Music Tectonics

In this week's episode, Toa Dunn, head of Riot Games Music joins Dmitri Vietze to explore the incredible innovation at the intersection of music and gaming. With a full in-house music production team, find out how Riot Music is crafting compelling music experiences for fans and players. Discover how Riot Music weaves music in and around the gaming experience to evoke deeper connections with the ch...

In this week's episode, Roneil Rumburg, Forrest Browning, and Clayton Blaha join Tristra Newyear Yeager to explore how Audius is directly connecting fans with artists and exclusive new music. Discover how the digital streaming service is decentralized, allowing independent artists to own and vertically integrate their tools chains while collaborating and connecting with fans like never before. Fin...

This week, Bruno Guez, founder and CEO of Revelator, joins Tristra Newyear Yeager to discuss how Revelator's integrated decentralized tools are changing the way artists, labels, and distributors manage their data and track their assets. Dig into how Revelator's blockchain-based Original Works platform totally reimagines how rights holders manage their IP. Discover how smart contracts are streamlin...

In the age of mass music creation, the mobile phone is everyone's first instrument. This week Meng Kuok, founder of BandLab joins host Dmitri Vietze to explore how the powerful, cross platform DAW is outperforming Garageband and empowering over 37 million artists around the world. Find out how BandLab is streamlining the creative workflow, allowing artists to create, record, mix, and share all on...

Why has digital audio been stuck in the mp3 era, while video formats get better, sharper, and faster? It's time for a new generation of audio. In this week's episode, Paul Hubert and Jim Rondinelli share how Immersion Networks is creating new ways for people to have deeper, more meaningful music listening experiences with their own hardware. Discover how the audio company is using ground-breaking...

From Beirut nightclubs to home studios, artists around the world are seeking new ways to tap into their musical creativity. In this week's episode, John McCubbery, VP of KORG International, shares how sustaining the creative force means thinking outside the box. Learn how Korg is focusing on how creators are using new platforms and technology to anticipate the tools they need to innovate and creat...

In this week's episode, CEO Constantin Koehncke and President Robert Linke of Native Instruments join host Dmitri Vietze to explore the future of sound and music production. After 25 years, Native Instruments continues to be at the forefront of digital music creation and performance with state-of-the-art synths, samplers, guitar rig effects, amp simulators, and more. Find out how companies like Na...

This week, Tom Impallomeni , CEO and co-founder of TribeXR , joins host Dmitri Vietze to explore how virtual reality studio simulators are paving the way for DJs to develop and amplify their skills. Through one-on-one lessons and group masterclasses, members learn processing, timing, beat matching, and more with state-of-the-art, club standard equipment - all in VR. Find out how virtual skills on...

In this week's episode, Dario Slavazza, Head of Curation at Feed. FM, joins host Tristra Newyear Yeager to explore how music curation balances data, algorithms, and the human element to add just the right energy to workouts, spin classes, and more. Hear how Dario's personal experience as musician and ethnomusicologist prepared him for his role as a music curator. Learn how data and music "mood boa...

In this episode, senior researcher, professional drummer, and martial artist, Dr. Dawn Rose shares the fascinating new ways psychologists are able to better understand the complex relationship between music and the brain. With state-of-the-art motion capture technology, researchers can see how our brains associate parts of the body with elements of music. Dr. Rose presents her incredible research...

Remember the feeling of walking into an old school music store - rows of guitars, stacks of amps, and an afternoon to spend trying every instrument in the store? In this week's episode, CEO David Mandelbrot shares how Reverb is recreating the experience with an online marketplace for new, used, and vintage musical instruments and gear.  Find out how their specialized expertise, expansive global in...

When Imogen Heap sees something she can't do, she makes it happen. As an award-winning singer songwriter, producer, audio engineer, and industry pioneer, Imogen is breaking down barriers for artists to take control of their data and create music in new ways. Imogen explains that frustration motivated her to launch Mycelia, a play space to explore technologies around the blockchain using smart cont...

These days, once you hit play on your favorite track, you're generating data, from Spotify analytics to recommendation algorithms on Youtube. This week, host Tristra Newyear Yeager sits down with industry leader and founder of Measure of Music, Christine Osazuwa to talk about the influence of data and analytics in the music industry. Christine shares the story of her rise to Global Marketing Direc...

In this week's episode, Stephen White, CEO of StageIt, sits down with host Dmitri Vietze to explore how Stageit, a global ticketed live streaming platform, is setting the stage for the future of virtual performances. Like poker chips or game tokens, StageIt has gamified ticketing and tipping to keep fans engaged and optimize the monetary value of live performances for artists. Discover how StageIt...

In this week's episode, Dmitri Vietze sits down with Ed Vincent, founder and CEO of  the 2020 all-star startup, festivalPass. festivalPass is a global marketplace and subscription service for live events, partnering directly with ticketing companies, venues, and promoters to cultivate live events from concerts, film, comedy, sports, food, wine, and more. Find out how festivalPass is mitigating the...

Have you ever had chills listening to a song that really resonated with you? In this episode, Tristra Newyear Yeager sits down with Dr. Psyche Loui to explore what the heck is happening in our brains when we listen to music. What technology are scientists using to navigate the unique intersection between psychology, neuroscience, and music? Find out how fine tuning atmospheric music can enhance ce...

From MTV to the dawn of Youtube, music videos have become an essential medium for artists to promote their music and invite fans into immersive experiences of music, dance, fashion, and more. In this episode, J.P. Evangelista joins Tristra Newyear Yeager to discuss how Vevo, the world's largest music video network, continues to bring premium value to music music videos as a medium as consumer habi...

Songwriting is the heart of the music production process and with the soaring demand for music content, there's never been more opportunity for songwriters. John Cesario (JC) and Jonathan Stone join Tristra Newyear Yeager to discuss how Rocket Songs has cultivated the first global marketplace for songwriters to license their work directly to artists. Find out how Rocket Songs is finding new ways t...

Today's artists wear many hats from manager to social media marketer to advertiser and more: Beatchain is giving them the data science and digital marketing tools they need to succeed all in one place. Discover how Beatchain is actively and continuously reacting to the market space to determine what tools artists really need to reach their fans and make sales. Find out how state of the art tools s...

Dust off your record players, because it's time to talk vinyl—and CDs and cassettes! The pandemic has brought challenges across the music industry for retailers, manufacturers, and distributors of physical music formats, but AMPED hasn't missed a beat! Irregular host Tristra Newyear Yeager sits down with Jocelynn Pryor to discuss how AMPED is connecting independent artists and local retailers with...

Music has permeated nearly every aspect of our lives from ads to fitness to social media, made possible through the use of sync licenses. Syncfloor is making it easier than ever to navigate the world of sync licensing. In this episode, CEO/CTO Kirt Debique explores how Syncfloor is streamlining commercial sync licensing with Syncstores, a Shopify-like platform that lets artists license their track...

Make music with the actual sounds from retro 8-bit games, or sample FM radio to add local flavor to your beats. Swedish design and technology company Teenage Engineering packs off-the-wall features like these into portable, powerful gear for music making and listening that looks and feels  good. In this episode, Co-founder /VP David Möllerstedt explores Teenage Engineering's origin story and the i...

What are music industry solutions for monetizing fandom missing about the true power of fans? Jacquelle Amankonah Horton, founder of Fave, sits down with host, Tristra Newyear Yeager, to explore the wild world of fandom. Jacquelle discusses the inspiration for Fave, her own personal experience as a diehard fan, and the ever-evolving definition of what it means to be a fan. Discover how Fave, one o...

Special episode: We're sponsoring a Music Tech Meetup at SXSW 2021 Online, this Wednesday March 17! Plus, host Dmitri Vietze invites you to more virtual venue hopping events March 18-20. Explore eclectic online environments via 3D avatar, video chat, and voice. Mix and mingle with music and tech's brightest minds at fun, spontaneous meetups. We're teaming up with LyricFind, Strat Americas, Super H...

You probably heard that the Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC) received $424 million in historical unmatched royalties from music streaming services. In this interview with MLC CEO Kris Ahrend, we find out where that money came from, who it is going to be paid out to, and when. What will the time frame be for additional collections and payouts moving forward? Get an inside look at this hist...