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Steve Lawson in London

Dubber — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:58:25 +0000

I know I just got back from London, but can I go again tomorrow? I’d really love to get to this:

You’ve Read The Blog, Now Go Buy The Soundtrack: investing value in music through building rich-content narratives
Steve Lawson, Solo Bassist, Pillow Mountain Records.

Date: Tues 19 May 2009
Time: 4 p.m.
Venue: The Social Computing Group (Internet Centre), William Penney Lab
Website: http://www.stevelawson.net

Musicians are at the forefront of exploring the ‘third way’ of online economic models by building social and cultural value into the narrative around their music life, and then providing mechanisms for that audience to demonstrate their appreciation or gratitude for that value by paying for it. Steve Lawson will speak about these models and mechanisms from his own extensive experience with online community building and direct marketing, both his own and those of the wider online music community.

Steve Lawson is a musician, writer and educator who has been exploring new and innovative ways to engage with his audience and build community around his music for over a decade, and now consults with artists and web developers and strategists about the present and future of artist/audience interaction.

Pre-registration is encouraged to assure a place.

Creativity, Innovation and Labour in Music

Dubber — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:34:23 +0000

Here’s another event I’m going to try to get to:

Creativity, Innovation and Labour in Music
A symposium

Monday June 22nd – symposium, 9.30 – 5.00
Tuesday June 23rd – workshop on developing a network, 9.30 – 11.30

The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
Central Meeting Rooms

Organisers
Dot Miell, Mark Doffman, Mark Banks, Jason Toynbee, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open
University
Raymond MacDonald, Department of Psychology, Glasgow Caledonian University

Interdisciplinary research into music at the intersection of creativity, innovation and labour is an
emerging topic that presents many challenges for researchers. For example:

• the theme of labour calls attention to musical work, economic exploitation and the everyday
processes of music making,

• innovation takes in the problem of the nature of the new in different genres, but also
questions of how musical innovation gets evaluated, rewarded or ignored,

• and creativity gestures towards issues of origination and emergence, artifice and authenticity,
the individual and the collective.

This symposium brings together experts from across the disciplines in order to develop a more
coherent analysis of how these themes converge. The format consists of a series of presentations
each followed by discussion with the aim of advancing our understanding of the topic, and
establishing an informal research network to take things forward – a workshop on the Tuesday
morning is to plan next steps.

Speakers
Martin Cloonan, Glasgow University – Creating live music: an industrial perspective

Don Knox, Glasgow Caledonian University – Who are we innovating for? The need for
interdisciplinary input in setting goals for music information retrieval

Bennett Hogg, University of Newcastle – Working through the new

Fabian Holt, University of Roskilde – Creativity and innovation in contemporary live music
production

Matt Stahl, University of Western Ontario – Recording artists, employment, domination and
democratization

Fresh on the net

Dubber — Mon, 18 May 2009 08:58:31 +0000

Today I’m speaking at a workshop for London Songwriters Week, with Tom Robinson from BBC 6Music. The workshop’s called:

Fresh On The Net: how to survive and thrive in a digital future.

Steve Lawson and I [and others, it turns out] will be tweeting from the event, using the hashtag: #freshnet