The XpoNorth music, arts and media conference will also provide the setting for a panel hosted by the Music Producers Guild, featuring four of the UK’s top music producers.
Entitled The Art of Making Records, the panel will focus on the creativity and skill that goes into making a record. The event (which is free of charge) will include producer and MPG Award winner John Leckie (Radiohead, The Coral, Muse), Cam Blackwood (George Ezra, London Grammar, Florence and the Machine) and Dave Bascombe (Tears For Fears, Echo and the Bunnymen, Peter Gabriel). They will be joined by Brett Cox, winner of the MPG’s Breakthrough Engineer of the Year Award for 2016, and by MPG Executive Director Andrew Hunt who will host the discussion.
‘There’s plenty of focus on the healthy revenue that still exists for artists playing live,’ says Hunt. ‘Regardless of whether or not this is true, we believe that the process of making a record should be acknowledged because it is an art form in its own right. As an organisation that represents the interests of recording professionals, we feel this should be celebrated and championed. To quote Edgar Degas, “art is not what you see, but what you make others see”, or as Sir George Martin has it, “the recording is not what one hears, but what one must make others hear”.’
Devoted to boosting creative careers in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and beyond, XpoNorth includes daytime panels, workshops and showcasing opportunities for artists and bands from all over Europe.
‘We will have a stand in the main exhibition hall where attendees can meet our panellists, all of whom are Full Members of the MPG,’ says MPG Executive Director Mick Glossop, who will also be attending XpoNorth. ‘We are also planning a social event in Glasgow after XpoNorth, which will be open to all artists, labels, managers and of course producers and engineers. We look forward to seeing our Scottish colleagues there.’
The Art of Making Recordstakes place at 3pm on 9 June on the UHI Stage at The One Touch Theatre, Eden Court, Inverness. The Glasgow social event will take place at 6pm on 10 June at the Centre for Contemporary Arts.
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