Frequently Asked Questions

 Q1: What is the Innovating Music podcast?

The Innovating Music podcast is an podcast series originally hosted by the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and the UCLA Center for Music Innovation. It focuses on the ever-changing landscape of the music industry, exploring new technologies, social shifts, and business models. The podcast aims to bring conversations that are thought-provoking and examine how technology impacts our music lives, collaborations, distribution, and ways of thinking and engaging with music. It also looks at the futures in music, including changing systems and the impact on live performance and communities, both locally and globally.

Q2: Who hosts the Innovating Music podcast?

The podcast is hosted by Dr. Gigi Johnson, who is now a retired faculty member from the Music History and Industry Program at UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music. The is the Managing Director of Rethink Next, a thinktank and creative educational program producer.

Q3: Where can I listen to Innovating Music?

You can find the Innovating Music podcast everywhere you listen to podcasts. This includes platforms like Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and Spotify. You can also find it on Radio.com and Pandora. For more information and to subscribe, visit the official website at innovatingmusic.com.

Q4: How can I engage with the Innovating Music podcast or suggest guests?

The podcast actively welcomes listener engagement:

  • You are invited to suggest events, places, spaces, cities the podcast team could engage with or visit.
  • You can also suggest guests you’d like to hear on the podcast and other topics you’d like them to cover.
  • Share the podcast with friends and colleagues.
  • If you listen on Apple Podcasts, please take a minute to review the podcast, as this helps algorithms recommend it to others.
  • You can find contact details and follow-up information on the podcast’s websites, which are linked in the show notes of each episode.

Q5: What is the Maremel Podcast Network?

The Maremel Podcast Network is now Rethink Next, the network that hosts “Innovating Music”. This network also features other podcasts such as Amplify Music Conversations (which originated from Amplify Music Conferences during the pandemic) and Creative Innovators.

Episodes

Changing Mindsets in Music Innovation with Michele Tharp

Dec 31, 2018

To marketer Michele Tharp, innovation is creating a better way to do something, and working with an inner desire to make a change. She focuses - as we do - on changing mindsets -- new ways to work with technology, development, and platforms. She shares with us two...

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Reporting from the Leading Edge of Music and Tech

Nov 19, 2018

Cherie Hu has grabbed a front-row seat to tech and music change. Forbes grabbed her after graduation from Harvard, bringing her interests in music and tech to their own digital pages. She also brings that magic to both Billboard, Variety, Pitchfork, and Music Business...

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2019 — Future of Music in Los Angeles

Nov 5, 2018

Gigi Johnson invites listeners of this Innovating Music podcast to join in research, events, and conversations in 2019 on the possible Future(s) of Music in Los Angeles.  She discusses the Center's research so far in looking at tech's impact on live performance.  She...

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Music Beyond the Speakers

Oct 29, 2018

Gigi interviewed Adam Moseley, a long-time producer/mixer/engineer who is exploring new adventures in spatial audio, mixed reality, and sound technologies.  Adam also teaches at UCLA's Music Industry Program at the Herb Alpert School of Music. Adam shares the...

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SF Nurturing Music By the Bay

Aug 20, 2018

We were joined by Maggie Weiland and Dylan Rice from the SF Entertainment Commission to talk about how they work to nurture music in San Francisco.   Gigi had met them at an event hosted by Jocelyn Kane, who created many of the public policy rules and...

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New Songs for Global Singers

Jul 30, 2018

Jonathan Stone shares the adventures of Rocket Songs, which connects songs with singers from around the world to discover and perform. He talked about the past century or so of relationships between singers and songwriters, and the challenge of connecting those dots...

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Bridging Cultures — Translating Music Lyrics

Jun 18, 2018

Robert has been on a 14-year quest: to translate music legally between languages and cultures. Lyrics are the #1 search term on the internet and Robert shares the story of LyricFind's path to creating a legal marketplace in the US for song lyrics, up to nearly a...

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Tech as Trust and Relationships

Jun 4, 2018

We caught up with Deborah Fairchild at MusicBiz in Nashille in May 2018.  We talked about music tech as both a relationship and trust business, with VEVA Sound's role as an archive and validation company standing right in the middle of the boost in streaming and all...

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