Music Tectonics
313 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsThe Music Tectonics podcast goes beneath the surface of the music industry to explore how technology is changing the way business gets done. The podcast includes news roundups, interviews, and more. Our host is Dmitri Vietze, CEO of PR firm rock paper scissors.
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Disrupting Music Video Creation (Emphasis on the Creative) with Rotor
September 03, 2020 11:56 - 42 minutes - 58.4 MBMusic marketing has become more and more intertwined with video. How can indie artists tap into video’s power to engage listeners without breaking the bank or learning a whole new skillset? Diarmuid Moloney, founder and CEO of Rotor, explains how his platform automates and streamlines the music video creation process. Starting with just a song, musicians and their teams can focus on creative decisions instead of technical details to make engaging music videos speedily and cost effectively. G...
Put Your $$$ Where Your Ears are: Investing in Music with AmplifyX
August 27, 2020 14:26 - 19 minutes - 26.3 MBWhat does it mean to personally invest in an artist? Hear from Adam Cowherd, CEO & founder of AmplifyX, a platform that’s introducing a new financing solution for artists and a new asset class for investors- the first and only such platform that’s SEC and FINRA compliant. The AmplifyX model lets upcoming and established artists retain control of their own intellectual property and career decisions, all while collecting up to 90% of royalties (the current industry standard is often less than ...
Making Music Education Accessible (and Fun) with Solfeg.io’s Toms Rusovs
August 20, 2020 09:00 - 38 minutes - 53.1 MBAs the pandemic hit and music teachers scrambled to find new technology to support remote learning, many turned to Solfeg.io. Hear about how music and education intersect from Toms Rusovs, CEO and Co-founder of Solfeg.io, MidemLab 2020 winner in the Music Creation & Education category. Toms explores how this new learning tool supports learning in over 10K schools by breaking down popular songs to teach essential musical ideas. When a teacher isn’t available, there's AI technology to customiz...
Navigating the Music Industry’s New Normal with Manager Rishon Blumberg
August 13, 2020 09:00 - 50 minutes - 69.5 MBMusicians are suffering and venues have closed. Rishon Blumberg of Brick Wall Management explores how artists are adapting to stay afloat during this global pandemic and navigate a world without touring. From Instagram livestreams to drive-in theater style concerts, what’s working to fill the gaps? How are live albums and concert merch changing in the time of livestreaming? Artists are using this time to write and record loads of new material- but who’s to blame if their streaming payouts am...
Minecraft Festivals Open Doors to New Fans with Genesis' Alex Perrien
August 06, 2020 09:00 - 37 minutes - 51.2 MBVideo gaming platforms have become essential lockdown music festival venues even as new livestreaming platforms keep coming out of the woodwork. Find out what makes popular games and virtual concerts such a great match from Alex Perrien, CEO of Genesis, the leading provider of virtual events on the Minecraft platform. Alex discusses how his company creates unique event experiences, from the Blockeley festival on a virtual college campus to a DJ stage in the center of a volcano spewing lava. ...
The Music & Tech Springboard Programme: BPI's Casandra Strauss Bounces By
July 30, 2020 09:00 - 51 minutes - 70.6 MBYou'll get more than you bargain for in this episode, when BPI's Casandra Strauss moves from giving an overview of the Music & Tech Springboard Programme to providing a compelling list of categories that music tech companies can help solve in the music industry from A&R to music discovery among casual listeners. Think of British Phonographic Industry (BPI) as the UK equivalent of RIAA. Think of Strauss as an up and coming thought leader in music tech! The Music Tectonics podcast goes bene...
From Virtual Concerts to Panda-cams: OnNow.TV's Livestream Index
July 23, 2020 09:00 - 47 minutes - 64.5 MBFrom panda-cams at the zoo to live acoustic guitar sets from the bathroom, OnNow.TV is a one-stop shop for all things livestream. Hear how Co-founder Matthew Addell’s decades of experience in digital music led to creating the world's largest index of global live streamed events- in just a few weeks. Adell explains how the OnNow.TV platform helps viewers discover livestream events of all kinds happening around the world, while doubling streamers’ audiences. Matthew digs into how OnNow.TV rem...
How Chartmetric Makes Music Biz Data Sing with Sung Cho
July 16, 2020 11:35 - 43 minutes - 60.4 MBReleasing and marketing music today generates tons of data. How do you make sense of all those Spotify streams, YouTube views, TikTok videos, Shazam searches, even Wikipedia pageviews? Chartmetric CEO Sung Cho explains how his company processes and visualizes publicly available data on 2.5 million artists to put all those numbers in context. Find out how Chartmetric helps artists, managers, indie labels, even A&R track the success of new music, surface trends before they’re even a thing, and...
Recovery Economics: Mark Mulligan on the New Starting Line
July 09, 2020 09:00 - 41 minutes - 56.4 MBPandemic lockdowns revolutionized how people consume music overnight. After gathering and analysing the resulting data, Mark Mulligan of MIDiA Research offers his insights and predictions for the future of streaming, live events, and the unexpected blooming of new use cases for music. How have music fans’ need states changed, and how does the industry need to change to meet them? How will live streaming have to mature to become a significant revenue generator? Will the coming recession resul...
Social Distance Jams: How Musicians Play Together Online with JamKazam
July 02, 2020 09:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBFor musicians in lockdown, trying to jam with friends or teach lessons on a videoconferencing app like Zoom or Skype is like putting toothpaste back in the tube: it’s just not built for that. Find out how JamKazam was built for musicians to play together in real time from CEO David Wilson. Host Dmitri asks what makes JamKazam so different from those videocallling apps? How does JamKazam deal with the latency issues that make synchronous collaboration challenging? Learn how Wilson’s experienc...
Black Boxes Are Not Enough: Music Tech Before and After George Floyd
June 25, 2020 10:46 - 57 minutes - 79.6 MBNow that everyone has posted their black box on Instagram, now that large music and tech companies cut their $150 million checks, what anti-racism efforts will endure in music tech? Hear from leaders who were working to bring Black people into positions of creativity and leadership long before the murder of George Floyd: Tarik Moody (Radio Milwaukee & 88Nine Labs), Keisha Howard (Sugar Gamers), and Arabian Prince (Inov8 Next Open Labs, Covitech, and founding member of N.W.A.). They tell toug...
Creative AI and Human Music with Jovanka Von Wilsdorf
June 18, 2020 09:00 - 43 minutes - 28.4 MBWhen Jovanka Von Wilsdorf wrote songs for a virtual pop star, she found herself falling in love with humans again. The spaces between art and tech, human and artificial intelligence, is where the Berlin-based songwriter, artist profiler, and speaker feels at home. Jovanka tells irregular host Tristra Newyear Yeager how she got there, from touring and recording with her band Quarks, to writing hit songs for top artists, to distilling AI research into stories that reach musicians. Jovanka disc...
Charts Point the Way: Alpha Data’s Stephen Blackwell
June 11, 2020 09:00 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MBCharts aren’t just about bragging rights for Stephen Blackwell, Alpha Data president. Charts rank top songs to bring people together, forge chart-topping hits into cultural touchstones, and point the way the culture as a whole is moving. Formerly known as BuzzAngle, Alpha Data analyzes over 50 billion streams from more than 50 DSPs daily to provide insights to the music industry and power Rolling Stone’s authoritative charts. Stephen explains how Alpha Data transforms a trillion data combina...
TikTok Creativity and A.I. Pickaxes: It’s Our 100th Episode!
June 04, 2020 13:00 - 33 minutes - 21.9 MBThis is a milestone: it’s the 100th episode of the Music Tectonics podcast! In 18 months, Dmitri Vietze and Tristra Newyear Yeager have explored 100 music tech topics and interviewed innovators in Los Angeles, New York, Cannes, France, and isolated at home. They got together on zoom to recap what’s changed in the music tech industry since the podcast launched in December 2018. How has TikTok matured as a cauldron of fandom, and how has worldwide quarantine changed its userbase? How did live ...
The Fan’s Journey: Fan-based marketing with Tradable Bits’ Darshan Kaler
May 28, 2020 09:00 - 42 minutes - 28.6 MBMusic festivals, sports events, and all kinds of entertainment have a common goal: reach fans and sell tickets. Ten years ago, Darshan Kaler built Tradable Bits to be a bridge between the entertainment industry and fans’ digital lives, and the company has been innovating in the collection, analysis, and activation of fan data ever since. Find out how Darshan went from bringing the Olympics to your screen to partnering with festivals like Bonnaroo and teams like the Florida Gators. How has th...
Capture and Share Music in the Moment with Trackd
May 21, 2020 09:00 - 35 minutes - 23.7 MBWith the unprecedented pandemic, musicians are looking for new ways to collaborate across long distances. They’re finding that the Trackd app already offers a lean, mobile recording and collaborating experience. Grant Tilbury, explains how Trackd lets artists capture moments, edit multi-track audio, and release “Virtual Vinyl” to social media all on one’s smartphone. Learn how Trackd was born out of the innovative spirit that made London’s Trident Studios famous, and how Trackd is reviving t...
Dopamine Hits, Peak Flow: Exploring Music and the Brain with the Secret Chord Laboratories
May 14, 2020 12:00 - 30 minutes - 20.7 MBWhat goes on in your mind when that chorus hits and you get shivers, when you lay down a track and know that one was THE take? Neuroscientists have been digging into these and other questions of music, emotion, and cognition for decades. David Rosen, PhD and Brian Owens of AI and neuroscience startup Secret Chord Laboratories explore our brains on music and how the science of creativity and reception can influence the tech tools we build. The Music Tectonics podcast goes beneath the surfa...
UnCancelled: Keeping the Lights on for Live Performance
May 07, 2020 13:30 - 39 minutes - 26.6 MBWhen music venues in Los Angeles were shut down as part of Covid-19 safety measures, Ari Herstand knew that he wanted to help the artists and performance spaces weather the financial shortfall. With a couple of friends, he launched “UnCancelled Music Festival”, a live-streaming enterprise that organizes performances and collaboration between musicians from across the country. Now he is busier than ever. Having a lot on his plate, however, is business as usual for Ari, who has worked as a mus...
Sweetwater: Engineering Your Way To Entrepreneurial Success
April 30, 2020 14:05 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBIf you’re interested in the world of music equipment retail, you have heard of Sweetwater. More likely than not, you are a customer that has contributed to its over 700 million dollars in sales. But how did the company become one of the biggest catalog and online retailers for music? Founder Chuck Surack sits down with Music Tectonics host Dmitri Vietze to explain his humble origins touring around the country as a musician in a beat-up VW and how he ended up building a retail business. He al...
More Communication, Less Consumption: How music tech can respond to crisis
April 28, 2020 13:00 - 32 minutes - 27 MBSXSW hosts a music tech hackathon every year, and 2020 was no exception. Except this was the year everything changed: the huge music and tech conference was cancelled due to the coronavirus. We’re not going to let that stop us, however. To honor the spirit of the hackathon, we’ve brought together some of the mentors and thought leaders involved to talk about how music tech can transform our lives as we face crisis. What’s changing as we stare down our current moment of crisis? What does i...
Building Your Music Fan Funnel During COVID-19: Label Logic's Jay Gilbert Has the Knowledge Vaccine to Help You Monetize
April 23, 2020 14:59 - 48 minutes - 72.3 MBIf you are still trying to grasp best practices for monetizing recorded music in the streaming era, Label' Logic's Jay Gilbert lays it out for you with no hesitation on this episode. Music Tectonics host Dmitri Vietze dives headfirst into Jay's world of helping artists and managers understand the variety of experiences you can create for fans, the truth behind Spotify playlists, the role of your career narrative, and what data to track and optimize. If everything else is on hold, you can fol...
Artists Make Money Hanging Out With Fans Online: Topeka's Andy Levine
April 21, 2020 12:00 - 29 minutes - 25.5 MBAfter selling his festival cruises company to Norwegian Cruise Lines, entrepreneur Andy Levine returns with his new startup Topeka, which gives artists an opportunity to get paid for online fan conversations, digital house concerts, and Zoom serenades. Music tectonics host Dmitri Vietze finds out from Andy why he started the new endeavor, and how it is well-suited for the current Shelter-at-Home moment. Andy's career focus has been on helping artists and fans connect with more authenticity w...
Entering Live Streaming from the Side Door
April 17, 2020 13:54 - 37 minutes - 56.4 MBWhat happens when your concert matchmaking platform comes to a screeching halt thanks to social distancing? Side Door co-founder Laura Simpson joins host Dmitri Vietze to talk about how the pandemic's crisis is leading to a new type of ticketed yet intimate performance. Laura talks about how she does not think artists should be forced to play for free, and the types of reactions they are seeing from fans who have bought a ticket. Because they use Zoom for their live streamed concerts from ho...
Bandsintown is the Platform-Agnostic Directory For Live Streaming
April 15, 2020 14:51 - 29 minutes - 24.1 MBIf anyone could see the immediate deluge of concert cancellations when COVID-19 became the planet's immediate reality, it was ubiquitous concert-discovery platform Bandsintown's co-founder and managing director Fabrice Sergent. Listen to his conversation with host Dmitri Vietze, as he describes how he watched 100,000 concerts get canceled in just a couple of weeks. He translated his team's passion for helping performing artists to raise money for artists in need, re-build touring revenue los...
Remote Post-Production in Isolation: Enter Soundwhale
April 14, 2020 13:03 - 38 minutes - 37 MBImagine you are editing sound for a TV program. You work together with the show runner, music supervisor, and director to get the sounds just right. You play portions back together several times discussing how every note and every effect should be timed with the video. But what happens when those teams are immediately dispersed for weeks thanks to COVID-19? Ameen Abdulla had already created a platform for just this type of remote collaboration. It's called Soundwhale. He schools Music Tecton...
What If Voice Memos and TikTok Had a One Night Stand? SoundStorming is a Social Media App for Musical Collaboration
April 10, 2020 14:40 - 35 minutes - 23.4 MBThe founders of SoundStorming join Music Tectonics host Dmitri Vietze to talk about how their music collaboration app cracks open the song making process. Their vision is to allow fans and artists alike to collaborate at the point of creation. Capture an initial musical idea on your phone and before you know it someone across the ocean will add a layer that makes you think about your snippet in a whole new way. SoundStorming is already being used as an A&R tool to find up-and-coming artis...
Remote Music Collaboration with Pibox's Ivan Talaychuk
April 09, 2020 13:13 - 34 minutes - 51.6 MBLong before COVID-19, Ivan Talaychuk pivoted from artist to tech startup founder because it was such a challenge to collaborate with his bandmate in Kiev, Ukraine. He was tired of the tangle of emails, Dropbox, Google Drive, and text messaging to share and comment on music tracks while they were in process. He literally traded his synthesizers to fund his company Pibox at first. Now it's one of the favorite collaboration tools on the web. Now that everyone is on lockdown due to a worldwide p...
Live Streaming Skyrockets for Stageit During Pandemic
April 07, 2020 13:57 - 28 minutes - 41.9 MBNow that the concert industry has come to a screeching halt, the live music industry is turning its attention to livestreaming. A little startup formed in 2009 called Stageit is seeing an unprecedented surge in performances and revenue. They grossed $500,000 in 2019 and in just three weeks have seen $850,000 roll in. Listen to Music Tectonics host Dmitri Vietze talk to Stageit founder/CEO Evan Lowenstein about how artists are using Stageit to sell tickets, get tips, and engage their fans. Ev...
Cherie Hu Rounds Up Music Live Streaming and Music From Home Trends
April 02, 2020 13:57 - 53 minutes - 47.4 MBIndustry journalist Cherie Hu joins Music Tectonics host Dmitri Vietze for a conversation about her research and summary of live streaming music platforms. The two discuss the big picture of the music field's response to COVID-19, approaches of specific artists, and dive into how this moment might lead to leapfrogging some of the past barriers for music tech use cases like performing on a screen, virtual reality live performances, or collaborating remotely. Listen to the two compare audience...
Stuck inside? Collaborate Musically with Endlesss… Now on iOS
April 01, 2020 15:56 - 41 minutes - 41 MBThere is a new generation of apps and platforms for listeners to become musicians and many of them allow you to collaborate remotely. What will make them reach the next level? A worldwide quarantine! Sounds like a perfect time to launch an app, right? Tim Exile — electronic artist turned tech founder — rocks out some tunes on this episode, jamming across oceans, while he explains to podcast host Dmitri Vietze just how looped collaboration sidesteps the latency challenge of working across the...
Live-streaming in the Era of Isolation with YouNow President Jake Branzburg
March 30, 2020 21:35 - 37 minutes - 55.9 MBTouring screeched to a halt with worldwide social distancing. But you know what to do: live stream! Luckily platforms like YouNow have been brewing with fan-building and monetization tools for several years. On this episode host Dmitri Vietze talks to YouNow president Jake Branzburg about the skyrocketed growth they are experiencing during the COVID-19 crisis. You’ll learn about the diversity of creators on the service, how to engage in reciprocal performances, and what it takes to bring or ...
What Makes Amper’s AI Music Tools Different with CEO Drew Silverstein
March 25, 2020 19:10 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MBAmper’s AI-powered music composition tool, Score, helps content creators make music tailored to their projects, whether they’re seasoned musicians or novices. Amper Music CEO Drew Silverstein places Amper and AI music in context of a long history of algorithmic music, and an even longer history of increasing accessibility to the means of music creation. How will AI music composition technology transform the jobs—and careers—of musicmakers? What makes Amper’s sample library different from all...
How to Live Stream: Tips for Musicians from Emma McGann
March 24, 2020 21:41 - 40 minutes - 60.9 MBEmma McGann returns to share what every musician needs to know right now: how live streaming can keep fans connected and replace income lost to cancelled gigs. When her U.S. tour had to be postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, UK-based singer songwriter Emma McGann drew on 6 years of experience live streaming on YouNow and replaced every tour date with an online concert. Through sales of virtual tour passes and perks, she’s been able to recoup her losses. Emma tells Dmitri everything artis...
The Art and Craft of Remote Communication and Collaboration
March 19, 2020 01:51 - 26 minutes - 16.8 MBWith isolation and remote work looming last week, we recorded a podcast conversation about communication and collaboration. Irregular host Tristra Newyear Yeager (and rock paper scissors writer / strategist) tells Eleanor Rust, rps marketing director, about essential lessons she’s learned from collaborating with people scattered around the globe, and how to maximize listening while minimizing distraction. How could music creation change as tech solutions for synchronous collaboration develop...
Another Green World: Bas Grasmayer on Music Tech and Climate Crisis
March 11, 2020 22:15 - 24 minutes - 15.9 MBHow can the music industry take a proactive role in confronting the climate crisis? Tristra Newyear Yeager chats with Bas Grasmayer about the answers tech is providing for music biz sectors from live events to streaming. Why are music festivals the perfect context to explore innovation, inspire attendees to shift their behaviors, and incubate ideas that have positive impacts on climate? What’s the one thing that could change the carbon footprint of music streaming? How could the music indust...
How Super Hi-Fi Makes Music Streaming Better with Zack Zalon
March 04, 2020 21:23 - 45 minutes - 24.2 MBZack Zalon believes streaming music could sound better- a LOT better. His company Super Hi-Fi lives in the spaces between songs, spaces that music streaming services have ignored (until now). Zack explains how Super Hi-Fi’s AI-powered song and audio transitions make the streaming experience sound more distinctive and more engaging. Find out what this high-tech company learned from broadcast radio- a medium that’s still thriving despite being built on antiquated technology. Zack takes Dmitri ...
20 Music Tech Phenomena in 20 Minutes with Dmitri Vietze
February 27, 2020 09:30 - 22 minutes - 16.1 MBHost Dmitri Vietze has been closely watching the seismic shifts shaking up the music industry as a result of tech and innovation. Dig deeper into the 20 music tech phenomena that Dmitri’s watching for 2020. He lays out what he thinks could be next for Spotify, the indie music sector, AI music creation, music’s role in the changing geopolitical landscape, what PR’s got to do with it all, and 15 other trends. Find out which phenomena are already seeing some action since Dmitri first targeted 2...
Announcing Music Tectonics’ 2020 Conference!
February 21, 2020 09:30 - 24 minutes - 18.3 MBWe have big news in this special episode: the venues and dates for our next Music Tectonics Conference! Find out from hosts Dmitri Vietze and Tristra Newyear Yeager what new experiences we’re planning for 2020. What made the first Music Tectonics Conference so much fun that we had to do it again? Which music and tech topics will we add into the conference mix this year? What can you win in the pre-sale contest that ends Feb. 25? Get updates on your hosts’ latest contributions to the MT blog...
How Audience Republic Powers Live Event Marketing with CEO Jared Kristensen
February 20, 2020 09:00 - 35 minutes - 24.3 MBCEO Jared Kristensen explains how Audience Republic powers live event promotion by amplifying the most effective marketing tool: word-of-mouth. Their social sharing platform engages fans and provides valuable data and messaging tools to promoters. You can practically hear the moment that host Dmitri Vietze decides to dive in! After Jared and Dmitri dig into how Audience Republic campaign works, you can try it out yourself. Sign up for a Pre-Sale campaign free at the Music Tectonics conferenc...
Blockchain Peace Summit with Portia Sabin and Ken Umezaki
February 13, 2020 09:00 - 50 minutes - 37.6 MBWhat really happens when a blockchain skeptic and a blockchain supporter talk to each other about solving music industry problems? At the October 2019 Music Tectonics Conference, we hosted a Blockchain Cage Match with three skeptics and three enthusiasts facing off in wrestling masks and capes. Podcast host and conference organizer Dmitri Vietze saw too many events where entrepreneurs and engineers were touting the benefits of blockchain on stage, while music industry veterans snickered at t...
Virtual Worlds: Music and Gaming with Andres Lauer of Five Vectors
February 06, 2020 09:00 - 30 minutes - 20.3 MBAnalysts point to Gaming and Esports as the next frontier for the music industry, and a useful model for “monetizing fandom.” Occasional podcast host Tristra Newyear Yeager explores what that really means, with Andres Lauer of Five Vectors as a guide to this new terrain. A music industry insider himself, Andres founded Five Vectors with game industry expert Wasae Imran to open up gaming as a monetization source for independent musicians and to provide gamers with experiences enhanced by musi...
Tools for Marketing Music: Labels and Managers Share What Works
January 30, 2020 09:00 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBWhen you handle marketing at a label or for an artist, there are so many apps and platforms to vet, test, and adapt. Which ones really work and which are worth the money—or the trouble of implementation? At the first annual Music Tectonics Conference which we held October 28-29, 2019 in Los Angeles, we recruited smart marketing thinkers from great indie labels Ninja Tune, New West Records, Concord, and Loma Vista, and a lone head of digital at Friends at Work to put on a panel titled: “This ...
Yamaha Music at NAMM with Blake Angelos and Andy Winston
January 23, 2020 17:50 - 34 minutes - 28.5 MBFrom new keyboards that virtually recreate the circuitry of vintage organs to “silent” guitars, explore the innovations that Yamaha Music brought to the 2020 NAMM show. Find out what thrills Blake Angelos, product specialist in Yamaha’s synth department, about the company's current product lineup and their long history of innovation. Then Andy Winston, guitar product specialist, demonstrates how Yamaha packs their transacoustic guitar with reverb and chorus (without wired connections) and wh...
Yamaha at NAMM with Blake Angelos and Andy Winston
January 23, 2020 17:50 - 34 minutes - 28.5 MBFrom new keyboards that virtually recreate the circuitry of vintage organs to “silent” guitars, explore the innovations that the Yamaha Corporation of America brought to the 2020 NAMM show. Find out what thrills Blake Angelos, product specialist in Yamaha’s synth department, about the company's current product lineup and their long history of innovation. Then Andy Winston, guitar product specialist, demonstrates how Yamaha packs their TransAcoustic guitar with reverb and chorus (without wire...
From Rescuing Hostages to Kendrick Lamar's iPhone Collaborator: A NAMM Interview with Reason Studio's Ryan Harlin
January 18, 2020 23:22 - 48 minutes - 30.8 MBDid you ever hear the one about the song produced to sneak morse code to hostages in Colombia to help set them free? That was produced using Reason's music production software. Hear about it in this compelling conversation that host Dmitri Vietze had with Reason content marketing lead Ryan Harlin during the NAMM Convention in Anaheim, California. Ryan also explains how the growing ease of access to music production helped Kendrick Lamar collaborate with a young artist who solely used iPhone ...
Auto-Tune at NAMM with David Przygoda
January 18, 2020 00:03 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBAuto-Tune at NAMM with David Przygoda: You’ve probably heard of Auto-Tune, the pitch correction software that is used in thousands of songs not only as an aesthetic effect, but to... correct pitches! Join Dmitri as he interviews Prz and finds out the little known origin of Antares Tech, the company behind Auto-Tune. Find out about the other types of applications Antares makes available and hear Prz’s top tips for NAMM, the 126,000 person trade conference of the National Association of Music ...
Moog Music at NAMM: President Mike Adams and CTO Cyril Lance
January 17, 2020 22:00 - 31 minutes - 20.1 MBMoog Music defined the sound of analog synthesizers in the 1960s, and the company is still focused on innovation. Hear the astonishing story of Moog, from the theremins Bob Moog built to put himself through school to this year's release, the Subsequent 25, from Moog Music President Mike Adams and CTO Cyril Lance. Music Tectonics is at the 2020 NAMM Show, the National Association of Music Merchandisers annual event in Anaheim. When Dmitri’s not playing with the most exciting new gear on the...
Avid Technology’s Rob D’Amico: Music Tectonics goes to NAMM
January 17, 2020 21:39 - 35 minutes - 22.4 MBOn the trade floor at NAMM, Dmitri talks audio innovation with Rob D’Amico, director of product marketing for audio solutions at Avid Technology. They dig into Avid’s ProTools DAW, long the standard for audio production and post-production, and its role in bringing music creation and production to the masses. Music Tectonics is at the 2020 NAMM Show, the National Association of Music Merchandisers annual event in Anaheim. When Dmitri’s not playing with the most exciting new gear on the trade...
Nick Kwaś of Korg : Music Tectonics goes to NAMM
January 16, 2020 09:30 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBWe’re launching a new miniseries on innovation in the world of musical instruments, gear, and software! It’s also the first day of the 2020 NAMM Show in Anaheim, California, where gear makers gather to show off their latest and greatest. Our first gear guest is Nick Kwaś, product specialist at KORG. 2020 is set to be the electronic musical instrument maker’s biggest launch year ever: find out how their new Wavestate digital synthesizer reimagines wave sequencing, and how their new DIY brand,...
Independent Era: How Indie Music is Steering the Industry
January 09, 2020 09:30 - 45 minutes - 23.6 MBThe growing momentum of Independent music is causing shifts in the music industry that could prove more powerful even than streaming. At the 2019 Music Tectonics Conference, the Independent Era panel brought together some of the people driving that trend, helping self-empowered artists take control of their careers and change the music industry along the way. Their tools and resources make creating, distributing, promoting, and getting paid for music easier than ever. Did you know Lil Nas X ...