To keep the conversations going, Music Tectonics is continuing Weekly Websdays, an online music tech meetup.

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 summarize a couple millennia...

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.

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

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

In a 2002 profile in the New York Times, David Bowie said, “'The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music

Music Tectonics has identified several seismic shifts that have created the music landscape of today and tomorrow. These are climate changes

Globalization has been powering seismic shifts on planet Earth for hundreds of years. Now the world is shrinking faster than ever as nationa

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

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

“I have songwriting credits, even though I don’t know how to write a song.” --Oleg Savitsky of AI music generation app Endel (speaking with Dani Deahl at The...

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

Technological innovations continue to create an exciting new landscape in the music industry. PR firm rock paper scissors is launching the f

The 2019 NAMM show got me very excited about new beatmaking hardware, but innovation isn’t just about gear. We also met music industry professionals who play...

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 when it comes to maki...

With thanks to Amadeus Code co-founder Taishi Fukuyama, for his thoughts on AI, art, and value, rock paper scissors writer/strategist Tristra Newyear Yeager ...

In 1999, Dmitri Vietze founded rock paper scissors, inc., a PR firm dedicated to promoting global musicians. Today, his company employs fifteen people who pi...

Blockchain is IT, the tech twist du jour, and new products and initiatives are springing up in the music industry in quick succession. This week, for example...

The real problem is a complete absence of leadership and policy aimed at making sure that low-priced, ubiquitous, world-class fiber optic se

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