Music Works Podcast Talks Composers Against Buyouts

Music Works host Katie Manasse spoke to composer Mark Gordon about the Composers Against Buyouts campaign.

Published: 01 August 2022 | 5:57 PM

Portrait of composer Mark Gordon against plain background. — As part of the campaign Belfast-based composer and director of Score Draw Music, Mark Gordon, spoke to the Music Works podcast. Image credit: Mark Gordon.

Composers Against Buyouts is a joint campaign from the MU and The Ivors Academy, calling for an end to coercive buyouts.

As part of the campaign Belfast-based composer and director of Score Draw Music, Mark Gordon, spoke to the Music Works podcast about life as a media composer, the problem with coercive buyouts, and why he’s backing the Composers Against Buyouts campaign.

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