Join Ben McAvoy (WMP Studios) & Ed Heaton (4 & North Publishing) for an online workshop on music from media, as part of the WYCreate Launchpad Music Innovators program. Taking place online from 6pm on Tuesday 28th of January 2025.
Ben McAvoy has been a music composer and sound designer for 16 years. In 2007, he founded WMP with the mission of building a reputable business that brought together talented individuals and collaborators. Sixteen years later, WMP has partnered with some of the world’s largest companies to create emotionally engaging and powerful projects. WMP is a team of music composers, sound designers and collaborators creating the higest quality bespoke pieces for advertising, television, audio branding and museum installations.
Ed Heaton is a producer, mix engineer , sound designer and songwriter who has worked across the music industry for 25 years and manages a diverse portfolio career. He is also director of 4 & North Publishing who represent songwriters who have co-writes and have had syncs in the UK, USA and across Europe. 4 & North Music Publishing is a vibrant independent music company based in the north of England, dedicated to discovering and nurturing the best new songwriters, artists and composers. With a growing catalogue of diverse artists, our music has gained millions of streams and has been placed with prestige entertainment platforms and multinational companies such as the BBC, ITV, Sky and Starbucks. Our commitment to artistic expression, expert registration, tracking and royalty collection, and global reach through our partnership with Sentric Music make us the ideal partner for production companies, labels, and television broadcasters looking to elevate their projects with fresh, cutting-edge music.
WYCreate Launchpad Music Innovators is a programme to support and empower music freelances who are original copyright creators and managers of music intellectual property, to maximise the potential income generated, and the ability to create and sustain new music revenue streams
Music Innovators is part of WYCreate - a brand new series of FREE training opportunities for creative freelancers and microbusinesses in West Yorkshire, delivered by The Fifth Sector, a specialist creative consultancy, which has been appointed by West Yorkshire Combined Authority to develop and manage a programme of skills and business support for creative freelancers and microbusinesses. See their website for the full WYCreate programme: https://www.wycreate.net/
Launchpad is delivered by Music Local, and is supported by Youth Music, with public funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England, PPL Giving, Bradford Council, Leeds City Council funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and PRS Foundation's Talent Development Partnership supported by PPL.