Keynote and Invited Speakers - Innovation In Music 2013
Keynote and invited speakers will provide thought provoking and engaging talks throughout the Innovation in Music 2013 conference including:
Jake Gosling
Keynote - Interview
Jake Gosling is a multi-platinum selling music producer, songwriter, remixer, manager and publisher best known for his work with artists such as Ed Sheeran, Paloma Faith, One Direction and Wiley. Jake was named Music Week’s number 1 ‘Top Producer of 2012’ after work on the albums ‘+’, ‘Fall to Grace’ and One Direction’s ‘Up All Night’. Gosling has also produced official remixes for Keane, Lady Gaga, Timbaland, Keri Hilson and Far East Movement amongst others under the pseudonym Sketch Iz Dead.
Gosling worked extensively on Sheeran’s debut album ‘+’, which debuted at the top of the album charts with first week sales of 102,000 and spawning high charting singles ‘The A Team’, ‘You Need Me, I Don’t Need You’, ‘Lego House’ and ‘Drunk’. The latter, being adapted by Sheeran and Chris Moyles and produced by Gosling for Moyles’ parody album ‘The Difficult Second Album’.
By September 2012 ‘+’ had been certified 5x platinum indicating sales of over 1,500,000 records sold in the UK. ‘+’ has also achieved international successes with over 29 gold and platinum awards outside of the UK.
Jake has previously produced tracks on both of One Direction’s albums; ‘Up All Night’ and ‘Take Me Home’. This includes the single ‘Little Things’, which went straight in at number one in the UK charts, giving One Direction both a Number one single and Album simultaneously in the UK.
Thomas Lund
Innovation Keynote - TC Electronics: 'Give Peaks a Chance'
Abstract: Music production, distribution and consumption has been caught in a vicious spiral rendering two decades of our music heritage damaged. Because of irreversible dynamics processing and data reduction from production onwards, new tracks and remastered ones typically sound worse than what could even be expected from compact cassette.
However, with Apple, WiMP and Spotify now engaged in a competition on quality, and iTunes Radio adopting loudness normalization, limbo-practice is finally losing its grip on distribution.
The presentation uses terms "Integrated Loudness", "Short-term Loudness", "Momentary Loudness", "True-peak Level" and "Peak to Loudness Ratio" to analyze recorded music fidelity over the past 50 years from physiological and engineering angles. In the new realm, it's futile to master music louder than -16 LKFS.
Biography: Thomas Lund started his professional life a musician and recording engineer. After studying medicine and perception at University of Aarhus, Denmark, he joined TC Electronic in 1997. Thomas was among the first to document the sonic consequences of the ‘loudness wars’ in music production, and has helped international audio standards evolve away from proprietary technology towards the transparent and facts-based solutions of today. He has published 35 technical papers for AES, SMPTE and NAB; and contributed to standardization in Scandinavia, within AES, ITU, EBU and ATSC.
At TC Electronic, he has been responsible for developments on spatialization, localization, format conversion, true-peak detection, NIHL and loudness. He holds a position as CTO Broadcast & Production.
Crispin Murray
Technical Industry Keynote
Crispin Murray, former Technical Manager at Metropolis Studios and now Director of Guilde Productions will deliver a keynote address knitting together his story on where the industry is going with a focus on the idea that music needs to remain intelligible, pleasant, and high-quality. 'It seems slightly absurd that we have so much more advanced technology now and yet we still struggle to provide the mass market with high-quality audio'.