David Kronemyer started his career playing electric 12-string guitar in a folk-rock group. This evolved into producing records, managing bands and promoting shows. He became a Vice President of Capitol Records and a Senior Vice President of Atlantic Records. Segueing into the film business he became Executive Vice President of Curb Entertainment and then President of Gold Circle Films. He has produced and financed over 75 independent movies including “Double Whammy” and “My Big Fat Greek Wedding.” He devised a strategy for securitizing film collateral and formed his own company Cerberus Films, which completed several syndications raising over $250 million for independent film production. He co-founded several Internet music companies including Soundbreak.com and EnigmaDigital.com. His previous clients have included Beacon Entertainment, DreamWorks Television, Largo Pictures, Franchise Pictures, JVC, Live Nation, Overture Films, Pixar, RykoDisc, Universal Pictures and Village Roadshow. He has taught and lectured extensively on the economics of intellectual property at UCLA, USC and elsewhere. During 1985 – 1990 he was an Adjunct Professor at Southwestern University. During 2003 – 2004 he was a Senior Policy Analyst at RAND Corporation. Mr. Kronemyer has written a number of articles about entertainment industry economics including one on payola, which was published in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy. In addition to consulting on various entertainment industry ventures, Mr. Kronemyer develops interfaces between analog computers and modular synthesizers. He is a founding member of das Institut für die Ausbreitung des Analogesynthesizers based in Berlin, Germany. He still produces records and is in pre-production to direct the film “Wittgenstein’s Diary,” based on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations.
Mr. Kronemyer has a BA with Great Distinction in Philosophy of Mind from the University of California, Berkeley. He has a MA with Highest Distinction in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University. Over time his interest in clinical psychology and neuropsychiatric phenomics increasingly has drawn his attention and now has become his primary focus. His primary research interests are the neurochemistry of severe mental illness such as schizophrenia and other serious Axis I pathologies and their relationship to genomic, neurological, etiological and epidemiological correlates of Axis IV issues such as homelessness; the neurological basis of epistemic constraints; how neurological processes in the brain give rise to subjective personal experience; the human potential movement of the 1960s; and the phenomenology of pop culture and celebrity.
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9 responses so far ↓
1 bucks burnett // Apr 30, 2009 at 8:49 pm
New to your site (via Beatles News) – love what I’ve read so far. Keep up the great work! I used to manage Tiny Tim and now make indie films and produce music as well. Best wishes!
2 Jim Cowgill // Aug 9, 2010 at 9:15 am
Hello, I’m here because of your discussion of Eurorack modular cases, etc. on Matrixsynth. I have a MOTM system myself, and am very happy with it.
There also seem to be a few more similarities between us. I received my B.A. in Philosophy in 1985, and am currently studying to achieve an M.A. in Clinical Psychology. My graduation date is 2011.
A comment that resonated with me was your point about the just society, Utilitarianism and John Rawls. Yesterday, I brought donuts to the homeless and vehicular homeless area of 3rd and Rose in Venice, CA. I spent a couple hours talking with them, hearing their stories and views of how our society treats them. We need to do more to help, to be a just society.
Your research interests are certainly fascinating. I’ve always wondered about our relationship to the “mind”, the brain, and neurology. What is the “soul”?
Thanks for posting this. It makes me feel good to see someone else with similar interests and views.
Please feel free to send me an email if you know of any readings or events I could possible be interested in, or if you’d like to discuss anything.
I’m located in the west side of Los Angeles.
Take care,
Jim
3 Anonymous // Jan 9, 2011 at 5:23 pm
Amazing post, thanks from all of us at Mojave Amps!
4 Anonymous // Jan 9, 2011 at 5:24 pm
Interesting how the Brits made the best amps (Vox, Marshall, Hiwatt) but the Americans the best guitars (Gibson, Fender, etc.).
5 David Humphrey // Jun 21, 2011 at 7:44 am
Hi David, do you have an estimate of how much The Beatles made in dollars through record and concert ticket sales? If not, do you know where to direct me? Between 1964-1970 just how many albums did they sell? Thank you!
6 David Kronemyer // Jul 17, 2011 at 10:01 am
Hi, thanks for your comment, the best reference for album sales is http://deconstructingpopculture.com/2009/04/how-many-records-did-the-beatles-actually-sell/. I do not know about touring revenue but I suspect it was very low as this was way before the days of the organized concert business. You hear today about what some bands formerly were paid and it’s shocking, in much the same way sports figures today out-earn their predecessors by orders of magnitude.
7 Larry Selk // Jul 24, 2011 at 11:41 am
Dear David, in my mature years I have been developing interests similar to yours. There is some interesting current work by Jonathan Haidt on “moral foundations theory” and the psychology of political orientation (conservative/liberal) Also, David Sloan Wilson on group selection. Also, Frans de Waal on primate sociality. They have turned a lot of psychology/theology upside down in the past few years. Thanks for some great posts.
8 Robert Fantinatto // Nov 12, 2011 at 12:02 am
Hi David,
Thank you so much for posting all these wonderful articles. I am in the process of making a documentary film on what is behind the resurgence of interest in modular synthesizers and I was thinking about including experts in the mental health field to explore some issues that have been raised by some of the people I’ve interviewed. I was intrigued to find that you have such a background. I am making a trip to L.A. in January for the NAMM conference, I would really love to get an interview with you if you have the time. Please visit our fundraising site for the film, you can watch a preview video featuring some of the people I’ve interviewed so far.
http://www.indiegogo.com/I-Dream-of-Wires
Rob Fantinatto
Toronto, Canada
9 Ivan Hirländer // Dec 3, 2011 at 1:25 am
Hi David,
Great article about Hiwatt amps, thanks for posting, especially the pix.
Best regards
Ivan Hirländer
Bratislava, Slovakia, EU
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