Demo Derby
| Friday, March 16th, 2012 | Student Services Building |
4pm - 5pm | $2 |
The Demo Derby allows local talent to submit their unique artistic compositions to be judged by industry professionals. Our staff will create an evaluation form for the judges to use as a guide for their critiquing. They will listen to and observe one-minute clips submitted by artists to be assessed based on the criteria provided. After the evaluation forms are completed, they give verbal feedback to the artists.
How to Enter: Submit a one-minute sample of a song that best represents the artist(s) to demoderbyRMF@live.ca.
Cost: $5 Submission Fee can be sent via PayPal to demoderbyRMF@live.ca. Includes the one-minute sample, attendance for two artist personnel, and the critique sheet.
Visit the Facebook Event page for the Demo Derby.Confirmed Panelists
Mitch Girio
For the last two decades, Montreal born producer Mitch Girio has
worked on over 100 albums. For many artists he has acted as
producer/ engineer, mentor and even therapist. Always putting the
artist first, Girio has built a body of work that has given him a
reputation for his attentiveness and attention to detail.
In 2009, together with audio engineer, Glen Gummerson, he set
up in a former meat shop in the heart of Toronto’s east end, creating Slaughterhouse 754 in which to tweak the creative process.
Girio’s career in production began while working with his first
band, King Apparatus, which led to his co-producing four releases for
Raw Energy/ A & M records. He has recorded projects ranging from
folk/roots to Jamaican rocksteady from pop/punk to R&B to TV
soundtrack music. Along the way he has worked with local luminaries
Emma Lee, Topanga, Barzin, and Morgan Doctor.
Girio has made many contributions as a composer on releases by such artists as Kirsten Jones, Alcona, The Kingpins, and Lo & The Magnetics.
James Linderman
James Linderman lives and works at theharmonyhouse, a music lesson, songwriting and pre-production recording studio in Newmarket Ontario. He is a member of an international, off campus, academic advisory board for The Berklee School of Music in Boston known as Berkleemusic Ambassadors and is Berklee’s Worship Music Advisor. James has had 4 top 10 singles on Canadian Christian radio and has also presently pitched a song to Sony for the next Spiderman movie. James has a Canadian University and American College education in music theory, composition, and journalism.
jlinderman@berkleemusic.com
www.theharmonyhouse.ca
Dan Hand
After starting in the summer of 2007 as an intern for Underground Operations, Dan quickly began climbing the ladder, getting involved with Tour Managing, Marketing & later, A&R. In March 2011, UMC built a new A&R team and brought Dan on as one of the newly appointed Representatives. In his career so far he has worked with the likes of: Abandon All Ships, Protest The Hero, Arkells, Silverstein, Lights, Down With Webster & many more.
Dan Hand is also a panelist in Artist Development.
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