Ableton Competition for Young Producers

Here is something from one of my favourite music applications Ableton Live. Live in case you don't know is a highly flexible and creative music making platform which I use daily with my students due to it's free workflow.

Well this summer they are running a Music Challenged aimed squarely at young producers. The nice thing is that they have an under 15yrs age group and then 15-18yrs group which makes things fare for the younger aged entrants. There will be 24 runners up in each category as well as the grand prize winner.

Simply build your track, upload it and wait and see! Looks like they are using another one of my favourite services 'Soundcloud' to facilitate the process.

Well what are you waiting for! Click the link and get to it!

http://abletonsummermusicchallenge.com/

Arts Jobs - UK Arts Job Listings

I stumbled upon this website recently and thought it was quite a decent site for arts opportunities. Basically it's a listings site managed by the arts council for all art forms. As is often the case with these sites; many of the listings are for unpaid jobs and voluntry positions.

The reason I really like it though is that the nature and focus of the site being arts based means that the postings are a little more interesting then the sites that have opportunists looking for cheap labour. By the way not allthe postings are for non paid work, there are many paid jobs listed that you may not stumble upon using the traditional searches. On the day I looked I saw vacancies as diverse as; a booking agent (£15K), an economic impact consultant (25K) and Workshop Practitioners.

Have a look for yourself http://www.artsjobs.org.uk/

Ben Mullon

Ben Mullon: "

musician, educator and record producer

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