The upcoming Music Tectonics conference has named ten music tech startups as Swimming With Narwhals Pitch Competition 2023 semifinalists.
Each will pitch during the September 13th Music Tectonics online pre-conference before a panel of three judges: Tracy Maddux, of Downtown Music Holdings, Aadit Parikh of Sony Ventures, and Juliette Rolnick of Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments.
Swimming With Narwhals Pitch Competition 2023 Semifinalists
- Aux – a generative AI model that takes a text prompt (eg. “808 kick”) and generates infinite audio samples
- Creativemind – Korea’s first-ever AI music composer, with human-like songwriting abilities.
- Dequency – web3-enabled music rights portal, connecting rights holders and visual creators.
- Everwave – a collaborative music production DAO.
- Get Moments: a platform that lets live event organizers collect and monetize UGC video from concerts, festivals, and sports matches.
- Lune Acoustics – a hardware and software companion that removes barriers to learning guitar.
- MAYK – voice tech with a focus on UGC song creation tools.
- Offstage – a superfan platform that makes fan data accessible and actionable.
- RealCount – an analytics platform for live music’s key performance metric: tickets sold.
- VisualLabs – a Generative AI video creation tool.
Online Preconference & In Person Conference Details
Then fifth annual in-person Music Tectonics conference will bring together music tech innovators across industry boundaries in Santa Monica, CA from October 24-26.
Music industry analyst Mark Mulligan of MIDiA will kick off the September 13 online preconference with a keynote presentation. The preconference is only open to full conference ticket holders.
Get tickets at MusicTectonics.com/conference.
Bruce Houghton is the Founder and Editor of Hypebot, a Senior Advisor at Bandsintown, President of the Skyline Artists Agency, and a Berklee College Of Music professor.
