APA June 2024 | Will Evans | Music Licensing 101: Is Your Music Ready?

👋 Overview

Come join music producers from the Austin area to learn and collaborate with. All levels and genres are welcome. There will be time dedicated to track feedback and casual networking towards the end.

🕖 Schedule

• 7:00 – Arrivals
• 7:15 – Discussions
• 7:30 – Presentation
• 8:30 – Feedback
• 8:55 – Announcements
• 9:00 – Mingle

🚀 Speaker: Will Evans

Will Evans is a musician/producer from Austin, TX. At any given time Will can be found juggling multiple artist projects that include a psychedelic rock duo (The Swift Drag), a long-distance Postal Service style indie pop outfit (The Sea Suns), and working as a multi-genre bedroom producer/artist (Lex Echo). While attending college at St. Edward's University and pursuing a degree in photography, Will joined his first band in 2002 and has since played with notable musicians such as Bruce Castleberry (Vallejo), Xavier Muriel (Buckcherry), Zak Loy (Live), Julian Mandrake (Blue October), Mark Youngersmith (Billy Idol), and toured with underground industrial punk band Street Sects.

In 2019, Will got the itch to branch out into other avenues of the music business, which led him into the world of music licensing. After spending six months in an immersive online course dedicated to learning all aspects of sync licensing, Will continues to hone his music production skills, with a focus on self-producing quality music for use in film, TV, and ads.

Credits: Netflix, CW, NASCAR

Website: instagram.com/lex.echo

🔥 Topic: Music Licensing 101: Is Your Music Ready?

In tonight's class, we will conduct a broad discussion regarding available avenues in music licensing as well as the steps and procedures that artists must prepare in order to license their music. What makes a song licensable? Who are the sync agencies and players involved? What music delivery methods are available? We will also cover file types and metadata, ownership splits and contracts, performance rights organization (PRO) registration, and much more!

📍 Location

We will be gathering in Devvie on the 1st floor of Capital Factory, a startup incubator and coworking space. The address is 701 Brazos St. It shares the same building as the Omni Austin Hotel.

🚘 Parking

There are various free and paid parking options around the block, as well as $8 semi-validated parking in the hotel's underground parking garage.

✉️ Contact

Please reach out to an organizer for any inquiries. See you soon!