Preview: MONDO.NYC 2018
Founded by some of the originators of CMJ and its long-running CMJ Marathon, Mondo.NYC is a music, technology and innovation-based festival that within its first couple years has quietly taken the place of both the CMJ Marathon and New Music Seminar’s New Music Nights Festival. Interestingly, the third edition of Mondo.NYC, which will take place October 2, 2018 – October 5, 2018 finds the global, emerging music, technology and innovation conference moving east across the East River to Williamsburg with The Williamsburg Hotel, Rough Trade and Brooklyn Bowl hosting daytime conference-related events. Interestingly, those daytime events feature partnerships with The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Guild of Music Supervisors, Record Store Day, a collection of international consular and export agencies and others to connect fans, artists, music industry professionals, business pioneers and veterans, leading names in tech and music to network, trade ideas and learn in a rapidly changing industry landscape as well as inspired others to become the industry leaders and up-and-coming artists of the future. Live music will take place on both sides of the East River with showcases being hosted by the aforementioned Brooklyn Bowl, Piano’s, Berlin, Arlene’s Grocery, Coney Island Baby, The Delancey, DROM, Hank’s Saloon, Niagara and N.O.R.D.
Some quick highlights include:
- RIAA hosts “Everything You Need to Know About Streaming Revenue and Policy in One Hour”
- Guild of Music Supervisors NYC Education Event & Film Fest, an immersive full-day symposium to meet, network and learn from some of the top music supervisors and industry executives in the business, that will take place at The Williamsburg Hotel, October 5.
- Record Store Day presents “A Conversation With…” Series at Rough Trade Records
- The Second Annual Marauder Radio Room @ Pianos — College stations record interviews and live sessions with Mondo showcasing artists.
- MusicTech Day @ Mondo.NYC hosted by Brian Zisk
- Northern Beat: Indigenous Canadian New Music Showcase at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with iskwé, DJ Shub with James Jones and Elisapie
- HOTS, The Hungarian Music Export Bureau, presents Breakthrough Artists from Hungary Ivan & the Parazol and Mörk
- SWISS LIVE TALENTS present KT Gorique, The Last Moan, Sophie De Quay & The Waveguards, Eliane Amherd
Mondo’s speakers include key leaders from the emerging music and frontier tech industries:
● Preeti Adhikary, VP of Marketing, FuseMachines
● Danielle Aguirre, General Counsel, National Music Publishers’ Association
● Lauren Apolito, SVP Strategy & Business Development, Rumblefish/HFA
● Shelita Burke, Pop Star/Data Scientist
● Bryan Calhoun
● Susanna Choe, Co-Founder, Peace Accelerators
● Thomas Emmanuel, US Business Development Advisor, Sonm
● David Garrity, Partner, BTBlock
● Mitch Glazier, President, RIAA
● Adam Huttler, General Partner, Exponential Creativity Ventures
● Lenny Kaye, Artist, Guitarist for The Patti Smith Group
● Scott Kessler, Director of Business Development, L03 Energy
● Tammy Khan, Partner, BTBlock
● Clara Kim, General Counsel, ASCAP
● Michael Kurtz, Co-Founder, Record Store Day
● Andrew Levine, Content Director, Steemit
● Jonathan McHugh, Director/Producer/Music Supervisor
● Arjun Mendhi, CEO, MTonomy
● Tatiana Moroz, Founder, TATIANACOIN
● Ed Morris, Co-Founder and Director, Gate Reality
● Rohan Reddy, Co-Founder, Y2X
● Emma Reeves, Executive Director, Free the Bird
● Jordan Rudess, Keyboardist/Composer, Dream Theater
● Xander Schultz, VC, Galaxy Investment Partners
● Cary Sherman, CEO, RIAA
● Stephen White, CEO, Dubset
● Bill Wilson, Co-Founder, Indie Ninja
● Brian Zisk, Co-Founder/Executive Producer, SF MusicTech Summit
● Shoshana Zisk, General Counsel, George Clinton Enterprises
Of course, I’m looking extremely forward to catching some of the incredibly diverse music offerings, including:
- Omar Souleyman (Syria)
- Laxmi Bomb (India)
- Lord Esperanza (France)
- Crosa Rosa (UK)
- Kingswood (Australia)
- Sevi Ettinger (China)
- Mörk and Ivan & The Parazol (Hungary)
- Eliane Amherd and Sophie de Quay & The Wave Guards (Switzerland)
- DJ Shub, Elisapie, Goodbye Honolulu, iskwé, Karimah, and Kielley Koyote (Canada)
- BriGuel, Girl Skin and HoneyChrome, RYAL (NYC)
- THRILLCHASER (Providence)
- The Darbies (Los Angeles)
- and a long list of others
For more information, including tickets, showcases, talks and more, go the following: https://mondo.nyc
Hopefully, I’ll be covering the events of the conference, and if so, be on the lookout for a variety of live conference through my various social accounts:
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