Music Tectonics
(Podcast) Music is Like Fire: A Seismic Shift
This week on the Music Tectonics podcast, host Dmitri Vietze chats with Tristra Newyear Yeager, resident music tech deep thinker, about unex
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Jeanne Bidault
- Jul 18, 2019
(Podcast) A Tribal Experience: Fabrice Sergent of Bandsintown
For Bandsintown CEO Fabrice Sergent, marketing concerts isn’t about hype. It’s about, supporting artists, connecting people through the experience of live music, and preserving a bastion of free speech. That’s why Bandsintown built a platform to help fans discover live concerts and to help artists promote their shows. Now, Bandsintown drives 500,000 ticket clicks every day, provides solutions for artists, managers, and venues, and is going global. With podcast host Dmitri Vi
Jeanne Bidault
- Jul 11, 2019
(Podcast) Putting Humpty Together Again: The Music Industry’s Great Fall with Vickie Nauman
Just like the old nursery rhyme character Humpty Dumpty, the music industry had a great fall and shattered. Vickie Nauman witnessed the fall when the Napster-driven shift from physical to digital hit in 2000, and is one of the digital music pioneers who put the industry back together again. Listen in as she explores the aftermath with podcast host Dmitri Vietze. How successfully has the music biz egg been mended? Where are there cracks left to fill? Is the reformulated indust
Jeanne Bidault
- Jul 2, 2019
More Global Than Ever: A Seismic Shift
Every week, Music Tectonics goes beneath the surface of the music industry to explore how technology is changing the way business gets done. Starting today, we’re taking that mission further. Music Tectonics has identified several seismic shifts that have created the music landscape of today and tomorrow. These are climate changes, tectonic shifts beneath the surface, unexpected flash floods, or meteor collisions. Today we tackle “Music is More Global Than Ever,” a look at th
Jeanne Bidault
- Jun 27, 2019
(Podcast) Jambl’s Gad Hinkis: Meet the Midemlab Finalists
Jambl founder Gad Hinkis met up with podcast host Dmitri Vietze on the beach at Cannes to share his Midemlab-winning rap pitch! What happens when two crazy pants music tech guys sit down together? Listen in on their conversation about democratizing music creation and removing the barriers between beginners and electronic music making. Find out how the idea for Jambl came out of Gad’s experiments making electronic instruments from unexpected objects, and why Gad imagines a fut
Jeanne Bidault
- Jun 25, 2019
(Podcast) Mi.Mu’s Adam Stark: Meet the Midemlab Finalists
Multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Imogen Heap imagined controlling effects and loops with just her gestures, not an array of buttons, knobs and pedals. Now the Mi.Mu gloves she dreamed up are a reality- and they’re available to buy. Mi.Mu Managing Director Adam Stark chatted with podcast host Dmitri Vietze at Midem about taking the idea from an art project to a business, while staying focused on artistic expression. Find out some of the amazing things artists are doing
Jeanne Bidault
- Jun 20, 2019
(Podcast) The Domain of Music: Constantine Roussos on DotMusic's Big Win
What’s the official online home of Queen? It’s not Queen.com, it’s Queenonline.com. Kiss.com? Nothing to do with the band- it’s a dating website. Constantine Roussos imagines a better web experience, where artists can claim their own names and fans can find authentic content. He created DotMusic to fight for control of the .music top-level domain on behalf of the music community. What key innovations set .music apart from .com? Podcast host Dmitri Vietze caught up with Consta
Jeanne Bidault
- Jun 13, 2019
The Audio Renaissance: Making Sounds That Sell with Veritonic Founder Andrew Eisner
Audio for marketing isn’t just about jingles any more- it’s about a complete sound experience created by ads and the products themselves. This week on the Music Tectonics podcast, Veritonic co-founder and COO Andrew Eisner digs into what makes audio for marketing effective. Find out how Veritonic is bringing data-driven decision making to audio, why they turned to machine learning to evaluate audio experiences, and which companies consistently top Veritonic’s annual audio log
Jeanne Bidault
- Jun 6, 2019
(Podcast) Hey Hey Hey Alexa: Emma McGann on Smartspeakers and Music Engagement
Emma McGann is one of the first artists to create and launch her own Amazon Alexa skill. It all started when Emma was livestreaming on YouNow. When she asked her own smartspeaker to turn on the lights, the smartspeakers in her fans’ homes responded! At Midem, we chatted with Emma and her manager James Plester about how this lightbulb moment led to an Alexa skill that makes it more fun and easy for her fans to listen and engage. Ask Alexa to “enable skill Emma Backstage” to c
Jeanne Bidault
- Jun 6, 2019
(Podcast) Meet the Midemlab Finalists: Paperchain’s Daniel Dewar
Music Tectonics at Midem continues with Dan Dewar of Paperchain, a fintech company creating solutions for music biz problems with a real-time payment model. Paperchain is a 2019 Midemlab finalist. This annual pitch competition launched the likes of SoundCloud, KickStarter, Soundcharts, and The Echo Nest. Get to know the startups at this year’s Midemlab competition before they break out! Stay tuned for more of our #MidemTectonics coverage. Podcast host Dmitri Vietze is recordi
Jeanne Bidault
- Jun 5, 2019
(Podcast) Meet the Midemlab Finalists: Endlesss’s Tim Exile
Tim Exile met up with Dmitri Vietze at Midem in Cannes to chat about Endlesss, a virtual place where you can make and share music in the moment, solo or with friends. Tim’s goal is to make music part of the short-form collaborative revolution, the way SnapChat, Twitter and Instagram have changed video, writing, and photography. Endlesss is a finalist at Midemlab, the annual pitch competition launched the likes of SoundCloud, KickStarter, Soundcharts, and The Echo Nest. Get to
Jeanne Bidault
- Jun 5, 2019
(Podcast) Twitter + Music: Kevin O’Donnell on Music and Social Media at Midem
Straight from Cannes, a Midem interview with Twitter’s Kevin O'Donnell! Kevin heads music partnerships at Twitter, where he works with artists to best market their brands and tell their stories on the platform. He stopped by the #MidemTectonics roving podcast studio to chat about what twitter lets artists do, and what’s next for social media and the music biz. Follow @TwitterMusic to see the best conversations about music happening everyday, and follow Kevin himself to keep t
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