MusicTech Rewinder - Issue #42

Dear reader,

enjoy your weekend and reading this newsletter.

I stumbled upon this TED talk from Tod Machover which I still find fascinating even though it's already thirteen years old.

Cheers,

Matt

Bopper Introduces New Voice-Assisted Technology Feature For Music Licensing — www.broadwayworld.com

These days, it feels as if you can ask Alexa, Siri, or Google anything, and they can provide you with any information you ask for without you lifting a finger. Why is this not the case when searching for music to use for ads, film, and TV? Bopper Music is about to change that. 

WMG teams up with FMG for Adaptr startups licensing platform — musically.com

Warner Music Group has teamed up with Feed Media Group to launch an initiative that aims to make it easier for startups to license music.

Audius has raised nearly $10m for its Spotify rival. Can its blockchain-based model change the game for artist payments? — www.musicbusinessworldwide.com

Does Audius offer a viable and more ethical alternative to music streaming?

Making Sense of the New Blanket Mechanical License and the Mechanical Licensing Collective — musictech.solutions

If you are an independent songwriter confused about the MLC and getting paid, you'll find this webinar helpful.

Spotify’s latest invention monitors your speech, determines your emotional state… and suggests music based on it — www.musicbusinessworldwide.com

New patent reveals Spotify's ambitions to monitor users'

New report calls for major support for European creative industries, which can then play a key role in the post-COVID recovery — completemusicupdate.com

A new report commissioned by collecting society grouping GESAC and produced by EY argues that Europe’s cultural and creative industries have been among the hardest hit by the COVID crisis but, at the same time, have a key role to play in the recovery of each European nation once the pandemic is over.

The Oral History of 'Guitar Hero' — www.vice.com

How to accidentally change the world.

Don’t Split The Streams — Part 6 — Searching for consolidated, purposeful, actionable streaming music data — musicdatapro.medium.com

In the previous installment of this series, I detailed seven reasons independent artists and/or their marketing and management teams should focus their marketing efforts on specific streaming…

The Evolution of Music in Video Games — www.electronicbeats.net

Games are to the 21st century what cinema, pop, and TV were to the 20th century—the most important and most innovative entertainment medium of our time.

A Riveting Indian Classical Concert, Captured On 'That Which Colors The Mind'

The new live album That Which Colors the Mind, recorded in 1970 by Grateful Dead sound man Owsley Stanley, captures a riveting performance by Ali Akbar Khan, Zakir Hussain and Indranil Bhattacharya.