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Arts, Entrepreneurship, and the “New Economy”

“As a photographer, I am actually a small business owner as much as I am an artist.” – Anonymous Survey Respondent
In our quest to better understand the professional development needs of artists, we went beyond the survey/interviews and researched various external sources to find out what artists, arts managers, and industry experts were saying about career [...]

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How to Write a Song

There’s an interesting new blog on the NY Times website called Measure for Measure:
With music now available with a single, offhand click, it’s easy to forget that songs are not born whole, polished and ready to play. They are created by artists who draw on some combination of craft, skill and inspiration. In the [...]

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Moby Offers Free Music for Indie Films

If you haven’t heard about this yet, I encourage you to check it out. In moby’s own words:
you can listen to the available music and download whatever you want to use in your film or video or short. the music is free as long as it’s being used in a non-commercial or non-profit film, video, [...]

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Member Profile #9: Terese Genecco

Sorry you haven’t heard from me lately! Beyond a bit of travel I did (which I’ll talk about in a separate post), we had some technical changes that prevented me from posting until now. Enjoy this week’s member profile!

Name: Terese Genecco
Website: www.teresegenecco.com
Hometown: Oakland, CA
Artistic Discipline: Music
Fractured Atlas Member Since: April 2006
Fractured [...]

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Member Profile #5: Salli Squitieri & Gabriel Butterfield

Hey there Fractured Atlas fans! Sorry this is coming a bit late this week. I just returned from a great conference in Los Angeles hosted by our good friends, the LA Stage Alliance. While there, I was able to spend time with my colleagues at the New Jersey Theatre Alliance, one of [...]

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Where Can NYC Musicians Work?

Our good friends at NYC Performing Arts Spaces have put out a much needed new study entitled Where Can We Work? about the challenge the city’s musicians face in finding affordable space to rehearse, record, and perform. As James Barron wrote in this morning’s NY Times:
Steadily rising real estate prices are taking a toll [...]

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Member Profile: Music for the People

Of all the artists featured at last year’s Benefit, few are as well-traveled as violinist, composer, and Fractured Atlas member William J. Harvey. Over the past two years his project Music for the People has ventured to Zimbabwe, Moldova, the Philippines, and Tunisia to present concerts, classes and workshops to underprivileged populations. He [...]

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