Andrew Mason, Founder and CEO of Descript, an AI-driven transcription software that promises to make audio editing as simple as using a word processor, discusses the role of Descript in the current work-from-home experiment, as well as the features the company is rolling out to make podcasting more accessible to everyone.
Kate Becker talks about how music venues and live experiences in King County are responding to the coronavirus and sharing lessons learned throughout this process of pandemic and public health.
Twitch is a live streaming service utilized mostly by gamers, but also has creative and music channels for its highly creative audience. Karen Allen helps uncover the platform’s various fan bases and how the engagement on twitch is different than other platforms.
In this week’s Innovating Music podcast, Matt Black has been intrigued by computers since reading “The Shockwave Rider” from a bookmobile in his small English village of his youth. Since then, he has created scratch mixes from a set of decks across London warehouse parties in the late 1980s, pirate radio, become the band Coldcut, created major hits, launched the label Ninja Tune, and developed mad programming skills. He builds what he calls “software instruments” for the iPad and (when he can) Android, expanding this year from Ninja Jam to JammPro, letting artists make their own tracks.
Kwende Kefentse, digs into the urban terrain, fabric, and politics of the city and music, with the lens of “urban morphology” hitting topics ranging the origins of hip hop in the South Bronx, trends in music cities where industry and community connect, the industry as an intermediator, city metabolisms for music, missing dynamic models, and the role of media.
Jesse Elliott helped create The Music District to support and work with music ecosystems in Ft. Collins, CO. He shares his journey as a musician, a creative community organizer, and the challenges and unique pilots that have worked locally and globally.
At the age of 20, Andrew Goren brought together a team of professionals to launch the Harmony Helper app, which he developed from his own experiences and observations of live stage rehearsal and audition environments. Enjoy this perspective on building needed tools and think about your own journey . . . what could you have built by the age of 20?
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.
Kristen Agee, CEO of 411 Music Group, shares the power of Asking, about technologies and tools that help her run and understand this IP-driven business, and how to create opportunities with persistence, great teams, and stepping forward to learn.
