MusicTech Rewinder - Issue #29

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Matt

The Wire publisher asks: What is wrong with this industry? Why is it such a monoculture? What is wrong with the white people who run it, work in it, report on it, study in it?

Elon Musk‘s mysterious Neuralink startup is working on a brain-computer interface that will allow wearers to stream music directly to their brain, the technology entrepreneur has claimed. Mr Musk, who also heads SpaceX and Tesla, is set to reveal new information about the mysterious startup next month but has been slowly releasing details over Twitter in recent days.

We learn more about Quansic, the Swiss based company founded by metadata expert FX Nuttall that acts as "an interface between ISNI and the music industry".

Agreement with the National Music Publishers’ Association is effective retroactively as of May 1…

“The Spotify model” got a bunch of companies talking like Taylor Swift about startup culture, but four former Spotify employees reveal the truth: its eponymous way of working failed before it scaled.

Well, for some of us 2010 doesn’t actually seem to be a long time ago, however, a dramatic change happened during the period of 10 years in the music industry. In 2010, many of us listened to MP3 players, and, what’s more important still enjoyed listening to tracks on CDs.

Apple's AR headset or "Apple Glass" smart glasses may offer realistic sound effects to go with its digital imagery laid over a real-world view, by accurately reproducing a sound in such a way that it matches where the sound would come from in 3D space.

Songs written by 'Weird A.I. Yankovic' are getting flagged for violating copyright. Its creator says they should be protected by Fair Use.

Spotify announced its latest financial results yesterday, with growth in listeners and subscribers at the top end of its forecasts.

According to my own research, coupled with publicly available data from Crunchbase, around 60 music-tech startups raised under $300 million in total funding in the first half of 2020. Compared to the first six months of 2019, that's a 40% dip in the number of music-tech startups funded, and at least a 60% dip in the amount of capital raised.

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