Control – Détails, épisodes et analyse

This episode features Yamatji and Gumbaynggirr vocalist and songwriter, Emma Donovan. Growing up in a musical family, Emma first appeared on the stage with her renowned family band, the Donovan’s. She's since collaborated with artists such as Paul Kelly, the Black Arm Band, the Teskey Brothers, Paul Grabowsky, Spinifex Gum, the late Uncle Archie Roach and Aunty Ruby Hunter and The Putbacks.

Emma has recorded multiple award-winning soul influenced albums. Recently, she was the executive producer for the award winning documentary, Wash My Soul in the Rivers Flow and appeared on PlaySchool, but in 2024, she's set to release her debut solo album 'Til My Song is Done'.

https://www.emmadonovan.com/

https://www.alwayslive.com.au/program/soundbox

Clare Bowditch is an award winning vocalist, business woman, mentor, mother, actress, broadcaster, podcaster and author. Claire has won the coveted ARIA Award for Best Female for her music, the Rolling Stone Woman of the Year Award for her contribution to Australian culture, and has been nominated for a Logie Award for her role as Rosanna on popular television show Offspring. Her very first book, entitled “Your Own Kind Of Girl” won the 2020 Australian Book Industry Award for “New Writer of The Year”. As a songwriter and musician she has toured with artists such as Leonard Cohen, Paul Kelly, Missy Higgins, Gotye and John Butler, to name just a few. In August 2020, she released an Audible Original audio book entitled “Tame Your Inner Critic” which has remained at the top of the Audible Charts since the day of release. Recorded live at The Soundbox, as part of Always Live Festival, Chelsea and Clare chat about songwriting, body image, burnout and much more.

Modern Day Addiction video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6Wa2YW3-Iw

Your Own Kind of Girl book: https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Clare-Bowditch-Your-Own-Kind-of-Girl-9781761065002/

Tame Your Inner Critic Podcast:

https://www.audible.com.au/author/Clare-Bowditch/B081Z5KGYRAudiobook/

Powerhouse music executive Beth Appleton has unparalleled success as a leader and global music strategist. Named in the Top 100 Billboard Most Powerful Music Executives 2016 and recipient of Music Ally’s Outstanding Achievement Award, she is a 2023 nominee for the Australian Women in Music Leadership Award. 

Appleton’s previous roles include General Manager Australasia at Warner Music Australia (2018-2021), Senior Vice President of Global Marketing at Warner Music Group in the UK (2014-2018); Director of Digital at Universal Music Group UK (2007-2010); and Head of Digital and Business Development at V2 Music in the UK (2003-2007). She’s worked with artists such as Kylie, Ed Sheeran, Michael Buble, Major Lazer and many more. Recently she was the CEO of Jaxta, Australian based music database company. In this conversation, we chat about the Fix the Mix report, Beth gives her advice on negotiating effective business deals plus we hear about her time as Director of Digital for Universal Music. 

LINKS:
AWMA Nominees 2023

https://womeninmusicawards.com.au/2023-recipients-finalists/

Fix the mix report: https://www.wearemovingtheneedle.org/fix-the-mix 

Article: These Three Spotify Editors are becoming Music Industry’s Most Powerful Players 

https://www.afr.com/companies/media-and-marketing/these-three-spotify-editors-are-becoming-music-s-most-influential-players-20230726-p5drbp 

Kylie aphrodite - Goddess Edition 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEBjPj5XaUc 

Jess Keeley has been working in the music industry for the past 20 years. After gaining experience in publicity and record label marketing Jess made the decision in 2010 to relocate to London, taking a position as International Marketing Manager with Warner Music.

After working on campaigns through Europe and the US her close relationships with artists lead to the natural progression of artist management. Leaving Warner in 2011 to manage her first client, Lykke Li, Jess partnered with Scott Rodger (Quest/Maverick) and has been managing the international careers of award winning songwriters and musicians ever since. Jess has been instrumental in the management of developing artists, established names and absolute icons including Shania Twain, MARINA and Arcade Fire.

Her international industry experience in London and LA has given Jess an extensive knowledge of launching a global career. She has returned to Sydney to launch her management company Music She Wrote, a company focused on building sustainable international careers for Australian talent – with a roster including Jaguar Jonze, Isabella Manfredi and Clea. She is also currently acting General Manager of label Dew Process.

In this conversation we chat to Jess about risk taking, the importance of branding and social media, how she approaches strategic planning and goal setting with her artists much more.

We speak to artist manager Jess Keely about strategic goal setting, motherhood and management, social media and much more.

Raising their voices report: https://musicindustryreview.com.au/

A national review of sexual harm, sexual harassment and systemic discrimination in the contemporary Australian music industry and recommendations for reform.

Jess Keely article: 

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/i-was-recently-fired-by-a-client-while-on-maternity-leave-its-happened-to-me-exactly-twice/

Mojo Ruiz de Luzuriaga, known professionally as Mo'Ju, is an ARIA nominated Australian musician and songwriter. Across four solo albums their thought-provoking lyrics have explored their Fillipino and Wurrenjeri heritage,  the glorification of wealth and fame, spirituality, political change, and the human condition. 

Show notes:

Official site: 

https://mojumusic.com/tour

Change Has to Come film Clip: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeJ28r2C-Ic 

Minimum Fees for artists: https://musiciansaustralia.org/campaign-for-250/#:~:text=Our%20fee%20reflects%20a%20minimum,an%20additional%20'Artist%20Fee'.

Amara Primero is an award winning screen composer and the CEO and Founder of Primerchord Production Music.

Originally from Perth, Amara studied classical music at the western Australian academy of performing arts before moving to Sydney and working in the contemporary scene as a session musicia and educator. Breaking into the world of screen composition she has worked for major networks such as Channel 7, SBS, Channel 10, ABC, streaming giants such as Prime and for Reese Witherspoon's company Hello Sunshine. Establishing her own company Primerchord Music Production based in Sydney and LA, Amara now leads a team of over 20 composers, creating library music, film scores and music for productions across the world. Winner of Best Original Music at the 2019 Los Angeles Cinematography Awards, she recently became an ambassador for APRA AMCOS.

https://www.primerchordmusic.com

Song: Stitch It Up by Amara Primero

Nat Barstch is ARIA Melbourne based pianist and composer. Internationally renowned, Nat’s compositions explore the spaces between neoclassical, chamber music and jazz. She has released records on both ABC Jazz and ABC Classic labels, and is one of a small handful of artists to be ARIA nominated in both jazz and classical categories.

Nat has become most well known for her lullabies, which, during early motherhood, saw her create a new suite of work designed to soothe babies to sleep, but also be meaningfully enjoyable for adults. The resulting album, Forever, and No Time At All was released in 2018 on ABC Classic. 

As a chamber music composer, Nat has been commissioned to write pieces for Inventi Ensemble, Plexus Collective, Solstice Trio, The Muses Trio, Matt Withers & Sally Whitwell. She is currently studying a Masters of Composition at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. 

Nat has been awarded the 2021 Merlyn Myer Commission, the 2020 Catherine Mary Sullivan scholarship, 2020 Classical:NEXT Artistic Associate fellowship, 2019 Johnny Dennis Music Award, and the Melbourne Prize for Music Development Award to name a few. 

As a mental health advocate, Nat has undertaken research exploring the two-way link between mental health and creativity which has been presented at a variety of conferences. 

https://www.natbartsch.com/

Eliza Hull is an award-winning musician, speaker, writer and disability advocate.

Eliza’s music has been described as  ‘stirring, captivating and heartfelt.’ She is currently working on her fifth studio record, due for release in 2023. 

Her songs are featured in Australian TV shows such as  ‘And Then Something Changed,’ and ‘The Heights’ and American TV shows ‘Awkward, ‘Teen Wolf’ and ‘Saving Hope.’ 

As a speaker she has presented panels on accessibility at SXSW in Austin, Texas and music conference Changes. She performed at ABILITY Fest and produced the Iso aid ‘Accessible All Areas’  Festival featuring disabled musicians from all around the world. 

As an audio producer Eliza developed the ‘We’ve Got This’ series about parenting with disability for Radio National and ABC LIFE which was developed into a book “We’ve Got This - Stories by Disabled Parents”. She recently released her first children’s book “come over to my house” Co-written by bestselling author Sally Rippin

She was awarded the Music Victoria ‘Amplify’ award, the APRA mentorship for women in music, the National Leadership Award from the Australia Council and Arts Access Australia and the Diversity in Music Award from the Women in Music Awards. 

In this conversation I ask Eliza about representation and her advocacy work, her new album project, showcasing at South by Southwest, moving into the literature space and much more.

More info:

https://www.elizahull.com

Jacinta Parsons is a broadcaster, writer, speaker and author based in Melbourne. Jacinta currently hosts Afternoons on ABC 774, delivering a mix of art, culture and ideas. Prior to afternoons Jacinta presented Melbourne 774 Breakfast and the Friday Revue and also worked behind the scenes as Music Director for Double j and the ABC Local radio network. She has released two books, her memoir Unseen: The secret life of chronic illness and her new book ‘A Question Of Age’. Jacinta is an ambassador for the Crohn’s and Colitis Association of Australia and is also a board director of Melbourne disability theatre company, Rollercoaster.

In this conversation I ask Jacinta about ageism in the music industry, her career in broadcasting, her writing process, and the time that Kylie Minogue called her on live radio, and much much more.

https://jacintaparsons.com/

Monica Lim is a Melbourne-based pianist, composer, sound designer, entrepreneur and board director.

Born in Malaysia and then migrating to Australia in her teens, Monica Lim has produced work for theatre, contemporary dance, installations and film, as well as solo and ensemble instrumental pieces.  ​Her work has been presented at AsiaTOPA, Melbourne Fringe and Arts Centre Melbourne as well as international symposiums such as the International symposium of Electronic art and The International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. Monica is currently undertaking postgraduate research at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne in gesture-led composition and new technologies. She is also part of the research team at VCA Dance's TrakLAB and the University of Melbourne's Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics.

​Monica is co-founder of Project Eleven, a philanthropic initiative which supports the contemporary arts and serves on the boards of the Melbourne Recital Centre, Substation and Liquid Architecture as well as the Member's Council for Musica Viva.

https://www.monicalim.online/

Jagad: https://www.monicalim.online/jagad

Mental dance article: https://www.monicalim.online/_files/ugd/204248_9cf5fd2645cf4c068dbdbfeed587df43.pdf

Project 11: https://www.project11.online/about-us

Melbourne Recital Centre Board https://www.melbournerecital.com.au/about/ourcompany/board/

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