Innovating Music Podcast
Listen to innovators, change agents, entrepreneurs, creators, and researchers who all are making big leaps, nudging change, creating differently, or watching what is happening from a unique POV. Dr. Gigi Johnson from the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music explores with our guests how tech is transforming how we create, collaborate, and create communities around music in a connected age — in our home towns and in communities across the globe.
This Episode
Roman Rappak is forging ahead on two parallel tracks — creating recorded music for traditional channels and creating new systems to create mixed reality experience with the same music in live environments. Enjoy this episode where he talks about what drives him on these parallel and interwoven journeys with his new band, Miro Shot, and how they are building their own systems and processes to create a new type of live/virtual engagement for audiences.
Guest: Roman Rappak, Lead Singer, Miro Shot; Founder, Mirocolabs
Roman Rappak is the lead singer of the band Miro Shot, releasing their debut album on AllPoints Records and Warp Publishing in 2020. CEO and Founder of Mirocolabs, a VR/AR content creation studio, and live events company. He has toured internationally, released two full-length albums with his last band Breton, appearing at festivals, on live TV and radio. He has won awards for short films and produced a live cinema/music show called Surrounded that toured from the UK to Australia, as well as directing music videos for artists such as Sinead O’Connor and music for brands such as Dior, Hermes, and Givenchy.
- Band Website
- Mirocolabs
- Twitter @romanrappak and @miro_shot
- Instagram @miro_shot
- All Points Music
- Warp Publishing
- Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson (2003)
- Ready Player One (book) by Ernest Cline (2011)
- Beat Saber (VR game)
- Cannes XR
- YouTube for Music Videos
- Miro Shot live immersive concert demo video
- Articles: Forbes, BBC Art & Culture, Clash Magazine, Spindle Magazine, Vox pop (Audience Reactions)
- Voices Of VR Podcast
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