Tag: music

NEXT22: making the most of the Reeperbahn Festival

By Adam Tinworth

NEXT22 x Reeperbahn Festival: our digital festival is right in the heart of Europe’s greatest music event, so you can blend the two for an unparalleled mental and cultural experience. Here’s how.
Imogen Heap: the diaries of a music and tech adventurist

By Adam Tinworth

What does Block chain have to do with music? Everything, if Imogen Heap has anything to do with it. It could build a new network of creativity…
Why we now have music at tech events

By Martin Recke

Be it this tiny blog, a big trade show, a conference, or a party – it‘s all about what’s in it for the user. That‘s why we are all part of the entertainment industry.
The HomePod’s story is Apple at its product marketing best

By Adam Tinworth

Apple's pre-announced a smart speaker for the end of the year. On the surface, it's an Amazon Echo competitor, but that's not the story Apple will tell the wider public…
A few concert suggestions for the Reeperbahn Festival

By Martin Recke

Your NEXT ticket will give you preferential access to the Reeperbahn Festival programme (first come, first served). While of course everything is worth your while, we'd love to give you a few recommendations.
NEXT Up: essential reads you might have missed

By Adam Tinworth

Google and Microsoft's heads speak, Taylor Swift talks tech, and Britain contemplates deep linking into your inline activity…
Sarah Willis: Google Glass and Horn Nerds

By Adam Tinworth

Can you use Google Glass to bring more attention to Classical music? Sarah Willis thinks so…
Stefan Moritz: prototyping your way to the best Spotify app ever

By Adam Tinworth

Veryday worked with Spotify and Microsoft to build an app for Windows Phone - and they did it without writing a spec along the way.
MusicPlayr: music for the online generation

By Adam Tinworth

One Berlin-based start-up is trying to rethink the way we discover, gather and share music. If you want to know why what they're doing makes perfect sense - look at the way children watch cartoons.
The Post-Digital Artist

Christopher von Deylen is the artist behind the music project “Schiller”. At NEXT Berlin 2012 he shared his perspective on the internet as a new means of producing and distributing music and directly connecting with the audience.
Michael Breidenbruecker – 3minutes 40seconds

Michael Breidenbrücker introduces "Project now", an app that uses sensory information from your smartphone to generate a soundtrack through your whole day - corresponding to the situation you're in and your musical profile.
Schiller: Chances and challenges for artists in a post-digital world

By Ina Feistritzer

Inspired by electronic classics like Jean-Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk, Schiller alias Christopher von Deylen creates visionary sounds in a genre of its own kind. For NEXT Berlin, Schiller will pause his creative studio work. In his keynote on the first conference day, he will talk about the chances and challenges for artists in a post-digital world.
The Post-Digital Week – 18 Mar

By Adam Tinworth

Post-digital discussions from the last week, on definitions, paradoxes, contexts and windsurfboards.
The Post Digital Week – 5 Feb

By Adam Tinworth

The latest reading on post digital culture, with a particular focus on consumer goods and artistic futures.