Songwriters Retreat to 4-Century Castle to Stoke Creative Fires with Help from PreSonus

Songwriters Retreat to 14th-Century Castle to Stoke Creative Fires with Help from PreSonus November 26,2014

ASCAP invited 18 top songwriters and producers to write the hits of tomorrow at its fourth annual songwriters retreat in France.

Held September 17-25 at the 14th-century Ch teau Marouatte in the Dordogne region of France, the retreat was designed to produce hits and get cuts in a variety of genres. Each session placed a producer, a topliner and a recording artist together to write and record in a different room of the castle. By the end of the retreat, nearly all the participants had worked together. They left France with hard drives full of professional-grade demos, ready to pitch to artists and record labels.

Ch teau Marouatte is owned by famed music industry executive Miles Copeland, founder of IRS Records. Copeland once brought music legends like Jeff Beck, Jon Bon Jovi, Belinda Carlisle and Desmond Child to high-level songwriting summits at the Ch teau. In 2011, ASCAP convinced Copeland to revive the tradition, and has brought a new group of songwriters and producers to France every year since.

The 2014 participants hailed from around the world and across the genre spectrum. They were: Anjulie, Martin Brammer, Ashley Campbell, Mike Daly, Chris DeStefano, John Fortis, Elyar Fox, Dia Frampton, JT Harding, Brett James, Giovanni James, Brian Kennedy, Emmy Palmer, Autumn Rowe, Amir Azeem Salem, Sharon Vaughn, Peter Wade and Oren Yoel.

PreSonus provided the following for the event:

4 pair of Eris E8 monitors

2 pair of Sceptre S6s monitors

1 pair of Sceptre S8s monitors

1 ADL 600 mic pre / channel strip

1 ADL 700 mic pre / channel strip

1 RC 500 mic pre / channel strip

Recordings from the event can be heard on SoundCloud by clicking here.

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