Sydney Song Summit S3 2008
When you spend a lot of your own money to go overseas to a songwriting conference it is a major leap of faith and this week my faith was rewarded with an amazing conference in Sydney, sponsored by APRA and PRS. I have a new notebook full of ideas which I am hoping will have a huge impact on the future of my career as a songwriter. I am now motivated more than ever, not just to write songs but to write Number One Country Music hits.
I had tears in my eyes through personal presentations by Paul Williams and Jimmy Webb. The latter amazed me when I realised how much his music influenced me. I didn’t realise how much of an impact the chord progressions on songs like By the Time I Get to Phoenix and McArthur Park had on me. I must check out his new album.
The highlight by far was a one hour speed presentation by Ralph Murphy of ASCAP. I learned more about Hit Song songwriting from him in an hour than I have in the last year and I have totally made a personal commitment to use it. It does mean more research and work than I anticipated but I have to admit that much of it was work that I had been procrastinating about anyway. One of my weaknesses is MySpace and communicating with my network. Not that I’m going to stop doing that, but I have to remind myself that this is not just a hobby, it is my future business.
So here I am in the Business Class Lounge at Sydney Airport, an hour early because I didn”t realise that Daylight Savings started this morning. Anyway, here’s to an awesome music year for me in 2008.
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About Luigi Cappel
I am into everything. I am a songwriter looking to become fulltime one day if I don’t become a poker professional and the latter is very unlikely:) I work for a mapping company and am involved in all sorts of projects from car navigation to fleet management, route optimisation, maps and web mapping API’s for web sites, PDA’s and mobile phones.
I’m a futurist (member of the World Future Society) and have been involved in many firsts including the introduction of EFTPOS, Retail Side Scanning, Mobile email, PDA’s with scanners and touch screensfor couriers and much more. I am also Marketing Director for Readingit Corporation an eBook Publisher.
I love technology both for itself and for its ability to help people work and play smarter rather than harder.
I am the author of Unleashing the Road Warrior and have written for many magazines and publications as well as technology white papers. I have over the years held positions including President of the NZ Wireless Forum, Vice President of the NZ Sales & Marketing Institute, President of the Glenfield Music Centre, President of Auckland Landyacht Club and run my own businesses including Mission Control (A wireless computing consultancy) and the NZ Smartphone & PDA Academy.
I have chaired and spoken at ITC industry conferences from Paris to Johannesburg to Auckland New Zealand and many more.
I’m exploring things like location based proximity marketing, location based games and pretty much anything that takes my fancy. I enjoy writing and have an opinion on most things:)
You will find my songs on lots of websites, mostly for free, so get in quick before I am famous and they cost much more. If you are an artist looking for a song, give me a yell. I had a podcast called A Kiwi Songwriter (now suffering from podfade) and a blog about Songwriting. Did I mention that I am a keen amateur photographer, you will find me on sites like Buzznet and less often on Flickr too. You will also find me on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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I grew up listening to country music in my parents van. We had an 8 track player which was really cool at the time. My favorites were Loretta Lynn, Dolly Pardon and Kenny Rogers.
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