Music Tectonics reveals 10 strong music tech startup semi-finalists

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.