Just before the last fantastic evening of artist showcases kicked off at the House Of Blues on Wednesday, MUSEXPO 2008 presented this year’s final cocktail reception and dinner hosted by A&R Worldwide, Nokia and PlayIndies, which featured a very special tribute honoring one of the world’s most influential music supervisors, Alex Patsavas, (Founder/Owner, Chop Shop [...]
Legends: A Word From The Wise
Although this year’s MUSEXPO panels were, as always, chock-full of industry V.I.P.s, one could argue that we saved the best for last! LEGENDS: A WORD FROM THE WISE was sponsored by The Liquid Experience Group and expertly moderated by the brilliantly talented Mr. Mike Walsh (Head of Music, Xfm Radio Network UK), who had apparently [...]
Weapon Of Mass Discussion
MUSEXPO 2008 was proud to once again present the fabulously outspoken Bob Lefsetz, the esteemed writer and publisher of the enormously popular series of epistolary essays known as The Lefsetz Letter in our WEAPON OF MASS DISCUSSION panel, which was basically a Q&A with Mr. Lefsetz and the ubiquitous Tommy Nast, who once again did [...]
Global Broadcast & Media Forum
MUSEXPO 2008’s GLOBAL BROADCAST & MEDIA FORUM was sponsored by NZ On Air, who provided the single most hilarious presentation of the conference by opening things up with a very special “satellite” greeting, courtesy of New Zealand comedian/actor Rhys Darby (a.k.a. manager Murray on HBO’s “Flight Of The Conchords” series), who thanked MUSEXPO’s “Sat Bistro” [...]
Global Publishing Forum
MUSEXPO 2008’s GLOBAL PUBLISHING FORUM, sponsored by BMI, was co-moderated by Messrs. Emmanuel Legrand (Editor, Impact Music Publishing Magazine, UK) and Ritch Esra –(Publisher, The Music Registry) and boasted a top team of expert panel participants from around the world, featuring Jay Faires (President of Music & Publishing, Lionsgate Entertainment); Jens-Markus Wegener (Managing Director, AMV [...]
Three Special Announcements!
Sat Bisla, the President and Founder of Musexpo, A&R Worldwide and host/programmer of the Passport Approved radio show, made three special announcements this morning (Wednesday, 4/30/08) between panels at the House Of Blues.
First, he announced a partnership between Play MPE, All Access Music Group and Passport Approved which would allow programmers to access high-quality WAV files [...]
ART & COMMERCE THROUGH VISUAL MEDIA
The MUSEXPO 2008 panel on Film, TV & Videogames (a.k.a. Art & Commerce Through Visual Media) was co-moderated by John Anderson (CEO Creative Services/Lifestyle, Hunnypot Unlimited) and Lindsay Fellows (Sr. VP Music, Walden Media and Bristol Bay Productions), two gentlemen who could just as easily sat as members of the panel, and whose knowledge and [...]
Market Focus: China
The second and final stop on Musexpo 2008’s whirlwind, “three-hour tour” of Asia was China, the country with the world’s largest population, and one which is still only just beginning to open up to the West. Safta Jaffrey (Owner/Managing Director, SJP/Taste Music UK), who had already served as co-moderator on the previous panel (Market Focus: [...]
Market Focus: India
The first of today’s “Market Focus” spotlights was all about India. Co-moderated by Aarti Tandon (Partner, Law Offices of Aarti Tandon) and Safta Jaffrey (Owner/Managing Director, SJP/Taste Music UK), the panel featured Atul Churamani (VP A&R, Publishing & New Media, Saregama, India); Mark Strippel (Head of Music, BBC Asian Network); Oum Pradutt (Managing Director, Phase [...]
Global Live Entertainment Forum
This year’s MUSEXPO Global Live Entertainment Forum was moderated by the one and only Tommy Nast (Music & Media Consultant/MUSEXPO Advisor), who has been doing a fabulous job as Master of Ceremonies for most of the panels, and who did a terrific job of keeping the conversation lively and interesting–no uncomfortable silences when “The Nasty [...]
