How To Sync Down Under

Leading Australian Music Supervisor, Karl Richter, will layout a commercial and creative roadmap of which music works best Down Under and what it is worth in any given sync scenario! He’ll also take an in-depth look at the weird and wonderful scope of what’s playing on TV commercials in Australia right now, and what you can do to give yourself the best chance of getting some advertising placements for your music in Australia. For the second half of the talk Karl will provide an overview of DISCO, the sync pitching tool that was born out of 15 years of his company Level Two Music, music supervision workflow.

Meet:
Karl Richter/Level Two

Presented by Level Two/DISCO in cooperation with Promus & SPOT+

Karl Richter

Level Two Music (AUS)

Karl Richter is founder of Level Two Music, an Australian music supervision company with offices in Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland. Level Two's commercial work spans the globe including on-airs in Singapore, Turkey, Asia, Pacific, South America, USA, UK and Europe for brands such as Corona, Heineken, Vodafone, Virgin, Toyota and Orange. While working as a music supervisor Karl founded DISCO, a music file sharing and workflow platform built specifically for the music industry.

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sync (But Were Afraid To Ask)

– the dirty truth about the 900 difficult steps to (not) get a sync – a conversation with:

Jesper Reginal/Crunchy Frog
Charlotte von Kotze/Vice Media
Dan Koplowitz/Friendly Fire (Moderator)

Presented by Promus in cooperation with SPOT+ with the support from the Music Publishers Association, The Arts Council of Denmark & Koda Kultur.

Jesper "Yebo" Reginal

Co-founder, co-owner Crunchy Frog

Co-founder, co-owner and Frog Supérieure at Crunchy Frog and Crunchy Tunes. The label release such artists as D/troit, PowerSolo, The Tremolo Beer Gut (all performing during SPOT), Junior Senior and The Raveonettes, and the publishing company also represents artists like Iceage, Nelson Can and many others. Yebo is also a working musician, songwriter and producer. A jack of many trades celebrating his 25th anniversary in this crazy business we call show.

Dan Koplowitz

Owner of Friendly Fire Licensing, Los Angeles

Dan Koplowitz has been involved with the music industry in one way or another for the past twenty years. He owns the boutique sync agency Friendly Fire Licensing, which represents about forty labels and publishers (including Crunchy Frog, GL Music, Cosmos, Playground, and lots more) for inclusion in TV shows, movies, commercials, and video games. Dan manages a number of bands and focuses primarily on working with international acts in the USA.

Charlotte von Kotze

Director of Music at VICE, New York

Charlotte von Kotze is Director of Music at VICE. She handles music supervision for VICE Plus Production creative works, as well as the licensing needs of VIRTUE, an internal VICE MEDIA commercial agency. Recent notable clients include Marc Jacobs, MAC, Nike, Lululemon, Bose, Airbnb, or Delta. Other projects she previously music supervised include A24 x HBO’s critically acclaimed TV show ’Random Acts of Flyness’ directed by Terence Nance (2018).

Storytelling In Music

A talk between two independent award winning music supervisors who both work in advertising. Karl & Jesper will show examples of their work and tell how they approached those given stories in music. This talk will also give the audience an insight to the challenges they face when working on a given commercial.

Meet:
Karl Richter/Level Two (AUS)
Jesper Gadeberg/Musicstylist.com (Moderator)

Presented by Promus in cooperation with SPOT+ with the support from the Music Publishers Association, The Arts Council of Denmark & Koda Kultur

Jesper Gadeberg

Music Supervisor, Musicstylist

Karl Richter

Founder, Level Two

Level Two Music is a music supervision, licensing, production and music branding company based in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia, and Auckland, New Zealand, founded in 2002 by Karl Richter.

What Do You Want, You Idiot? The Knowledge Gap In Synch – Part II

Europe in Synch is an initiative to bring together young professionals from the music sector with experienced specialists and decision makers from film and advertising so as to provide a direct and mutual real-life hands-on learning experience in selected workshop-sessions along European music-conferences in 2019. This panel introduces the initiative and presents the results of the EiS-SPOT+ session the day before.

Meet:
Markus Linde, Europe in Synch
Nis Bøgvad, Europe in Synch 
+ participants from the workshop

Presented by Europe in Synch in cooperation with Promus & SPOT+

Markus Linde

Co-founder of Europe in Synch, Thag's Agent

As thag's agent, Markus has been placing music in advertising campaigns and contributed to films for 16 years. His services include music rights research and clearances. For his musical input he refers to a wide range of selected sources, among them publishing and label catalogues from the majors to the smallest independents. He is co-founder of Europe in Synch.

Nis Bøgvad

Founder, Copenhagen Film Music

Nis founded 'Copenhagen Film Music' a 360 Music supervision company for Film & TV. Nis has worked on more than 150 commercials, TV series and films. He’s been sharing knowledge at A&R Worldwide, Midem Cannes, Sync Summit Paris, Les Arcs European Film Festival, and Artist mentor for Music Estland VOLÜÜM mentoring program, to mention a few. Lately Nis has been working on the Danish TV drama 'Follow the Money' (Bedrag).

Pitch Your Music To Music Supervisors

A panel will select 7-8 tracks from an open-call and then give feedback in front of an audience. The sessions is for young music business professionals and composers who’s not attending the Meet The Music Supervisors-speed meetings. Application closed.

Meet:
Connie Edwards / Major Tom (UK)
Ben Sumner / Feel For Music (UK)
Daniel Kuypers/BBDO (US)
Ilana Goldstoff/Sizzer (NL)
Terese Gustafsson/Pusher Music (D)
Clément Souchier/Creaminal (F)
Roy Lidstone/A&G Sync (UK)
Jesper Gadeberg / Musicstylist.com

Presented by Promus in cooperation with SPOT+ with the support from the Music Publishers Association, The Arts Council of Denmark & Koda Kultur

Jesper Gadeberg

Founder, Musicstylist.com

Award winning music stylist Jesper Gadeberg, who is Copenhagen based, is working as a music supervisor in advertising & prefers to be where the good creative ideas are being developed. Having worked for directors such as Michel Gondry ’ Martin Werner, TRAKTOR & Martin De Thurah and many others. He has won for ’best use of music’ for his ideas at various advertising festivals, and also judging at various advertising festivals.

Ben Sumner

Forunder of Feel For Music, London

Ben Sumner is a music supervisor specializing in the field of video games. Twice voted Music Week Music Supervisor of the Year for Video Games and winner of awards for music creation and supervision across gaming, advertising and radio. Ben has worked on music for numerous games franchises including Assassins Creed, Just Cause, Tomb Raider, Hitman, to name just a few. As well as numerous other projects including work for Google, Jaguar and BBC.

Ilana Goldstoff

Sync Manager at Sizzer, Amsterdam

Ilana Goldstoff is Sync Manager at Sizzer Amsterdam. Before joining the company in 2015 she was active in the music industry for 12 years as a booker, talent scout and manager. Ilana is responsible for the award-winning ’When You Drive, Never Drink’ Heineken campaign, as well as syncs for Diesel, Chanel, Audi and many others. Sizzer Amsterdam is one of the leading agencies in the world of music for images.

Connie Edwards

Music Supervisor at Major Tom, London

Connie has been supervising music for commercials with Major Tom for the past 5 years. Her work at Major Tom consists of full music services, encompassing music supervision, licensing, soundtrack composition and score supervision, all undertaken with an uncompromisingly creative perspective, an obsession for originality and striving for the highest production values. Recent credits include worldwide campaigns for Stella Artois and Range Rover.

Daniel Kuypers

SVP, Executive Director of Music, Energy BBDO, Chicago

Daniel Kuypers is a 21 year music industry veteran who has been producing music for brands for the past 11 years. As Director of Music Daniel works with internal teams, clients, artists and music companies around the world to use music in new, innovative ways while creating value for both the artist and the client. Daniel works with a varied roster of past and present clients including PepsiCo, Wrigley/Mars, MillerCoors, Starbucks, Bayer and more.

Terese Gustafsson

Creative manager at Pusher, Berlin

Terese Gustafsson is the Creative Manager in Europe for PUSHER, a modern hydra of sync licensing, bespoke composition, and label & publishing services based in Los Angeles. Recent work include film trailer and advert campaigns like The Joker, Blade Runner 2049, Star Wars, Samsung and FIFA. Terese keeps an eye out for interesting producers, artists, and composers as well as help build and maintain relations with European clientel and creatives.

Clément Souchier

Music Supervisor & Producer at Creaminal, Paris

Clement Souchier founded Creaminal in 2004. In 14 years, Creaminal has become one of the most influent music supervision agencies with offices in New York, Singapore & Sao Paolo. Our multi-awarded team provides both artistic insight and business and legal expertise in music supervision for Feature Films, Series, Advertising campaigns, Video Games and Events.

Roy Lidstone

CEO, A&GSync Inc.

Roy is veteran of the music industry with over 30 years experience which includes music publishing, sync licensing and A&R. He has achieved Gold, Silver and Platinum record sales in the UK and US and as CEO of A&GSync Inc. and A&G Songs Ltd. runs the independent sync agency and music publisher with operations in LA and London. He has overseen the placement of artist music and composition in commercials including: Coca Cola, BMW, Game of Thrones, Homeland and many more.