TALK MUSIC TO ME! OCT 1-5
Pop Montreal's Symposium is like no other: programming is artist-driven and reflective of our city's diverse and lively culture. This year's panel discussions, listening sessions, workshops and round tables will emphasize skills-building, audience participation, and different cultural perspectives.
The main objective of the Symposium is to empower, educate, and inspire by offering uniquely intimate access to the ideas and forces at the heart of today's music world.
Charging into its seventh year, the Symposium is branching out to represent all festival segments. In addition to music topics, we will cover themes central to Film Pop, Puces Pop, Art Pop, and Kids Pop, the latter taking the form of a special all-ages series.
All sessions focus on the use of arts, culture and creativity to build movements and create change, and are intended not merely to discuss the use of art, but to create it, think critically about it, and be actively engaged in it.
GREATEST HITS: VOLUMES 1-6
Such esteemed guests as Patti Smith, David Byrne, Ian MacKaye, Clash producer Sandy Pearlman, nuero-scientist Dan Levitan, and Saul Williams have come to share their experience and expertise on everything from the D-I-Y ethic and social responsibility, to publishing rights and the digital era, to music cognition and much more.
Thanks to more than 500 participants, collaborators and attendees, last year's event, Music Fast Forward was an inspiring and memorable experience.
Patti Smith. Photo by David F. Miller.
Steve Albini et Sandy Pearlman, "The Future of Analogue". Photo by David F. Miller.
2007
Friday! Check out highlights like Cramping My Sampling (free admission) Tanna Hall 1 - 2:30 with Buck 65 and Skratch Bastid, or split yourself in two to check out the free Pop Workshop on International Festivals and Labels with peeps from SXSW, VEGA, and 6 more (same time, same building, room C201).
Enjoy our Patti Smith keynote address at 4:00 in Pollack Hall, then stumble into the SAC sponsored cocktail. Wake up early to enjoy "Fast Cheap and Out of Control" new music business models at 9:00 a.m., and don't miss out on a demonstration of NEW MUSIC INSTRUMENTS being developed by the CIRMMT labs (10:30 a.m., 12:00 and 1:00)!
All conference events are being held at McGill's Schulich School of Music 527 Sherbrooke St. W. See schedule page for details. And remember, all Pop Workshops are free for artists, musicians, and students.
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Let's Talk...
Pop Montreal, McGill University's Schulich School of Music and the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy are proud to invite you to this year's Pop & Policy 2007: Music Fast Forward Conference...
...a.k.a. Four days of panels, workshops, and parties where you get to give your two cents worth about how to get your two cents worth.
...a.k.a. Top thinkers in the field of music, technology, law and the biz, together to discuss the future of music.
...a.k.a. You, rock stars (Buck 65, Patti Smith, ISLANDS and the DEARS), legendary producers Sandy Pearlman (Clash, Blue Oyster Cult) and Steve Albini (Pixies, Nirvana), Dan Levitin (author, neuroscientist), and reps from the major music unions and orgs covering everything from DIY to DRMs.
Pop & Policy 2007: Music Fast Forward
October 3-6, 2007 at the Schulich School of Music
555 Sherbrooke Street W
