IP and Innovation in the Music Industry | Invent Anything Episode 33

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Introducing Seth Cronin as host of Invent Anything. In this episode, Seth discusses emerging innovation in the music industry and the technology that is shaping the ways in which music is created, recorded, distributed, discovered, and performed. The topics covered in this episode include:

1. Creating music: examples of patentable inventions that change the way musicians create and perform music

2. recording music: new technologies that change the recording process, including hardware, software, and analysis

3. Performing music: the modern technology for musical performance has evolved greatly in recent years, with new modes of experience like holographs, immersive devices and reactive lighting

4. Listening to and streaming music: in the last few decades the way we consume music has changed dramatically, streaming services, connected speakers, voice control

5. Music discovery: largely due to streaming services, the way individuals discover new music has shifted in the 21st century. Algorithms now large try not only to predict new music the listeners will enjoy, but also present them in a context the users are mostly likely to have a positive reaction to. E.g., placing a new track the user has never listened to before after several similar tracks the user has already “liked” or listen to repeatedly.

6. The technical world of digital music: audio compression, digital watermarking, encoding and distribution

7. The future of music technology