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How to Startup: A Podcast Series for Music Tech Founders

Christian Harp (RPS)

May 7

How to Startup: A Podcast Series for Music Tech Founders

In the “How To Startup” series, host Dmitri Vietze talks to advisors and investors who understand the evolving music innovation landscape.

Music Tectonics

Mar 9, 2023

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Meet up with Music Tectonics in Austin!

Dmitri, Shayli, Tristra, and Travis from the Music Tectonics/ Rock Paper Scissors team are all heading to Austin for SXSW! Here are our...

The Lithosphere: An Interview with Rapper and Singer-Songwriter ILENE

Christine Brackenhoff

Mar 25, 2022

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The Lithosphere: An Interview with Rapper and Singer-Songwriter ILENE

Memphis-based rapper and singer-songwriter ILENE found an outlet in BandLab, an app that combines music making and collaboration tools...

UPDATED for July! Weekly Websdays: Meet Up with Music Tech Leaders Every Wednesday

Music Tectonics

Jun 26, 2020

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UPDATED for July! Weekly Websdays: Meet Up with Music Tech Leaders Every Wednesday

To keep the conversations going, Music Tectonics is continuing Weekly Websdays, an online music tech meetup.

Bodyfulness: Changing the way we hear fitness (and love our bodies)

Tristra Newyear Yeager

Feb 12, 2020

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Bodyfulness: Changing the way we hear fitness (and love our bodies)

Music can transform our health. Music tech will help us do it. In the West, we have a specific notion of mind/body dichotomy. To...

Pandatamonium: What we know and don’t know about the risks of user data and privacy in music tech

Tristra Newyear Yeager

Dec 16, 2019

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Pandatamonium: What we know and don’t know about the risks of user data and privacy in music tech

The problem with this problem is we don’t know just how problematic it is, especially in markets like the US. We don’t know all the players.

Music Has Been Sliced Into Smaller and Smaller Pieces: A Seismic Shift

Dmitri Vietze

Aug 20, 2019

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Music Has Been Sliced Into Smaller and Smaller Pieces: A Seismic Shift

The technology we use to listen to and make music is changing the very nature of music. Maximum album length was determined by how much data

Here Comes Voice: If you’re an artist or music marketer it’s time to pay attention

Lars Murray

Aug 7, 2019

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Here Comes Voice: If you’re an artist or music marketer it’s time to pay attention

It’s very easy to play music via voice commands (Spotify, Google, Pandora, Amazon and Apple are on the case), and music is by far the #1 use

Dmitri Vietze

Jul 23, 2019

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Music is Like Water: A Seismic Shift

In a 2002 profile in the New York Times, David Bowie said, “'The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music

Dmitri Vietze

Jul 12, 2019

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Humpty Dumpty: A Seismic Shift

Music Tectonics has identified several seismic shifts that have created the music landscape of today and tomorrow. These are climate changes

Global Takeover: Making Babies Means More Paying Music Fans

Dmitri Vietze

Jul 5, 2019

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Global Takeover: Making Babies Means More Paying Music Fans

Globalization has been powering seismic shifts on planet Earth for hundreds of years. Now the world is shrinking faster than ever as nationa

Make Music, Not Tone-deaf Conjectures about Robots

Tristra Newyear Yeager

Jun 14, 2019

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Make Music, Not Tone-deaf Conjectures about Robots

This one-off goofy statement by a VC points to something greater: There is a surprising tone-deafness among many in tech--not all, but too m

Why the Hate? Spotify is the Icebreaker Powered by Music

Dmitri Vietze

May 29, 2019

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Why the Hate? Spotify is the Icebreaker Powered by Music

I see Spotify as the icebreaker, the nuclear ship that created a new path when the entire music industry froze over. Everyone in America was

Malcontent: What tacit knowledge, wage inequality, and the proliferation of content in 16th- and 17t

Tristra Newyear Yeager

May 13, 2019

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Malcontent: What tacit knowledge, wage inequality, and the proliferation of content in 16th- and 17t

“I have songwriting credits, even though I don’t know how to write a song.” --Oleg Savitsky of AI music generation app Endel (speaking...

Braided headwaters: Neaderthals, AI, and our future together

Tristra Newyear Yeager

Mar 27, 2019

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Braided headwaters: Neaderthals, AI, and our future together

The story of the Neanderthals is instructive when we start thinking about AI. We’re in that headwater moment, and yet we seem to think we’re

Music Tectonics

Mar 25, 2019

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Announcing the First Music Tectonics Conference: The Epicenter of Music and Tech

Technological innovations continue to create an exciting new landscape in the music industry. PR firm rock paper scissors is launching the f

Music Tech at NAMM: Software, Cloud-based Creation, and Metadata

Jade Prieboy

Feb 18, 2019

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Music Tech at NAMM: Software, Cloud-based Creation, and Metadata

The 2019 NAMM show got me very excited about new beatmaking hardware, but innovation isn’t just about gear. We also met music industry...

Jade Prieboy

Feb 4, 2019

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NAMM 2019: New Gear for Making Beats

I walked away from NAMM’s 2019 show full of inspiration and ideas. I’m excited for the future of the music technology space, especially...

The Work of Art in the Age of Infinite Reproduction:
How Artificial Intelligence is the Most Recent

Tristra Newyear Yeager

Sep 25, 2018

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The Work of Art in the Age of Infinite Reproduction: How Artificial Intelligence is the Most Recent

With thanks to Amadeus Code co-founder Taishi Fukuyama, for his thoughts on AI, art, and value, rock paper scissors writer/strategist...

Music Tectonics

Mar 23, 2018

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How our storytelling has pivoted

In 1999, Dmitri Vietze founded rock paper scissors, inc., a PR firm dedicated to promoting global musicians. Today, his company employs...