Christine Brackenhoff
The Lithosphere: An Interview with Rapper and Singer-Songwriter ILENE
Memphis-based rapper and singer-songwriter ILENE found an outlet in BandLab, an app that combines music making and collaboration tools...
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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.
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...
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Tristra Newyear 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
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
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...
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...
Tristra Newyear 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...
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...
Tristra Newyear 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....
Tristra Newyear 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