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    UPDATED for July! Weekly Websdays: Meet Up with Music Tech Leaders Every Wednesday
    Music Tectonics
    • Jun 26, 2020

    UPDATED for July! Weekly Websdays: Meet Up with Music Tech Leaders Every Wednesday

    To keep the conversations going, Music Tectonics is continuing Weekly Websdays, an online music tech meetup.
    Bodyfulness: Changing the way we hear fitness (and love our bodies)
    Tristra Newyear Yeager
    • Feb 12, 2020

    Bodyfulness: Changing the way we hear fitness (and love our bodies)

    Music can transform our health. Music tech will help us do it. In the West, we have a specific notion of mind/body dichotomy. To summariz...
    Pandatamonium: What we know and don’t know about the risks of user data and privacy in music tech
    Tristra Newyear Yeager
    • Dec 16, 2019

    Pandatamonium: What we know and don’t know about the risks of user data and privacy in music tech

    The problem with this problem is we don’t know just how problematic it is, especially in markets like the US. We don’t know all the players.
    Music Has Been Sliced Into Smaller and Smaller Pieces: A Seismic Shift
    Dmitri Vietze
    • Aug 20, 2019

    Music Has Been Sliced Into Smaller and Smaller Pieces: A Seismic Shift

    The technology we use to listen to and make music is changing the very nature of music. Maximum album length was determined by how much data
    Here Comes Voice: If you’re an artist or music marketer it’s time to pay attention
    Lars Murray
    • Aug 7, 2019

    Here Comes Voice: If you’re an artist or music marketer it’s time to pay attention

    It’s very easy to play music via voice commands (Spotify, Google, Pandora, Amazon and Apple are on the case), and music is by far the #1 use
    Music is Like Water: A Seismic Shift
    Dmitri Vietze
    • Jul 23, 2019

    Music is Like Water: A Seismic Shift

    In a 2002 profile in the New York Times, David Bowie said, “'The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music
    Humpty Dumpty: A Seismic Shift
    Dmitri Vietze
    • Jul 12, 2019

    Humpty Dumpty: A Seismic Shift

    Music Tectonics has identified several seismic shifts that have created the music landscape of today and tomorrow. These are climate changes
    Global Takeover: Making Babies Means More Paying Music Fans
    Dmitri Vietze
    • Jul 5, 2019

    Global Takeover: Making Babies Means More Paying Music Fans

    Globalization has been powering seismic shifts on planet Earth for hundreds of years. Now the world is shrinking faster than ever as nationa
    Make Music, Not Tone-deaf Conjectures about Robots
    Tristra Newyear Yeager
    • Jun 14, 2019

    Make Music, Not Tone-deaf Conjectures about Robots

    This one-off goofy statement by a VC points to something greater: There is a surprising tone-deafness among many in tech--not all, but too m
    Why the Hate? Spotify is the Icebreaker Powered by Music
    Dmitri Vietze
    • May 29, 2019

    Why the Hate? Spotify is the Icebreaker Powered by Music

    I see Spotify as the icebreaker, the nuclear ship that created a new path when the entire music industry froze over. Everyone in America was
    Malcontent: What tacit knowledge, wage inequality, and the proliferation of content in 16th- and 17t
    Tristra Newyear Yeager
    • May 13, 2019

    Malcontent: What tacit knowledge, wage inequality, and the proliferation of content in 16th- and 17t

    “I have songwriting credits, even though I don’t know how to write a song.” --Oleg Savitsky of AI music generation app Endel (speaking wi...
    Braided headwaters: Neaderthals, AI, and our future together
    Tristra Yeager
    • Mar 27, 2019

    Braided headwaters: Neaderthals, AI, and our future together

    The story of the Neanderthals is instructive when we start thinking about AI. We’re in that headwater moment, and yet we seem to think we’re
    Announcing the First Music Tectonics Conference: The Epicenter of Music and Tech
    Music Tectonics
    • Mar 25, 2019

    Announcing the First Music Tectonics Conference: The Epicenter of Music and Tech

    Technological innovations continue to create an exciting new landscape in the music industry. PR firm rock paper scissors is launching the f
    Music Tech at NAMM: Software, Cloud-based Creation, and Metadata
    Jade Prieboy
    • Feb 18, 2019

    Music Tech at NAMM: Software, Cloud-based Creation, and Metadata

    The 2019 NAMM show got me very excited about new beatmaking hardware, but innovation isn’t just about gear. We also met music industry pr...
    NAMM 2019: New Gear for Making Beats
    Jade Prieboy
    • Feb 4, 2019

    NAMM 2019: New Gear for Making Beats

    I walked away from NAMM’s 2019 show full of inspiration and ideas. I’m excited for the future of the music technology space, especially w...
    The Work of Art in the Age of Infinite Reproduction:
How Artificial Intelligence is the Most Recent
    Tristra Yeager
    • Sep 25, 2018

    The Work of Art in the Age of Infinite Reproduction: How Artificial Intelligence is the Most Recent

    With thanks to Amadeus Code co-founder Taishi Fukuyama, for his thoughts on AI, art, and value, rock paper scissors writer/strategist Tri...
    How our storytelling has pivoted
    Music Tectonics
    • Mar 23, 2018

    How our storytelling has pivoted

    In 1999, Dmitri Vietze founded rock paper scissors, inc., a PR firm dedicated to promoting global musicians. Today, his company employs f...
    Blockchained Melody: The Promise and Pitfalls of Blockchain in the News
    Tristra Yeager
    • Dec 7, 2017

    Blockchained Melody: The Promise and Pitfalls of Blockchain in the News

    Blockchain is IT, the tech twist du jour, and new products and initiatives are springing up in the music industry in quick succession. Th...
    Music and Net Neutrality
    Tristra Yeager
    • Nov 30, 2017

    Music and Net Neutrality

    The real problem is a complete absence of leadership and policy aimed at making sure that low-priced, ubiquitous, world-class fiber optic se
    Streaming — Beyond Good and Evil
    Tristra Yeager
    • Oct 20, 2017

    Streaming — Beyond Good and Evil

    It’s time to move on, folks. Sometimes it’s not about good and evil. We need to take the streaming music conversation to more nuanced places
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