Sound Directors of the World UNITE!



The 100th AES Convention provides the backdrop for an historic meeting of record producer and sound director organisations. The term 'Sound Director' has been adopted in response to confusions in meaning that have arisen in official circles between 'producer' (meaning record company) and 'Producer' (meaning 'sound director'). Whatever they are to be called, the meeting will be open to all record producers, sound directors, programmers, re-mixers and engineers and will take place in Room 17 in the Bella Centre on Sunday 12th May at 2.30.

BASF are supporting the event and will be providing refreshments for attendees. Concerns amongst European sound directors regarding the way they are paid both by the record companies and collection societies and how their role is recognised have prompted the formation of a new grouping - The European Sound Directors Association - E.S.D.A.

ESDA will co-ordinate the activities of the organisations in their submissions on behalf of the profession to the European Commission and the World Intellectual Property Organisation. It will be the first time that such a meeting has been held in Denmark, and Re-Pro International is taking the opportunity to encourage Danish and other Scandinavian producers to join the ESDA initiative.

The meeting will be discussing such topics as - 'Why do some sound directors get paid performance royalties and others not?' - 'When is a producer a performer ?' - 'When should engineers qualify for royalties?'.

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