14 marzo 2013

il Festival SXSW premia le tecnologie e le app musicali più innovative


Sono stati premiati ieri i finalisti e il vincitore della gara per le migliori tecnologie musicali presentate al "Music Accelerator 2013" award del festival texano dedicato alle arti e all'interattività, South by Southwest. Mi fa molto piacere annunciare che nella shortlist definitiva compare il nome di uno sviluppatore italiano, il livornese Davide Morelli, co-fondatore di BioBeats insieme al suo ideatore, il britannico David Plans. BioBeats ha sviluppato il concetto di musica, vera musica generata dal battito cardiaco attraverso una app che è in grado di leggere il dato biometrico semplicemente appoggiando il dito sulla fotocamera dello smartphone. Da qui parte tutta una serie di opportunità di crowdsourcing musicale in tempo reale, coinvolgendo gruppi di persone nella composizione, basata su sofisticati algoritmi di intelligenza artificiale. I due "Davide" hanno entrambi una formazione musicale oltre che informatica.
Insieme a BioBeats erano state selezionate dall'insieme dei finalisti (qui di seguito l'elenco completo) le startup TastemakerX, un social game per la music discovery e  ROLI. Alla fine è stata premiata come vincitrice quest'ultima. ROLI è una giovane azienda londinese che con la sua tastiera musicale "touch", SEAboard, riesce a colmare il divario tra musica analogica e digitale offrendo a chi suona il pieno controllo su altezze, dinamiche e timbri. Tutto si basa sull'esclusiva tecnologia dei sensori SEA, "sensory, elastic, adaptive". Il fondatore e CEO di ROLI, Roland Lamb, ha studiato filosofia cinese classica e sanscrita a Harvard per poi acquisire un diploma in Designs Products al Royal College of Art di Londra. 


AudioCommon
Chelmsford, MA
AudioCommon is a team of musicians and hackers redefining the way music is created in today's interconnected world. Through our online platform,musicians and the greater audio production community can build decentralized teams, comment directly on multi-track waveforms, and collaborate in new ways during critical stages of the creative process.

BioBeats
Berkeley, CA
BioBeats is creating the future of adaptive media, a world where our apps and devices understand and adapt to the way we feel. We are creating technologies that leverage biometric data to react to our emotional and physiological states, dynamically creating and discovering music that is appropriate to that state.

CrowdSync
San Francisco, CA
Founded by lifelong friends Alex Fortunato and Laird Hayward, FoxSpring Labs has a passion for creating intuitive mobile applications to share multimedia. Their first release CrowdSync puts users in the director's chair, changing how people watch, share and edit user-generated content with its proprietary technology.

Molecule Synth
Portland, OR
Molecule Synth is a physical electronics modular synthesizer and experimenter's design set. It is an utterly unique musical instrument, combining LEGO-like interchangeability with Synthesizers & Physical Electronics. Design Your Own Instrument, configure and shape the Molecule Synth into entirely new combinations each time you play.

ROLI
London, UK
ROLI is a music technology start-up using intuitive design to createintegrated hardware and software interfaces that increase thebandwidth of interaction between humans and computers. We buildground-breaking products-based on our patent-pending SEA Interfacetechnology-that enhance the ways our customers physically engage withthe digital world.

TastemakerX
San Francisco, CA
TastemakerX is a social game for music discovery. The platform allows users to express musical tastes and preferences by building virtual collections of the artists they love, and connect with like-minded music fans. TastemakerX is free to join and is currently available on iOS.

Vela App
Aliso Viejo, CA
Vela App is a start-up company whose mission is to bring voice control to music. Vela (Voice Electronic Listening Assistant) is a music aggregator app for iPhone that allows you to voice control on demand music from Spotify, Rdio, and more soon.

WholeWorldBand
Dublin, Ireland
WholeWorldBand is a music-making platform that earns money for people who play their own music or add to other peoples' in audio and video. It's a virtual recording studio with cameras where anyone can collaborate with well-known and emerging artists and share the results on social media

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Playground.fm
San Francisco, CA
Playground finds handmade playlists just for you. Instantly listen to music you'll love from your friends, world famous DJs, and people who share your taste in music. Its super fun, ridiculously easy, and 100% free.

Pulselocker
San Francisco, CA
Pulselocker is the first on-demand streaming and subscription music service that gives DJs access to millions of tracks, playable on the most popular mixing apps, online or off. With Pulselocker, DJs can: Stream full-length tracks; Download and DJ tracks out - before they buy; and Buy only the ones they want.

Stereotypes
New York, NY
Stereotypes is a group chat app for people who enjoy music and need help keeping in touch with friends. With an interface optimized for sharing, talking about and listening to music, Stereotypes helps you keep in touch in a meaningful yet effortless way, and our users feel closer to friends whenever they listen to music.

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