Making Trades: Dmitri Vietze on Seismic Shifts in the Music Biz

Data Everywhere? Music In Slices? Hands of the Masses? WTF are all these Seismic Shifts we keep talking about? Podcast host Dmitri Vietze explains it all in this episode recorded live in Los Angeles at General Assembly. Dmitri revealed 18 of the biggest seismic shifts shaking up the music biz as a result of technology and innovation, all distilled into the fun visual medium of trading cards. If you’re a regular listener, you heard co-host Tristra Newyear and Music Tech Seismologist Mark Mulligan challenge him to do it, and he did. Listen in as Dmitri riffs on everything from IKEA lampspeakers to Instagram as a music discovery app. Hear the audience chase the rabbits Dmitri lets loose. 

We’re releasing card designs day by day on our website, so check out the visuals while you listen at MusicTectonics.com/seismicshifts!  Collect all 18 cards only at the Music Tectonics Conference, October 28-29 in Los Angeles—and add some Shift Talker speaker cards to your deck! Just wait till you see that Golden Mulligan. . .

Did Dmitri miss any major shifts that are shaking up your corner of the biz? What should the next series of trading cards feature? Let us know @MusicTectonics on Twitter & Facebook, or shout at  Dmitri Vietze on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.