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Category Archives: Music
Music & Tech: Talk to Me with Ryan Leslie
Passionate and brilliant – Ryan Leslie is not like other artists. Understatement. I had an amazing chat with Ryan at last year’s Web Summit in Lisbon.
Posted in business, Events, Music, Social Media, Technology
Tagged #d2c, #musicnotes, #musictech, #sms, crm, mobile, scaleups, superphone, websummit
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Get Ready for Web Summit 2016
WebSummit 2016 is coming up next week, promising stimulating panels and networking opportunities for tech-minded attendees. Here’s where you can find me during the three-day event.
Posted in Events, Music, Technology
Tagged apple music, Facebook, kevin jonas, lisbon, lol wayne, ryan leslie, superphone, tidal, tinder, websummit, wto
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Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Musical Composition
When we think of artificial intelligence, robots exploring Mars or computers that can do instant language translations may come to mind. While advances in AI have come in leaps and bounds, what this technology is lacking is human sentience: the … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Technology
Tagged amper music, audio network, google, ibm, jukedeck, premiumbeat, project magenta
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Has The Digital Age Changed Our Relationship With Music?
Is our relationship with music changed because we no longer physically hold it? I look at how the lack of a physical product makes us value music differently, or worse, less.
Posted in Music, Technology
Tagged Brent Hansen, cds, digital age, live music, lizst, mozart, mtv, music, music gigs, music streaming services, records, spotify
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Web Summit 2015: Music, Us, and the Future
Web Summit 2015 promises to have a lot of interesting discussion surrounding music and digital trends. Read on to find out where I’ll be and what I’m excited to hear about.
Posted in Events, Music
Tagged Conductor, digital music, Eimear Noone, mtv, Web Summit, Zelda
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Why Music Needs Another Revolution
There hasn’t been a game changing revolution for unsigned artists since the start of the recording industry. That has to change and here’s why.
Posted in Advertising, Music, Social Media
Tagged artist underground music, bandsintown, franz liszt, frederic chopin, his master's voice, mtv, songkick, thomas edison
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Fanstrapping
I was at the Medialeaders event last night in London and met the Creative Director from Mavo Studio who is also a musician. Inevitably it comes up in the conversation – what does it take for a band to make … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Social Media, Technology
Tagged crm, indies, music, publishing, socialmedia
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Pandora: from the brink to an IPO
This is a great story. Music has a long history with technology and today’s digital age may have brought chaos to a business model created with the technology change for recorded music in the 20th century, but never changed the … Continue reading
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