONLINE PROMOTION & MARKETING
Webinar Course 2
Session 1
July 9 | "Music Artist Website Tips n' Tricks"
7:00 - 8:30pm
This session will help you to look at your website:
- are you doing all you can to drive traffic to your site?
- are you giving what your fans are looking for?
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Session 2
July 16 | "Social Tools for Music Success"
7:00 - 8:30pm
A look at social networks like MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and others, and how to use them help boost your music career. |
Course 2 | Session 3
July 30 | "Distributing Your Music Online"
with Jay Moonah
12:00 - 1:30pm
A look at models of selling music online, as well as opportunities to make money through giving your songs away.
About the instructor:
Jay Moonah is the Digital Information Strategist at Toronto new media agency 58Ninety Inc. He has worked on website, podcast, blog and social media projects for many clients including the Canadian Independent Recording Artists Association, Molson-Coors, Dove, the Toronto Sun, the Canadian Broadcasting Co. (CBC). Jay has been an active member of the independent music scene for 20 years, and currently plays with the bands the McFlies and Uncle Seth.
Jay is also an active podcaster and blogger. He is the former host of the Toronto Independent Music & Online Music Marketing podcasts and currently blogs and podcasts at Media Driving
Jay lives in the Toronto suburb of Scarborough with his wife, daughter and two very fat cats.
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Develop Your Music Career
Webinar Course 1 |
June 4 | Webinar Session 1
12:00 - 1:30pm
"Building your Website: Goals & Mission"
This session will help you create a map to your career through the web, with an emphasis on personal mission statements and the use of imaginative marketing tools. Defining ones self as an artist is a difficult task. It takes the patience to constantly redefine and edit one's achievements and goals, an understanding of your peers and crititcs, and a keen ability to explain yourself in direct and attractive terms.
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June 11 | Webinar Session 2
12:00 - 1:30pm
"Grant Writing Tips for the Artist from the Artist"
This resource will help you access more grants, show you how to keep a grant schedule, and address the recurring questions fournd in the grant-making art world. Grants are out there. It's a matter of having the right database and understanding how to position your ideas into required grant fields. |
June 25 | Webinar Session 3
12:00 - 1:30pm
"How to Balance Collaborative and Personal Trajectories"
Learn tools for developing long-standing collaborations, understanding interpersonal skills that will help you maintain them, and gain useful commissioning tips, and the standard protocol for collective and individual realization. A long-standing career is full when the individual and collaborative processes can weave themselves simultaneously throughout life.
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About the instructor: PAOLA PRESTINI
Italian born composer PAOLA PRESTINI is the director and founder of the award-winning interdisciplinary performing collective, VisionIntoArt (VIA). VIA has performed in theaters, museums, and clubs all over the world and specializes in creating collaborations that stem from new music.
Prestini's work has been commissioned and performed by VIA at the Whitney Live Sereie, BAM Cafe, Symphony Space, Joe's Pub, and performance Space 122 and recent large scale works have been performed worldwide.
She has composed scores for numerous films that have garnered awards from the Sundance Film Festival and the Film Festival at Austin. She is a graduate of the Julliard School and has been the recipient of various awards; NYSCA, ASCAP, NY Philharmonic, Meet the Composer and many more.
She had taught and created curricula at the American Composers Orchestra, the NY Philharmonic, the ASOL, and Meet the Composer
Read more about Paola and VIA
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In 2007 courses included:
How to Protect Yourself
will be taught by Elena Paul and Alexi Ormani Auld, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts. On May 15, there will be a real time webinar, followed by a real time blog clinic on May 22, and individual consultations with an attorney on May 29. This online course will focus on contracts, intellectual property rights, and negotiation.
Online Promotion and Marketing
taught by Jay Moonah, and comprised of three webinars (Your Web Presence, Online Digital and CD Sales, Social Media and Virtual Worlds) and teaching blog.
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Bootstrap Your Music Business
taught by Paola Prestini and Vision Into Art staff, beginning in October.
Funding for this program comes from The New York State Music Fund. The New York State Music Fund was created when the New York State Attorney General's Office resolved investigations against major record companies that had violated state and federal laws prohibiting "pay for play" (also called "payola"). The settlement agreement stipulated that funds paid by music businesses would support music education and appreciation for the benefit of New York State residents. The Attorney General's Office enlisted the services of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, one of the nation's largest and most experienced philanthropy services, to develop and manage the grant program.
The New York State Music Fund published guidelines and criteria and accepted grant applications in a number of categories, including music education and public performances of music by artists working in hip hop, reggae, fusion, jazz, classical and folk music of all cultures. Applications related to recording, distribution, or broadcast through traditional or new media were also eligible. Special emphasis was placed on reaching underserved populations and broadening awareness of artists, genres or styles with limited access to commercial broadcast or other mass distribution vehicles.
