Free online workshop open to composers of all levels.
Ian J Cole leads a session on understanding royalty structures, trying to maximising exposure, and building a dedicated audience through various online platforms. This includes navigating the complexities of streaming royalties, mechanical rights vs performance rights, promoting music effectively, dealing with distributors and when to sell physical merchandise.
6-7pm including approx. 40 min talk with a Q&A session at the end. Please note that although we try to wrap-up opensound sessions by 7pm, they often run over by 5-10 mins.
Biography
Ian is a Composer, Musician, Producer and Sound Designer who has been working in the music industry since he signed his first independent recording contact in 1981. Over the years Ian has been commissioned to write music for Education, TV, Film, Software and the Internet. He has also been involved in writing pop, rock and folk songs for a number of artistes.
He's proudly Yorkshire but now lives in Somerset, England and has studied for Masters degrees in Multimedia and Education (2001) and Music Technology (2011) which have allowed him to develop unusual methods of composition by designing his own software based compositional and music production tools. These tools are especially useful when it comes to the sound design compositions that Ian creates.
Ian's music has been used and performed in France, Italy, Spain, Ireland, The Netherlands, Argentina, USA and the UK which has culminated in him producing several solo and collaborative albums. Ian's music is licensed in American for TV, Film and the web by Muse IQ in New York and through Sinners Music Publishing in the UK and other Territories.
Ian is the founder of the Sinners Music Records, a UK based Record Company that was created predominantly for the projects that Ian is involved in but now releases the works of other artistes from around the world particularly USA & Australia. Sinners Music Records has its own recording studio 'The Sinners Shed' that offers a studio-based or mobile recording service with competitive rates and a team of Producers and Recording Engineers at their disposal.
© 2025 by Ian J Cole
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