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Martyn Davies
On the road, sort of.
Somehow I’ve managed to end up participating in panel discussions or giving talks at conferences every single week in May and it’s quite the stellar line up of events. May 9th – SF Music Tech Sumit, San Francisco (lanyrd.com) May 13th – The Great Escape, Brighton, UK (lanyrd.com) May 19th – Liverpool Sound City, Liverpool, [...]
OutNow is now Releasify.me
OutNow, the hack that I created at the MIDEM Music Hackday in January will be taking on a new life very soon as Releasify.me – let’s face it, I wasn’t ever going to be able to find a variation on OutNow to use in a domain. The tidied up, non-laptop version that people saw at [...]
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MIDEM Hackday
Suddenly horrified at how out of date this blog is, I thought I should write something quickly about the excellent ‘mini music hackday’ I was invited to attend at this year’s MIDEM in Cannes. The format was almost the same as the Music Hackday’s that have gone before, except that there were no presentations of [...]
Posted in Conferences, Hacks, Innovation, Music Hackday Tagged hacks, innovation, midem, musichackday 0 Comments
What we use (part 1 of…)
Working at UMG means that I’m free to choose to work with whatever technology I need to use to get the job done. There’s a lot I could talk about but I thought I’d concentrate on a few that I’m excited about and make life so much easier when you’re working for a huge company [...]
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UMG launches Timewheel
The Official Charts Company data set is immense. More than 50 years of chart data is now available under license for applications and many companies are looking at what can be done to show it off. Universal Music Group’s first release using this data is Timewheel, an iOS application aimed at discovering and purchasing music [...]
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Bye BBC! Hello Universal Music
After announcing it pretty much everywhere else I thought I should at least prepend my return to posting here by saying that I have now left the BBC after close to ten amazing years in their Audio & Music Interactive department. As of June 21st I’ve been working for Universal Music Group UK as their [...]
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“Odd haired DJ tweets tracks”
An interesting development in the world of minimal techno and slanty hair recently came to my attention via the Soundcloud blog. Minus boss, lover of haircuts shaped with a protractor and clicky beats exponent, Richie Hawtin, has developed a plugin for Native Instruments popular Traktor software that posts each new track play to @rhawtin on [...]
Posted in Products, Web Apps, music Tagged bbc radio 1, data, music, native instruments, prs, richie hawtin, simon cross, soundcloud, tracks, traktor, twitter 1 Comments
Finally, a Music Hackday
The first Music Hackday will be taking place at the wonderful new Guardian offices in Kings Cross on the weekend of 11th & 12th July 2009 (yes, this year!). Organised by Rewired State’s James Darling and the man we call Mr. Soundcloud, Dave Haynes, this is the first time a hackday has focussed specifically on [...]
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