Music Tech Fest is the global festival of music ideas, featuring cutting-edge performance, music hacking, innovation labs and industry showcases that connect artists, technologists and business in a vibrant environment. Unique collaborations, new works created on site, premieres of future technology, and a visionary community make each event an exciting landmark gathering. MTF is cross-genre, international, enriching, and inclusive. It brings together academia and industry, artists, makers and scientists from around the world to celebrate and invent the future of music. The podcast features interviews and presentations from MTF events.
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Music Tech Fest is the global festival of music ideas, featuring cutting-edge performance, music hacking, innovation labs and industry showcases that connect artists, technologists and business in a vibrant environment. Unique collaborations, new works created on site, premieres of future technology, and a visionary community make each event an exciting landmark gathering. MTF is cross-genre, international, enriching, and inclusive. It brings together academia and industry, artists, makers and scientists from around the world to celebrate and invent the future of music. The podcast features interviews and presentations from MTF events.
"Smaller fish, like clownfish, they're very talkative. They exchange lots of information between each other when they communicate, they have their own social structures, and they debate among themselves as well so it's quite interesting to observe that."
"I think it's all the same thing. I use the term Black Music. I think you could use the term Jazz. Or you could use the sociological term Afro-diasporic music. There is something continuous - even in terms of how it evolves and changes and brings new things in."
Sofia Crespo is a visual artist who uses artificial intelligence technology to create speculative biological life forms. "I think a crucial part of creativity comes from iterations... exploring all of the ramifications that a single idea can have. And that's something where assisted creativity helps a lot."
Gary Pisano is a Professor at the Harvard Business School and the author of Creative Construction: the DNA of Sustained Innovation. "I believe we can make progress. Our televisions are better than they were when I was a kid. Our phones are better today. Things are better. Technologies are better. Organisations are technologies. We can make those technologies better."
Dr. Anna Grichting is a Swiss architect, urbanist and musician designing beautiful spaces for a sustainable world. "Your job as an urbanist or architect is to see what needs to be done to improve the environment, not just about real estate or making money. Of course we have to make beautiful objects but it's really about the quality of life for everybody."
Yaniv Balmas is head of Cyber Research at Check Point Software in Tel Aviv. "In any new war, the interesting part for offensive cyber security is that the term "war" is not the war that we know. Not tank against tank or man with a rifle against man with a rifle. It's somebody sitting in one part of the world pushing a button against someone in another part of the world pushing a button."
Julia Coney is a wine writer, wine educator, speaker, and consultant. "I had a very early obsession with France because I was a James Baldwin fan and so I started taking French all through school. I knew I wanted to study abroad and I have a degree in English Literature. Where do you go? Well, it's Sartre and all that. I went to France. So I look back and see that all that led to this - but I didn't know that at the time."
Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stepanian is a designer of experiences and founder of the Underground University. "I wasn't set up to meet with any Nobel Prize winners in Physics. I'm not set up to meet with any astronaut. But I don't give up. It's not about stopping with one astronaut. There are 250 astronauts, so you just have to email 250 astronauts until one of them says yes."
Dr. Aram Sinnreich is an author, musician and professor of Communication Studies at American University in Washington DC. "Jefferson himself pointed out: Listen, we just got through the Age of Enlightenment in Europe, and before that we had the Renaissance. And we did all of that without copyright. So, you don't need to propertise ideas in order for people to come up with new ones and share them with each other. That's what we do!"
Ariane Koek is a global leader in Art Science curation and the creator of the Arts programme at CERN. "What inspires me? New knowledge. What makes me weird? I'm really into nuclear history. What haven't I done? I've never gone subatomic. Where in the world is at the cutting edge of all knowledge and technology at the moment? And I went... CERN!"
Robert Root-Bernstein is a world-leading expert on creativity in scientific research. "STEAM is going to allow us to at least graduate students who can hold a pipette and have some hand-eye coordination to go along with it and things like that. They're also going to have a sense of what that creative process is."
Abrian Curington is a cartographer and visual storyteller. "I started with mapping on the fantasy side. Creating journeys when I'm reading a book, mapping out where the characters were going and what this new fantastical world looks like - and I wanted to relate that to our real world as well."
Joseph Illidge is Executive Editor of Heavy Metal Magazine and co-founder of the Access Guide to the Black Comic Book Community. "If you look at the old Marvel characters from the 60s, one of the things that those creators were brilliant about was the understanding that gaining superpowers would actually make your life more complicated."
Ola Sars is the founder, CEO and chairman of Soundtrack Your Brand - a music streaming platform for businesses. "What we do is collaborate with independent academic platforms which is much healthier for running R&D. We have multiple research projects going on in the neuroscientific field, for example..."
Dmitri Vietze is the CEO of Music Tech PR company Rock Paper Scissors, and the founder and curator of the Music Tectonics conference. "I grew up playing acoustic instruments in the subways of New York City. I was always intrigued by how music was made and followed the path from hip hop to jazz to African music, as well as being interested in the raw materials that made the buzzy weird sounds, or the hybrids of different cultures clashing that led to things like Afrobeat and Colombian cumbia rock."
Dora Palfi is the co-founder and CEO of imagiLabs, an ed-tech company creating gadgets that make programming more relevant and welcoming for teenage girls. "One of my favourite projects was by one of our super-users who turned the Imagicharm into a tool that would randomly select and tell them whether to watch Netflix or do their homework."
Siavash Mahdavi is the founder and CEO of AI Music, which helps brands and creators connect with their audiences through customised music. "I really love what I do. I've managed to create the perfect job. Super geeky techy and using my own expertise - and then I spend the rest of the day talking about music and making music."
Sandra Vengadasalam and Friederike Kleinfercher run the Max Planck Digital Labs at the heart of the Max Planck Digital Library in Munich. "There's a problem that exists since the beginning of science - and now we see a chance to solve that problem."
Marta de Menezes is an artist who works with biological systems - including her own. "What does it mean to have a system in our body that decides what is 'me' and what is 'not me'? I need to understand better how that works."
Music Tech Fest is the global festival of music ideas, featuring cutting-edge performance, music hacking, innovation labs and industry showcases that connect artists, technologists and business in a vibrant environment. Unique collaborations, new works created on site, premieres of future technology, and a visionary community make each event an exciting landmark gathering. MTF is cross-genre, international, enriching, and inclusive. It brings together academia and industry, artists, makers and scientists from around the world to celebrate and invent the future of music. The podcast features interviews and presentations from MTF events.
