The Echo Nest - powering intelligent digital music applications

Cafe des Sciences #43

Swissnex Boston - Consulate of Switzerland 420 Broadway, Cambridge (2012/02/23)

"L'intelligence musicale à portée de doigts"

6:30 AM

Tristan Jehan will be presenting 'Musical Intelligence at your fingertips'.  This presentation will be done in French.

Mobile World Congress 2012

Barcelona, Spain (2012/02/27 - 2012/03/01)

Our industry is redefining “mobile”.  No longer limited only to communications, mobile is now a force transforming our world in an unprecedented way. Mobile connects, entertains, informs and inspires us, ultimately changing how we live and who we are.

TEDx Somerville

Somerville, MA (2012/03/04)

Brian Whitman will be speaking at TEDx Somerville's next event.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. 

SXSW 2012 - Data Mining Music

Austin, TX (2012/03/09 - 2012/03/18)

Data Mining Music

Paul Lamere participates in Data Mining Music panel.  Data mining is the process of extracting patterns and knowledge from large data sets. It has already helped revolutionized fields as diverse as advertising and medicine. In this talk we dive into mega-scale music data such as the Million Song Dataset (a recently released, freely-available collection of detailed audio features and metadata for a million contemporary popular music tracks) to help us get a better understanding of the music and the artists that perform the music. We explore how we can use music data mining for tasks such as automatic genre detection, song similarity for music recommendation, and data visualization for music exploration and discovery. We use these techniques to try to answers questions about music such as: Which drummers use click tracks to help set the tempo? or Is music really faster and louder than it used to be? Finally, we look at techniques and challenges in processing these extremely large datasets.

SXSW 2012 - Music Apps Gone Wild

Austin, Texas (2012/03/09 - 2012/03/18)

Eliot will be hosting this panel.

Everyone's heard of I Am T-Pain, Pandora, and Turntable.fm but app developers on the next bleeding edge are pushing the envelope with features from the stunningly practical to the wildly "out-there" that many within the industry may not have heard of before. Within these entertaining apps lies advanced technology with practical applications across the board. Let's take a tour of the most advanced, wackiest music apps that exist -- or are on their way to existing.

SXSW 2012 - The Evolution Of Music Discovery In The Cloud

Austin, TX (2012/03/09 - 2012/03/18)

Paul Lamere will be on panel The Evolution of Music Discovery in The Cloud.  

The proliferation of digital music cloud services means that there is now some real competition in the marketplace and while good value, ease of use, beauty of the interface and breadth of the catalog are all important factors in winning over users, a powerful discovery tool is at the heart of retaining them. In this panel we will look at the approaches taken by four companies in developing effective methods for discovering new music: how do social music recommendations stack up against algorithms, deep meta-data gathering and data mining? What are the consumer’s expectations and is there anything that acts can do to improve their visibility and “recommendability”? Where does the optimal intersection between the analysis of listening behaviors and that of waveforms lie?  As companies that have overlooked discovery rush to find a way to integrate recommendations into their services and the ones that have placed them at the heart of their business look for ways of improving the results this is a good chance to gain some fascinating insights into the evolution of this exciting and fast-expanding sector. 

SXSW 2012 Music Panel Spotlight: Social Music Strategies: Viral & the Power of Free

Austin, Texas (2012/03/09 - 2012/03/18)

Eliot Van Buskirk, editor of The Echo Nest/evolver.fm, will moderate the panel Social Music Strategies: Viral & the Power of Free. Joining Eliot will be industry experts Billy Chasen, founder and CEO of Turntable.fm, David Hyman, CEO of MOG, Senior VP of Business Development at Sirius XM Radio Rachna Bhasin, and Ime Archibong, Strategic Partner Manager atFacebook. They will discuss how recent social media integrations and the lure of freemium trials are shifting the tables away from music ownership to ubiquitous accessibility via the cloud, satellite, and and mobile.

SXSW 2012 - Indies Going Mobile

Room 17A Convention Center, Austin, TX (2012/03/14)

Indies Going Mobile

Shane Tobin will be participating in panel Indies Going Mobile.

With the explosion of smartphones and tablets, the next undeniable big wave is mobile. What is surprising (or not so surprising to veteran music industry watchers) is that the music industry is lagging behind retail, hospitality, media, sports and even film and TV entertainment. Yes, there’s Pandora, Spotify, Rhapsody and other streaming services, but what about direct artist presence? Ringtones are fading, apps have proven to be too expensive and cumbersome to update, and mobile-optimized websites have barely been touched. In terms of mobile, most artists simply rely on Twitter, but considering its limited functionality and extreme noise levels, should it be the only mobile channel that artists are utilizing? And haven’t artists learnt that basing your marketing strategy on any one channel may not be the smartest idea. With nearly every industry harnessing mobile through apps, mobile sites, QR codes, SMS, and even email, the Indies and DIYs better start catching up.