Hosted at a number of venues in Santa Monica, the Music Tectonics 2023 convention rallied innovators in all fields of music. The three-day occasion supplied the stage for attendees to community, talk about improvements in music-making, share concepts about the way forward for music, and exhibit their gear.
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Music and tech got here collectively for Music Tectonics 2023 final month in Santa Monica, CA. Startups, distributors, buyers, gear producers, software program builders, consultants, labels, streaming providers, and creators — amongst many others within the music subject — took their time to community and discover modern options.
Chatting with DMN, Dmitri Vietze, founder and curator of Music Tectonics, advised DMN what makes the convention distinctive. “We’re matter agnostic. We predict loads of innovation can occur round fixing issues for the music business, so a few of it’s tremendous cool, tremendous consumer-facing, attractive stuff [in] gaming and music, synthetic intelligence, and music era,” mentioned Vietze, including, “Additionally, a few of it’s simply actually particular to untangling information or how startups get licenses and that kind of factor.”
The three-day convention befell at numerous ‘nontraditional’ areas and venues all through the world. Vietze defined why: “We’re selecting nontraditional areas as a result of we would like folks to not really feel like they’re in a field bodily, but additionally psychologically.”
“Once they’re having conversations round music innovation, we would like that expansive really feel for brainstorming new ideas and getting enterprise carried out collectively,” mentioned Vietze.
Holly Hagerman, founding father of AmptUp — an organization that streamlines the reserving course of between venues and bands — advised DMN that being at Music Tectonics 2023 was about celebrating innovation, assembly different gamers within the subject, and ‘about neighborhood, which is our primary core worth.’
Talking concerning the convention, Hagerman mentioned, “It is a particular group of individuals. Our enterprise focuses on innovation, and altering what’s an ages-old, generations-old business — and making it extra easy, extra modern. That’s what Music Tectonics is about.”
USC Enterprise College pupil Adewale Oduye attended the convention to financial institution on the information of like-minded people. “One of many issues I really like is listening to from the oldsters which have carried out it earlier than, that perceive the music enterprise. They’re imparting that information upon me. That’s what I admire,” Oduye mentioned.
Music Tectonics 2023 supplied the right platform to debate what’s occurring in music now, and what’s on the horizon.
Songwriting advocate Mark Lynch spoke passionately about ‘getting writers paid,’ including, “Music is just not free. It must be compensated. Any alternative that I get to make sure that copyright house owners receives a commission, I’ll do.”