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Into the Future: Controlling Music Devices with Hand Gestures vs. Wearable Tech
So much of the future of music, especially in the aesthetic wake of the 20th Century, is about how new technologies will affect our experience of music. One example, that of Brainwave, involves enabling simple control of your mobile music with hand gestures as an early step in wireless human/machine interaction. Another example, that of iHeartRadio's ...
Spotify Helps You Find the Most Dramatic Moment in Any Song
By Eliot Van Buskirk from Spotify Insights. Music’s emotional power stems from a mix of factors, only some of which we understand. Much about music resists full explanation. One thing we do know: Some of the magic has to do with dynamics: changes from soft to loud, or from loud to soft. The most dramatic part ...
Bandzoogle Celebrates 10th Anniversary, Launches New Web Site
Bandzoogle, a website and marketing platform for musicians, is celebrating its 10th anniversary. That's a particularly impressive milestone in the music tech and d.i.y sectors, both of which have seen more than their share of forced consolidations and outright failures. To celebrate the anniversary, the company has just launched a new corporate website, Bandzoogle.com. The ...
Digital Money for Music: Tip Jar That Takes Plastic, Websites That Take Bitcoin
To paraphrase Amanda Palmer, people want to give you their money so make sure you can take it. DipJar is a tipjar that takes tips via credit cards. It's designed as a self-serve solution for coffee shops and similar settings and suggests one possible solution for street musicians in a cashless society. Accepting payment in digital ...
Pandora Joins Google Play Music, Musixmatch and Youtube on Google Glass
Remember when Google Glass was a thing? At least to us media people? As Google Glass has gone from hard to get to available if you can afford it, it's mostly dropped out of music-related news. But yesterday Pandora launched a Google Glass app aka “Glassware" bringing the incredibly popular web radio service to Glass users. ...
Twitter Opens Analytics Dashboard to Your Band
It's important to know what's happening with all that social media activity that so often seems to be an act of faith. Twitter's making it easier to keep up with the reach of your tweets on Twitter by opening their Tweet activity dashboard to all users. Previously available for advertisers and whoever Twitter deemed special enough ...
Wordpress for Musicians: Why I Recommend Managed Hosting
There are a variety of solid options for hosting a music website including many tailored to musicians' needs. Wordpress is a popular solution, in part, because so many themes and tools in the form of plugins are available for musicians. If you've decided to go with what could be called a self-hosted Wordpress.org install rather than ...
Musician's Guide to Tech Skills: Website Analytics
By Michael Brandvold of Michael Brandvold Marketing. I posted a video that talked about how today you need to have tech skills to succeed. The video didn’t go into much detail on what specific tech skills you should have, so I thought I would list them for you. By all means I am not saying you ...
Knoxville's Mediaworks Demo Day to Include 4 Music Tech Startups
MediaWorks is a new digital media accelerator emphasizing education and mentorship. It's a program of the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center (KEC) and next week they're holding a demo day for the participants including no less than four startups related to audio and music. The program was led by Nashville's Back Porch Group likely with plenty of input ...
Open Labs Releases Stagelight 2.0, Downloads Near 1 Million, Dell and Lenovo Preload Deals
Yesterday Open Labs released Stagelight 2.0, their music creation app for Windows that costs $9.99. It comes with a variety of new features, including an in-app store, and will also be preloaded on hardware from Lenovo and Dell. Additional distributions agreements have been made with Intel, Microsoft and Guitar Center. A solid step forward for Stagelight ...
