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WE REMEMBER<br />
DOROTHY DODD<br />
apRap<br />
N E W S L E T T E R O F T H E A U S T R A L A S I A N P E R F O R M I N G R I G H T A S S O C I A T I O N D E C E M B E R 2 0 0 6<br />
THE<br />
SPELLBINDERS<br />
SCREEN COMPOSERS<br />
AND THEIR ART<br />
<strong>CLARE</strong> <strong>BOWDITCH</strong><br />
WHAT’S MY SCENE?<br />
Photo by >> Warwick Baker
Anthea Sarris<br />
Brett Cottle<br />
Photo by >> Jan Kuczerawy Photo by >> Jan Kuczerawy<br />
EDITOR’S WRAP<br />
Even in the formal surrounds of Sydney’s City<br />
Recital Hall and The Westin Hotel, this year’s<br />
<strong>APRA</strong>-AGSC Screen Music Awards had the<br />
warm, familiar feel of a backyard barbeque<br />
(albeit a very sophisticated one!). The seasoned<br />
veterans and young guns of screen composition<br />
mingled, gossiped and generally ‘caught up’ at<br />
their annual gathering – a communal affair for<br />
what can be a very solitary craft.<br />
In this issue of Aprap we investigate the art,<br />
craft and challenges of writing music for the<br />
screen: we catch up with composers Richard<br />
Tognetti, Michael Yezerski, Amanda Brown,<br />
Mick Harvey and Bryony Marks in our feature<br />
article, The Spellbinders (p. 9-11); film critic<br />
and cinemaphile Andrew Urban explores the<br />
value of music in Australian cinema (p. 12); and<br />
we put spotlight the on Victoria Kelly – an NZ<br />
screen composer going global (p. 16).<br />
“Encouragement is one of the highest forms love<br />
can take,” said arts patron and philanthropist<br />
Barbara Blackman at this year’s <strong>APRA</strong>-AMC<br />
Classical Music Awards (p. 7). In this issue<br />
we’re thrilled to report on how some of <strong>APRA</strong>’s<br />
to the point<br />
As this edition of Aprap goes to press, the<br />
Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee<br />
has just issued its report on the Copyright<br />
Amendment Bill 2006. The Committee did a<br />
remarkable job of considering a Bill of more<br />
than 200 pages of complicated provisions in<br />
a very short turnaround time that permitted<br />
only four hours – yes, that’s correct, hours<br />
– of public hearings.<br />
The result was an 80-page report that<br />
devoted all of four paragraphs to the<br />
Bill’s most significant policy change; namely<br />
giving consumers a blanket right to copy<br />
recorded music into other formats for<br />
“private and domestic purposes”, without<br />
any compensation for songwriters, publishers<br />
or recording artists. The lack of interest<br />
in the issue on the part of the Senate<br />
Committee has been sadly indicative of a<br />
singular lack of Government interest in the<br />
idea of statutory compensation for copyright<br />
owners for private copying, despite the<br />
support of just about everyone in the music<br />
industry except the major record labels.<br />
encouragement is making a difference: check<br />
out the postcards from 2006 Professional<br />
Development Award winners Amira Pyliotis and<br />
Natalie Williams (p.3); and on p. 15 you’ll find a<br />
list of all the organisations and events that have<br />
received <strong>APRA</strong> music grants for 2006/07.<br />
Also in this issue we celebrate the achievements<br />
of Indigenous songwriters with a pictorial tour<br />
of the recent NT Indigenous Music Awards<br />
and the 12th Deadlys; and we farewell former<br />
<strong>APRA</strong> Chairman, Director and Writer member,<br />
Dorothy Dodd (p.18).<br />
My first gig as editor has been a blast. I hope<br />
you enjoy reading Aprap as much as Kirti, I and<br />
the rest of the editorial team enjoyed pulling<br />
it together.<br />
Best wishes for the holiday season - see you<br />
in 2007!<br />
Anthea Sarris<br />
(and presumably its recording artists) for<br />
unauthorised private copying of recordings<br />
onto Zune players. But it seems unlikely that<br />
there will be any contractual entitlement for<br />
songwriters or their publishers to share in<br />
such a private levy… which is exactly why<br />
there should be statutory levy on private<br />
copying media in Australia – including iPods,<br />
Zunes and other MP3 players – to guarantee<br />
equity to all music copyright owners, not<br />
just major record labels. Which only makes<br />
the Government’s peremptory disinterest in<br />
the subject all the more disappointing.<br />
Brett Cottle, CEO <strong>APRA</strong><br />
Photo by >> Warwick Baker<br />
What is it you most value about music?<br />
The unpredictability of it, its beauty, the mystery of where<br />
it comes from, the joy of not knowing, and its universality.<br />
What are you currently working on?<br />
One new album, two new babies.<br />
What are you listening to?<br />
Art of Fighting, Stormy One and Hot Little Hands demos,<br />
also having a Thelonious Monk/Donny Hathaway revival<br />
at our house right now...<br />
What is your favourite film about music or is it a musical?<br />
Sheesh - it’s only partly about music; Bertolucci’s Beseiged.<br />
Stunning soundtrack.<br />
What is your favourite book/website about music?<br />
Pitchforkmedia.com<br />
What is the best live performance you’ve ever been to,<br />
whether you were performing or not?<br />
It’s an urban cliché now, I know, but as a teenager seeing<br />
Jeff Buckley play at the Palais for the first time, that blew my<br />
mind. Other most recent mind blowers include Gillian Welch<br />
and David Rawlings at Meeniyan Hall - oh brother.<br />
What is the quickest piece you have written and which piece<br />
took the longest to write?<br />
Yesterday I began work again on a song I’ve been writing<br />
for twelve years. As soon as I get an idea or an inkling that<br />
a song is coming on, I turn on my recording device and<br />
capture it. Quite often these original late-night or early<br />
morning versions are the ones that stand.<br />
WHAT’S MY SCENE?<br />
PDA POSTCARDS<br />
AUSTRALIAN ORIGINAL MUSIC EARNINGS<br />
KEEP AN EYE ON ... JORDAN MILLAR<br />
CELEBRATING INDIGENOUS ARTISTS & MUSIC<br />
CELEBRATING PASSION,<br />
DEDICATION AND ARTISTIC TALENT<br />
HONOURING THE UNSEEN CHAMPIONS<br />
THE SPELLBINDERS<br />
Clare Bowditch<br />
Singer, songwriter, 2006 ARIA Award winner, <strong>APRA</strong> member since 1999.<br />
WHAT’S MY SCENE?<br />
AUSTRALIAN FILM & MUSIC:<br />
AN URBANE PERSPECTIVE<br />
Who have been your greatest musical influences?<br />
John Hedigan, Defah Dattner and Marty Brown.<br />
Who would you most like to collaborate with and why?<br />
In Australia, at this moment in time, even after all these<br />
years, I’d still like Nick Cave to call and ask me to work<br />
with him on something.<br />
What’s your favourite piece (that you’ve written)?<br />
It’s usually whatever is most recent - at the moment it’s a<br />
song called Dog Back. But I also feel particularly fond of<br />
Homage to my Dad and the ABC, for obvious reasons.<br />
What piece written by another writer do you wish you had<br />
written, and why?<br />
I have a longstanding song-writer’s crush on everyone in<br />
The Drones, and I still can’t get over Shark Fin Blues.<br />
What is the quality you most admire in a composer?<br />
Ongoing and sustained brilliance/risk-taking punctuated<br />
only by periods of crippling self-doubt which is overcome<br />
again and again. This I admire.<br />
What is the best career advice you were ever given?<br />
Do what you love, not what you think other people<br />
will love. Know thyself, I guess it was.<br />
If you were not a composer, what might you have<br />
ended up doing?<br />
A poor but happy radio documentarian, an ethnomusicologist,<br />
a most frustrated and angry young woman.<br />
INTERNATIONAL NOTES<br />
MEMBER NEWS<br />
SCREENWRAP<br />
SUPPORTING THE ARTS<br />
GOING GLOBAL: VICTORIA KELLY<br />
PUBLISHER NEWS<br />
IN MEMORY OF DOROTHY DODD<br />
WHAT’S HAPPENING<br />
<strong>APRA</strong> NZ: 2006 <strong>APRA</strong> SILVER SCROLL AWARDS<br />
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.<br />
A P R A P D E C E M B E R 2 0 0 6 > > 0 2<br />
Accordingly, it was with a strong sense<br />
of irony that we were to read, just as the<br />
Senate Committee released its report, that a<br />
major record label had negotiated a private<br />
levy with Microsoft, to apply to each of<br />
Microsoft’s new Zune MP3 players, sold to<br />
the public. This levy will compensate the label<br />
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PDAPOSTCARDS<br />
Our 2006 Professional Development Award<br />
winners report on how their <strong>APRA</strong> PDA grant<br />
has helped them achieve their music career<br />
ambitions. This issue features postcards from<br />
popular contemporary winner, Amira Pyliotis<br />
and classical winner Natalie Williams.<br />
>> Natalie Williams<br />
>> Amira Pyliotis<br />
Amira Pyliotis (Tecoma)<br />
Popular Contemporary<br />
Music<br />
Last New Years I decided<br />
this was going to be the<br />
year I’d finally record<br />
my debut album. After a full<br />
year of performing in 2005,<br />
when 2006 rolled around I<br />
was hungry for just enough<br />
silence and space to dream<br />
up the most beautiful record<br />
imaginable. I’d put in place a<br />
plan and a rough timeline and<br />
managed to secure the financial<br />
support of a mustering friend<br />
from Alice Springs; so the<br />
most important aspects of the<br />
record would be captured in a<br />
warm studio environment. But<br />
I was torn between moving<br />
to Melbourne, with its easy<br />
access to great musicians,<br />
my old music teachers, techheads<br />
and great recording<br />
facilities- and staying in Alice<br />
Springs where I’d been living<br />
and writing, to try and better<br />
capture the colours my songs<br />
had been conceived in.<br />
And then I won an <strong>APRA</strong> PDA.<br />
After getting over my initial<br />
disbelief and momentary<br />
hysteria (!!) my plans for the<br />
year quickly went out the<br />
window. The performance<br />
invitations that were part of<br />
being a PDA recipient (including<br />
a live TV performance in<br />
March, followed by the <strong>APRA</strong><br />
awards in July) introduced me<br />
to musicians and songwriters<br />
I would never have met<br />
otherwise. Many of these<br />
people have ended up shaping<br />
aspects of my debut album<br />
in ways I might never have<br />
previously imagined.<br />
Winning the PDA also enabled<br />
me to buy sound equipment to<br />
experiment with arrangements<br />
and production of songs I’m<br />
working on, regardless of<br />
whether I’m on the road or at<br />
home. As well as giving me<br />
creative freedom I wouldn’t<br />
otherwise have had, it’s given<br />
me the capacity to record some<br />
of the most talented musicians<br />
I’ve had the good fortune to<br />
cross paths with over the past<br />
two years spent travelling and<br />
playing around Australia.<br />
By the time my debut album<br />
Home Brew is mastered, it will<br />
include performances from<br />
musicians captured in Alice<br />
Springs, Darwin, Sydney,<br />
Melbourne and a couple of<br />
places in between. But rather<br />
than the end result sounding<br />
like a musical modern day<br />
Prometheus, it’s sounding bit<br />
by bit like my dream line-up of<br />
musician friends have all been<br />
brought together and managed<br />
to make music.<br />
Next year after I release Home<br />
Brew, side projects include<br />
completing work on my<br />
contribution to a Gotye re-mix<br />
record, as well as spending<br />
time exploring the first of<br />
hopefully what will be many<br />
co-writing collaborations I<br />
began on a recent PDA-funded<br />
trip to the US.<br />
In a more subtle way, winning<br />
the <strong>APRA</strong> PDA has changed<br />
the way I regard myself as a<br />
musician and songwriter. I’ve<br />
begun to see myself as very<br />
much a part of the wider<br />
sphere that is the Australian<br />
music-making community, as<br />
opposed to a musician writing<br />
songs in isolation at the<br />
periphery of it. Collaborations<br />
seem a lot more possible; a lot<br />
less scary than they have in<br />
the past and seem to present<br />
an opportunity to continue<br />
learning about music outside<br />
of the classroom. While it<br />
doesn’t seem that the new<br />
challenges on the horizon<br />
ever stop coming, being a<br />
recipient of the <strong>APRA</strong> PDA has<br />
much better equipped me with<br />
resources to draw on in this<br />
life-long ambition of making<br />
music. Thanks <strong>APRA</strong>!<br />
Natalie Williams<br />
Classical Music<br />
In February 2006 I received<br />
two opportunities that<br />
have immeasurably changed<br />
my career as a composer. I<br />
was accepted as a graduate<br />
student into the Jacobs School<br />
of Music at the University of<br />
Indiana, and was also awarded<br />
the 2006 Classical Music<br />
category <strong>APRA</strong> Professional<br />
Development Award.<br />
Since August this year I have<br />
been studying for a Doctoral<br />
degree in Composition here<br />
at Indiana University (IU).<br />
The Music School boasts a<br />
student body of over 1,500<br />
which means lots of available<br />
performers for premiering new<br />
works. The school gives over<br />
1,000 concert performances<br />
each year, presents four opera<br />
seasons, three ballet seasons<br />
and concerts and recitals by<br />
one if its five full-time student<br />
orchestras.<br />
Our compositional activity<br />
is centred around a busy<br />
schedule of recitals at which<br />
each composition student is<br />
required to present new works<br />
written while at IU. One of my<br />
solo flute pieces Haiku, written<br />
while I was an undergraduate<br />
in Adelaide, was performed at<br />
an IU recital in October – my<br />
first overseas performance.<br />
The composition faculty are<br />
incredibly supportive and<br />
inspiring and I’m currently<br />
working with Professors<br />
Claude Baker and David<br />
Ward-Steinman.<br />
Opportunities for collaboration<br />
and new creative work are<br />
endless. The composition<br />
school is working in partnership<br />
this semester with the IU<br />
School of Dance in a project<br />
titled: Hammer and Nail,<br />
where composers are paired<br />
with student choreographers<br />
to jointly create and design<br />
new works for dance and live<br />
instrumental performance.<br />
IU has a resident New Music<br />
Ensemble which is devoted to<br />
the performance and premiere<br />
of new works written largely<br />
after 1950. In early December<br />
they will conduct ‘reading’<br />
sessions with selected IU<br />
composers, which is a great<br />
way to get to know the student<br />
performers and hear our music<br />
workshopped in a high-level<br />
performance setting.<br />
Each semester up to four<br />
visiting composers of<br />
international stature are<br />
invited to IU to present their<br />
works and give masterclasstype<br />
composition lessons to<br />
students. In October I had the<br />
chance to work with Lansing<br />
McKloskey and in November<br />
I studied with Bernard Rands,<br />
a Pulitzer Prize winning<br />
composer, currently based in<br />
Chicago.<br />
Upcoming events which we<br />
will be participating in as IU<br />
students include, the Mid-<br />
West Composers Symposium<br />
in early 2007, the IU String<br />
Quartet competition and<br />
the ‘Music for Kids’ project.<br />
The latter involves working<br />
with music students from<br />
a local primary school and<br />
orchestrating some of their<br />
own melodies for symphonic<br />
or wind band ensembles, to be<br />
later premiered on campus.<br />
I’m currently working on two<br />
orchestral pieces; one for the<br />
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra<br />
early next year and one for<br />
the Advanced Orchestration<br />
class. I’m also writing some<br />
smaller instrumental works for<br />
trombone solo and a chamber<br />
piece for the IU Recorder<br />
Ensemble. Amongst an existing<br />
schedule of graduate theory<br />
and musicology classes, this<br />
certainly keeps me busy.<br />
In early November I was<br />
invited to present a seminar,<br />
for the Graduate Composition<br />
Masterclass, on Australian<br />
Contemporary Classical Music<br />
which was an excellent way to<br />
introduce my IU colleagues to<br />
the rich heritage of Australian<br />
composition and speak about<br />
recent trends and emerging<br />
voices down under. The<br />
atmosphere amongst the<br />
faculty is extremely collegiate<br />
and supportive and the staff<br />
and students have welcomed<br />
me as ‘the’ Australian graduate<br />
student for 2006.<br />
The support of the <strong>APRA</strong> PDA<br />
award has made possible for<br />
me this study and relocation<br />
to North America. Without<br />
this financial support to<br />
cover flights, university fees,<br />
textbooks and registration<br />
costs, it simply wouldn’t be<br />
possible for me to have made<br />
this move. This invaluable<br />
aid has opened up so many<br />
new doors and will enable<br />
me to train at the highest<br />
international level, eventually<br />
bringing these skills back to<br />
Australia.<br />
Thankyou <strong>APRA</strong> for making<br />
this possible and supporting<br />
my work at this international<br />
level.<br />
A P R A P D E C E M B E R 2 0 0 6 > > 0 4
The <strong>APRA</strong>|AMCOS<br />
annual report<br />
documents<br />
are available<br />
online at:<br />
www.apra.com.<br />
au/corporate/<br />
DocsPolicies.asp<br />
<strong>APRA</strong>|AMCOS The Year<br />
in Review 2005-06<br />
This document presents<br />
a summary of the<br />
achievements and key<br />
issues faced by the<br />
Australasian Performing<br />
Right Association and the<br />
Australasian Mechanical<br />
Copyright Owners Society<br />
over the past financial year.<br />
It features messages from<br />
Mike Perjanik, Chairman<br />
of the <strong>APRA</strong> Board and<br />
Ian James, Chairman of<br />
the AMCOS Board, plus,<br />
a report from <strong>APRA</strong>|AMCOS<br />
CEO, Brett Cottle.<br />
<strong>APRA</strong> Annual Financial<br />
Report: 30 June 2006<br />
This report presents the<br />
financial results of the<br />
Australasian Performing<br />
Right Association for the<br />
year ended 30 June 2006.<br />
It features a report from<br />
the Board of Directors,<br />
plus financial statements<br />
as prepared by <strong>APRA</strong>’s<br />
auditors.<br />
AMCOS Annual Financial<br />
Report: 30 June 2006<br />
This report presents the<br />
financial results of the<br />
Australasian Mechanical<br />
Copyright Owners Society<br />
the year ended 30<br />
June 2006. It features a<br />
report from the Board of<br />
Directors, plus financial<br />
statements as prepared by<br />
AMCOS’ auditors.<br />
<strong>APRA</strong> has declared total<br />
revenue of $127.2 million<br />
(net of management fees)<br />
for the 2005/06 financial<br />
year, a growth of 2.9%<br />
over the previous financial<br />
year. AMCOS returns for<br />
the 2005/06 year rose by<br />
8.8% to $41 million, bringing<br />
consolidated <strong>APRA</strong>|AMCOS<br />
revenue to a new high of<br />
$168.2 million.<br />
<strong>APRA</strong>|AMCOS’ final figure<br />
for net distributable income<br />
accorded almost exactly<br />
with budget forecasts, owing<br />
to solid growth in some<br />
licensing areas and continued<br />
restraint in expenditure. This<br />
was despite the adverse<br />
effect of a number of factors<br />
– principally a softening in<br />
broadcast advertising revenue, a<br />
precipitous second-half decline<br />
in the value of the NZ dollar, a<br />
continued decline in cinema box<br />
office and some major concert<br />
tour cancellations.<br />
<strong>APRA</strong> distributed a total of $110.3<br />
million during the year, a 6.3%<br />
increase on the previous year,<br />
AMCOS distributed a total of<br />
$35million, an increase of 25%.<br />
A total of 19,271 members<br />
received a royalty allocation<br />
from either <strong>APRA</strong> or AMCOS<br />
during the year, while 104,307<br />
members of affiliated societies<br />
around the world received an<br />
allocation.<br />
<strong>APRA</strong> now has more than<br />
44,000 members, comprising<br />
43,856 writer members<br />
resident in Australia or New<br />
Zealand, and 437 publishers.<br />
AMCOS represents 577 writers<br />
and 282 publisher members.<br />
Overall, membership of both<br />
organisations grew by 11.9%<br />
during the year.<br />
Expense to revenue ratio<br />
<strong>APRA</strong>’s costs (net of the costs<br />
of administering the AMCOS<br />
mandate) amounted to $16.3m<br />
or 12.8% of gross revenue; its<br />
lowest ratio ever.<br />
Australian<br />
original<br />
music<br />
earnings<br />
steady +<br />
on track<br />
<strong>APRA</strong>|AMCOS<br />
FINANCIAL<br />
PERFORMANCE<br />
2005-06<br />
By Kirti Jacobs, <strong>APRA</strong><br />
Communications<br />
Positive aspects of<br />
<strong>APRA</strong>|AMCOS’ revenue<br />
collection for 2005-06<br />
REVENUE AT A GLANCE<br />
u Licence fees from pay<br />
television grew by 12.5%<br />
to $8.2 million, despite<br />
low market penetration<br />
(in Australia only 25% of<br />
households have pay-tv)<br />
u <strong>APRA</strong>’s online revenue<br />
(principally webcasting and<br />
ringtone transmissions)<br />
grew by 158.3% to $1.2million<br />
– the first time we’ve<br />
surpassed the $1 million<br />
figure. Likewise, AMCOS<br />
achieved a similar figure for<br />
the year, with the arrival of<br />
the Apple iTunes service in<br />
Australia (but not yet in New<br />
Zealand). When ringtone and<br />
other mobile applications are<br />
aggregated, AMCOS’ new<br />
technology income is now<br />
well in excess of $6m, or<br />
15% of total revenue.<br />
u General public performance<br />
revenue (including cinemas)<br />
in New Zealand rose<br />
– despite the fall in the<br />
currency – by nearly 10%<br />
during the year, to A$2.4<br />
million.<br />
u Foreign revenue was<br />
maintained at $17.2 million,<br />
despite a comparatively<br />
strong Australian dollar and<br />
a challenging international<br />
environment for collections<br />
generally.<br />
u <strong>APRA</strong> concluded new<br />
long-term agreements with:<br />
• the Pay-TV industry, under<br />
which per subscriber fees<br />
will increase substantially,<br />
• the hotel, club, restaurant<br />
and fitness industries, in<br />
respect of background<br />
recorded music, where<br />
fixed annual fees will<br />
increase, phased in over<br />
three years, and<br />
• the cinema industry, where<br />
licence fees will similarly<br />
increase phased in over<br />
three years.<br />
u The re-licensing of premises<br />
covered by the latter two<br />
schemes will involve the<br />
termination and re-institution<br />
of more than 16,000 individual<br />
licence agreements.<br />
uDuring the year <strong>APRA</strong>’s<br />
case for substantial<br />
increases in licence<br />
fees paid by retail<br />
establishments for the use<br />
of recorded music was<br />
heard by the Copyright<br />
Tribunal. As this report<br />
is being prepared,<br />
we are awaiting the<br />
Tribunal’s determination.<br />
Approximately 32,000<br />
businesses throughout<br />
Australia will be affected<br />
by the decision.<br />
MECHANICAL<br />
LICENSING REVENUE<br />
u On the mechanical right<br />
side, AMCOS negotiated and<br />
concluded a new long-term<br />
physical product licence<br />
scheme during the year. The<br />
scheme covers CD, DVD and<br />
hybrid mixed-content formats.<br />
The agreement preserves the<br />
existing audio and audiovisual<br />
rates applicable under<br />
the statutory mechanical<br />
licensing provisions (and<br />
voluntary extensions thereof)<br />
at 8.7% and 6.5% of PPD<br />
(Published Price to Dealer)<br />
respectively, and applies<br />
those rates at an individual<br />
track level for mixed content<br />
productions.<br />
keep an eye on<br />
>> Photos by Helen Page<br />
At the youthful age of nineteen, Jordan<br />
Millar is one of Australia’s most refreshing<br />
new singer/songwriters and the winner of<br />
Most Promising Tasmanian Act at the 2006<br />
Amplified Festival.<br />
Jordan started off playing regular gigs in<br />
his home town of Hobart, and has honed his<br />
skills as a performer, capturing his audiences<br />
with his impressive guitar chops and melodic,<br />
intelligent songwriting. Word of mouth has<br />
delivered him a solid fan base with more than<br />
300 people attending the launch of his debut<br />
EP release, Wishful Thinking.<br />
12TH DEADLYS<br />
This year’s National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander<br />
Awards were hosted by Ernie Dingo at the Sydney Opera<br />
House. The event featured performances by legendary<br />
Koori singer/songwriter Bobby McLeod, Broome<br />
superstars Pigram Brothers and Torres Strait chanteuse,<br />
Cindy Drummond.<br />
Troy Cassar-Daly took out Music Artist of the Year and<br />
Single of the Year for Lonesome But Free. The Pigram<br />
Brothers won Album of the Year for Under the Mango Tree,<br />
Troy’n’Trevelyn & The Tribe won Band of the Year. The<br />
Jimmy Little Award for Lifetime Achievement in Aboriginal<br />
and Torres Strait Music was awarded to Roger Knox.<br />
>> Kenbi Dancers<br />
>> Warren H Williams and band<br />
>> Warren H Willams,<br />
Ebony Williams and<br />
Henley White.<br />
Jordan Millar<br />
In 2005 Jordan performed at the Falls Festival<br />
and was a support act for Delta Goodrem and<br />
Tim Freedman. This year, in addition to his<br />
win at Amplified, he has won an award at<br />
the Australian National Youth Week RockIT<br />
Industry Awards and performed at the<br />
Songwriters Showcase at The Basement,<br />
Sydney.<br />
For more information, go to<br />
www.myspace.com/jordanmillar<br />
>> Photos by Wayne Quilliam<br />
>> Jordan Millar<br />
Celebratingindigenous<br />
ARTISTS & MUSIC<br />
>>June Mills<br />
>> Yilila<br />
>> Tom E and Grace Lewis<br />
>> Gurrumul Yunupingu<br />
>> Edmond Nundhirribala<br />
>> Dancers at the 12th Deadlys<br />
NT INDIGENOUS<br />
MUSIC AWARDS 07<br />
>> Troy N Trevelyn >> Troy Cassar-Daly<br />
>> Pigram Brothers<br />
More than 2000 people packed out Darwin’s Amphitheatre<br />
for the third annual Northern Territory Indigenous Music<br />
Awards. Ebony Williams, <strong>APRA</strong>’s Indigenous Project Officer<br />
was on hand to present Warren H Williams with the Song<br />
of the Year Award for his hit Learn My Song. Other winners<br />
on the night included June Mills (Best Female Musician)<br />
and White Cockatoo (Traditional Music Award). Task from<br />
hip-hop group North Coast Clique won the New and<br />
Emerging Act award, while Yilila from Numbulwar won the<br />
Act of the Year award and the band’s lead vocalist, Grant<br />
Nundhirribala won Best Male Musician. Top End group<br />
Soft Sands and the Warumpi Band, from central Australia,<br />
were inducted into the Indigenous Music Hall of Fame.<br />
>> Sharnee Fenwick<br />
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2006 <strong>APRA</strong>-AMC CLASSICAL MUSIC AWARDS:<br />
Celebrating passion, dedication and artistic talent<br />
2006 <strong>APRA</strong>-AGSC SCREEN MUSIC AWARDS:<br />
Honouring the unseen champions<br />
>> Christopher Wilcock and John Crawford<br />
>> David Chesworth Ebsemble<br />
>> Gillian Armstrong and Peter Best<br />
>> Garry McDonald<br />
>> Peter Sculthorpe and John Crawford<br />
>> Carl Vine and<br />
Mary Jo Capps from<br />
Musica Viva<br />
>> Orchestra performs music f<br />
or Crocodile Dundee<br />
>> Eric Chapus and Paul Mac<br />
Photos by >> David Otott and Damien Ford<br />
Photos: Tony Mott<br />
The 2006 Classical Music Awards<br />
were presented on Monday 7<br />
August, at the Sydney Theatre<br />
in The Rocks. At an event<br />
broadcast live across the country<br />
on ABC Classic FM, ten national<br />
awards, five state awards and the<br />
prestigious Distinguished Services<br />
to Australian Music award were<br />
presented and guests enjoyed<br />
performances from some of<br />
Australia’s leading contemporary<br />
classical musicians.<br />
Musica Viva Australia – the world’s largest<br />
entrepreneur of chamber music - was<br />
presented with the 2006 Distinguished<br />
Services to Australian Music award.<br />
Joining the likes of Anne Boyd, Miriam<br />
Hyde, Robert Hughes and Richard Meale,<br />
this prestigious award recognises their<br />
enormous contribution to Australian music<br />
over the past sixty years, including the<br />
commissioning of almost 100 new works.<br />
“Musica Viva is the sum total of the passion,<br />
dedication and talent of all the people that<br />
have gathered in its name, to advocate<br />
and celebrate Australian music for over<br />
six decades,” said James Strong, Chair of<br />
the Australia Council for the Arts, in his<br />
introduction to the 2006 winner.<br />
The award was accepted by General<br />
Manager, Mary Jo Capps and Artistic<br />
Director, Carl Vine.<br />
The Works of the Year categories were won<br />
by: David Chesworth for his instrumental<br />
composition, Panopticon; Peter Sculthorpe<br />
for his orchestral work, Cello Dreaming; and<br />
Christopher Willcock and Michael Leunig<br />
won Choral/Vocal Work of the year for<br />
excerpts of their work, Southern Star.<br />
Arts patron, philanthropist and avid<br />
concertgoer, Barbara Blackman, collected<br />
the Outstanding Contribution by an<br />
Individual award. In 2005, her philanthropy<br />
totalled $1 million in support of fine music<br />
in Australia.<br />
“Encouragement is one of the highest forms<br />
that love can take, so my intention is the<br />
encouragement of audience. Because an<br />
audience that is alert, attentive, eager and<br />
informed, brings out the best in composers<br />
and musicians. Courage begets courage and<br />
we’re all in it for love,” said Ms Blackman in<br />
her moving acceptance speech.<br />
High and low culture mash-up group CODA,<br />
opened the evening’s proceedings with their<br />
performance of the tongue in cheek tribute<br />
to Robert Palmer, Palms of Shangrilah.<br />
Other performances during the evening<br />
included the remarkable Sydney Children’s<br />
Choir under the direction of the renowned<br />
musician and arts patron, Lyn Williams,<br />
winner of the State Award for NSW.<br />
Genevieve Lacey and Richard Haynes,<br />
from the internationally acclaimed ELISION<br />
group, performed works by John Rodgers<br />
for recorder and bass clarinet. Later in<br />
the evening, Genevieve received the Best<br />
Performance of an Australian Composition<br />
award for her performance of James<br />
Ledger’s Line Drawing with the West<br />
Australian Symphony Orchestra. Richard<br />
won the award previously in 2004.<br />
The audience was transfixed by Floating<br />
World, composed by David Chesworth<br />
(Instrumental Work of the Year winner)<br />
and performed by the David Chesworth<br />
Ensemble. Closing the evening, leading<br />
chamber ensemble and Musica Viva regulars,<br />
Sydney Soloists, performed Richard Mills’s<br />
A Little Diary of Transformations.<br />
Hosted by ABC Classic FM’s Julia Lester<br />
(Drive), the 2006 Classical Music Awards<br />
were presented by industry luminaries such<br />
as Kenneth Tribe, James Strong, Brett Dean<br />
and Kathy Keele in front of 400 guests.<br />
For a full list of winners,<br />
go to www.apra.com.au/awards<br />
“The great thing about coming<br />
to this Awards Ceremony is<br />
clocking people like Grabowsky,<br />
Bridie, Best and lots more.<br />
People who have made the<br />
stories we tell, completely<br />
memorable. I believe you guys<br />
articulate the soul of the stories<br />
that are told in this country.”<br />
PENNY CHAPMAN, Producer and presenter at the<br />
2006 <strong>APRA</strong>-AGSC Screen Music Awards.<br />
The Australian screen and music industries<br />
gathered in November to pay tribute to<br />
their unseen heroes; screen composers.<br />
Held at the City Recital Hall, Angel Place,<br />
and proudly presented by <strong>APRA</strong> and the<br />
Australian Guild of Screen Composers,<br />
the event was hosted by Myf Warhurst<br />
and Alan Brough.<br />
The audience was treated to live<br />
performances of selected nominated<br />
compositions. The 13-piece orchestra<br />
was conducted by legendary composer<br />
(and award winner for Best Music in a<br />
Documentary), Paul Grabowsky.<br />
Gillian Armstrong presented veteran<br />
composer Peter Best, with the prestigious<br />
2006 International Achievement Award.<br />
Peter is arguably Australia’s most prolific<br />
film, television and jingle writer, with a<br />
list of impressive credits spanning three<br />
decades. Highlights of his stellar career<br />
include score for the worldwide smash<br />
movies, Crocodile Dundee I and II, Muriel’s<br />
Wedding plus We of the Never Never, High<br />
Tide, Doin’ Time for Patsy Cline and Bliss.<br />
Reflecting the camaraderie and the sense<br />
of community of the gathering, Peter<br />
noted wryly in his acceptance speech,<br />
“On awards nights we can mingle with<br />
the only people in the industry who<br />
understand and appreciate the value<br />
of screen music – ourselves.”<br />
The coveted Feature Film Score of the<br />
Year went to Francois Tetaz, whose eerie<br />
screen composition brilliantly matched the<br />
isolating tension of Australian box office<br />
hit, Wolf Creek.<br />
The two awards determined by statistical<br />
analysis were Most Performed Screen<br />
Composer – Australia, won by Jay<br />
Stewart, and Most Performed Screen<br />
Composer – Overseas, won by Garry<br />
McDonald & Laurie Stone for the second<br />
year running.<br />
A number of contemporary music artists,<br />
have turned to screen composition over the<br />
years with great success. Icehouse founder,<br />
Iva Davies won the award for<br />
best Music for Mini Series or Telemovie<br />
for The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant.<br />
The multi-talented David Bridie won Best<br />
Soundtrack Album for R.A.N.; and ex-<br />
Models member Roger Mason won Best<br />
music for Television Series or Serial for<br />
Peking To Paris.<br />
Other winners on the night included<br />
Christopher Elves for Best Music for<br />
Children’s Television for Faireez – Episode<br />
40. Michael Yezerski won Best Original<br />
Song Composed for the Screen for<br />
Thursday’s Fictions – ARIA. Elliott Wheeler<br />
won Best Music for an Advertisement for<br />
McDonald’s Inner Child. Jonathan Nix<br />
received the award for Best Music for a<br />
Short Film for Gustavo and Andrew Hansen<br />
won Best Television Theme for The Chaser’s<br />
War on Everything.<br />
Encapsulating the commitment and support<br />
from <strong>APRA</strong> and the AGSC for Australia’s<br />
screen composers, <strong>APRA</strong> CEO Brett Cottle<br />
said, “Most of us could probably write the<br />
soundtrack to our lives, but we don’t have<br />
to because the people we are honouring<br />
here tonight have already done it for us.<br />
That’s why we have these awards.”<br />
For a full list of winners,<br />
go to www.apra.com.au/awards<br />
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Richard Tognetti. Photo by Paul Henderson-Kelly<br />
courtesy of ABC Classics<br />
>> Cape of Storms<br />
>> Cape of Storms<br />
>> Michael, Richard, Afro, Tom & Jim >> Amanda Brown<br />
S C R E E N C O M P O S E R S A N D T H E I R A R T<br />
Compiled by Kirti Jacobs and Anthea Sarris, <strong>APRA</strong> Communications<br />
According to the Australian Film Commission* twenty-five Australian<br />
features started production in 2005/06. This is the most since the turn<br />
of the decade and more than the five-year average. The budgets of these<br />
films increased from $66 million to $98 million. More films mean more<br />
work for Australia’s screen composers and hopefully are a sign of a<br />
more prosperous period for Australia’s film and film music creators.<br />
We spoke to five writers who have<br />
arrived at composing for the screen<br />
in quite different ways. Their screen<br />
credits reflect not only their breadth and<br />
depth of talent, but also the diversity of<br />
musical styles employed on Australian<br />
film and TV productions. Aprap turns the<br />
spotlight on the art, the craft and the<br />
challenges of composing for the screen.<br />
*National survey of feature film and TV drama<br />
production 2005/06.<br />
Cape of Storms smooth<br />
sailing for composers<br />
“Art for art’s sake is a rare and<br />
wonderful thing. This film was art<br />
for art’s sake.”<br />
Richard Tognetti, Artistic Director and<br />
Lead Violin for the Australian Chamber<br />
Orchestra, is talking about Horrorscopes:<br />
Cape of Storms, a Quiksilver documentary<br />
about surfing the world’s biggest waves<br />
off South Africa’s Cape of Good Hope.<br />
Directed by Justin McMillan and Chris<br />
Nelius, it features a team of crazy bigwave<br />
surfers including Australians Tom<br />
Carroll (who got Tognetti into the film)<br />
and Ross Clarke-Jones, taking on the<br />
fearsome, shark and kelp infested waters<br />
off the Cape. The soundtrack is an original<br />
score by Tognetti, co-composer with Iva<br />
Davies and Chris Gordon for Peter Weir’s<br />
Master and Commander, and Michael<br />
Yezerski, composer Newcastle, Kenny,<br />
No Surrender, Thursday’s Fictions.<br />
A score for<br />
a time and place<br />
Featuring vocals by Afro Moses (credited<br />
as a co-composer), the Cape of Storms<br />
score captures the mythic and legendary<br />
character of the setting and the surfing<br />
adventure.<br />
The sense of journey and place were<br />
important inspirations for both Yezerski<br />
and Tognetti.<br />
“With Cape of Storms, we wanted this<br />
feeling of awe and incredible journey; of<br />
being very alone and human and pitted<br />
against the almighty force of the ocean.”<br />
says Tognetti.<br />
It helped that surfing imagery lends<br />
itself very well to music. As Yezerski<br />
says, “It is a graceful and beautiful<br />
activity, with movements not dissimilar<br />
to dance. We were able to take our<br />
cues from the rhythms and tempi of the<br />
surfers and the waves.”<br />
Screen composing:<br />
a collaborative labour<br />
of love<br />
Tognetti counts himself lucky to have<br />
been involved in two films thus far: “The<br />
best way to make art is without ambition.<br />
Ambition often gets in the way. Screen<br />
composing is applied music. You have to<br />
be incredibly fleet of foot. You have to<br />
be able to change course and direction,<br />
really quickly.”<br />
Yezerski adds, “Screen composers must<br />
be able to engage socially – and enjoy<br />
it! In my experience, producers and<br />
directors don’t tend to want to work with<br />
‘artistes’ who simply dispense music from<br />
their ivory towers. Screen composers are<br />
always part of a team and cannot create<br />
their music in a vacuum.”<br />
That said, it’s important to hold on to<br />
your ideas. Tognetti: “David Lynch once<br />
said if you give up on an idea because<br />
some executive says it’s not going to<br />
work, you lose the kernel that created<br />
the seed, the gestation that created<br />
the whole life force. Watching Peter<br />
Weir work with his inspiration within<br />
this maelstrom of business distraction<br />
[for Master & Commander] – that<br />
emboldened me. The idea is the most<br />
important thing. Never ever give up<br />
on it, even though you might have to<br />
change the way it comes across.”<br />
Amanda Brown:<br />
the Go Between who<br />
Looked Both Ways<br />
Renowned as the violinist with<br />
The Go Betweens during their<br />
classic era, Amanda Brown is also<br />
a sought after session musician<br />
and screen composer. Her screen<br />
credits include Look Both Ways,<br />
Preservation, Floodhouse.<br />
How does your Go Betweens experience<br />
inform your work with film?<br />
Playing in bands taught me to improvise,<br />
and composing is like controlled<br />
improvising. I have also built up a<br />
wonderful stable of musicians and friends<br />
that I call on for various projects.<br />
How does one build a sustainable career<br />
out of screen composition?<br />
You don’t work in the arts in Australia<br />
for monetary gain! What works for me<br />
has been versatility. There are bound<br />
to be lean times so it helps to be multi<br />
skilled. I do a number of part time<br />
jobs, including session work for other<br />
bands, studio engineering and teaching.<br />
Because they’re all music related, I’m<br />
always learning and being inspired by<br />
these ancillary jobs.<br />
What are some of the challenges of<br />
composing for film?<br />
Film music in one part of a collective<br />
whole art form and has to support the<br />
storytelling of the film. There will be<br />
times when the music will be drowned<br />
out by sound effects or relegated to the<br />
cutting room floor so you have to check<br />
your ego at the door. Technically the<br />
look and narrative of the film suggest<br />
certain parameters in regards to tempo,<br />
arrangement and style.<br />
How do you “read” a film before you<br />
begin to compose?<br />
Usually the director has a definite idea<br />
of where the music cues should fall and<br />
sometimes of musical style as well. I<br />
try to find the right instrumentation<br />
first, depending on the period of the<br />
film and what suits the characters and<br />
storyline. Then I find the tempo for the<br />
scene, and think about whether leitmotif<br />
or underscore is appropriate and then<br />
I make my first painstaking tentative<br />
forays onto the blank canvas.<br />
How does music function as a part of<br />
the drama of story telling?<br />
Music can work in all kinds of ways,<br />
supporting the drama, reinforcing<br />
themes, even going completely against<br />
convention to create parody or the<br />
complete opposite of what is happening<br />
visually. The way music can change a<br />
scene constantly amazes me.<br />
How do you know when you’ve been<br />
successful?<br />
When the scene I’m working on is<br />
improved by the presence of music.<br />
There is this intangible moment when<br />
the visual and the aural combine to<br />
create something I can only describe as<br />
magical, almost like being suspended in<br />
time, spellbound.<br />
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By what measure do we assess the overall health or success of<br />
Australian filmmaking? It certainly isn’t the year to year swings<br />
in perceived quality of a year’s production. If taxpayers finance<br />
production primarily for cultural reasons – as distinct from a profit<br />
motive, for which, heaven knows, there are scant prospects – then surely we<br />
should evaluate the films made under that regime on cultural terms. Are they<br />
telling stories that are relevant and compelling, and are they (or some of them)<br />
of lasting value? While Hollywood calibrates its output at the box office – with<br />
a cherry on top at the Oscars - Australian films cannot be judged successful<br />
or otherwise simply by the box office criterion; that is just a measure of their<br />
popularity, not their cultural value.<br />
>> Mick Harvey. Photo by Stephen McKenzie. >> Bryony Marks. Photo by Matthew Saville.<br />
And other than the subjective opinions we all have, what makes up this cultural<br />
value? Does a story have to be about Australia or Australians? Or is it enough<br />
that it is told by Australians, automatically ensuring that it is told from our<br />
unique perspective? I opt for the latter and suggest that the complex mix of<br />
narrative, character, mise en scene and music are the principal elements that<br />
combine to create a unique cultural framework for each film. And while I have<br />
listed music last, in this list all the elements carry equal responsibility and<br />
equal authority.<br />
Rocking the suburbs<br />
with Mick Harvey<br />
“Most musicians fancy the idea<br />
of writing music for a film. You<br />
expect any musician to see that as<br />
something fun or interesting to do.<br />
Whether you are good at it or not<br />
is another issue I suppose,” muses<br />
Mick Harvey.<br />
Arranger, composer and co-founder of<br />
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and The<br />
Birthday Party, Harvey found his way to<br />
composing film scores through networks<br />
of arts contacts in Berlin in the 80s.<br />
Released in October, and nominated for 12<br />
AFI Awards including Best Original Screen<br />
Score, Suburban Mayhem marks his second<br />
collaboration with director, Paul Goldman.<br />
“Paul is an old friend and we kind of came<br />
out of the same scene really. He was<br />
studying film in Melbourne when our bands<br />
were starting off and shot a few clips for<br />
us. When he finally wanted someone to do<br />
his score for Australian Rules, he asked me<br />
if I was interested. We had a good working<br />
relationship on the first film, so Suburban<br />
Mayhem just followed on from that.<br />
Suburban Mayhem is a black comedy that<br />
follows the path of destruction and havoc<br />
wrecked by teenage monster, Katrina.<br />
Harvey’s score blisters with loud, dark<br />
rock underscoring the anger and appetite<br />
of a young woman spiralling out of<br />
control. The soundtrack also features<br />
scorching covers of Double Dare and Sex<br />
Beat, produced by Harvey and performed<br />
by Magic Dirt’s Adalita.<br />
Harvey views creating a film score as a<br />
way of adding texture to areas of a film<br />
that need assistance or are crying out<br />
for juxtaposition. “It’s an opportunity to<br />
provide an expansion of the information<br />
through what the music can bring.”<br />
Although he goes on to point out that<br />
the composer doesn’t always control<br />
how their music is finally presented. In<br />
reference to Suburban Mayhem he explains,<br />
“Conceptually I would have liked to have<br />
had more say in the type of source music<br />
(pre-existing songs) being used, to create<br />
an overall musical pattern or aural concept.”<br />
He notes, philosophically, “it just didn’t<br />
work out that way... it’s a tough one.”<br />
Making noise<br />
Newcomer Bryony Marks tracks<br />
her journey to her first feature film.<br />
“I know it’s a cliché but you do this because<br />
you love it; it’s often not very lucrative and<br />
it does take a long time to get anywhere,”<br />
remarks Bryony frankly. Having worked on<br />
over twenty films and numerous chamber<br />
and theatre pieces since 1996, it’s only<br />
been in the past three years that Bryony<br />
has been able to ‘make a living’ from screen<br />
composing.<br />
Commercial success has come in the form<br />
of scoring the first block (three episodes)<br />
of the Network Ten drama The Surgeon, a<br />
collaboration with Chris Lilley on the sixpart<br />
ABC mockumentary, We Can Be Heroes,<br />
plus nominations for Best Television Theme<br />
and Best Original Song Composed for the<br />
Screen (for Indigeridoo) at the 2006 <strong>APRA</strong>-<br />
AGSC Screen Music Awards.<br />
“We Can Be Heroes was my first TV<br />
gig (not including commercials). Chris<br />
wanted the series to present as a genuine<br />
documentary; he didn’t want music that<br />
made it sound like a comedy. He had heard<br />
CDs of my ‘serious’ music, took a bit of a<br />
leap of faith and chose me to do the score.<br />
Chris and I worked really well together,<br />
creating Indigeridoo (he wrote the lyrics, I<br />
wrote the music) was just too much fun – it<br />
all just flowed.”<br />
Bryony has also just completed work on<br />
the score for her first feature film. Noise,<br />
due for release in 2007, is a collaboration<br />
with her film-maker husband, Matthew<br />
Saville.<br />
“Noise was my first orchestral film score.<br />
Having not had the opportunity to write for<br />
a larger ensemble since uni, I was pretty<br />
anxious about this score. I have never<br />
started writing again so many times, but it<br />
feels like it has been worth the effort.”<br />
Bryony describes Noise as a very unusual,<br />
special and intense project. She became<br />
very well acquainted with the script over<br />
the ten years of development by Saville.<br />
“It is unusual to be involved in a film from<br />
so early on, and I certainly felt that I knew<br />
the film intimately by the time I started<br />
writing. Once pre-production commenced<br />
we talked about musical ideas the whole<br />
way through. While the film was being<br />
edited, I wrote sketches on the piano.<br />
Although Matthew and I both liked them,<br />
there was so much work involved in getting<br />
the tone just right that the end result is<br />
unrecognisable.”<br />
Bryony’s passion for her craft and her art<br />
is infectious: “What I find challenging and<br />
fascinating - and why I am interested in<br />
doing film music - is that you get to add a<br />
whole layer, an entire thread to the overall<br />
picture. When you’re lucky enough to<br />
work on a quality production, you get the<br />
opportunity to contribute in a considered<br />
way to the film’s intent, and not just give a<br />
literal response to the action.”<br />
“I read somewhere that every artist paints<br />
the same picture, writes the same story or<br />
the same song over and over again. In a<br />
way, that’s how I feel about my music; it’s<br />
always about working through how I feel<br />
about being in the world.”<br />
Music, which I call the intravenous artform for its visceral ability to create a<br />
specific mood in an instant, is perhaps the most complex of them all - and<br />
perhaps the least appreciated by the public and even some filmmakers. I have<br />
heard many stories from composers around the world about the cavalier<br />
attitude of some directors and producers to the score. That attitude is often<br />
exhibited through the afterthought nature of the budget allocated for original<br />
music. The relative scarcity of film score work in Australia makes this a<br />
particularly challenging aspect of film composing.<br />
The fact that Australian composers have risen to these challenges in a creative<br />
sense is notable. It’s true that the ‘value’ of music to a film is intangible and<br />
incalculable, it is nevertheless enormous – hardly an original proposition.<br />
You’d be like a caterpillar up wolf creek without a machete in half light if your<br />
score didn’t touch the right nerve, considering that film needs both intellect<br />
and emotion to engage us.<br />
For example, Cezary Skubiszewski’s unique and striking score for The Book<br />
of Revelation – with Paul Pirola’s excellent sound design – characterises the<br />
excellence of the creative force at work in Australian film composition - and they<br />
are not alone, as many of this year’s film scores demonstrate. (Skubiszewski’s<br />
score for Ana Kokkinos’ The Book of Revelation won the award for Best Score<br />
at this year’s Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, and is nominated in the AFI<br />
Awards – presented December 6 & 7.)<br />
As Skubiszewski points out, the Australian psyche seems to respond best to the<br />
sounds of a rock guitar. Americans like big production numbers and the Brits<br />
like pop songs – these are generalisations, to be sure, but useful ones and<br />
Skubiszewski’s diverse range of scores often pay heed to this understanding<br />
of the audience. The rock guitar pops up even in the score for The Book of<br />
Revelation, where he uses the musical colours of a string quartet and three<br />
voices for much of the film, with jazzy backgrounds.<br />
The cue at the start of the film, for example, creates complex visceral expectations<br />
in the viewer, combining an urge to explore, a sense of dread... with a hint of<br />
mystery. This segues into a driving piece of modern dance music for the rehearsal<br />
scene, showing dexterity and great diversity in the composing.<br />
Later, when the mood changes in the final act, the sense of tentative optimism is<br />
echoed in a switch to the colours of woodwinds (two flutes, two clarinets) and<br />
some piano. Subtle yet strong, the music seems perfect for the images.<br />
In my view, the high standard of Australian composing for the screen plays a<br />
significant role in our screen culture and filmmakers who understand this find<br />
their films enhanced and elevated by the music – something that is certainly<br />
one test of a film’s lasting cultural value.<br />
Andrew Urban created and interviews for SBS TV’s popular Front Up series.<br />
He is Channel Host for the World Movies Channel and a presenter for Movies<br />
This Week, Ovation & World Movies Channels. He is also the Editor of<br />
www.urbancinefile.com.au, an award-winning, weekly online movie magazine.<br />
Australian<br />
film &<br />
music:<br />
an Urbane<br />
perspective<br />
By Andrew L. Urban<br />
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INTERNATIONALNOTES<br />
MEMBERNEWS<br />
Photo by >> Jan Kuczerawy<br />
Regional cooperation on on-line<br />
licensing.<br />
The Asia Pacific regional offices of CISAC<br />
(International Confederation of Societies<br />
of Authors and Composers) and BIEM<br />
(International Bureau for Mechanical Rights<br />
Societies) met in Manila in September to discuss<br />
developments and improve cooperation in<br />
online licensing. The meeting was hosted by the<br />
local society FILSCAP.<br />
Copyright still young in<br />
tech-savvy Asia-Pacific<br />
In many territories in Asia, copyright societies<br />
such as <strong>APRA</strong> are relatively new and the<br />
industry infrastructure and licensing capacity<br />
are being developed. This is in contrast to the<br />
explosion of new digital music services that<br />
are being rolled out in those territories. Mobile<br />
entertainment services in places such as Japan<br />
and Korea are leading the world.<br />
Photo by >> Jan Kuczerawy<br />
Indigenous arts industry<br />
development<br />
By Scot Morris,<br />
Director<br />
International<br />
Relations, <strong>APRA</strong><br />
By Sally Howland,<br />
Director Member<br />
Services, <strong>APRA</strong><br />
At the time of going to press, the Australia<br />
Council for the Arts announced that <strong>APRA</strong> would<br />
be an industry partner in the ATSIA Board’s<br />
Indigenous Songs Music Bound strategy.<br />
The initiative will be developed and<br />
implemented over two years in conjunction<br />
with WAM (West Australian Music Industry<br />
Association), Abmusic, Goolari Media and<br />
Songlines. Although the strategy is still<br />
being finalised, two key areas of focus will<br />
be developing infrastructure and profiling<br />
opportunities. <strong>APRA</strong>’s interests are grounded<br />
in the belief that the rights of Indigenous<br />
composers and songwriters should be<br />
respected, protected and promoted. We hope<br />
that through our efforts we will assist in the<br />
cultural and economic development of our<br />
Indigenous members.<br />
Any enquiries on the above should be directed to<br />
<strong>APRA</strong>’s Indigenous Project Officer, Ebony Williams,<br />
on 1800 642 634.<br />
In territories such as China – new digital<br />
services are ‘leapfrogging’ the traditional<br />
entertainment services, yet copyright law and<br />
licensing are lagging behind. To address these<br />
challenges, we have decided to meet annually<br />
to discuss online licensing approaches in the<br />
region and try to engage more with the huge<br />
developing markets of China and India.<br />
The nature of online services, their cross border<br />
applications and the rights exercised means<br />
that societies must cooperate closely to provide<br />
efficient solutions for users as well as for writer<br />
and publisher members.<br />
US, Europe still working on<br />
solutions<br />
Even in countries where the copyright<br />
infrastructure is well-established, such as the<br />
US, Europe and Australia, there is still much<br />
debate about the best way to manage copyright<br />
in the digital world.<br />
In the US, there is considerable discussion about<br />
new digital services and the characterisation<br />
of the rights, the applicable tariffs and the<br />
mechanisms for collection and distribution.<br />
There have been numerous public inquiries<br />
and a recent surprising opinion of the Register<br />
of Copyrights that ringtones fall within the<br />
compulsory licence for phonorecords.<br />
Various sectors of the European Commission<br />
have weighed in to suggest reforms to society<br />
practices to allow more effective pan-European<br />
licensing of online services. The publisher EMI<br />
Music has announced a joint venture with the<br />
Research study – Support infrastructure<br />
into Indigenous Music<br />
In June, the Australia Council engaged <strong>APRA</strong><br />
to audit the support infrastructure available to<br />
Indigenous music artists. The first study of its<br />
kind undertaken at a national level, the study is<br />
exploring the obstacles and opportunities that<br />
Indigenous music artists face in the areas of live<br />
performance, recording, broadcasting, public<br />
funding and education/training.<br />
Ebony Williams and I have conducted wide<br />
ranging interviews with members, managers,<br />
promoters and arts administrators all over the<br />
country and we thank you for your support. Your<br />
advice, opinion and experience will be invaluable<br />
in preparing our report. We sincerely hope that<br />
the data collection and findings will serve the<br />
Australia Council well in developing future policy<br />
and funding initiatives for this sector.<br />
The report is due in February 2006. If you<br />
would like to participate in the study, please<br />
contact Ebony Williams on 1800 642 634.<br />
<strong>APRA</strong> Distribution News<br />
iTunes<br />
Our 43B distribution, for the period January<br />
– June 2006, is the first <strong>APRA</strong> distribution to<br />
includ e performing right royalties for digital<br />
downloads. <strong>APRA</strong> is the first society in the world<br />
to fully process sales reports from iTunes in the<br />
new worldwide standard DDEX format developed<br />
by CISAC, IFPI, copyright societies and DSP’s.<br />
The increasing popularity of digital download<br />
services presents significant challenges to<br />
collecting societies in terms of developing<br />
systems and appropriate mechanisms<br />
UK and German societies for pan-European<br />
online licensing. There has recently been a<br />
settlement on part of the Copyright Tribunal<br />
Hearing on the on-line rates in the UK, but there<br />
are still proceedings on foot in Germany and<br />
Canada on download rates. It will be interesting<br />
to monitor how these and other European<br />
projects pan out (pun intended) and impact on<br />
music rights administration in other regions.<br />
Manila meetings map the way<br />
ahead<br />
The Manila meetings discussed international<br />
developments such as these and allowed an<br />
exchange of ideas on new digital services<br />
coming on line and licensing approaches.<br />
We discussed approaches to auditing online<br />
services, new mobile applications in Korea and<br />
Japan and the possibility of a jointly funded<br />
Asian WebCrawler to identify infringing and<br />
licensable sites and services. We are now<br />
looking at systems and procedures for dealing<br />
with distribution of the “long tail” of new<br />
repertoire that appears on online services.<br />
The recent commercialisation of the social<br />
networking sites myspace and YouTube were<br />
high on the agenda, as was the proposal of<br />
the Australian government to provide free<br />
exceptions in the law to allow private copying.<br />
In response to requests from pan-Asian services<br />
that are now being developed, we are discussing<br />
how we can effectively and efficiently grant<br />
territorial licences for the benefit of the services<br />
and copyright owners alike.<br />
for efficiently and accurately processing<br />
increasingly large volumes of data. For example,<br />
including digital downloads has seen an increase<br />
of approximately 25% of new works for payment<br />
in this distribution alone. <strong>APRA</strong>|AMCOS’<br />
challenge and priority is to deliver effective<br />
distribution systems and services at acceptable<br />
costs to our members.<br />
Commercial TV<br />
43B included a full census analysis of Channel<br />
7 and 10 programs from the Sydney, Perth,<br />
Brisbane, Adelaide and Melbourne capital city<br />
stations. Discussions are still underway with<br />
Channel 9 and we are hoping to commence full<br />
census for Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane<br />
programming from July 2006. The Southern<br />
Broadcasting Network will commence census<br />
analysis from 1 January 2007.<br />
MIDEM 2007<br />
<strong>APRA</strong> is again supporting the Australian stand<br />
at MIDEM 2007. MIDEM is the largest businessto-business<br />
tradeshow in the music industry.<br />
Each January, nearly 10,000 music professionals<br />
from almost 100 countries and from all sectors<br />
- including recording, publishing, live, sync,<br />
digital and mobile - meet at MIDEM to network,<br />
learn and discover new talent.<br />
With the assistance of Austrade, ‘Australia at<br />
MIDEM’ will mark a new stage in Australia’s<br />
presence at this fair.<br />
To register your interest, contact Matthew Proft<br />
at Austrade Sydney on 02 9390 2084 or email:<br />
matthew.proft.@austrade.gov.au<br />
Michelle O’Donnell<br />
Photo by >> Jan Kuczerawy<br />
Raymond Longford’s classic<br />
Australian silent film, The<br />
Sentimental Bloke commenced<br />
its tour to the USA, Canada<br />
and Japan on 1 September.<br />
Premiering in 1919, the<br />
film survived nearly eight<br />
decades before being fully<br />
reconstructed in 1997 by a<br />
team from the NFSA and<br />
George Eastman House in the<br />
US. The film will be screened<br />
with musical accompaniment<br />
by JEN ANDERSON AND<br />
THE LARRIKINS at festivals<br />
in Telluride, Washington DC,<br />
Rochester, Montreal, Berkeley<br />
and Tokyo. More info: Laura<br />
Heron 02 9321 6461 or laura.<br />
heron@afc.gov.au<br />
It has been a month of accolades<br />
and achievements for ROLF DE<br />
HEER and Ten Canoes. As well<br />
as the film becoming Australia’s<br />
official entry for nomination<br />
consideration for Best Foreign<br />
Language Film at the 79th<br />
Annual Academy Awards, de<br />
Heer was awarded the Silver<br />
Medallion at the Telluride<br />
Film Festival. Ten Canoes<br />
then screened at the Toronto<br />
International Film Festival, and<br />
de Heer then flew direct to<br />
Brisbane to pick up the 2006<br />
Queensland Premier’s Literary<br />
Award for the film’s script.<br />
SCREENWRAP<br />
Michelle O’Donnell, Manager, Film and TV Writers, <strong>APRA</strong><br />
BRETT ROSENBERG has released his orchestral<br />
score to Half Light through Moviescore Media<br />
(go to www.moviescoremedia.com/index.html.)<br />
The score has also received some very positive<br />
reviews: “The score, however, is absolutely<br />
stunning...a multitude of beautiful themes, each<br />
performed superbly, and some shockingly<br />
violent dissonance, its importance within the<br />
film itself is immeasurable,” (full review - www.<br />
moviemusicuk.us/halflightcd.htm.) Brett was<br />
also nominated for best original score at our<br />
recent screen awards.<br />
Blue Mountains based composer JUSTIN HUNTER<br />
scored an IF Awards nomination for his music<br />
in the Rob Marsala film 48 Shades. The film is<br />
distributed through Buena Vista International and<br />
the soundtrack is out on Universal Records. Both<br />
his cds are available at www.justinhunter.com.au.<br />
BRYONY MARKS is working on her first feature<br />
film score for the film Noise, directed by Matthew<br />
Saville and due to be released next year.<br />
MICK HARVEY, celebrated arranger, multiinstrumentalist,<br />
producer, film soundtrack<br />
composer and co-founder of Nick Cave &<br />
The Bad Seeds and The Birthday Party has<br />
released a second compilation of film music<br />
entitled Motion Picture Music ‘94-’05. This new<br />
compilation offers music including Lighting Fires<br />
(1994), a documentary of Sydney based painter<br />
Tim Storrier, Frank Hurley - The Man Who Made<br />
History (2004), Sparrow (1996) a short film<br />
>> Justin Hunter<br />
by Australian director Polly Watkins; and the<br />
infamous Chopper (2000) directed by Andrew<br />
Dominic. From Europe: Rien Ne Vas Plus (2005)<br />
a German ‘Photo Film’’ by Katja Pratschke and<br />
Gusztav Hamos featured at the 2006 Venice Film<br />
Festival.<br />
AMANDA BROWN is currently composing for<br />
a feature film called Monkey Puzzle and is cowriting<br />
a song with David Hobson for another<br />
feature called December Boys.<br />
>> Brett Rosenberg >> Amanda Brown and Simon Marnie.<br />
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Supporting<br />
the Arts<br />
Music Grants Funding 2006-07<br />
Each year, the <strong>APRA</strong> Board sets aside 1.25% of distributable revenue to fund projects and<br />
organisations promoting the use and recognition of music by <strong>APRA</strong> members. The grants are part of<br />
<strong>APRA</strong>’s commitment to supporting and sustaining the creative life of the Australian music community.<br />
Funding recipients for the 2006-07 year are:<br />
DEVELOPMENT<br />
• Australian Music Radio Airplay Project<br />
(AMRAP)<br />
• Ars Musica Australis<br />
• Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC)<br />
• Australian Songwriters’ Association<br />
• Country Music Association of Australia<br />
(CMAA)<br />
• Community Broadcasting Association<br />
of Australia (CBAA)<br />
• Folk Alliance Australia<br />
• Folk Federation of South Australia<br />
• Music NT<br />
• Music NSW<br />
• QMusic<br />
• Songsalive!<br />
• Sutherland Shire Symphony Orchestra Inc.<br />
• Talent Development Project<br />
• TasMusic Inc<br />
• True-L Music<br />
COMPETITIONS/AWARDS<br />
• 2MBS FM<br />
• ABC Newcastle Awards<br />
• Australian Music Prize Ltd<br />
• Australian Women’s Festival of Improvised<br />
Music<br />
• Music Oz<br />
• The Next Big Thing<br />
• The Push Inc<br />
• The South Australian Country Music Festival<br />
& Awards<br />
• Tamworth Songwriter’s Association Inc<br />
• Australian Children’s Music Foundation<br />
• Victorian and National Country Music Awards<br />
• The Fellowship of Australian Composers Inc.<br />
• Adelaide Eisteddfod Society Inc<br />
• Katherine Country Music Muster Inc.<br />
• Northern Country Music Association Inc<br />
• Q-Song Music Awards<br />
• Songwriters, Composers and Lyricists Assoc.<br />
Inc. (SCALA)<br />
• Sydney International Piano Competition<br />
FESTIVALS/SHOWCASES<br />
• AUSMusic SA + MusicSA<br />
• Carclew Youth Arts Centre<br />
• COMA<br />
• Falls Festival<br />
• Fuse Festival – Adelaide Fringe<br />
• Melbourne Composers’ League<br />
• Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival<br />
• Mildura Country Music Festival Inc.<br />
• Murraylands Music Festival<br />
• Port Fairy Folk Festival<br />
• Port Fairy Spring Music Festival<br />
• Queenscliff Music Festival Inc.<br />
• WAM<br />
• Wangaratta Festival of Jazz Inc<br />
PROJECTS<br />
• Australian Christian Artists Network Inc<br />
• Australian Film, Television and Radio School<br />
(AFTRS)<br />
• Australian Music Centre (AMC)<br />
• AWESAM – SAMIA<br />
• The Gallery Players<br />
• Jazz Action Society<br />
• JazzGroove Association<br />
• Media Resource Centre<br />
• Musica Viva Society<br />
• The Orchestras of Australia Network Inc<br />
• Southern Cross University<br />
• Triple R Broadcasters Ltd<br />
INDIGENOUS<br />
• Deadlys<br />
• Music NT Inc.<br />
• Daguragu Community Government Council<br />
• Tura Events<br />
• Yothu Yindi Foundation<br />
• Black Arm Band<br />
• Goolari Media Enterprises<br />
“We appreciate your<br />
contribution to our work and<br />
hope that the smiling face of<br />
our logo is a reminder to you<br />
of the joy we are bringing to<br />
children.”<br />
Don Spencer, Founder & Director, Australian<br />
Children’s Music Foundation<br />
“Thank you for the approval<br />
of ...a Music Grant... for the<br />
Fellowship of Australian<br />
Composers Inc. With this<br />
generous amount... the FAC<br />
will be able to help, assist and<br />
award Australian composers<br />
throughout Australia.”<br />
Julie Simonds, Vice President/ Treasurer,<br />
Fellowship of Australian Composers<br />
“We really do appreciate the<br />
continued support we receive<br />
[from <strong>APRA</strong>]. It helps us in our<br />
endeavours to educate, support<br />
and promote our wonderful<br />
Australian songwriters.”<br />
Bev Daniel, President, Tamworth Songwriters’<br />
Association Inc<br />
A<br />
menacing vibe for a<br />
violent thriller, a touch<br />
of musical magic for a<br />
children’s sci-fi, an air of<br />
madness for a black comedy,<br />
or an arrangement bridging<br />
the gap between classical<br />
and club. It’s all in the score<br />
for New Zealand Film/TV<br />
composer and arranger<br />
Victoria Kelly.<br />
Victoria’s first taste of<br />
composing music for film<br />
came unexpectedly, in the<br />
mid 1990’s, midway through<br />
a Masters Degree. Director<br />
Anna Reeves needed a student<br />
volunteer to score a short film<br />
called La Vie En Rose. Victoria<br />
decided to give it a go and the<br />
experience was a revelation,<br />
leaving no doubt in her<br />
mind as to where her future<br />
lay. After winning a TVNZ<br />
Young Achievers Award and<br />
a Professional Development<br />
Grant from Creative New<br />
Zealand, Victoria took off to<br />
the US. Here she undertook<br />
a postgraduate year in film<br />
composition at the University<br />
of Southern California,<br />
studying under Elmer<br />
Bernstein, Leonard Rosenman<br />
and Christopher Young.<br />
Returning home she began to<br />
work on features and during<br />
the late 90’s wrote eerie,<br />
menacing scores for a string<br />
of horror films, including<br />
serial killer flick The Ugly;<br />
Heaven, a violent, compelling,<br />
thriller which screened<br />
at the 1998 Montreal and<br />
Toronto Film Festivals; and<br />
in collaboration with Joost<br />
Langeveld, The Truth About<br />
Demons, which premiered<br />
in the Midnight Madness<br />
programme at the 2000<br />
Toronto Film Festival. Sales<br />
to TV networks ensured all<br />
three films moved ultimately<br />
from silver screen to small<br />
screen, going on to terrorise<br />
television audiences and<br />
earn broadcast royalties<br />
in Germany, Spain, Italy,<br />
Switzerland, Russia, France,<br />
Portugal and Japan.<br />
During 2000 Victoria teamed<br />
up with Joost Langeveld<br />
again as they worked on the<br />
score for Being Eve, a quirky<br />
26 part series centred on the<br />
life of a philosophical 15-year<br />
old school girl. International<br />
success followed, with the<br />
series being snapped up by<br />
a marketplace hungry for<br />
‘tweens’ TV. Being Eve began<br />
screening in America during<br />
August 2001, was picked up<br />
by TV2 in Denmark soon<br />
after and continued to be<br />
broadcast across a range<br />
of countries including South<br />
Africa, Finland, Norway,<br />
Malaysia and Ireland. It’s<br />
still going strong, it was<br />
recently shown on RTL5 in<br />
the Netherlands.<br />
Photo by >> Greg Bowker<br />
Maddigan’s Quest is another<br />
children’s series carrying a<br />
Victoria Kelly score, bound<br />
to travel far and wide. Set<br />
in a post-apocalyptic future,<br />
it’s an epic tale of magic,<br />
adventure and time travel<br />
with an equally expansive<br />
sound track, which required<br />
Victoria to write an average<br />
of 18 minutes of music per<br />
episode – that’s almost 4<br />
hours of music across the full<br />
13 part series! Maddigan’s<br />
Quest made its international<br />
debut in January this year,<br />
screening on BBC1 and has<br />
also been sold to networks<br />
in the USA and Israel.<br />
Victoria is also in demand<br />
as an arranger, often<br />
working on scores for<br />
others or adapting work<br />
for specific circumstances<br />
- like her recent orchestral<br />
arrangement for NZ band,<br />
Shapeshifter. More used to<br />
cranking out heavy beats<br />
in dimly lit clubs, the band<br />
asked Victoria to arrange<br />
their work for an innovative<br />
concert with the Auckland<br />
Philharmonic Orchestra in<br />
the grand St James Theatre.<br />
Bridging the gap between<br />
classical and club audiences<br />
is no mean feat, but by all<br />
reports it was achieved with<br />
dramatic effect. One hardened<br />
Shapeshifter fan admitting<br />
after the concert he’d been<br />
moved to tears by the sheer<br />
emotional force of the music.<br />
Victoria has also brought<br />
innovative interpretations,<br />
surprise collaborations<br />
and occasionally her own<br />
arrangements to the stage<br />
of the <strong>APRA</strong> Silver Scroll<br />
awards, where she’s been<br />
Musical Director since 2002.<br />
Film projects this year have<br />
included the score for Robert<br />
Sarkies’ Out of the Blue<br />
and Jonathan King’s comedy<br />
horror Black Sheep which<br />
uses 70 minutes of Victoria’s<br />
music. Both films had world<br />
premiere screenings at the<br />
Toronto Film Festival in<br />
September, attracting the<br />
interest of buyers in North<br />
America and Europe.<br />
If history is anything to go<br />
by, two more of Victoria<br />
Kelly’s soundtracks may be<br />
about to go global! •<br />
VICTORIA KELLY<br />
By Kathy Grant, Manager Performance<br />
Verification, <strong>APRA</strong><br />
A P R A P D E C E M B E R 2 0 0 6 > > 1 6
Compiled by Mark Eades and Anthea Sarris<br />
Contributions are welcome and should be emailed to asarris@apra.com.au.<br />
Deadline for the March 2007 issue of Aprap is Friday, 26 January.<br />
IN MEMORY OF<br />
DOROTHYDODD<br />
10 DECEMBER 1926 – 25 JUNE 2006<br />
By John Sturman<br />
DEALS & SIGNINGS<br />
Fintage Music is proud to<br />
announce that it has signed<br />
award winning composer<br />
Burkhard Dallwitz to a<br />
worldwide publishing deal (excl.<br />
Aust/NZ). Fintage has also<br />
signed an exclusive worldwide<br />
sub-publishing agreement with<br />
Crosstown Songs covering<br />
their current and future music<br />
publishing catalogues.<br />
After attending SXSW in Austin<br />
Texas with the specific target of<br />
finding a Sync partner for North<br />
America, Fogsongs managing<br />
director Marshall Cullen has<br />
signed an agreement with<br />
Charles Levan from Blue Buddha<br />
Entertainment, in Los Angeles.<br />
EMI Music Publishing Australia is<br />
proud to announce the signing of<br />
Natalie Bassingthwaighte of the<br />
Rogue Traders to a worldwide<br />
publishing agreement.<br />
Celebrating the signing are: L-R:<br />
Mark Byrne (Peppermintblue, Manager),<br />
Maree Hamblion (A&R Manager, EMI Music<br />
Publishing), John Anderson (MD, EMI Music<br />
Publishing) & Natalie Bassingthwaighte.<br />
ABC Music Publishing will<br />
administer the music publishing<br />
rights for Pacific International<br />
Music – a new music company<br />
about to establish its base in<br />
Nashville, Tennessee. Country<br />
music singer/songwriter Adam<br />
Harvey’s five year association<br />
with ABC Music Publishing has<br />
come to an end however ABC<br />
Music Publishing will continue to<br />
represent his current repertoire<br />
in the medium term. Sydney<br />
producer, performer and<br />
songwriter Rephrase has signed<br />
to ABC Music Publishing and<br />
is back with his second Album,<br />
Little Victories.<br />
Mushroom Music is proud to<br />
announce the signing of musical<br />
comedy trio Tripod for their most<br />
recent record Middleborough<br />
Road.<br />
Native Tongue has entered into<br />
an agreement with The Datsuns<br />
to publish their new album<br />
Smoke & Mirrors. Native Tongue<br />
has also inked a worldwide<br />
publishing agreement with<br />
Jonathan Bree, songwriter from<br />
The Brunettes; plus a deal with<br />
Megan Hickey. Two of Native<br />
Tongue’s most recent signings<br />
hail from Christchurch: Flip<br />
Grater has just completed her<br />
first tour of NZ promoting her<br />
debut solo album; and Matt<br />
Barus, lead singer and writer<br />
with The Dukes. Native Tongue is<br />
also pleased to announce it now<br />
represents the catalogue of Van<br />
Heusen Music Corp.<br />
Universal Music Publishing<br />
Australia is delighted to<br />
announce the re-signing of one<br />
of Australia’s most revered and<br />
successful songwriters, Alex<br />
Lloyd to an exclusive, long-term<br />
publishing agreement. Universal<br />
has also extended its worldwide<br />
administration agreement with<br />
Southern Star Music Publishing,<br />
the music publishing arm of<br />
Southern Star Productions.<br />
Writer Gregg Arthur has signed<br />
a worldwide recording deal<br />
with Emporium Music and the<br />
first release is his new album<br />
Here with Me, published by<br />
Hebbes Music Group (HMG).<br />
HMG has also announced the<br />
signing of new sub-publishing<br />
agreements with Warnes Music<br />
for the songs of Jennifer Warnes;<br />
Upton Park Publishing for the<br />
very successful French group<br />
Matmatah; and Harlan Howard<br />
Songs for the writers Lori<br />
McKenna and Mary Gauthier.<br />
Other new deals include Nanada<br />
Music out of Holland and the<br />
extensive Celestial Harmonies<br />
catalogue.<br />
Shock Music Publishing is<br />
proud to announce the signing<br />
of Celebrity Drug Disasters, the<br />
2006 winners of the New Artist 2<br />
Radio competition. •<br />
Tripod - Scott Edgar, Simon Hall and Steven Gates - pictured with Mushroom Music MD Ian James.<br />
NEWS<br />
ABC Music<br />
Publishing<br />
The Australian Country Music<br />
Achiever Awards saw ABC<br />
Music Publishing awarded<br />
2006 Publishing Company<br />
of the Year for an incredible<br />
5 years in a row! Presented<br />
by the Country Music<br />
Association of Australia<br />
(CMAA), the awards are<br />
an annual event that brings<br />
together the music industry<br />
in a night that celebrates<br />
and acknowledges the<br />
achievements of the many<br />
individuals and companies<br />
involved in making and<br />
promoting Australian country<br />
music.<br />
Singer-songwriter, Bob<br />
Piggott, has won the <strong>APRA</strong><br />
& ABC Music Publishing<br />
Songwriter Recognition<br />
Award – presented at the<br />
annual 1233 Newcastle<br />
Music Awards.<br />
Gospel Music<br />
Association<br />
In August, the inaugural<br />
board meeting of the<br />
Gospel Music Association<br />
of Australia and New<br />
Zealand (GMA ANZ) was<br />
held in Sydney, to pursue<br />
the mission of “Growing<br />
Christian Music”. GMA<br />
ANZ was formed to act<br />
as the peak body for the<br />
Christian music sector in<br />
Australia and New Zealand<br />
and its membership is<br />
drawn from the artists,<br />
record labels, wholesalers<br />
and distributors, media,<br />
publishers, promoters,<br />
managers and educators in<br />
the Christian music sector.<br />
The Hoff jumps Dorothy Dodd: her passing<br />
in Ted’s car is mourned by friends and<br />
colleagues alike for we have lost<br />
David Hasselhoff’s version of Ted<br />
someone who worked tirelessly<br />
Mulry’s Australian classic, Jump<br />
in my car, has reached No. 3 on in the social and economic<br />
the UK singles’ charts, giving J. interest of her fellow writers<br />
Albert & Son yet another hit in<br />
often at great personal cost.<br />
the UK. Expect other European<br />
countries to follow suit.<br />
But perhaps the people who miss her most, apart<br />
from family are those of us who were privileged<br />
Local and global to work with her, in the early, formative years of<br />
the Australian music industry when the market was<br />
success for<br />
dominated by overseas music and opportunities for<br />
Native Tongue<br />
local writers and performers were very much limited<br />
by the existence of only one major record company<br />
It has been an exciting quarter<br />
owned and controlled by British interests as well as<br />
for Native Tongue with some<br />
a radio industry obsessed with playing only top 40<br />
great success both locally and<br />
hits dictated by overseas trade magazines such as a<br />
overseas. Don McGlashan won his<br />
Billboard and Cash Box.<br />
second <strong>APRA</strong> Silver Scroll for the<br />
song Bathe In The River; he also This situation was gradually changed, thanks to the<br />
won best original achievement in efforts of a small band of dedicated people such as<br />
music for his film score for No. 2 Dorothy Dodd who were determined to raise the<br />
at the recent NZ Screen Awards. profile of Australian writers and performers.<br />
Former Muttonbird guitarist<br />
and Native Tongue writer, David In 1965 I joined <strong>APRA</strong> as CEO. Dorothy was a full<br />
Long, won the equivalent award writer member of the Association at the time and<br />
for television music for his score was later elected as a Writer Director. Full writer<br />
to the SBS series The Insiders membership was very limited at this stage, Dorothy<br />
Guide To Love.<br />
enjoyed such a status because of her phenomenal<br />
success as the author of the English lyrics to<br />
NZ born, UK bred buzz band<br />
Granada. The great majority of <strong>APRA</strong> writers were<br />
The Veils, have a new album<br />
Associate members only, which meant they had<br />
Nux Vomica on the shelves and<br />
no vote at General Meetings and therefore, no real<br />
are set to tour next year. Kiwi<br />
voice in the affairs of the Company. Dorothy argued<br />
instrumental rock gods Jakob<br />
strongly that this situation was unjust and ultimately<br />
have a new release Solace out<br />
persuaded the Board to provide for all members to<br />
through inertia in Australia.<br />
have full status and therefore an entitlement to vote<br />
Native Tongue have also had at General Meetings.<br />
a number of placements for<br />
Australian and New Zealand acts Dorothy was equally influential in supporting the<br />
in US television series including proposal that the number of Writer Directors on<br />
CSI, Windfall and The Unit. In the <strong>APRA</strong> Board should be equal to the number of<br />
addition, their new partnership Publisher Directors to be consistent with overseas<br />
with Domino Publishing Co. in practice.<br />
the UK is taking off with a number<br />
of Domino acts set to tour our<br />
shores next year including the<br />
Archie Bronson Outfit. •<br />
Dorothy Dodd’s efforts on behalf of writers were<br />
not, of course, confined to <strong>APRA</strong>. As a President of<br />
the Fellowship of Australian Composers she worked<br />
assiduously towards the betterment of writers in all<br />
their various fields of activity and played a prominent<br />
role in liaising with both politicians and public<br />
servants in Canberra in an effort to secure economic<br />
aid and political largesse where it counted.<br />
One of her most outstanding achievements was<br />
to persuade the Government to give significant<br />
financial and practical support to an Australian stand<br />
at the annual Caen Music Festivals which did much<br />
to bring international attention to the potential of<br />
Australian music on the world market. The Federal<br />
Government were quick to acknowledge Dorothy<br />
Dodd’s contribution to this remarkable marketing<br />
exercise by an appropriate preferment which she<br />
richly deserved.<br />
Dorothy’s ultimate accolade, however, came<br />
when she was elected non-executive Chairman of<br />
the <strong>APRA</strong> Board, a position she filled with great<br />
distinction. It was in this capacity that Dorothy joined<br />
management in attending the bi-annual Congress<br />
of the International Confederation of Authors and<br />
Composer’s Societies where organisations similar<br />
to <strong>APRA</strong> came together from all over the world to<br />
discuss issues affecting the interests of authors and<br />
composers in general and to formulate strategies<br />
accordingly. Dorothy played an active role in the<br />
lively discussions which ensued at these conferences<br />
and it became quickly apparent that her fight for<br />
the rights of Australian writers had evolved to<br />
encompass the rights and interests of authors and<br />
composers the world over.<br />
Dorothy Dodd was a rare, if not unique personality<br />
whose enduring contribution to the cause of creative<br />
expression cannot be over stated. From someone I<br />
knew as a respected colleague in the narrow confines<br />
of the music industry, I came ultimately to regard<br />
her as a friend whose overriding concern to achieve<br />
economic justice for the creative talent of her peers<br />
took precedence over all else in her life. Dorothy’s<br />
passing coincides very much with the passing of an<br />
era in which her efforts and those of others similarly<br />
dedicated, have undoubtedly led to the high regard<br />
and prestige enjoyed today world wide, by writers<br />
and performers from ‘Downunder’.<br />
A P R A P D E C E M B E R 2 0 0 6 > > 1 8
Andy “Sugarcane” Collins<br />
BEBOP BROS featuring GARY<br />
NORMAN (guitar) and GARY<br />
COSTELLO (acoustic bass) play<br />
instrumental jazz from the 40’s in<br />
a more contemporary style. Their<br />
self titled CD contains twelve of the<br />
most influential compositions from<br />
the era - see www.newmarketmusic.<br />
com.au and www.myspace.com/<br />
garynormanonline<br />
Join the Dots is the debut<br />
album by Melbourne’s TOBIAS<br />
CUMMINGS and THE LONG<br />
WAY HOME. The album is both<br />
a continuation as well as a leap<br />
forward from Tobias’ first release,<br />
the EP You Incomplete Me. Join<br />
The Dots is out now via In-Fidelity<br />
Recordings/Inertia Distribution.<br />
www.tobiascummings.com www.<br />
myspace.com/tobiascummings<br />
and www.infidelity.com.au<br />
2004 Queensland Songwriter of<br />
the Year ANDY “SUGARCANE”<br />
COLLINS has recently returned<br />
from the three month tour of<br />
the USA, promoting the release<br />
of his blues/roots album Way<br />
Down The River. Andy has<br />
followed up with a southern<br />
tour featuring performances at<br />
the Thredbo Legends of Blues<br />
Festival and the Australian Blues<br />
Music Festival in Goulburn - see<br />
www.sugarcanecollins.com<br />
>> Gisèle Scales<br />
2006 has been a great year<br />
for Perth independent label<br />
BLAZING STRUMPET RECORDS.<br />
They have released THE<br />
PAINKILLERS’ first album Drunk<br />
On A Train, featuring JAMES<br />
BAKER (DUBROVNIKS/HOODOO<br />
GURUS/SCIENTISTS/VICTIMS)<br />
as well as EPs by bogan glam<br />
rockers PYTHON and Perth’s<br />
premier sleaze merchants THE<br />
HOMICIDES. The label has<br />
big plans for 2007 with a tour<br />
by Queensland punks THE<br />
PINTS booked for January; CD<br />
releases by PROJECT MAYHEM,<br />
STANDARD DEVIANTS, and<br />
ZXSPECKY; and of course their<br />
usual monthly grassroots shows<br />
at both all ages and pub levels<br />
– see www.blazingstrumpet.com<br />
GISÈLE SCALES’s solo debut<br />
is the dance/pop CD 2 Think<br />
featuring electric violin breaks and<br />
multilingual vocals over driving<br />
beats. Eight tracks from the album<br />
have been placed on local and<br />
international compilations. For<br />
further information and to listen<br />
to music samples, please visit<br />
www.giselescales.com and www.<br />
myspace.com/wwwmyspacecomg<br />
iselescales<br />
ZIA’s debut single release<br />
Underground features remixes by<br />
DJ CRAIG OBEY and a film clip.<br />
Underground 12” Remix peaked at<br />
#29 on the ARIA Club Charts, is<br />
spinning in clubs and is receiving<br />
national airplay on specialist dance<br />
shows. Underground - Original<br />
Version and 32mm film clip (directed<br />
by STUART MANNION) is the next<br />
release - see www.zia.com.au<br />
>> Mach Pelican >> James Stewart Keene Band<br />
IAN SANDERCOE has released<br />
Earthday independently through<br />
MGM. The album is a powerful<br />
collection of songs, predominantly<br />
written by Ian, with help from<br />
ROBERT PARDE, PAUL ELLIOTT<br />
and JUSTIN BOLTH. Ian is<br />
touring nationally – see www.<br />
iansandercoe.com<br />
Wollongong’s JAMES STEWART<br />
KEENE BAND released their<br />
debut EP You Want What I Got<br />
on December 4 through James’<br />
own label. The band is the<br />
vehicle for James’ country blues<br />
flavoured rock original material.<br />
The band launched the EP at the<br />
Lansdowne Hotel in Sydney in<br />
early December.<br />
Radio Action is MACH PELICAN’S<br />
third full length album and was<br />
recorded at Sing Sing Studios in<br />
Melbourne with producer Matt<br />
Maddock (SOMETHING FOR KATE,<br />
BODYJAR, SEKIDEN, etc). It also<br />
contains a highly catchy cover<br />
of the 60’s NZ classic by RAY<br />
COLUMBUS & THE INVADERS,<br />
“She’s A Mod”. Special guests on<br />
the album include Roman Tucker<br />
(from ROCKET SCIENCE) on the<br />
track “Not The Same”, and THE<br />
SPAZZY’S on “Love Is Strange”.<br />
AZTEC MUSIC is excited to be<br />
reissuing the 1974 classic album,<br />
Ball Power by LOBBY LOYDE &<br />
THE COLOURED BALLS. It has been<br />
digitally remastered with 7 bonus<br />
tracks - see www.aztecmusic.net<br />
>> Gigantic<br />
Following on from a successful<br />
promotional tour to the US and<br />
Canada and a worldwide deal<br />
with Los Angeles based Jetspeed<br />
Records, Sydney hard rock band<br />
NOBODY’S FOOL have released<br />
their debut international album. It<br />
was recorded at The Sonic Factory<br />
and mastered in LA by Dave ‘Javu’<br />
Morse. NOBODY’S FOOL head to<br />
LA in the new year for a series of<br />
live shows, radio interviews and<br />
in-store appearances – see www.<br />
nobodysfool.cjb.net and www.<br />
myspace.com/nobodysfoolrock<br />
Perth power popsters GIGANTIC<br />
have released their long awaited<br />
debut album Gigantaphonic<br />
Sounds. The album has been coproduced<br />
by Joel Quatermain of<br />
ESKIMO JOE, Rodney Aravena<br />
of END OF FASHION and Andy<br />
Lawson of THE AVENUES and is<br />
out on Popboomerang Records<br />
through MGM. See www.gigantic.<br />
com.au for tour dates.<br />
LISA MAXWELL has released her<br />
debut long player, Select Vacancy.<br />
Produced by Jamie Durrant<br />
(DEGENERATES, KILLING HEIDI,<br />
LILLIAN THOMS), Select Vacancy<br />
is out now in stores Australia-wide<br />
and available internationally on<br />
Apple iTunes through Essential<br />
Music Australia/Green Media<br />
(MGM) - see www.lisamaxwell.net<br />
>> Joel Smoker >> Brigitte Handley<br />
BRIGITTE HANDLEY AND THE<br />
DARK SHADOWS have a new EP,<br />
Identity, released through MGM<br />
locally, Revel Yell Music, Japan<br />
and distributed through Raucous<br />
(UK, Europe) and Collector’s<br />
Choice (USA). The EP contains<br />
5 rockin’ tracks and bonus film<br />
clip! The title track has also been<br />
included on the soundtrack for the<br />
new Australian film 48 Shades -<br />
see www.brigittehandley.com and<br />
www.myspace.com/brigittehandley<br />
WA musician and artist JOEL<br />
SMOKER recently released a CD<br />
of original songs titled Smile.<br />
Produced by LUCKY OCEANS, and<br />
recorded at Satellite Recording<br />
Studio in Burswood, WA, the CD<br />
is now available through local<br />
distributors, direct from Red Dirt<br />
Arts or from Joel’s web site at<br />
www.joelsmoker.com<br />
Gold Coast singer-songwriter<br />
CASEY BARNES has come off an<br />
amazing year in which he opened<br />
for visiting Canadian rocker<br />
BRYAN ADAMS and showcased his<br />
radio-friendly rock style alongside<br />
well-known Aussie acts such as<br />
ESKIMO JOE, THE WHITLAMS and<br />
DIESEL. Now Barnes has released<br />
his second album, What The Hell<br />
Are You Waiting For?, available<br />
from www.caseybarnes.com.au<br />
>> Anne McCue<br />
>> Rachel Koster<br />
Singer PEGGY VAN ZALM has toured<br />
locally and in Europe to celebrate<br />
the release of her latest CD (her<br />
fourth solo release post MARTHA’S<br />
VINEYARD) Light Diamond. Coproduced<br />
with Geoff Nant in their<br />
Elands Studio in regional NSW over<br />
a period of two years, it features<br />
a wealth of musical talent from the<br />
rainforested Bulga Plateau - see<br />
www.peggyvanzalm.com<br />
US-based, <strong>APRA</strong> member ANNE<br />
McCUE has released her new<br />
album Koala Motel, featuring<br />
special guests LUCINDA WILLIAMS,<br />
NANCY WILSON, JIM LAUDERDALE<br />
and JOHN DOE. In support of the<br />
album, Anne has played shows<br />
in the U.S.A., U.K., Germany and<br />
Australia over the last few months<br />
- see www.annemccue.com and<br />
www.myspace.com/annemccue<br />
Queensland singer-songwriter<br />
RACHEL KOSTER has just released<br />
her self-penned and funded debut<br />
album, Deciduous, recorded at<br />
Melbourne’s Woodstock Studios.<br />
Produced in part by ARIA award<br />
winning engineer, Robin Mai (John<br />
Butler Trio) and mixed by Mai and<br />
the legendary Chris Dickie - see<br />
www.rachelkoster.com<br />
Brisbane’s TWENTYSEVENS following<br />
on from the release of<br />
their debut album Songs From<br />
the Middle Ages, are currently<br />
supporting STAUS QUO on their<br />
30 date, UK tour, playing at major<br />
venues such as Wembley Arena,<br />
Manchester MEN and others – see<br />
www.twentysevens.com<br />
BILL MCDONALD’s long and<br />
unusual career as band member,<br />
sideman extraordinaire and avantgarde<br />
experimentalist is skilfully<br />
woven into his Four Hours Sleep<br />
project. The album Love Specifics<br />
reconnects a cast of some of<br />
Australia’s most well regarded<br />
musicians, ten years on from<br />
the debut long-player More of<br />
Her. Based around the holy rock<br />
trinity of guitar (DAN LUSCOMBE),<br />
bass (BILL MCDONALD) and<br />
drums (PETE LUSCOMBE); the<br />
tracks combine freely with a<br />
dazzling array of instruments,<br />
mutated field recordings and<br />
stellar vocal contributions (from<br />
the likes of PAUL KELLY, ANGIE<br />
HART, STEPHEN CUMMINGS,<br />
CHARLES JENKINS and OLLIE<br />
OLSEN) - see www.myspace.com/<br />
fourhourssleepau<br />
Independent Melbourne 5-piece<br />
DURBEYFIELD have released their<br />
new EP Across The Hollow to<br />
glowing reviews. Characterised by<br />
layered instrumentation, soaring<br />
melodies and lyrics that recount<br />
stories of human experience, the<br />
EP is out now through MGM - see<br />
www.durbeyfield.com<br />
Sydney activists ANDORRA have<br />
had a busy year, performing and<br />
promoting the Baxter EP – live and<br />
on radio and TV; recording some<br />
new material; and performing at<br />
the Marrickville and Peace Festivals<br />
in Sydney and the Yaamma Festival<br />
in Bourke. ANDORRA pride<br />
themselves on making music and<br />
organising shows for the things<br />
they care about, “in a positive way<br />
and with pro-active resilience” -<br />
see www.andorramusic.com.au<br />
MEGAN BOWMAN’s debut album<br />
Wonderlust has finally seen the<br />
light of day, through MGM and<br />
Raw Love Records. Her live gigs<br />
have included Bluesfest, The Metro<br />
(Sydney), an Elliot Smith tribute<br />
at The Corner Hotel (Melbourne)<br />
and the Folk Alliance Australia<br />
Convention in Canberra. Megan<br />
also received a John Butler ‘JB<br />
Seed’ management grant in<br />
October and recently visited S-E<br />
Asia to negotiate tour dates and<br />
distribution of Wonderlust – see<br />
www.meganbowman.com or www.<br />
myspace.com/meganbowmanmusic<br />
>> Psycho Zydeco<br />
2006 marks a new chapter in the<br />
history of Australia’s premier<br />
zydeco band. PSYCHO ZYDECO<br />
have released their fourth album,<br />
Get On Board - a 16 track PSYCHO<br />
ZYDECO time capsule spanning<br />
the evolution of their music from<br />
its rockin’ bluesy beginnings<br />
right through to the funkier style<br />
of “Zydeco Nouveaux” - see<br />
www.zydeco.com.au<br />
Contributions should be emailed<br />
to bcampbell@apra.com.au<br />
Deadline for the March 2007 issue<br />
is 26 January.<br />
2 0<br />
Compiled by Bowden Campbell and Milly Petriella<br />
>> Megan Bowman
All photos by: Topic<br />
<strong>APRA</strong><br />
NZ<br />
>> Prime Minister Helen Clark presents Don McGlashan<br />
with the <strong>APRA</strong> Silver Scroll Award<br />
>> Spacifix performing ‘The Pool’<br />
2006 <strong>APRA</strong> SILVER SCROLL AWARDS<br />
By Catherine Langabeer, Communications and Events Coordinator, <strong>APRA</strong> New Zealand<br />
>> The Jubilation<br />
Choir with Russell<br />
Harrison and<br />
Anthony Gold<br />
perform ‘Bathe<br />
In The River’<br />
>> The Patea Maori Club perform ‘Poi E’<br />
The <strong>APRA</strong> Silver Scroll Awards led<br />
the charge of music industry awards<br />
events in New Zealand this year.<br />
Held at the Auckland Town Hall<br />
on September 20, and hosted by<br />
Radio Live broadcaster Marcus<br />
Lush; 440 guests including<br />
Prime Minister Rt. Hon. Helen<br />
Clark, Mayor of Auckland Dick<br />
Hubbard, <strong>APRA</strong>|AMCOS CEO Brett<br />
Cottle, <strong>APRA</strong> Board Chairman<br />
Mike Perjanik and the <strong>APRA</strong> Board<br />
and Management attended the event<br />
to toast great NZ music and the <strong>APRA</strong><br />
members behind it. Namely, those<br />
creating the best work in the genres<br />
of popular, Maori and contemporary<br />
classical music.<br />
Guests knew they were in for a special<br />
night from the first moment of the<br />
opening performance. Silver Scroll<br />
finalist Don McGlashan’s Bathe In The<br />
River was performed by the glorious<br />
Jubilation Choir who originally<br />
recorded the song, with special guests<br />
Russell Harrison and Anthony Gold.<br />
Don McGlashan (Native Tongue Music<br />
Publishing) went on to win the Silver<br />
Scroll Award, presented this year by<br />
Prime Minister Helen Clark, but not<br />
before a stellar line-up of performers<br />
treated the audience to versions of the<br />
other finalist songs.<br />
The finalists in the Silver Scroll<br />
Award this year were all songwriters<br />
at the top of their game: from indie<br />
sweetheart James Milne (Lawrence<br />
Arabia and The Reduction Agents)<br />
with The Pool, to Anika Moa for Stolen<br />
Hill from her sophomore album of<br />
the same name, and Silver Scroll<br />
heavyweights Don McGlashan - who<br />
won in 1994 for Anchor Me and was<br />
finalist this year for both Bathe In<br />
The River and Miracle Sun - and 2005<br />
winners Dann, Jon and Peter Hume<br />
(Evermore). The Hume brothers won<br />
last year with It’s Too Late and were<br />
back again with Running. Based in<br />
Sydney, Evermore joined their Kiwi<br />
peers for the night, and were off to<br />
Perth the very next morning to begin<br />
their ‘Real Life’ tour of Australia.<br />
The winners of the <strong>APRA</strong> Maioha<br />
Award and SOUNZ Contemporary<br />
Award were also recognised on the<br />
night. Newcomer Richard Bennett<br />
(Mai Publishing) won the <strong>APRA</strong> Maioha<br />
Award with his first ever composition<br />
in Maori titled E Hine, while Ross<br />
Harris won the SOUNZ Contemporary<br />
Award for the third time with his<br />
Symphony No.2 for mezzo soprano<br />
and orchestra.<br />
Performances on the night were<br />
directed by composers Victoria Kelly<br />
and Joost Langeveld and once more<br />
confirmed the Silver Scroll’s reputation<br />
for showcasing standout acts; from<br />
jazz to dub, funk to punk.<br />
The unmitigated highlight, however,<br />
was the closing number. Just as the<br />
crowd had settled back to their seats<br />
after a standing ovation for Don<br />
McGlashan they were once again back<br />
on their feet. Turntablist P-Money<br />
issued the familiar strains of the<br />
1984 hit song Poi E from his decks<br />
together with – to the disbelief and<br />
delight of the entire hall – the original<br />
performers of the song, The Patea<br />
Maori Club.<br />
For a full list of winners, finalists<br />
and photos from the night, check out<br />
‘Silver Scroll’ at www.apra.co.nz<br />
Whether you are<br />
a newcomer to the<br />
music business,<br />
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food<br />
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thought<br />
Understanding<br />
the Music Business<br />
Chapter 38<br />
THE ART<br />
OF THE DEAL<br />
(Excerpt reproduced with kind<br />
permission of Shane Simpson<br />
and Music Sales)<br />
The music industry is<br />
deal driven. Every dollar<br />
earned is a product of the<br />
negotiation of a contract.<br />
Good negotiators achieve<br />
better deals for their clients.<br />
Accordingly, negotiation<br />
skills are essential to success<br />
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To end this book it seems<br />
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A deal is a<br />
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the personal, creative and<br />
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In this context, the contract<br />
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system for the artistic and<br />
commercial deliverables.<br />
Looked at this way, it is<br />
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There are whole books on<br />
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going to focus on just three<br />
aspects of the process:<br />
• the background<br />
intelligence;<br />
• techniques of the<br />
negotiation; and<br />
• the content of the deal.<br />
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A P R A P D E C E M B E R 2 0 0 6 > > 2 2
If a picture could speak a thousand<br />
words, this photograph of bass, Conal<br />
Coad, would represent not only a<br />
quintessential backstage moment but<br />
tell also of the months of preparation<br />
and collaboration that precede an<br />
opera’s opening night. It evokes for<br />
me one of many glimpses I’ve been<br />
privileged to have of this extraordinary<br />
world of make-believe and the very<br />
real hard work and talent that creates<br />
it nightly in the Opera Theatre or<br />
Melbourne’s State Theatre.<br />
Coad was captured leaving his<br />
dressing room moments before<br />
going on stage in Manon. He paused<br />
to check his attire, the creation<br />
of designer Roger Kirk and the<br />
costumiers and seamstresses who<br />
work in Opera Australia’s Wardrobe<br />
Department. The telephone at the<br />
ready hints at the activities of a<br />
whole world backstage while the<br />
singer’s attention to every last<br />
detail reflects the culmination of his<br />
musical preparation and the creative<br />
endeavours of many others to ensure<br />
the show goes on.<br />
Writer Annarosa Berman and I spent<br />
two years documenting such moments<br />
to produce The Company We Keep:<br />
an intimate celebration of Opera<br />
Australia. Published in July to coincide<br />
with the company’s 50th birthday,<br />
the book showcases the behind-thescenes<br />
life of what Richard Hickox<br />
calls “one of the world’s last great<br />
ensemble companies”.<br />
The Company We Keep: an intimate<br />
celebration of Opera Australia is<br />
available from selected bookstores in<br />
most cities (rrp $49.95). For further<br />
information contact Annarosa Berman<br />
on (02) 9818 5370 or Emma Williams<br />
at Opera Australia on 0413 985 291.<br />
MOMENTS<br />
IN MUSIC<br />
Conal Coad at the Melbourne<br />
Opera Theatre<br />
By Bridget Elliot, bridgetelliot@optusnet.com.au<br />
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moment in music?<br />
Send your<br />
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and it could<br />
appear on the<br />
back of the<br />
next Aprap.<br />
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