This month, Marina and I took an informal survey on the use of SoundAlike metadata (the names of similar/related artists and musical works) in our industry. Ad placement, the perennial wellspring of music careers and the burgeoning tech distro scene alike, has long had a symbiotic relationship with SoundAlikes, a longstanding musical tradition with […]
This month, Marina and I chatted with SourceAudio, Harvest Media, DISCO and CadenzaBox to get a lay of the land for online production music distribution, offering our tips for making the most of each platform. If production music placement is a goldmine, many of us are hot on the Oregon Trail right now. […]
In the past few months, much hay has been made online over the prospective rise of NFTs, the crypto-artistic collectibles that, depending on who you ask, are either here to wholly transform the modern digital art and music industry for good, fall out as a fad in no time, or rapidly lead to the complete […]
We are 7 months into the pandemic and for many in the music industry, we have encountered challenges and changes from our business models to how we work on a daily basis. This is a brief study with articles that may be of interest to members of the production music industry. OUTLOOK 2020: the […]
In this Blog, we will discuss the term “Urban” and how the music industry is re-thinking and eliminating the use of Urban as a genre of music to describe rap and hip hop.
What is MIR and how is it used to categorize, manipulate and even create music?