Comments on: Exposure + Compensation http://joelcorriveau.com/2009/06/exposure-compensation/ Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:08:49 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Joel http://joelcorriveau.com/2009/06/exposure-compensation/comment-page-1/#comment-220 Joel Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:05:39 +0000 http://joelcorriveau.com/?p=530#comment-220 Hi Joan, I'm glad you wrote. I am very interested in your opinion: these are questions and issues you're facing with more immediacy than I am. (<a href="http://www.littlefootlongfoot.com/music.html" rel="nofollow">Joan's album just released</a>! Joel's album is nowhere near ready for release.) The Joel-ish, wordy reply I've just written might as well be a post. So... I'll save some of my digressions. Is FACTOR a plateau that one must claw and scrape, network, shimmy to get to? And once you're in, you're in. I heard from a record producer that back in the 70's EVERYBODY got a FACTOR grant, didn't matter if you were a musician or not. It was there for EVERYBODY. They've tightened up now, and it would make sense that the hoops they've put in place can be easily gamed by those who know how. For some artists, more than 75% of the job is writing grant applications (and then more time wriggling through fine print and bureaucracy to evolve the intended use of the funding.) So are you good at making your art, or are you good at winning grants? (This is for the aether.) I suppose with Metric, the one type of big name company that they don't have backing them is a label to fund. So they have distro, marketing and booking ready to roll, then that makes them a more viable investment for the FACTOR board. (I need to do more research, I'm not sure what percentage of FACTOR's decision is based on recoupability. Thanks Joan. Hi Joan, I’m glad you wrote. I am very interested in your opinion: these are questions and issues you’re facing with more immediacy than I am. (Joan’s album just released! Joel’s album is nowhere near ready for release.)

The Joel-ish, wordy reply I’ve just written might as well be a post. So… I’ll save some of my digressions.

Is FACTOR a plateau that one must claw and scrape, network, shimmy to get to? And once you’re in, you’re in. I heard from a record producer that back in the 70’s EVERYBODY got a FACTOR grant, didn’t matter if you were a musician or not. It was there for EVERYBODY. They’ve tightened up now, and it would make sense that the hoops they’ve put in place can be easily gamed by those who know how.

For some artists, more than 75% of the job is writing grant applications (and then more time wriggling through fine print and bureaucracy to evolve the intended use of the funding.) So are you good at making your art, or are you good at winning grants? (This is for the aether.)

I suppose with Metric, the one type of big name company that they don’t have backing them is a label to fund. So they have distro, marketing and booking ready to roll, then that makes them a more viable investment for the FACTOR board. (I need to do more research, I’m not sure what percentage of FACTOR’s decision is based on recoupability.

Thanks Joan.

]]> By: joan http://joelcorriveau.com/2009/06/exposure-compensation/comment-page-1/#comment-219 joan Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:11:40 +0000 http://joelcorriveau.com/?p=530#comment-219 i personally think it's pretty balls that a big name artist like Metric (who obviously has many big name companies backing them, judging by that article, ie. distro, marketing, and no doubt amazing booking agents) takes the big hunk grants away from smaller struggling bands who could REALLY use that money...i think FACTOR defeats itself many times over by giving the bigger names in Canada all the money, leaving the little guys who don't yet have all these monsters of industry backing them to wallow in obscurity. Metric could just as easily go to a major bank and ask for a loan with all the power behind them. their agents are just working the government system because they can. but that's just my bitter poor musician opinion. i personally think it’s pretty balls that a big name artist like Metric (who obviously has many big name companies backing them, judging by that article, ie. distro, marketing, and no doubt amazing booking agents) takes the big hunk grants away from smaller struggling bands who could REALLY use that money…i think FACTOR defeats itself many times over by giving the bigger names in Canada all the money, leaving the little guys who don’t yet have all these monsters of industry backing them to wallow in obscurity. Metric could just as easily go to a major bank and ask for a loan with all the power behind them. their agents are just working the government system because they can.

but that’s just my bitter poor musician opinion.

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