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Innovating Music: Tech & Transformation
by Rethink Next LLC
AI, blockchain, and streaming are rewriting the rules of music. 🎶 Host Gigi Johnson talks with artists, innovators, and industry leaders transforming how music is created, shared, and experienced. Gigi brings you conversations with leading experts, creators, and entrepreneurs shaping the sound and business of tomorrow. Discover how AI is revolutionizing audio editing and data management, how blockchain is creating new paradigms for ticketing and artist payments, and how live music experiences are transforming through digital streams and new production methods. We explore the evolving landscape for independent artists, new monetization strategies, and the challenges and opportunities in local and global music markets, from Los Angeles to China and Latin America. Whether you're an artist, industry professional, or a curious fan, Innovating Music offers insightful perspectives on the cutting edge of music and tech. Tune in to unde
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Jordy Freed on Reinventing Your Career and Shaping Sony’s Audio Future
Jordy Freed from Sony Corporation of America shared his journey from jazz saxophone and building websites to public relations and marketing. Twists and turns took him to radio, Blue Note, Grey Advertising, and finally to Sony. He shares the stories of his twists and turns and the challenges of...
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How SoundExchange's Mike Huppe fell in love with IP
Michael Huppe, CEO of SoundExchange, fell in love with IP and came into music through law. He had played keyboard and trombone as a young person and ended up at the Recording Industry Association of America, which led him to SoundExchange. He shares how SoundExchange is also a tech company…
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Dave Ratner on Creative Law & Innovation
Dave Ratner moved from skiing to managing bands into law, and now works with creative companies out of Boulder, CO to understand how to maneuver so many different new opportunities in music. He talks of innovation in his own life as to how to add capabilities, learn by doing, and then add that in...
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Kevin Breuner on Thriving as an Artist in the Streaming Era
Many of our guests move on a nonlinear line between jobs and ideas. Kevin in one of our few guests who has been with a single company -- CD Baby -- for a long period of time. He shares his journey with both CD Baby and as an artist with Small Town Poets. We talk about challenges exploring new...
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Jessica Powell on Her Journey to a New AI Company
Jessica's journey -- what a ride! Music change agent Jessica Powell shares her Roads Taken, ranging from following a now-ex boyfriend across countries to using her languages at CISAC and on a wild boar farm (!!) -- to Google London, Google Asia, and to her current AI and Stems startup…
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Bonus: Postcard Moments with Gigi Johnson
We are in post-production on new episodes, so our host, Gigi Johnson, shared a story about "Postcards" and Postcard Moments that has come up in prior episodes and in many recent conversations. She shares how a single postcard created a pivot that changed her direction when a TA offered the...
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Bruno Guez from Revelator on Simplifying Indie Label Complexity
Bruno shares his saga from playing the drums and enjoying international music, mixing songs and culture from Tunisia, France, and LA. Those facets led to studying at UCLA Ethnomusicology, becoming a DJ at KCRW, and building a record label in his living room. He shared work in place-based music…
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Dick Huey on Educated Luck and Building Digital Bridges
[Enjoy our podcast this week that we share with our sister Maremel Network podcast, Creative Innovators.] Dick Huey claims that his career jumps have been "educated luck." "Because they they are luck. And I'm, I'm I don't ever pretend that I have more information than everybody else does. But I...
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Morgan Hayduck from Beatdapp on Building Blockchain and Music Tools
Morgan Hayduk initially aimed for basketball and law -- and thank goodness kept going into building new tools and working with large organizations to fight fraud and manipulation in streaming music. He shares with us his adventures in building his personal Toolkit of marketing, scaling, and…
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Jack Conte - Innovation is Messy
Enjoy this final episode where Jack Conte blends the worlds of music creation (Pomplamoose and Scary Pockets) and solving creators’ problems with systems (crowdfunding and community with Patreon). He shares how he balances (or doesn’t balance at times) creating music with running a large tech...
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Ted Cohen - Everything Old is New Again
This week on the Innovating Music Podcast, we are joined by Ted Cohen, who shared tales of doing things for the right reasons and seeing decades ago the dimensions of our current music streaming playlists and challenges. He talks about genuineness of artists vs. overproduction in livestreaming…
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Dmitri Vietze - Livestreaming and Live Connecting
A year ago, Dmitri Vietze launched a new thought leadership conference on music technology in Los Angeles, and had to move it with one day's notice. This year, he has moved his whole thought leadership with Music Tectonics online with virtual conferences and community gatherings. He shares his...
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Connecting the Music World: Portia Sabin, Music Business Association
This week on the Innovating Music Podcast, we talk with Music Business Association President, Portia Sabin about the ways in which the music business is connected as a community. We discuss her journey through the music industry from performing as an artist to running a record label. We also look...
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Jay Gilbert on Reconnecting to Virtual Audiences
Innovation often answers the call to action made by changing environments. In this week’s podcast, we talk with Jay Gilbert, photographer and co-founder of Label Logic, about the new challenges artists in the music industry face in light of social-distancing and what their “new normal” will be as...
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Stefan Sculz on Blockchain as Buffet
In this week’s podcast, Stefan Schulz, CEO and co-founder of Bitfury Surround, joins us to discuss the potential of blockchain technology for connecting not just content, but data and new value chains for content. Coming from a rich background at the intersection of music, business and evolving...
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Akira Nakano on Learning to Compose Virtually
Technology transforms the way in which we view opportunities and often creates new ones. This week on the Innovating Music Podcast, we rethink learning and education in music with UCLA alumnus Akira Nakano, the President and Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Inception Orchestra. We look…
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Bridging Fans to Live Streams with Fabrice Sergent
Adaptation is key when it comes to technology and innovation. In this week’s podcast, we discuss how technology evolves to fit the ever-changing dynamic between artists and their fan-bases with Fabrice Sergent, the co-founder and CEO of Bandsintown. We look at new ways in which Bandsintown…
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Evolution of the Creative Workflow with Michael Gitig
Circumstances can spark innovation when changing work environments require new solutions. This week on the Innovating Music Podcast, we talk with Michael Gitig of G-Technology about the transformation of digital workflows and how his operation has transformed to connect "create from home" film…
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Shain Shapiro on Policy and Innovation Bringing Cities Together
This week on the Innovating Music Podcast, we discuss innovation in public policy with Shain Shapiro. He is the founder and CEO of Sound Diplomacy, an organization that works together with a wide range of clientele from city councils to property developers and more, in order to help music in…
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Andrew Mason on AI Revolutionizing Media Editing with Descript
Andrew Mason, CEO of Descript, shares how AI-powered, text-based editing is transforming audio and video production for creators everywhere. Guest: Andrew Mason, Founder and CEO, Descript Andrew Mason is founder and CEO of Descript. He formerly founded Groupon in 2008 and as CEO grew the company...
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Kate Becker on Public Health Outreach for Mass Gatherings
In this special episode, we share the WebCall last week to hear what was happening on the ground in Seattle, WA and King County, WA, in the face of the COVID-19 closure of music venues and live experiences. Kate Becker talks about how King County is responding to the virus, what they are telling...
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Twitch Streaming for Musicians with Karen Allen
Karen Allen helps decode and make simpler streaming music for artists on Twitch. Twitch is a live streaming service, bought by Amazon in 2014, and has 2.2 million daily broadcasters and 15 million daily average viewers. It is mostly gamers, but also has creative and music channels for its highly...
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Scratch Mixes to Pirate Radio to Software Instruments with Matt Black, Ninja Tune
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…
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Kwende Kefentse on City Shapes, Streets, Layers, and Ecosystems
Kwende Kefentse, both DJ Memetic and Music Lead for the City of Ottawa, and our host dig into the urban terrain, urban fabric, and politics of the city and music. He speaks deeply about urban terrain, urban fabric, and music, with the lens of "urban morphology" from his architecture studies in...
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Bonus: Updates on Move to Wed. and Live Events
We're just sharing quick news that we are now 4 years into the Innovating Music podcast adventures and thank you for your friendship and community. We're shifting to Wednesday releases and planning upcoming live events/recordings. Let us know of suggested events, places, and guests you would like...
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Jesse Elliott on Making a Music City Home: Ft. Collins, CO
Jesse Elliott helped create The Music District to support and work with music ecosystems in Ft. Collins, CO. He shares his earlier work with Richard Florida, his journey as a musician and a creative community organizer. Jesse shares the challenges and unique pilots that have worked locally, and…
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Roman Rappak on Recording, Live, Virtual, and Augmenting Experiences
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...
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Andrew Goren - From a Sketch to an App to Change How We Sing
Andrew Goren at 20 has built Harmony Helper, a newly launched app, from his own experiences and observations in the live stage rehearsal and audition environment. He has built his undergraduate program around this work, and brought together a team of professionals to see it launched. Andrew…
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Kristen Agee - Violin to Bass to One-Stop Shop CEO
Kristen Agee has made her way from classical violin in Oklahoma to touring and studio bass to . . . CEO of a production music, publishing, and custom music company. She has built a one-stop shop and has learned a lot along the way. She shares the power of Asking, including her story about asking...
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Omid Rahmat - Create and Collaborate in the Palm of Your Hand
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 Dhruv Joshi -- and now solves them for more than 350,000 creators through the Tully App. He talks in this podcast episode about ways to limit tech and...
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Ed Goldfarb - From Piano and Beach Blanket Babylon to Pokémon
Ed Goldfarb sees and hears differently. Where you and I might be just talking, he is hearing background music and seeing the notes in a manuscript. Ed shares with us his journey from professionally accompanying performances as a youth to creating live music for years for Beach Blanket Babylon in...
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Matthew Ché Kowal on the Art of Mass Gatherings
Matthew Ché Kowal is innovative in looking at a very specific set of overlaps in music. He has parlayed his experience in running festivals focusing on sustainability into work focused on mass gatherings. What can emergency workers learn from music festivals? What can festivals do to help heal…
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Hazel Savage on Artificial Intelligence + Messy Music Data
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. It already...
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- Don Pitts and Peter SchwarzMusic Cities: Connecting Stories
Don and Peter shared their experience performing music ecosystem audits for four cities. The 2015 Austin Music Census and their continuing studies of Charlotte, Pittsburgh, and Washington DC are more than doing a venue count. They gather the personal, qualitative stories of local life as an…
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Jeremy Gruber - Connecting Creators and Social Impact with Fans
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....
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Shelita Burke on Data and Emotions: Painting on a Canvas
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....
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Storm Gloor on Music Cities and Evolving Songs
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). We enjoyed talking about how cities create and sustain music scenes with help from civic organizations, which may...
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Rehan Choudhry on Social Justice Melded with Music
Rehan Choudhry joined our podcast to discuss the upcoming second year of Emerge LV -- and to share his journey on how he re-melds social justice and music in this Facebook-embedded era. He walked us down his path through college, Homeland Security, Atlantic City, the Cosmopolitan, and Life is...
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Paul Bradley on Complexity on the Road
Paul Bradley joined the podcast to talk about his adventures creating the tour management software system, Eventric. He shared how he started in band management and tour operations, along with being a drummer on tour, and created databases on a Compaq computer on Filemaker software. After years…
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Laura Escudé on Changing Limiting Beliefs
In this week's podcast, we enjoy Laura Escudé taking us on a tour of live performance music . . . and touring . . . and breaking negative beliefs about performance and ability through tech tools. She mixes Ableton Live, her own violin skills, tools like the Unreal game engine, and major tours and...
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An Invitation: Amplify Music in Los Angeles
This brief episode features our host and Center director, Gigi Johnson, sharing an invitation to join us in person at UCLA (while supplies last) or via Zoom online for our May 15 Conference on Amplifying Music in Our Los Angeles. Gigi shares the questions that other Music Cities are asking -- how...
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Amadea Choplin - Down the Music Data Rabbit Hole
In this week's podcast, Amadea Choplin, the COO from Pex, takes us down the online music data rabbit hole. She shares how official music distribution is just the beginning of the adventures of distributed songs, and how on average 99% of top artists' music use has moved beyond the original…
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Marivi Valcourt on Marrying Tech and Opera
Marivi is connecting digital marketing to a more traditional, low-tech, multilingual art form. She shares practical ideas for building local audience while learning from other cities and building tourism tools for our local opera scene. She also shares ways to work with cultural and lifestyle...
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Seth Schachner on Connecting Artists and Tech
Seth Schachner returned to discuss the changes afoot in music and tech deal-making. Enjoy this continuing conversation of how deals are being made between artists and new technologies, and how artists and managers can think about connecting with new technologies in their marketing. Guest: Seth...
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Iris Wu and Pei-Lun Hsieh on One More Canvas to Play With
Iris Wu and Pei-Lun Hsieh from Ambidio were inspired to understand and create new ways for creative artists to design immersive sound for "regular" playback on computers, laptops, and phones. In this podcast, they share their journey in experimenting, connecting with Skywalker sound, and getting…
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Jay Le Boeuf on Forging Human Connection
Jay LeBoeuf created Real Industry when he was guest lecturing and realized that his students did not really see what jobs and careers were out there in music in technology. After four years of growth, Real Industry now brings together 40 colleges and universities, mentors from around music and...
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Ross Gardiner on Los Angeles: Building a Grassroots Movement
Ross Gardiner is co-launching the Los Angeles Nightlife Alliance, convening a group to bring together a love of LA's nightlife, government savvy, and community organizing. He shares his stories of how efforts in Berlin, Amsterdam, and London led to efforts in New York, which has led to this...
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Seth Schachner on Digital Journeys, Old and New
Seth Schachner shared a great history of how he has been able to be a long-time deal guy, helping with diverse deals in changing industries. He is now working across sectors to bring together deals across virtual reality, social music, spatial audio, and other arenas with skills he gained working...
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Stephen White on DJs as Curators in this Streaming Era
Stephen White shared his journey from Madison, WI, to various ventures combining music, communities, DJing, and tech, which led him to Gracenote and now Dubset and MixBANK. He shared his observations on early streaming and in shifting from one type of B2B model to another. He discussed...
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Siddhartha Khosla on Creating TV with Acoustic Heart
Siddhartha Khosla is making magic on TV, combining acoustic instruments with rapid inspiration and all the benefits of remote teams and production. He is at the heart of music creation in this abundant world of peak TV, working across shows at his home studio with a remote team, while recording…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
AI, blockchain, and streaming are rewriting the rules of music. 🎶 Host Gigi Johnson talks with artists, innovators, and industry leaders transforming how music is created, shared, and experienced.
Gigi brings you conversations with leading experts, creators, and entrepreneurs shaping the sound and business of tomorrow. Discover how AI is revolutionizing audio editing and data management, how blockchain is creating new paradigms for ticketing and artist payments, and how live music experiences are transforming through digital streams and new production methods.
We explore the evolving landscape for independent artists, new monetization strategies, and the challenges and opportunities in local and global music markets, from Los Angeles to China and Latin America. Whether you're an artist, industry professional, or a curious fan, Innovating Music offers insightful perspectives on the cutting edge of music and tech.
Tune in to unde
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