Omid Rahmat came into the music business from the tech and app world in order to solve music creation workflow problems with Joyner Lucas — and now solves them for more than 350,000 creators through the Tully App. He talks about ways to limit tech and financial overhead costs for entrepreneurial song creators.
Ed Goldfarb sees and hears differently. Where you and I might be just talking, he hears background music and sees the notes. Listen in on Goldfarb’s journey from professionally accompanying performances to creating live music for Beach Blanket Babylon, to a multi-location production team for hundreds of Pokémon episodes and films.
What can emergency workers learn from music festivals? What can festivals do to help heal from disasters? Matthew Ché Kowal talks about how he is bringing these two questions together in Denver and beyond with his experience in running music festivals with a focus on sustainability and his work focused on mass gatherings.
Hazel Savage and her co-founder Aron Pettersson have built Musiio in Singapore to bring artificial intelligence to the messy large data sets of the music industry. She shares her own past in retail and streaming music in the UK and Australia, then shares how and why they formed Musiio.
In this week’s Innovating Music podcast, Don Pitts and Peter Schwarz from Sound Music Cities shared their experience performing music ecosystem audits for 4 cities.
Jeremy Gruber enjoys connecting artists, creators, and social impact forces directly with fans. He shared his adventures with Friends at Work, working with not only John Legend and Lindsey Stirling, but also emerging artists. We discussed the current state of streaming, playlists, and algorithms. He also shared his adventures in launching the music ad platform Found.ee.
Shelita joins the podcast to share how as an artist she uses data and emotions to connect with fans and create community — and to create music itself. Most of us think about data and music about marketing — which she has done well to attract more than 175,000 fans on a variety of platforms. Shelita also uses behavioral data, with fan permission, to design tracks to appeal to targeted emotions and life stories. In her recent album, she tells us of putting that process away and creating around emotion separate from data.
Storm Gloor has been tracking how songs succeed since he was a young teen . . . and now explores anything from how music cities can succeed and how one-hit wonders thrive (or don’t).
Rehan joined our podcast to discuss the second year of Emerge LV and share his journey on how he re-melds social justice and music in a Facebook-embedded era. He walks us down his path through college, Homeland Security, Atlantic City, the Cosmopolitan, and Life is Beautiful finally sharing the challenges and importance of reconnecting social justice and heartfelt artists in a politically laden and fractured time.
Paul Bradley talks about his adventures creating the tour management software system, Eventric. He shares how he started in band management and tour operations, along with being a drummer on tour. Paul discusses data security, predictive data, environmental trends, and other adventures on the road in music touring today.
