Innovating Music

Livestreaming and Live Connecting with Dmitri Vietze

Aug 5 • 36 min

This year, Dmitri Vietze has moved his whole thought leadership with Music Tectonics online with virtual conferences and community gatherings. He shares his thoughts on crisis-driven shifts to music livestreaming, expanding new releases, and digital…

Connecting the Music World: Portia Sabin, Music Business Association

Jun 28 • 42 min

This week on the Innovating Music Podcast, we talk with Music Business Association President, Portia Sabin about the ways in which she is helping to connect the music business as a community.

Reconnecting to Virtual Audiences: Jay Gilbert, Label Logic

Jun 14 • 45 min

This week, we talk with Jay Gilbert, photographer and co-founder of Label Logic, about new challenges artists in the music industry face in light of social-distancing and what their “new normal” will be as the world regains its rhythm.

Blockchain as Buffet: Stefan Schulz, Bitfury Surround

May 31 • 26 min

In this week’s podcast, Stefan Schulz, CEO and co-founder of Bitfury Surround, joins us to discuss the potential of blockchain technology for connecting not just content, but data and new value chains for content. Coming from a rich background at the…

Learning to Compose Virtually

May 17 • 31 min

Guest: Akira Nakano, President and Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Inception Orchestra. This week, we look through the lens of applying virtual reality technology paired with original composition to the creation of educational programs that engage…

Bridging Fans to Live Streams

May 10 • 37 min

Adaptation is key when it comes to technology and innovation. In this week’s podcast, we discuss how technology evolves to fit the ever-changing dynamic between artists and their fan-bases with Fabrice Sergent, the co-founder and CEO of Bandsintown. We…

Evolution of the Creative Workflow

May 3 • 43 min

Circumstances can spark innovation when changing work environments require new solutions. This week on the Innovating Music Podcast, we talk with Michael Gitig of G-Technology about the transformation of digital workflows and how his operation has…

Public Policy and Music: Innovation Bringing Cities Together

Apr 19 • 29 min

This week on the Innovating Music Podcast, we discuss innovation in public policy with Shain Shapiro, the founder and CEO of Sound Diplomacy. We discuss music communities in cities as ecosystems and how public policy can support and protect them. We also…

AI Changing the Way We Edit

Apr 5 • 23 min

In our latest episode, we discuss how AI is powering the future of audio editing, transcription and podcasting with Andrew Mason, founder and CEO of Descript. Along the way, we delve into Andrew’s career, and learn how he turns lemons into lemonade as he…

Public Health Outreach for Mass Gatherings

Mar 25 • 50 min

In this special episode, we share the WebCall last week to hear what was happening on the ground in Seattle, WA and King County, WA, in the face of COVID-19’s closure of music venues and live experiences. Kate Becker talks about how King County is…

Twitch Streaming for Musicians

Mar 17 • 33 min

Karen Allen helps decode and make simpler streaming music for artists on Twitch. Twitch is a live streaming service, bought by Amazon in 2014, and has 2.2 million daily broadcasters and 15 million daily average viewers. It is mostly gamers, but also has…

Scratch Mixes to Pirate Radio to Software Instruments

Mar 4 • 36 min

Matt Black has been intrigued by computers since reading “The Shockwave Rider” from a bookmobile in his small English village of his youth. Since then, he has created scratch mixes from a set of decks across London warehouse parties in the late 1980s,…

City Shapes, Streets, Layers, and Ecosystems

Feb 19 • 52 min

Kwende Kefentse, both DJ Memetic and Music Lead for the City of Ottawa, explores the urban terrain, urban fabric, and politics of the city and music. He closes with TIMEKODE, one of Canada’s most established independent dance parties, and the documentary…

Bonus: Updates on Move to Wed. and Live Events

Feb 17 • 1 min

We’re just sharing quick news that we are now 4 years into the Innovating Music podcast adventures and thank you for your friendship and community. We’re shifting to Wednesday releases and planning upcoming live events/recordings. Let us know of suggested…

Making a Music City Home: Ft. Collins, CO

Jan 20 • 42 min

Jesse Elliott helped create The Music District to support and work with music ecosystems in Ft. Collins, CO. He shares his earlier work with Richard Florida, his journey as a musician and a creative community organizer. Jesse shares the challenges and…

From a Sketch to an App to Change How We Sing

Jan 13 • 38 min

Andrew Goren at 20 has built Harmony Helper, a newly launched app, from his own experiences and observations in the live stage rehearsal and audition environment. He has built his undergraduate program around this work, and brought together a team of…

Recording, Live, Virtual, and Augmenting Experiences

Jan 13 • 41 min

Roman Rappak is forging ahead on two parallel tracks — creating recorded music for traditional channels and creating new systems to create mixed reality experience with the same music in live environments. Enjoy this episode where he talks about what…

Enjoying the Path: Violin to Bass to One-Stop Shop CEO

Dec 16, 2019 • 37 min

Kristen Agee has made her way from classical violin in Oklahoma to touring and studio bass to … CEO of a production music, publishing, and custom music company. She has built a one-stop shop and has learned a lot along the way. She shares the power of…

Create and Collaborate in the Palm of Your Hand

Dec 9, 2019 • 46 min

Omid Rahmat came into the music business from the tech and app world in order to solve music creation workflow problems with Joyner Lucas — and now solves them for more than 350,000 creators through the Tully App. He talks in this podcast episode about…

From Piano and Beach Blanket Babylon to Pokémon: A Musical Journey

Nov 10, 2019 • 40 min

Ed Goldfarb sees and hears differently. Where you and I might be just talking, he is hearing background music and seeing the notes in a manuscript. Ed shares with us his journey from professionally accompanying performances as a youth to creating live…

Art of Mass Gatherings

Oct 14, 2019 • 37 min

Matthew Ché Kowal is innovative in looking at a very specific set of overlaps in music. He has parlayed his experience in running festivals focusing on sustainability into work focused on mass gatherings. What can emergency workers learn from music…

Artificial Intelligence + Messy Music Data

Sep 9, 2019 • 42 min

Guest: Hazel Savage, CEO and Co-Founder, Musiio Hazel Savage and her co-founder Aron Pettersson have built Musiio in Singapore to bring artificial intelligence to the messy large data sets of the music industry. She shares her own past in retail and…

Music Cities: Connecting Stories of Music Lives

Sep 3, 2019 • 47 min

Don and Peter shared their experience performing music ecosystem audits for 4 cities. The 2015 Austin Music Census and their continuing studies of Charlotte, Pittsburgh, and Washington DC are more than doing a venue count. They gather the personal,…

Connecting Creators and Social Impact with Fans

Aug 5, 2019 • 48 min

Jeremy Gruber, Head of Digital Marketing at Strategy at Friends at Work, enjoys connecting artists, creators, and social impact forces directly with fans. He shared his adventures with Friends at Work, working with not only John Legend and Lindsey…

Data and Emotions: Painting on a Canvas

Jul 29, 2019 • 36 min

Shelita shared how as an artist she uses data and emotions to connect with fans and create community — and to create music itself Most of us think about data and music about marketing — which she has done well to attract more than 175,000 fans on a…

Music Cities and Evolving Songs

Jul 9, 2019 • 39 min

Storm Gloor from CU Denver has been tracking how songs succeed since he was a young teen … and now explores anything from how music cities can succeed and how one-hit wonders thrive (or don’t). We enjoyed talking about how cities create and sustain music…

Social Justice Melded with Music

May 27, 2019 • 42 min

Rehan Choudhry joined our podcast to discuss the upcoming second year of Emerge LV — and to share his journey on how he re-melds social justice and music in this Facebook-embedded era. He walked us down his path through college, Homeland Security,…

Complexity on the Road

May 13, 2019 • 45 min

Paul Bradley joined the podcast to talk about his adventures creating the tour management software system, Eventric. He shared how he started in band management and tour operations, along with being a drummer on tour, and created databases on a Compaq…

Changing Limiting Beliefs

May 6, 2019 • 39 min

In this week’s podcast, we enjoy Laura Escudé taking us on a tour of live performance music … and touring … and breaking negative beliefs about performance and ability through tech tools. She mixes Abelton Live, her own violin skills, tools like the…

An Invitation: Amplify Music in Los Angeles

Apr 22, 2019 • 9 min

This brief episode features our host and Center director, Gigi Johnson, inviting you to join us in person at UCLA (while supplies last) or via Zoom online for our May 15 Conference on Amplifying Music in Our Los Angeles. Gigi shares the questions that…

Down the Music Data Rabbit Hole

Apr 1, 2019 • 36 min

Amadea Choplin, the COO from Pex, takes us down the online music data rabbit hole. She shares how official music distribution is just the beginning of the adventures of distributed songs, and how on average 99% of top artists’ music use has moved beyond…

Marrying Tech and Opera

Mar 26, 2019 • 47 min

Marivi Valcourt at LA Opera is connecting digital marketing to a more traditional, low-tech, multilingual art form. She shares practical ideas for building local audience while learning from other cities and building tourism tools for our local opera…

Connecting Artists and Tech

Feb 25, 2019 • 38 min

Seth Schachner returned to discuss the changes afoot in music and tech deal-making. Enjoy this continuing conversation of how deals are being made between artists and new technologies, and how artists and managers can think about connecting with new…

Music,Marketing, and All That Jazz

Feb 18, 2019 • 25 min

Mike Casey mixes jazz sax with marketing savvy. He shares in this podcast how he uses digital tech and music … and understanding his audiences … to spread the word on his music as an independent artist. Enjoy this discussion with Mike about how he has…

One More Canvas to Play With

Feb 11, 2019 • 26 min

Iris Wu and Pei-Lun Hsieh from Ambidio were inspired to understand and create new ways for creative artists to design immersive sound for “regular” playback on computers, laptops, and phones. In this podcast, they share their journey in experimenting,…

Forging Human Connection

Feb 4, 2019 • 46 min

Jay LeBoeuf created Real Industry when he was guest lecturing and realized that his students did not really see what jobs and careers were out there in music in technology. After four years of growth, Real Industry now brings together 40 colleges and…

Los Angeles: Building a Grassroots Movement

Jan 28, 2019 • 40 min

Ross Gardiner is co-launching the Los Angeles Nightlife Alliance, convening a group to bring together a love of LA’s nightlife, government savvy, and community organizing. He shares his stories of how efforts in Berlin, Amsterdam, and London led to…

Digital Journeys, Old and New

Jan 21, 2019 • 47 min

Seth Schachner shared a great history of how he has been able to be a long-time deal guy, helping with diverse deals in changing industries. He is now working across sectors to bring together deals across virtual reality, social music, spatial audio, and…

DJs as Curators in this Streaming Era

Jan 7, 2019 • 45 min

Stephen White shared his journey from Madison, WI, to various ventures combining music, communities, DJing, and tech, which led him to Gracenote and now Dubset and MixBANK. He shared his observations on early streaming and in shifting from one type of B2B…

Creating TV with Acoustic Heart

Jan 2, 2019 • 34 min

Siddhartha Khosla is making magic on TV, combining acoustic instruments with rapid inspiration and remote teams and production. He is at the heart of music creation in this abundant world of peak TV, working across shows at his home studio with a remote…

[REPLAY] Playlists: A Revolution for Artists

Jan 1, 2019 • 37 min

[REPLAY] A 2018 podcast favorite — Andrea Young from Koral Young sees playlisting as a revolution for artists. She shared a lot of basics of how to engage with both your fans and playlisters to create a thoughtful playlisting strategy for artists at…

[REPLAY] Music 3.0

Jan 1, 2019 • 39 min

[REPLAY] A 2018 podcast favorite — Vickie Nauman and Andrea Young joined us to talk about Music 3.0. Vickie had written an article for Rethink Music, a blog by the Berklee College of Music, about Music 3.0. Music 1.0 in this discussion was music sold as…

[REPLAY] Changing Mindsets in Music Innovation

Dec 31, 2018 • 35 min

[REPLAY] A 2018 podcast favorite: To marketer Michele Tharp, innovation is creating a better way to do something, and working with an inner desire to make a change. She focuses - as we do - on changing mindsets — new ways to work with technology,…

[REPLAY] Songwriters + Global Digital Streaming = ?

Dec 31, 2018 • 39 min

[REPLAY] A 2018 podcast favorite — Songtrust has been collecting songwriters’ royalties, creating systems that were ready for streaming’s global growth path. We spoke of the impacts on streaming growth from cheaper smartphones in urban markets in China,…

Reporting from the Leading Edge of Music and Tech

Nov 19, 2018 • 37 min

Cherie Hu has grabbed a front-row seat to tech and music change. Forbes grabbed her after graduation from Harvard, bringing her interests in music and tech to their own digital pages. She also brings that magic to both Billboard, Variety, Pitchfork, and…

2019 — Future of Music in Los Angeles

Nov 5, 2018 • 9 min

Gigi Johnson invites listeners of this Innovating Music podcast to join in research, events, and conversations in 2019 on the possible Future(s) of Music in Los Angeles. She discusses the Center’s research so far in looking at tech’s impact on live…

Music Beyond the Speakers

Oct 29, 2018 • 49 min

Gigi interviewed Adam Moseley, a long-time producer/mixer/engineer who is exploring new adventures in spatial audio, mixed reality, and sound technologies. Adam shares the blockages and doorways from learning saxophone to a wide door into audio…

SF: Nurturing Music By the Bay

Aug 20, 2018 • 34 min

Maggie Weiland and Dylan Rice from the SF Entertainment Commission talked with us about how they work to nurture music in San Francisco. We had met them through Jocelyn Kane, who created many of the public policy rules and artist-supporting structures to…

New Songs for Global Singers

Jul 30, 2018 • 34 min

Jonathan Stone shares the adventures of Rocket Songs, which connects new songs with singers from around the world to discover and perform. He talked about the past century or so of relationships between singers and songwriters, and the challenge of…

Bridging Cultures — Translating Music Lyrics

Jun 18, 2018 • 33 min

Robert has been on a 14-year quest: to translate music legally between languages and cultures. Lyrics are the #1 search term on the internet and Robert shares the story of LyricFind’s path to creating a legal marketplace in the US for song lyrics, up to…

Tech as Trust and Relationships

Jun 3, 2018 • 22 min

We caught up with Deborah Fairchild at MusicBiz in Nashille in May 2018. We talked about music tech as both a relationship and trust business, with VEVA Sound’s role as an archive and validation company standing right in the middle of the boost in…

Expanding Futures: Local and Global

May 29, 2018 • 4 min

Gigi Johnson, our Executive Director, shares the new and expanded directions of this Innovating Music podcast. We are shifting its focus from looking at Innovation now in music to looking at how tech may be changing music in the future, both globally and…

Solving a Problem

Nov 15, 2017 • 24 min

Dennis Murcia, Global Business Development and Digital Strategy at CODISCOS, shares his insights and experiences with innovation and Latin music. He shares how innovation is “solving a problem” and how it creates growing pains in traditional industry…

Making It Simple

Sep 26, 2017 • 43 min

Jay Gilbert runs three organizations, each working to help artists expand their work and presence. To Jay, innovation is standing on the shoulders of giants, improving tools you have to grow your audience. He works to take complex tech and make it simple…

Creating Value

Sep 12, 2017 • 35 min

Gary Young sees innovation as creating value for others, and does so with creating an auction system for intellectual property that creatives want to monetize. He shares with us how Royalty Exchange connects 20,000 buyers with creative rights across…

Finding Fresh Approaches

Aug 14, 2017 • 35 min

Bas Grasmayer from IDAGIO and MUSIC x TECH x FUTURE shares insights on how technological realities drive fresh combinations and possibilities, and how we can learn and grow new capabilities from “MySpace moments.” He muses on conversational interfaces…

Blockchain and Ticketing

Jul 31, 2017 • 40 min

Jason Robert takes us down the blockchain rabbithole, introducing us to the many details that make up a new cryptocurrency business, which he calls a “social movement disguised as technology.” His new platform to sell tickets with Ethereum is mere weeks…

China and The Long View

Jul 24, 2017 • 36 min

Ed Peto started placing a bet on music in China in 2006, and has been waiting for the market to catch up. We caught up with Ed in Berlin, but it could have just as easily been in London or China.

Creating Fearlessly - In Virtual Reality

Jul 6, 2017 • 29 min

How do you create new and innovative systems for producing content in a new space? For Connor Illsley of Combo Bravo in Toronto, you innovate by “creating fearlessly.”

Data-Driven Touring Insights

May 31, 2017 • 21 min

How can artists and managers use all the streaming and touring information to plan their markets and concerts better? Rossanna and Efrain from Cayo5 joined us to talk about how their are working to help artists manage disparate data sets to make decisions…

An Artist from Thin Air: Artist as Code

May 31, 2017 • 35 min

Elodie, Paco, and the team at Neweb Labs in Montreal have created Maya Kodes — from code. She’s not just a new girl group — she is a new girl.

Love, Passion, and Hard Work

May 8, 2017 • 30 min

This episode lends more philosophically humanist than some of our more technical sessions. David Hernandez of Colonize Media preaches “love, passion, and hard work” in an online video and data-driven marketing world.

The Challenge of Unasked Questions

Apr 2, 2017 • 29 min

Refik drives new combinations of music, architecture, technology, and design forward, always asking “unasked questions.”

Combining Unrelated Ideas as Music Innovation

Jan 26, 2017 • 36 min

Dmitri Vietze, CEO of Rock Paper Scissors and StoryAmp, joins us to share stories of how new combinations of unrelated ideas create innovation in music.

Solving Intractable Problems

Jan 19, 2017 • 46 min

Matt, founder of MetaPop, shares his perspectives on innovation as solving intractable problems, versus creative disruption.

Life as a “Data Nerd” : Dancing with Music Data

Aug 29, 2016 • 28 min

Dae brings us his adventures from the start-up world. He shares his observations from living as a self-described “data nerd” while creating new business solutions in music tech as a “non-tech person.”

Transforming Music through Data

Jun 30, 2016 • 17 min

Alex White has put together puzzle pieces to connect music and data, building Next Big Sound over the past six years and selling it to Pandora.

Beyond Vinyl: Ceremony and Next Tech

Jun 16, 2016 • 35 min

Beatie shares her pathways as a modern artist in a post-CD world.

Back to the Future: Cycles of Innovation

Jun 9, 2016 • 41 min

Brian Zisk has worked across decade(s) of innovation in the music business, and he shared many of those tales with us.

Weaving Past and Future

May 25, 2016 • 29 min

Sam shares his experiences in music management and rights management, both as an entrepreneur and in larger organizations.

Shifting to Daily Data

May 11, 2016 • 24 min

Jim Lidestri, BuzzAngle’s CEO, shares with us his perspectives on changing the process side of music data, and how his idea as a consumer turned into a daily data solution for music companies.

How Interface Design Matters

May 4, 2016 • 30 min

Guest: Mike D’Errico, UCLA

Mapping Event Space with Sound

Apr 26, 2016 • 29 min

Guest: Chris Ostoich, Co-Founder, LISNR