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How Creative Industries Are Refining Automation For Discovery
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HypeBot
By John Kohl, Leader and Founder of music discovery platform TuneGO. Recent discussions around automation are centered on making sense of the mass of data that lives online. After all, there’s no reason any market shouldn’t take advantage of the wealth of information users leave behind on the Internet like golden breadcrumbs. A broad spectrum of industries, from entertainment to fitness to home décor, is using that information to help automate previously manual actions by making high volumes of content and information digestible and available for ...
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Song Catalog Finances - The Future Of Music Publishing
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HypeBot
By Luiz Augusto Buff from Berklee College of Music's Music Business Journal. After the music industry was shocked in the early 2000s by the growth of piracy and file sharing, many investors were skeptical about the future of music publishing assets, worried that the value of songs would decrease significantly due to consumer’s free access to music. However, the rise of legal alternatives for music consumption offered listeners a way to access music conveniently and affordably, while at the same time compensating publishers ...
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MusicTank Introduces First Think Tank Of 2015 – Is Data The New Oil?
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HypeBot
MusicTank, University of Westminster, has opened the floor for its first Think Tank Debate of 2015: Is Data The New Oil? The question originated from the observation of the unrelenting shift today’s music industry is making toward being data smart. Data has undeniably jumped in the drivers seat, informing the decisions of industry professionals ranging from top tier executives to the newest emerging artists. Taking place within a new platform, Future Thinking, to profile outstanding postgraduate music business talent drawn ...
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Artful jazz with a few twists
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
Sarasota-based Bill Buchman is an artful guy. He's a renowned painter and art teacher. The several places he teaches these days include the Venice FL Art Center. On Thursday, January 22, he set his brushes aside and wore a different hat - as a very fine jazz pianist. Buchman teamed up with bassist Don Mopsick and drummer Chuck Parr in the South County Jazz Club's matinee performance series in the Art Center's main gallery. Over two sets, Bachman, Mopsick and ...
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Soaring Music Launches The Grand Opening Of Bassist Greg Nathan's Website Now Offering Charles Nathan's Musicals For Sale
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Greg Nathan
Greg Nathan, son of Charles Nathan, (songwriter who penned the music to Perry Como's 1953 hit, “Say Your Mine Again") and Tonie Nathan, (the first woman in history of the United States to receive an electoral vote for U.S. Vice President while running on the 1972 Libertarian Party ticket) has opened a website to facilitate sales of two musicals written by his dad that were produced within the last six years at the Actor's Cabaret in Eugene, Oregon. Greg Nathan ...
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Pink Floyd's Nick Mason Puts Spotlight On Apple's Shortcomings, Looks To Spotify To Raise The Bar
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HypeBot
In an interview with GQ, Pink Floyd's Nick Mason talks about Apple's failed release of U2's latest album Songs of Innocence“ and the implications it imposed. He was quick to clarify where he stood on the issue telling GQ, “Let me be completely clear about my position: if Apple had come to me and said, 'Nick, we want to release your album in exchange for £50m', I couldn't have thought of a better idea.' but Mason still believes Apple's execution ...
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Sonos Exploring API For 3rd Party Music Apps
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HypeBot
Sonos appears poised to correct the only real flaw that I've found in it's otherwise superior wireless music system: the ability to control Sonos from within my favorite music apps. A new jobs ad posted by the company points to the creation of an API that would allow digital music services to do just that. I openly admit that I love my Sonos music system. No other wireless system that I've tested offers the combined sound quality and ease of use. But ...
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Larry Sonn's All-Star Band
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
The big band era continued long after many historians say it ended. While big bands no longer gained much traction with teens by the late 1940s, many great orchestras continued to tour throughout the 1950s and beyond while others recorded for dancers on the new 12-inch album format. One such studio band in 1955 and '56 was led by trumpeter Larry Sonn, whose album, The Sound of Sonn (Coral), featured a superb combination of musicians and arrangers. In 1955, Sonn ...
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