MusicTech Rewinder - Issue #60

June 04, 2021

Happy Friday,

here comes your weekly music tech digest.

I came across this great research article about music, computing, and health. Describing a Roadmap for the current and future roles of music technology for health care and wellbeing.

Enjoy reading this week's other news and have a wonderful weekend.

Cheers,

Matt

Everyone streams music. Musicians make pennies. Is Spotify to blame?

Music rightsholders get paid astonishing amounts of money, but most artists cannot make a living from their art. All the major DSPs love throwing around the big numbers they pay out to ‘the industry.’

Music charity Youth Music will tomorrow open its new NextGen Fund for young people starting out in the music industry. Recipients will be given up to £2500 to launch a project, idea or business.

Decentralized ownership registries helped enable digital art’s NFT boom of the past year. Next, blockchain, the distributed ledger technology, will underpin fanbases and the way artists build careers, teams, and engage with industry infrastructure.

YouTube has announced that it has paid out $4 billion to the music business over the past year.

Twitch told its users on Friday (May 28) that it's been sent a "batch" of new take down notifications…

AI is changing the way we make and listen to music. Discover how deep learning is crafting the entertainment of the future.

The music industry is deeply dependent on the affordances provided by social media. Active and co-creative music consumers and fans are sought, used, tracked, and taken for granted in the quest for strong music brands music industry must develop sophisticated methods for using fandom as a marketing device, together with spreadable transmedia storytelling.

As Staccs helps artists and rights owners collect better royalty payments, it is also uncovering new, untapped commercial opportunities in the music industry.

Sound gets into our brains and processed so quickly that it shapes all other perceptions, says neuroscientist Seth Horowitz. "You hear anywhere from 20 to 100 times faster than you see."