Please join us on October 24, 2024 at 12 PM PT/3 PM ET for a music listening session with Advertising Music Supervisor Al Risi.
Al Risi is a music supervisor and the founder of Groove Guild, the New York creative music agency he launched in 2013. Having worked on the label, artist management, publishing and advertising sides of the business, he brings a rare 360 view of how music gets made, marketed and matched to picture.
Risi began his career at Universal Music Group, where he helped develop the careers of artists like Beck, Eminem, Counting Crows, Blink 182 and Weezer. His twelve years on the label side also included two years as a product manager at Higher Octave Music (EMI), where he led marketing strategy for the label’s roster. He then moved into music for picture, working with several music houses and an independent publisher focused on advertising before forming his own company.
Groove Guild’s services include music supervision, licensing, original music and sonic strategy. Risi’s clients have included Volkswagen, Google, Coca Cola and Instagram. Recent work includes music supervision for Johannes Leonardo’s Eataly short film starring Alessandro Del Piero. His supervision work for Volkswagen has earned multiple AMP Awards and Clio Music Awards, along with honors from the Guild of Music Supervisors Awards and the AICP. His Instagram campaign won the AMP Award for Most Effective Use of Music in a Campaign.
Risi has served on the East Coast board of the Guild of Music Supervisors and the national board of the Association of Music Producers. Today, he plays a leading role on the committee that produces the AMP Awards, the only U.S. nonprofit awards competition dedicated to music and sound in advertising.
By signing up for this listening session you’ll get:
- A direct connection and conversation with a top Music Supervisor, Music Coordinator or Sync Agent.
- Access to any current searches or music needs of our guest.
- Two songs you choose to be listened to during the session by our guest to be evaluated and you’ll get detailed feedback on its syncability as well as any creative notes .
- A link to submit three songs total to our guest for further review and potential future usage.
- Information on how to connect with our guest after the session.
- A video archive of the session for your post-session review.
All of these benefits are included in the $125 price for this session. Now, here’s some information on our guest:
The Sync Music Listening Sessions connect and your music to a top Music Supervisor, Music Coordinator or Sync Agent who will listen to your music, give you invaluable feedback and connect with you on a personal level.
The Sync Music Listening Sessions are strictly limited to 30 participants, so every single person gets one song of their music listened to, evaluated and shared with the people working on some of the top projects in TV, film, video games, trailers apps, ads, brands and the Internet.
You’ll be able to ask questions, and all playlists from the songs played in the session are archived and shared on the Sync Summit Listening Sessions website.
The cost for taking part in this Listening Session is $125 and includes the session, listing in the Session playlist and access to all session video archives.
Click the button below to register – after registration you’ll get an email with the details on how to access the session.
