News
Molinari competition 2008
The Molinari Quartet, in collaboration with ATMA Classique, is pleased to announce its Fourth International Competition for Composition for string quartet.
Composers are invited to submit an original work for string quartet. The best compositions will be played in concert during the Molinari Quartet's Twentieth and Beyond series to be held in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) during the spring of 2010.
For full details, visit this special CASA page: Molinari 2008 info
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Needletime info
SAMRO has provided some info on Needletime which should be of interest to most composers. Please see our DOWNLOADS page
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3. International Composer's Competition of the Hamburger Klangwerktage
The Hamburger Klangwerktage 2008 | CONTEMPTRONICS would like to announce a composer's competition for up to two acoustic instruments with live electronics. The contest is open to composers born on or after March 1, 1973. Selected compositions will be performed at the Hamburger Klangwerktage in November 2008.
The deadline for submission is 1 September 2008 (date of postmark)
For further information please go to: http://www.klangwerktage.de
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LUTOSLAWSKI AWARD 2008
The Witold Lutoslawski Society in Poland has announced their International Composers' Competition for 2008. You can download a PDF file with all the details: LutoslawskiAward2008.pdf
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** CASA Annual General Meeting 2008 **
CASA will hold its next Annual General Meeting (AGM) at 10:00 on Wednesday JULY 16, 2008 at SAMRO House in Braamfontein, Johannesburg.
For all the details, please go to our AGM 2008 special page
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CASA legal workshop Feb 2008
CASA will be presenting a special legal workshop on 13 February 2008 at SAMRO House in Johannesburg. All SA composers can participate however - please read all the details here: CASA legal workshop info
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SAMRO AGM 2007
SAMRO will be holding its 2007 AGM on Friday 23 November at 14:30 at SAMRO House in Braamfontein.
More details here: SAMRO website - AGM notice
All composers are urged to attend this important event.
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Moshito 2007 - more info
CASA was actively involved in Moshito 2007. Our concept of MUCCI (Music User Copyright Compliance Initiative) was raised at a HotSeat panel discussion.
See this page for the details.
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MOSHITO 2007
Moshito 2007 will take place at Museum Africa in Johannesburg from 22-25 August 2007. There will be a varied and interesting programme - see the Moshito website
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SAMRO achievements
At the recent CISAC General Assembly in Brussels, SAMRO proved its international good standing. SAMRO's CEO Nick Motsatse was elected one of the two vice-chairpersons of the Board of Directors of CISAC (the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers). SAMRO's Alan Johnston and Joel Baloyi were also appointed to CISAC committees. Read the full story in this article
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LUTOSLAWSKI AWARD 2007
The Witold Lutoslawski Society in Poland has announced their International Composers' Competition for 2007. You can view the details here
More info at the CASA Forums in THIS TOPIC
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CASA - 2007 AGM report
The CASA 2007 AGM was well-attended and very informative. See this special page: AGM 2007 Report
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ISCM World Music Days
The International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) has announced World Music Days 2008. There is a call for works and projects - all the details: here
The local representative body in SA is NewMusicSA : Please visit their website: NMSA
More details about the ISCM World Music Days
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SAMRO signs major music reproduction rights agreement
SAMRO has entered into an historic agreement with the UK-based Mechanical Copyright Protection Society MCPS. In the light of historic problems experienced by SA composers and affiliate societies worldwide, this is big news. Read the full press release here at the CASA forums.
This is in fact the 25th mechanical rights reciprocal agreement which SAMRO has concluded since declaring its intention in mid-2006 to administer mechanical reproduction rights.
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** CASA Annual General Meeting 2007 **
CASA will hold its next Annual General Meeting (AGM) at 10:00 on Wednesday March 28, 2007 at SAMRO House in Braamfontein, Johannesburg.
For all the details, please go to our AGM 2007 special page
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Hip Hop Imbizo
Anyone interested in Hip Hop music should note the following:
CASA received an e-mail from Siphephelo Mbhele with info about a Hip Hop Imbizo to be held on January 26 and 27 2007. He says "We will be hosting an Imbizo to tackle some of the issues that young composers/artists around Durban face in trying to get their music registered."
You can download a pdf with all the info here:
Creative_Lead_Productions_Imbizo.pdf (48k)
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Tips from SAMRO
The session held on the morning of SAMRO's AGM was extremely informative and full of insights and information. Mr Greg Zoghby of SAMRO has provided CASA with a list of essential tips for composers and members of SAMRO. Please visit our special SAMRO Tips page
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Digital Copyright Expert in SA
FX Nuttall is an independent expert in the field of Digital Copyright. He is currently acting as a senior consultant to CISAC (International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers) providing insight to Author's Societies on the evolution of the new Digital environment.
Prior to his work for CISAC, FX Nuttall was a consultant for various Music Industry Trade Organizations before becoming the founder and CEO of AudioSoft, a US based company that pioneered the tracking of copyrighted content on the Internet.
Throughout his career, FX Nuttall has contributed to many publications from Electro-Acoustics courses to DRMs and is the co-author of a book on MPEG-21, an ISO Standard for the management and the protection of Digital content. FX holds degrees in physics and mathematics and wrote various patents in the field of DRM and Audio Compression.
Mr Nuttall will be the guest speaker at the SAMRO AGM morning seminar which starts at 09:00 See item below (SAMRO AGM 2006) for full details.
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MECHANICAL RIGHTS - update
Earlier this year (2006), SAMRO announced its intention to administer Mechanical Royalties (see NEWS FLASH below). They have now made considerable progress in securing reciprocal agreements with foreign societies. In simple terms, this means that if South African music is reproduced in other countries, then collection societies worldwide will send the money to SA for our local composers. Also, if foreign works are recorded (copied) here in SA, the relevant royalties will be sent to the rightsholders in other countries.
Historically, this has been controlled by SARRAL which, along with NORM, have been the only 2 collection bodies up till now. SARRAL is currently under threat of liquidation. These legal proceedings began in mid-October 2006 but were postponed. SARRAL's future will hopefully be determined in the High Court, early in 2007.
Composers should now consider their options - either stay with SARRAL or appoint SAMRO to manage their royalties. CASA cannot take an official view on this, but we highly recommend that composers attend the SAMRO AGM on 24 November 2006 (see news item below), particularly the morning session where questions can be asked.
For SAMRO's announcement, see their website
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SAMRO AGM 2006
SAMRO has announced their 2006 Annual General Meeting plus a very important "pre-event". For some time, composers have been asking questions of SAMRO, raising issues, and making suggestions for the future. SAMRO has responded to this as follows: On the morning of the AGM (Friday 24 November 2006), SAMRO will host a "think-tank" or information session, running from 09:00 (please note corrected start time) to 13:00. The AGM follows after a light lunch at 14:00
This is a great opportunity to bring questions and ideas to share with SAMRO and your fellow composers. Please make every effort to attend!
As a service to composers who live in cities other than Johannesburg and who can't attend, CASA would like to offer to take your input along to this special event. If you have any wise and wonderful ideas on how to improve royalty collection, or have a terrible gripe about TV stations not submitting cue sheets, or any questions at all (within reason), please send CASA an email
Or...post your input at the CASA forums in this topic: SAMRO Annual General Meeting - Important news
This way, other composers will read your suggestions too and be able to share ideas and comment. This is what CASA is all about.
More info at SAMRO's website
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International Song Competition 2006
ISC (International Song Competition) is now accepting entries for 2006. ISC has increased the cash portion of its Grand Prize to $25,000 (US dollars), which makes it the largest cash Grand Prize in any songwriting competition.
If you are interested, follow THIS LINK for all the details. Thanks to SAMRO for providing this important info.
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Moshito 2006
Moshito 2006 will take place from 20-22 September, at Museum Africa in Newtown. This is always an important event on the SA musical calendar - for more info and programme details, visit the Moshito website
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Operation Dudula
Operation Dudula, a new anti-piracy movement, is being spearheaded by recording artist and poet, Mzwakhe Mbuli, who told a gathering at Bassline in Newtown, downtown Johannesburg, on April 19th 2006 that it was time for musicians to stop talking and to start taking action.The message: it's time to confront those making and selling counterfeit discs. People who buy these cheaper copies are just as guilty.
The whole music industry, including composers, suffers huge losses as a result of illegal copying. CASA has pledged its support to this bold initiative.
We as composers suffer in other ways too: if a production company uses music and does not submit proper documentation (cue sheets), royalties can not be paid to the rightful owner of the music. This too is piracy - a criminal offence.
To discuss this hot issue, visit the CASA forums and post here
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*** NEWS FLASH ***
SAMRO will collect Mechanical Royalties
On 4 May 2006, SAMRO announced to the media and to a meeting of composers that it will be entering the field of mechanical rights administration.
This obviously has far-reaching implications for rights management in SA and will impact on all SA composers.
CASA will post further details soon.....watch this space.
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SAMRO Roadshow
SAMRO has embarked on a national educational campaign to give interested individuals the opportunity to increase their knowledge and awareness of SAMRO and to view their concerns. See SAMRO's website for details.
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New downloads
The Commercial Composers Association (CCA) has posted new rates for 2006 (effective March). Please visit our Downloads page
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Composers are doing it for themselves
CASA AGM a big success
CASA held its first Annual General Meeting on 24 November 2005. The meeting was well-attended and around 50 composers applied for membership.
The CASA Executive Committee and an attentive room of composers
**There are more pictures of the event at the AGM Pictures page
To see the invitation and link to more info and downloads, go to our AGM 2005 special page
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Constitution updated
We have uploaded the third and hopefully final draft of the CASA constitution. To read it, please click on the link above.
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CASA at SAMRO Sales Rep awards
SAMRO annually recognises its sales representatives that excel in the field and either meet or exceed the targets that are set for them. These are the people that travel the country to license venues and users of music. SAMRO invited CASA Chairman, Colin Shapiro (below left) to present the main award, the Representative of the Year.
The winner was Gerald Mckay (above right) who handled billings of over R1 million Rand! CASA is very grateful to all these hardworking folks who look after our royalties.
Pictured above after the awards are (from left to right):
Mr Nick Motsatse, Professor Mzilikazi Khumalo, Mr Rob Hooijer, Mr Ig Smit, Mr Alan Johnston and Mr Colin Shapiro.
Visitors to this website are advised to look at the new SAMRO website for more information on the "new" SAMRO.
(link below in "SAMRO makes waves")
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SAMRO makes waves
SAMRO unveiled its new corporate identity recently. We thank Nick Motsatse for mentioning CASA in his interview at bizcommunity.com
For more info, please visit SAMRO's website
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Previous News
Beth Nielson Chapman
Beth Nielsen Chapman was a regular on the Adult-Contemporary popularity charts in the 1990s with such tunes as "The Moment You Were Mine", "Walk My Way", and "I Keep Coming Back to You."
She will be hosting a creative workshop on September 13 at 10:30 at the Bassline in Newtown, Johannesburg. The emphasis will be on songwriting and all composers and musicians are welcome.
Space is limited so please reserve your place now. Contact JB Arthur on 082 455 7643 or jbarthur@iafrica.com
More info here
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Moshito Music Conference and Exhibition
CASA would like to remind all composers about the forthcoming Moshito Music Conference and Exhibition that will be held from Wed 20th - Fri 22nd July 2005 at the Sandton Convention Centre.
Following the successful Moshito Music Conference launched in July 2004, Moshito has focused on initiatives to develop and strengthen opportunities in the South African music industry.
Through panel discussions and plenary sessions, as well as the input of keynote speakers and other experts, Moshito 05 will focus on four key issues, these being Developing Markets, Industry Development, Current Trends and Governance.
Moshito 05 also sees the introduction of the Music Exhibition that will run alongside the conference. Brands and products within and related to the music industry will be exhibited at the 3-day exhibition. Day 1 and 2 will be open to trade only, while Day 3 will be open to the consumer.
During the 3-day event, a range of other activities have also been planned and these include:
- A Showcase for emerging and unsigned artists
- An Autograph Party for established artists
- Public Workshops on Music Industry Training
- Workshops hosted by various organisations
For registration and further information on these events, please visit www.moshito.co.za
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