SUMMER LAB 2017
The Open Music Initiative Summer Lab is an 8-week program, in which the Open Music Initiative hosts nineteen student software developers, musicians and visual artists at IDEO Cambridge. During the program, four teams are challenged to envision a future for music and its industry through the lens of human-centered design, distributed ledgers, and the OMI API.
DeepDive: A community-focused platform that helps uncover an artist or musician's moments and the influences that stem from them. They are wire framing a website the specific example of Frank Ocean. They are also writing API Specs as an add-on to the OMI API because they are going beyond attribution to "influence" and narrative.
EchoWe: A sample marketplace that allows for content creators to clear copyright issues with their inspired or derivative works through pre-clearing tracks. Those same content creators can then continue the cycle by allowing for their works to be available on the marketplace for future works.
Team Bread has prototyped a VR experience that allows for music to expand into a multi-dimensional experience that enables more holistic storytelling. Every song has a story - a narrative of how that song was written, who was involved, why certain choices were made.
LÜM: An active and passive data collection system for Club Djs. Their interactive demo captures an audience's dancing/gestures(phone accelerometer) to inform and change a live DJ mix and/or capture response. Separate DJ and Venue dashboards yield insight into track choices and song moments.