MusicTech Rewinder - Issue #49

Heya,

it's Friday and here comes this week's MusicTech Rewinder.

In case you have not seen it yet, I recommend checking out this awesome project. More than two years in the making "Music, Makers & Machines" is a virtual exhibition to explore the history and legacy of electronic music with Google Arts & Culture and YouTube.

Enjoy reading and have a wonderful weeekend.

Cheers,

Matt

A new hypothesis suggests the pandemic has accelerated trends affecting classical music by a decade.

In the first installment of a two-part story, we look at the evolution of vocal synthesis, from primitive speech-mimicking machines to modern software vocoders.

Twenty years ago, when the first generation of DRM technologies hit the market, one of the benefits they touted was that with DRM-packaged files, consumers could be sure that they were getting the genuine content from the source. For example, if the content was a scientific journal article with research results, they could be confident…

Much hype has been placed around the ‘User-Centric’ payment model for streaming. Deezer and Soundcloud have boasted of it’s ‘revolutionary’ qualities and many commentators have been calling for Spotify and Apple Music to move to a User-Centric payment model.

Following up on our recent article about how music professionals read into artist engagement rates, we wanted to focus on TikTok and its particularities. The social app is now essential for many yo…

Yesterday was the first day of SXSW 2021's online conference, including a chat between former WME music chief Marc Geiger and Pandora founder Tim Westergren – now working on their new ventures, venue network Savelive and livestreaming firm Sessions. The topic was timely: the explosion of ways for artists to connect with fans and to try to earn money.

Copyright has always lagged behind technology. Now that streaming is the dominant force in recorded music and UGC is becoming an ever greater source of income it’s time that the business of rights collection and allocation catches up with the tech. Whether the existing Collective Management Organisations (CMOs) are in a position to play catch

Music can be more than just entertainment and art. It can also have a deeper meaning and positive effects on our body. Music and sound can help us to be more self-aware and conscious Not only since the pandemic, and the right frequencies can reach areas in our brain that can trigger emotions or make pain disappear.

Join this new, hybrid, and scalable training scheme for music-tech innovators, entrepreneurs, startups, and SMEs across Europe. Discover high-potential and talented music-tech market players, who use innovative technologies (AI, VR, AR, 3D Audio, Big Data, Blockchain, Machine Learning) in order to create scalable and sustainable products and services for the music sector.

For this 5th batch, 10 start-ups will be selected to be part of the program. Teams will be individually coached by experienced entrepreneurs and music industry experts. The program will kick off with a series of workshops focused on entrepreneurship, innovation, and finance. These workshops will cover topics including sales, negotiations, investor relations, growth hacking, digital strategy, communications, and storytelling.