MusicTech Rewinder - Issue #100

Dear reader,

after quite a long summer break, I am back with the weekly "Music Tech Rewinder".

And because the break has been so long, this newsletter is basically a double edition with twice as many articles as normally.

I also just recently came across this Remote Experience Generator. Check it out and have fun playing with it.

Enjoy reading and have a wonderful weekend.

Cheers,

Matt

Join MIDI Association President Athan Billias, artiphon's Emma Supica and Oddball's Pasquale Totaro for a discussion of playful (and round) products that use MIDI from the June 2022 NAMM show Follow the bouncing ball as it sends

We have heard it (and said it) many times before: the music industry has never been as competitive as it is today. But the challenge is not just that today’s landscape is ultra-competitive, it is also...

From the 1950s onwards, there have been researchers exploring algorithmic composition using computers around the world.

In the following MBW op/ed, Dublin-based Barry Scannell copyright and authorship issues around AI-created art and music…

A dive into the controversial rise of the virtual music artist. As the industry continues to embrace technology and moves closer to the often hyped-up metaverse, we’re starting to see more and more examples of virtual artists taking the front stage, amassing huge followings, and causing controversy as they do so.

We recently announced our intention to develop the first new chart-accredited music format since 2015 - the Serenade Digital Pressing. Designed to cater to a super-fan’s appetite for scarcity, exclusive content, and community recognition, Digital Pressings are recognised by the UK and Australian chart bodies.

Now that the initial bloom has begun to come off the NFT rose, thorns are starting to poke through. Among the prickliest: legal uncertainty around NFT ownership and intellectual property rights; an…

Algorithm recommendations are an increasingly important subset of music discovery, but up to this day artists and their teams have no insight into streaming recommenders. Here's how Music Tomorrow is planning to fix that.

We explain how your money gets from you to a streaming platform, and finally to an artist.

3D Audio isn't just a fad. It's starting to sound like the future of music. Apple calls it Spatial Audio; Sony, 360 Reality Audio. Dolby calls it Atmos. But whatever you want to call it, 3D audio is starting to sound like the future of music.

The European Composer & Songwriter Alliance has welcomed a new report on the streaming market in Germany commissioned by German song rights collecting society GEMA which, it says, echoes many of the findings of the UK Parliament’s Economics Of Music Streaming inquiry.

It was 20 years ago today - Shazam, now an Apple subsidiary first launched and changed how the world identifies tunes. Here's a look back, including some obscure history

Some execs say Create Music Group games the system. Create says it doesn’t. They agree the system is full of errors.

As venues are becoming increasingly cashless, how to fairly handle high volume tips at the merchandise booth is the latest hot-button challenge in live music.

Social media verification is now a minefield of scams, schemes, and borderline unbelievable things people will do for that checkmark.

The idea that TikTok is changing the music industry should be old news to African musicians. The platform’s first #Amapiano festival was held in November 2021 after our homegrown genre reached 1.6 billion views over the course of the year.

YouTube says it still has its sights on overtaking Spotify as the music rights industry’s biggest partner by 2025 – although right now the two firms appear to be just about keeping pace with one another.

This week’s Trapital memo is brought to you by HitPiece. Discover new NFTs from your favorite artists through HitPiece Despite the controversial beta launch earlier this year, music NFT platform HitPiece has launched and revamped its service to better help today’s recording artists.

When we first formed MIDiA eight years ago, we saw the new entertainment world was going to require a new joined-up approach for entertainment businesses. With the start of the ascent of the smartphone, we made an intellectual bet that everything was going to become more interconnected, interdependent, and inter-competitive.