Wednesday, Mar. 29, 2023

This is an informational viewpoint for advertisers and agencies from the Association of Music Producers (AMP).

We live in an era of endless music resources. As new terminology appears and old terminology becomes reframed, it is more important than ever to define...

Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022

Stone Irr, sr. producer at BUTTER Music + Sound in Los Angeles and an accomplished recording artist and producer in his own right, has been elected president of the West Coast chapter of the Association of Music Producers, better known as AMP. In his new role, Irr joins AMP national board...

Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022

Julia Neumann, chief creative officer of the independent New York agency Johannes Leonardo, has been named chair of the 2022 AMP Awards for Music & Sound. 

With over a decade of experience as an award-winning creative leader, Neumann has received top honors for steering some of the...

Thursday, Jun. 4, 2020

Georg Bissen--owner, composer and sr. producer at  MetaTechnik in New York and president of the AMP East Board--has been elected the new national president of the Association of Music Producers at the AMP National Meeting, held via Zoom conference last night (6/3). He succeeds Elad Marish, sr....

Monday, Jul. 30, 2018

Camp Kuleshov, the annual trailer competition, has issued its 2018 call for entries while expanding the field of those eligible to enter. This year, the competition is open to both postproduction as well as production companies, a result of the merger of AICP and AICE, the competition’s original...

Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016

AICE and AMP, the respective trade associations for postproduction houses and music studios serving the advertising industry, have partnered to launch PrePro, a mentorship program designed to expose culturally diverse students to careers in post and music and sound for brands and ad agencies....

Wednesday, May. 11, 2016

An aspirational TV commercial for the University of Phoenix that shows vignettes of hard-working people striving to better themselves, all tied together with an updated version of the classic “The Wizard of Oz” song “If I Only Had a Brain,” took the Best in Show prize at the 2016 AMP Awards for...

Wednesday, May. 4, 2016

The European import car made famous in America by Bill Bernbach is getting its due for the way it’s historically used music and sound to captivate viewers. The Association of Music Producers, sponsors of the AMP Awards for Music and Sound, has voted to induct Volkswagen into its AMP Hall of Fame...

Friday, Feb. 19, 2016

The Association of Music Producers (AMP) held its annual meeting last week in New York where it elected Jason Menkes, partner and executive producer at COPILOT Strategic Music + Sound, as its national president.  Menkes succeeds Marlene Bartos, executive producer...

Tuesday, Jun. 9, 2015

Music lovers of a certain age, or devotees of a certain era, may find themselves occasionally longing for the soulful voices of the past.  Voices you don’t hear on “The Voice”.

It’s generally held that soul music is rooted in the gospel and blues of...

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