Posts Tagged ‘music Industry

The Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music would like to express its deepest sympathies and condolences to the family and friends of Ms. Whitney Houston. She was a brilliant talent whose legendary voice will be missed.

Our very own up-and-coming record producer DB2 (Daniel Bazan Jr., pictured above in the red checkered shirt) gets a well-deserved shout-out for his work with rapper Najee the 1 in a Sept 9 2011 New York Times article on the new Converse recording studio in Brooklyn. Also kudos to friends/colleagues of the Clive Davis Institute: [...]

Last month, NARM President Jim Donio and Bill Wilson, NARM’s Director of Digital Strategy & Business Development, came to lecture to the students in Professor Lauren Davis’s Introduction to the Music Business class. NARM stands for the National Association of Recording Merchandisers. The non-for-profit trade association’s role is to “advance the promotion, marketing, distribution, and [...]

On Wednesday night, NYU’s Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music at Tisch School of the Arts was proud to co-host with Sony Music Entertainment the great singer-songwriter-producer Alicia Keys in the inaugural event of a 3-city lecture and performance series called The Element of Freedom. It was held at The Skirball Center for the Performing [...]

Never one to remain behind-the-curve on musical technologies, Brian Eno – a musical visionary whose work is regularly studied as part of the curriculum here at The Clive Davis Department – has just released his second iPhone app, the pragmatically-titled Trope. As the follow-up to his first app Bloom, Trope was co-created with Burning Shed’s [...]

We’ve always been proud as an NYU department to bear the name of our principal patron and Sony Music Entertainment Chief Creative Officer Clive Davis. This week we’re exponentially proud as Whitney Houston’s brand new I Look to You album – which Mr. Davis co-executive produced – hit the top spot on the U.S. Billboard [...]

As an undergraduate program teaching students about the art and business of creating and selling music, we’re admittedly intrigued by the possibilities for Timbaland’s application Beaterator, created for the Sony PSP in tandem with Rockstar Games, and due out in late September. According to news reports, the purpose of Beaterator is “music creation.” In that [...]


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The Clive Davis Institute is an innovative undergraduate leadership training program for aspiring creative music entrepreneurs, housed at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Students who dream of becoming leading executives, recording artists, record producers and music journalists come to us to learn the art and business of creating and selling hit music.

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  • Bobby Davis: TO WHITNEY This sadness I have inside Brings me down, makes me cry We’ll miss that infecti [...]
  • Deborah Evans: Today, Saturday, we lost one of the all time greatest singers of my generation. It was announced tha [...]
  • CHRIS WILKINSON: GOD BLESS YOU CLIVE AND THE WHOLE HOUSTON FAMILY... WHITNEY.. WHAT YOU GAVE US WAS IMMEASURABLE TALE [...]
  • veronica: Is there a workshop for adults? Or is this strictly for high schoolers? There really needs to be an [...]
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What I'm Doing...

  • Menya's about to open for RCA band 2am Club at Blender Theater 2 nite...exciting 2010-04-21
  • Kevin Liles, Mick Rock, DJ Rekha, Kevin Killen, Mocean Worker...check out all our summer masterclasses: http://tinyurl.com/y69ysms 2010-04-21
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  • our new Future Music Moguls workshop is underway...priority deadline to apply is October 16...see http://www.futuremusicmoguls.com 2009-09-24
  • thanks to all for a great Michael Jackson panel discussion last night....video will be coming soon for those who couldn't make it 2009-09-18
  • thursdays discussion panel on michael jackson panel is sold out....looks like michael fever hasnt died down yet 2009-09-16
  • exciting weekend....NYU Open House is Saturday...The VMAs on Sunday....and then Oprah with Whitney Houston on Monday...yes! 2009-09-11
  • theme of the day, should you walk into our lobby, is 80s pop classics....go Belinda Carlisle! 2009-09-08
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