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The use of AI in the arts is all anyone can seem to talk about today, but what’s the story behind all of this new tech? While many creatives and their teams are fearful of the implications of all this rapid innovation, we’re finding ever more success stories of creatives who have managed to harness the power of AI to enhance their creative journeys. But don’t just take our word for it. In this episode of the Mix, we sat down with interdisciplinary artist, designer, educator, and AI video designer Ben Gillin, and he shared his process on video design using AI softwares such as mid journey, a few anecdotes from his recent successes, and his thoughts about the taboo behind AI in the arts.
The Mix is a Musixmatch Pro podcast aimed at further education for Creators, Managers, Reps, Artists, Singer Songwriters, & everyone on the topics of today & cross selling of Pro Subscriptions to anyone.
Original music for The Mix was written and produced by Pierfrancesco Melucci.

Do you have questions about the Musixmatch Community? Have you ever wondered how Musixmatch became the global leader in lyric data and built an online database of over 40 million song lyrics added yearly? Well you came to the right place! In this episode of the Mix podcast we interviewed our very own Tim Naylor (Musixmatch Community Executive) and Mauro Di Battista (Musixmatch Community Specialist) and they filled us in on how the Musixmatch database works, what roles contributors can have in the community, and more!

The Mix is a Musixmatch Pro podcast aimed at further education for Creators, Mangers, Reps, Artists, Singer Songwriters & everyone on the topics of today & cross selling of Pro subscriptions to anyone.
Original music for The Mix was written and produced by Piefrancesco Melucci.

Freya Ridings was catapulted into international recognition in 2018 when a well placed sync of her track “Lost Without You” aired during a particularly emotional scene of the popular UK reality show, "Love Island". The success of "Lost Without You" on Love Island proved to be a crucial turning point for Ridings, helping to establish her as a rising star in the music industry.

Have you ever wondered how sync deals happen? In this episode of the Mix we sat down with Charlotte Day, the Senior Coordinator for Creative and Clearance across the UK and Europe at Kobalt Music Group. Along with answering all of our burning questions about the processes behind successful syncs, Charlotte shared with us her personal music industry journey and first-hand insight of how a good sync can change an artist’s career overnight --like it did for Freya Ridings.


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In this episode, we cover:

(00:01) Introduction to publishing and sync
(06:43) The process of sync licensing
(16:36) Success stories and the impact of sync

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The Mix is a Musixmatch Pro podcast.
All Musical content for this episode was composed by Pierfrancesco Melucci.

What if every single note of a song could represent information and communicate ideas like lyrics do? What if we could give data a ‘voice’?
Think about that one song that makes your heart sing or moves you to tears. Or the last time you were in a movie theater and the sound effects had you on the edge of your seat. Sound - and by extension music - has the power to affect our mood, help us learn and even change our perspective on reality.
So when it comes to the intersection of music, information, and technology, it’s not a huge surprise that data sonification is now on the rise. Data sonification is the process of using non-verbal audio to communicate information. In other words, it transforms data into sound, helping us understand information faster and on a deeper, sometimes emotional level.
Just like a movie’s sound effects and soundtrack, data sonification can have a huge impact on our mood and our ability to grasp concepts more quickly. Imagine being able to hear your WiFi network, the communicative signals sent between a network of mushrooms - or even a pandemic. Believe it or not, that’s exactly what data sonification enables you to do.
So what are the practical applications of data sonification in the fields of education, health, and even business? How is it already being used to reach wider audiences and create inclusivity in science? Where does the line between science, art, and music lie, and is there a target market for this kind of art?
Join us in our latest podcast episode as we interview sonification experts Professor Paolo Ciuccarrelli (Northeastern Univeristy) and Research Scientist Sara Lenzi (Critical Alarms Lab, Delft University of Technology), as well as Degen Blues creator Andy Szybalski (also co-founder of Uber Eats and Google Street View) to discuss all these questions and much more.

The Mix is a Musixmatch Pro podcast.
Original music for The Mix Podcast was written and produced by Pierfrancesco Melucci.
This episode also contains audio sampled from "Hear Climate Data Turned Into Music" by Chris Chafe of the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford and Degen Blues.

Even in 2022, women are still vastly underrepresented in the music industry - especially when it comes to music engineering and production. In fact less than 5% of music production jobs globally are filled by women. At Musixmatch, we’re passionate about breaking down industry barriers to pave a new way for the next generations of women in music tech. That’s why we teamed up with Music Innovation Hub (the innovative Milan-based initiative behind many socially responsible projects in the music industry) to organize a meet-up last month for Women in Music Tech and Production. Panelists for this event included, Francesca Ronchini, an expert on sound event detection, Giulia Silvestri, the project coordinator for Intorno Labs, and Elisa Massara (Elasi) musician, producer, & founder of POCHE.

The Mix is a Musixmatch Pro podcast.
Original Music for the Mix Podcast was written and produced by Pierfrancesco Melucci.

Songwriting. Producing. Performing. Motherhood.

These multi-talented, kickass women really are doing it all. Already incredible stand-alone artists in their own right, Dossey, Primo the Alien and Lady Heartwing have joined forces to create Austin’s newest indie-pop supergroup KVN (pronounced Kevin). KVN’s intergalactic sound was born out of the trio’s mutual love for late 90s R&B girl groups blended with a fascination for modern dance music.

They may call themselves “your mom’s favorite band”, but in a town where rock and blues reign supreme, KVN is disrupting the Austin music scene in the best way possible. It’s no wonder that everybody who comes across their high-energy, harmony-driven pop just can’t stop raving about it.

Join us in our latest episode of “The Mix” to learn more about their experiences as music producers, how they made a name for themselves both locally and internationally through branding and social media, and all about their heavenly first release, “High and Low”.

If you’re a fan of dreamy astral synths, gorgeous harmonies and smashing social expectations - this one’s for you.

The Mix is a Musixmatch Pro podcast.
The song "High & Low" was composed by KVN and recorded as an episode of the Mix Sessions by Matt Parmenter at Ice Cream Factory Studios In March 2022.