MusicTech Rewinder - Issue #75

Hi and happy Friday,

This will be the last edition of the MusicTech Rewinder for this year.

Check out this great project from Doja Cat who partnered with "Girls Who Code" to create a music video that also teaches basic programming.

In case you are struggling to fall asleep, try out listening to the Ambient White Noise of Nature, Captured From Sites Around the World.

Enjoy reading the news and have a wonderful weekend.

I wish you happy holidays and a fulminant start in 2022.

Until next year,

Matt

The metaverse won't be complete without customized sonic identities and a matching social audio experience that makes the digital representation seamless.

This is a guest post from MIDiA's Keith Jopling in which he dives into some of the key insights he has gleaned from talking to artists as part of his side-hustle 'Art of Longevity' podcast (which you should check out if you haven't already done so!) This year I had the pleasure of working with…

Kris Ahrend, CEO of The MLC, on The Mechanical Licensing Collective

Notes on the power of 1000 invested fans

Securitizing music royalties and selling them to fans was first trialed back in 1997 by David Bowie with the Bowie Bond. In recent years, as streaming has solidified into a strong business model for…

Tinder is partnering with Spotify to launch a new “Music Mode” feature where users will hear a 30-second looped preview of a potential match’s chosen song while checking out their profile. Users who link their Spotify accounts and add a chosen song, called an “Anthem,” to their Tinder profiles will be able to enter Music […]

Utopia is a Swiss music tech company that wants to help the industry better understand data, unlock new revenue streams, and reduce friction wherever possible. To accelerate that goal it has announced its new Creator Services division, wrote a creator rights white paper with MiDIA, and made several moves in recent months. Recent acquisitions: – […]

Music is at the heart of the TikTok experience. It's the glue that connects TikTok's disparate threads, providing a throughline between individuals and communities who bring their own spin to the late

Piracy hasn’t disappeared, as the teams within labels and industry bodies doing anti-piracy work will tell you. But it’s very much not the paralysing bogie-man of yore.

Kanye West’s new invention is the Stem Player, created in partnership with Kano Computing and Yeezy Tech. Kano CEO Alex Klein tells the story behind the device.

The shape of music/Web3 tooling is more exciting and diverse than ever before. New platforms are launching weekly to help artists leverage NFTs, social tokens, and DAO infrastructure to create new economic models around creativity and fan engagement.

Technology has caused a symphony of shifts for songwriters, with the ingenuity of new formats and studio equipment driving significant changes in what kinds of music are popular and what kinds are possible.