Tristan Bauer and Charo Bogarin. / Photo: Eliana Obregon
He National Institute of Music (Inamu) held an event this afternoon in the entity’s “Horacio Fontova” auditorium to launch the first public digital aggregator of Argentine music called AMA (“Listen to me through the noise”)which will operate from the end of 2023.
The presentation ceremony was headed by the Minister of Culture of the Nation, Tristan Bauer, and the president of Inamu, Bernabé “Buco” Cantlon.
Before figures like Moris y Boom Boom Kidthis initiative was presented, a new tool that will be available towards the end of the year and that will offer the possibility of improving access and circulation of national music on digital platforms.
Just as there used to be a distributor that took records in physical format to record stores, today there are digital aggregators or distributors to make works available on Spotify, Deezer, iTunes, YouTube and Tidal, among other platforms.
Bernabé “Buco” Cantlon and Tristán Bauer. / Photo: Eliana Obregón
Artists cannot directly upload their songs, but rather an intermediary is necessary who is responsible for delivering the music to digital platforms – most of them foreign – and receiving the profits generated by the reproductions.
AMA (“Listen to me among the noise”), the new national aggregator It will allow musicians to make their works available, free of charge, and to know with certainty the details of settlements for reproductions.
“These are problems that we have to address and materialize, give concrete answers. This has to do with sovereignty, with the defense of copyright, it also has to do with accessibility, and it has to do with giving musicians possibilities and to the musicians who are taking the first steps”Bauer highlighted during the presentation.
“We need strong institutions such as Inamu and the Ministry of Culture of the Nation, because for all the projects that we develop we need a budget that makes it possible to carry them out”stressed the minister.
Bauer:”There is a need for strong institutions such as Inamu and the Nation’s Ministry of Culture.” / Photo: Eliana Obregon
Through an agreement with Cultura de la Nación, which provided funds for the development and implementation of this tool, Inamu created this Argentine music aggregator so that Any musical project can upload its works to all digital platforms, obtaining revenue for its reproductions.
The implementation of AMA will allow groups and soloists to upload their songs to all streaming platforms, free of charge, charging for their reproductions, with transparency in settlements and an effective improvement in the positioning of Argentine music.
For his part, the president of Inamu, “Buco” Cantlon, pointed out that “When Inamu tours all the provinces giving talks on Intellectual Rights, a first question always arises: ‘How do we upload our music to streaming platforms? How can we charge for that’? And we find different situations with people paying a lot of money to to be able to have their music as a dissemination tool on the platforms and that gave us the obligation to be able to carry this forward.”
The vice president of Inamu participated in the meeting, Charo Bogarin; the head of the Cabinet of Advisors of the Ministry of Culture of the Nation, Esteban Falcon; the director of Decentralized Organizations, Sebastián Berardi; representatives of organizations of musicians and musicians and leading artists such as Diego Boris, Celsa Mel Gowland, Bruno Arias, Edu Schmidt, among other references of the activity.
The event at the Inamu headquarters. / Photo: Eliana Obregón
Hilda Lizarazu, León Gieco and César “Banana” Pueyrredón, Machi Rufino, Sergio Dawi, Manuel Moretti, Laura Hatton and Baltasar Comottowere some of the figures who, through a video projected at the meeting, supported and celebrated the news and spoke about the importance of the creation of this digital distributor.
Also accompanying the initiative were representatives of digital aggregators and streaming platforms and the Industry and Musical Activity Roundtable, made up of the Argentine Union of Stage Techniques and Technicians, the Argentine Federation of Independent Musicians and Musicians, Red Multisonora, Argentine Association of Techniques, Technicians and Audio Engineers and the Union of Independent Musicians and Musicians.
2023-09-13 01:08:43
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