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Music Tectonics

Oct 26, 2020

Brett takes us on a wild journey through the outer edges of music tech and its impact on music making and listening. In a time when tablets can be studios and algorithms bandmates, he and Dmitri explore the tension between aesthetics and tools, music’s evolving value frameworks and tried-and-true structures, and the...


Oct 23, 2020

Roblox’s Global Head of Music John Vlassopulos talks to Dmitri about how audio is playing a key role in the “imagination time” of the wildly popular Roblox gaming and world building platform. He and the Roblox team see themselves as “firestarters,” those who provide the basic ideas and code and then see what...


Oct 22, 2020

Scott Fetters, the CEO of incubator and media/tech makerspace 2112, talks about the thrill of uniting a wide swath of Chicago’s creative minds and startup stars under one roof--and how COVID helped them find new possibilities and partners. What started as a rehearsal space has turned into a media and culture...


Oct 15, 2020

The pandemic has accelerated everything tech by three years. On this episode, music tech veteran and CEO Darryl Ballantyne of LyricFind scans the horizon with host Dmitri Vietze on all things music tech. The two tackle music tech investment, borderless music engagement, monetizing fandom, livestreaming, mixed reality,...


Oct 14, 2020

Now that there are so many paths to music, it can be overwhelming for artists, labels, and managers to bring everything back together, On this podcast Linkfire's Lars Ettrup and Andrea Arcari put forth a vision for how artists and their teams can get in front of the dispersal of their connection to fans while still...