Attend the Music Conference
with your Artist Wristband
SXSW wants to help build and broaden your career with insightful, engaging and entertaining
sessions. You'll hear from and be surrounded by music industry players who can help make
music your livelihood. Day parties are cool, but having a successful career is cooler.
Panels
With over 200 sessions this year, our programming runs the gamut of virtually every issue in today's
music industry. Just a few sessions of particular note to artists:
Anatomy of a Placement, Making the Transition From Artist to Suit, Build Your Business In The UK,
How to Build the Right Team Around Your Music, DIY Digital: A Guide to Organic Online Marketing,
Touring Tips from the Trenches, Trailer Cash: How to Hitch Your Music to a
Trailer, DIY Screenprinting Tips & Tricks, Website Demolition Derby, Transform
a One Night Stand Into a Long Relationship, and Sync to Success: How to Get
Placed & Get Paid.
Demo Listening and Licensing Pitch Sessions
Demo Listenings and Music Supervisor Pitch Sessions offer the chance to get direct feedback on your mu-
sic. From label reps, A&R, management who listen to demo tapes as part of their job and the licensing,
sync, and music supervision experts who could license your music for film, TV, commercials and more.
One-on-One Mentors
Our Music Mentor Program gives you direct access to industry professionals who have
agreed to share their time and experience with others. Receive personalized input by
scheduling one-on-one meetings with the mentor of your choice by signing up for our daily
sessions here.
Artist Central returns in 2014, with musician-focused programming featuring clinics,
workshops and sessions from touring smart to sync licensing to the crossfader as meta-
phor, and featuring the likes of Rodney Crowell, J Period, Rusty Anderson, Martin Atkins,
and more (Plus, free beer for artists next door…).
Composing Music to Task
Are you interested in composing music for commercials? Music for spots is not about the
music itself, it's about music supporting a branded message, telling a story, and making
an idea better. This session is an opportunity to try your hand at writing and interpreting a
creative brief, and have your it critiqued by industry experts on Wednesday, 3/12 at 5pm.
Download the spot, read the brief and submit your idea ahead of time. Show up and hear
direct, informative feedback the way composers do on a daily basis.
You can find the video spot & creative brief here.
MACKIE
OSBORNE
Catch featured talks and panels with Sean "Diddy" Combs, Blondie, Jarvis
Cocker, James Williamson & King Buzzo, and more REALLY big names we've
yet to announce. Oh yeah, and look for our Keynote announcement right
around the corner!
