Music Tectonics

What’s the official online home of Queen? It’s not Queen.com, it’s Queenonline.com. Kiss.com? Nothing to do with the band- it’s a dating website. Constantine Roussos imagines a better web experience,…

Just after TuneFork’s win at the Midemlab pitch session in the Experiential Technologies category, CEO Tomer Shor came by the traveling podcast studio. When you listen to the same song as your friend…

Audio for marketing isn’t just about jingles any more- it’s about a complete sound experience created by ads and the products themselves. This week on the Music Tectonics podcast, Veritonic co-founde…

Fresh from ClicknClear’s win at the Midemlab pitch session in the Music Discovery & Distribution category, Chantal Epp came by the traveling podcast studio. Chantal is a music licensing cheerleader- …

After Legitary won the Midemlab pitch session in the Data & Analytics category, CEO Nermina Mumic sat down with podcast host Dmitri Vietze in Cannes for a chat. How is Legitary prying open the “black…

Roy LaManna of Vydia stopped by the #MidemTectonics traveling podcast studio to talk about how Vydia empowers the next generation of music creators, managers, and labels. Their platform provides the …

Would you rather work in a busy cafe or a woodland clearing? When you’re trying to get to sleep, do you want to hear soft rainfall or an ethereal harp melody? Lonofi lets you compose ambient soundsca…

What if your playlist could adapt to how you’re feeling? Bosco Bellinghausen created Alissia Music to make music listening more personalized. He sat down with podcast host Dmitri Vietze in Cannes to …

Music Tectonics at Midem continues! Sophie Ziessel and Myriam Caron stopped by the podcast booth to explain how Muzeek’s “augmented composer” provides soundtrack music that can be tailored to fit vid…

Midem is over, but our Music Tectonics at Midem series continues! Listen in as Hazel Savage chats with Dmitri Vietze about how her career began at a little startup called Shazam- maybe you’ve heard o…

What’s keeping you from creating your own new music? Aviv Ben Yehuda designed the game Big Ear to make music creation and sharing approachable for the neophyte. At Midem, Aviv chatted with podcast ho…

Emma McGann is one of the first artists to create and launch her own Amazon Alexa skill. It all started when Emma was livestreaming on YouNow. When she asked her smartspeaker to turn on the lights, t…

Music Tectonics at Midem continues with Dan Dewar of Paperchain, a fintech company creating solutions for music biz problems with a real-time payment model. Paperchain is a 2019 Midemlab finalist. Th…

Tim Exile met up with us in Cannes to chat about Endlesss, a virtual place where you can make and share music in the moment, solo or with friends. Tim’s goal is to make music part of the short-form c…

Straight from Cannes, a Midem interview with Twitter’s Kevin O'Donnell! Kevin heads music partnerships at Twitter, where he works with artists to best market their brands and tell their stories on th…

Listen to Mark Mulligan’s electric Midem keynote address, recorded earlier today in Cannes! Mark, a long term music industry analyst and the managing director of MIDiA Research, presents the 10 trend…

Get ready for Midem with Marjorie Paillon! Marjorie hosts and produces #TECH24, France 24’s tech and innovation magazine show. As a journalist, presenter and producer, she covers topics ranging from …

Why are five thousand music industry pros from eighty countries descending on Cannes? Midem, the leading international event for the global music community, kicks off soon! We chat with Midem directo…

CEO and president Mike Huppe digs into all the ways SoundExchange works to make the music industry more fair and frictionless through the tools they provide and the advocacy they do. In this candid i…

Voice interaction is at a tipping point, and Vocalize.ai is there rigorously evaluating voice interfaces in apps and hardware. This week on the Music Tectonics podcast, Vocalize.ai founder & CEO Joe …