FULL SPECTRUM SYMPOSIUM 2018
Saturday, March 24th, 10:00am-5pm
West Village G 106
How are streaming platforms changing who succeeds in the music industry? How can musicians “make it” on their own terms? What can be done to increase access and lower barriers to entry for young or aspiring musicians? What technological innovations are needed to help diverse musical communities thrive?
The 2018 Full Spectrum Symposium will explore such questions with innovative thinkers and practitioners in music industry and music technology.
SCHEDULE
Saturday, March 24th
10am Coffee and Welcome (Deirdre Loughridge)
10:30-12 David Turner (staff writer, Gizmodo Media Group), "Streaming Platforms Need to Be Different"
12-1 Lunch
1-2:30 Musicians' Roundtable with DJ Rekha, Evan Greer and Erin Barra (moderated by Seth Mulliken)
2:45-4:15 Kelly Hiser (CEO, Rabble), "Digital Public Spaces for Local Music"
4:30-5 Closing reflections and discussion with David Herlihy and Rebekah Moore
SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPANTS
David Turner
David Turner is a culture journalist whose work has appeared at the Fader, MTV News, Rolling Stone, and Pitchfork. Currently he is a staff writer at the Gizmodo Media Group, and publishes insightful analyses of the past, present and future of music streaming through his weekly newsletter Penny Thoughts.
Erin Barra
Erin Barra is a musician, record producer, and product specialist for Ableton. In 2011 she founded Beats by Girlz, an education course designed to empower young women in music technology by providing them with the guidance, access, tools, and support to develop their interests, and ultimately their ability to pursue career opportunities, in music production, composition, and engineering
Kelly Hiser
As CEO and co-founder of Rabble, Kelly Hiser works at the crossroads of arts, the humanities, and the public good. The start-up company Rabble offers MUSICat, a platform that empowers libraries to license local music and share it with their communities, which has been implemented in Seattle, Madison, and Edmonton.
Rebekah Moore
After a decade working in Jakarta in performance production, band and tour management, media and sponsor relations, and social justice, ethnomusicologist Rebekah Moore joined the faculty at Northeastern in the music industry program. Her research explores Indonesia’s music industries and indie scenes, and artists’ employment of digital technologies to disseminate creative and activist projects. She is also co-founder of Bersama Project (The Together Project), an Indonesian nonprofit foundation that works with musicians and artists to stage creative interventions on violence against women and LGBTQ+ young people.
Seth Mulliken
Seth Mulliken is a professor in Screen and Media Studies at Northeastern. His research examines the intersection of race and sound in public space. In addition to his scholarship, Seth is an artist and media-maker, and has been creating music, moving and still images, and writing for over two decades.