Matej Dimlic, Programme director MA Audio Production,

Email: dimlicm@wmin.ac.uk
Principle lecturer in Music and Film, Mixed Media Artist.

Matj has extensive academic and professional experience in several media disciplines including music, sound design, film, TV, theatre, mixed media performance and graphic design.

In addition to course leadership of MA Audio Production, Matej leads Documentary Film and Contemporary World Cinema modules, (MA Film & TV), and lectures Narrative Forms on MA Screenwriting and Producing course. His academic experience also include 5 year stretch at the American Intercontinental University, where he had developed number of audio and visual courses for Media Production and Visual Communication Departments.

Matej's credits include

Absolute Beginners Series, (director, producer)

Eastern Biologicals The Sound, audio-hybrid concept album and mixed media performance around audience,(composer, director, performer)

Fur, dir. Marcela Marcelo, (composition and sound design)

The Captive, dir. Adam Marek, (music and sound design) )

New Nation Rising, Newham Symphony/ RPO, a short film about composer Shirley Thompson, and many more.

Matejs critical review of the Pink Floyd s The Wall features on the

Reflections on "The Wall" 25th Anniversary Limited edition, DVDs disk set, Art House Classics.

He actively participates at national and international conferences, including recent presentation at the Insight Out Conference in Berlin.

In his research, Matej investigates the impact of sound and music on structure and the perception of the visual narrative.

He is currently working on development of the large-scale interactive audio installation project for various sites around London.

Music Industry Advisory Board Previous Members

Paul Lynton

Paul Lynton is one of the UK's leading licensing, marketing, merchandising and compilation experts in audio and audio-visual products. He is acknowledged as an expert in worldwide music/audio visual Copyright licensing, marketing and merchandising. Paul acts as a major consultant working/liaising with some of the worlds' top companies and organisations advising on all aspects of international licensing, acquisition, audio and audio visual production, sales and marketing for all manner of intellectual rights. Past and present organisations include the BBC, Carlton, QVC, Universal, EMI, BMG, WEA, Sony, Sanctuary, and Prism Leisure Corporation.

Blue Weaver

Director of Music Producers Guild

Blue Weaver started his career in the mid-60s playing keyboards with Amen Corner. In the early 70s Blue replaced Rick Wakeman in The Strawbs, before going on to work with Mott The Hoople and the Hunter/Ronson Band. Blue joined the Bee Gees in 1975, and subsequently recorded Jive Talkin' and Nights On Broadway and Saturday Night Fever in 1977 which was the biggest-selling film soundtrack album ever. In the early 1980s, Blue moved into Fairlight programming, working in London with artists such as the Pet Shop Boys, Stevie Wonder, Duran Duran, Swing Out Sister and many others. Since the mid-90s, Blue has increasingly become involved in music education, giving lectures at the University of Westminster and teaching at the National Film & Television School. More recently Blue has been working on adverts and films as a composer or programmer.

Gerd Leonhard

Website: www.musicfuturist.com
Blog: www.musiclikewater.com

Gerd is a respected digital music expert, futurist and often-quoted visionary and thought-leader. He is well-known as a music industry innovator, a sought-after strategic adviser and music industry 'super-node', with a background as a performer (guitar), writer, and producer. A native of Germany, Gerd has spent almost twenty years in the music, e-commerce, and entertainment-technology industries, and is equally at home in the U.S. as well as in Europe. He currently resides in Basel, Switzerland and recently co-authored the book "The Future of Music" (Berklee Press, Boston, www.futureofmusicbook.com). He lectures extensively at tradeshows, conferences, think-tanks and leading events around the world, as well as on podcasts and Net forums such as ITConversations, Corante and 'Inside Digital Media'.

 

During the dotcom 'fat years', Gerd was the Founder and President/CEO of LicenseMusic.com, Inc. in San Francisco, an influential start-up that revolutionized the process of music licensing and B2B transactions for labels and publishers. He now is the Founder and CEO of ThinkAndLink (TAL), a boutique strategic advisory agency based in Basel / Switzerland and San Francisco, collaborating with Kelli Richards' AllAccess Group. TAL connects people, ideas, companies, and resources in the converging sectors of entertainment and technology; clients include companies such as Media Rights Technologies, Bluebeat, PassAlong Networks, SUISA, BerkleeMusic, Gracenote, Sony Net Services / StreamMan, Mercora, PassAlong Networks, Musicrypt, and many others. Gerd is also the Founder, Chairman and Executive Producer of the annual Popkomm "Innovations in Music & Entertainment Awards" (IMEA; Sept 14, 2005 in Berlin, see www.popkommawards.com for more details), and works with many cutting-edge start-ups and new ventures in the entertainment and technology industries worldwide.

In the 90s, Gerd served as the Executive Producer of the pan-European talent event EuroPopDays, as Expert Advisor on the Cultural Industries to the European Commission in Brussels (1993-1996), and as Senior Strategic Adviser to Rightscom Ltd. (London). In the 80s Gerd graduated with a diploma in Jazz Performance (Guitar) from Boston's Berklee College of Music (1987), and won the college's highly acclaimed Quincy Jones Jazz Masters Award. His performance credits include touring internationally, including opening engagements for major acts such as Miles Davis. Gerd has been quoted in Billboard, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, The San Francisco Chronicle, Business2.0, The Wall Street Journal, the BBC Online, NBC, and Wired, and continues to speak, moderate, and/or present at the music and media industry's biggest events. He publishes his thoughts on digital music on his blog at www.musiclikewater.com

"The Future of Music" book review: Publishers Weekly (Feb 2005)"In what could be one of the most provocative music books published this year, two innovators in music technology take a fascinating look at the impact of the digital revolution on the music business and predict "a future in which music will be like water: ubiquitous and free-flowing." Kusek and Leonhard foresee the disappearance of CDs and record stores as we know them in the next decade; consumers will have access to more products than ever, though, through a vast range of digital radio channels, person-to-person Internet file sharing and a host of subscription services. The authors are especially good at describing how the way current record companies operate--as both owners and distributors of music, with artists making less than executives--will also drastically change: individual CD sales, for example, will be replaced by "a very potent 'liquid' pricing system that incorporates subscriptions, bundles of various media types, multi-access deals, and added-value services." While the authors often shift from analysts into cheerleaders for the ber-wired future they predict--"Let's replace inefficient content-protection schemes with effective means of sharing-control and superdistribution!"--their clearly written and groundbreaking book is the first major statement of what may be "the new digital reality" of the music business in the future.

Terry Holton

Terry graduated from California State University Long Beach with a degree in Radio, Television and Film Production. He worked as a film sound editor before moving into music production as a recording engineer. He joined Yamaha's Research & Development Centre in London during 1991, with responsibility for professional audio systems such as digital mixing consoles, recorders and signal processors. Currently, Terry is manager - Product Planning / Marketing & Technical Support Group, Yamaha R&D Centre, London. As manager of Yamaha's pro-audio product planning team, he has specific responsibility for the market requirements and trends in Europe. He also manages the Marketing & Technical Support Group for professional audio and computer music production systems.

Wayne Smart

Sanctuary Music Group Contracts Manager

Wayne manages a rights clearance team, artist roster and designs and project-manages the implementation of the company's intellectual property rights system to identify catalogue and to identify how and where the rights can be exploited (Sanctuary owns one or the world's largest independentrecorded catalogues). Prior to Sanctuary, Wayne worked for the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society where he held a hybrid role of PR and problem solving related to registration of songs, non-payment of royalties by record companies, back-claims and ownership disputes.

Keith Jopling

Director of Market Research
IFPI

Keith Jopling is the director of market research at the International Federation for the Phonographic Industry. He is responsible for IFPI's music market publications and the provision of strategic market information to its 1500 members. Before he joined IFPI, Keith was business analysis manager for Novartis pharmaceuticals, responsible for business planning and forecasting for that company's portfolio of specialist hospital products

Maggie Crowe

Manager of Education and External Affairs
BPI
Trade association for the UK record industry.