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Sonic Branding Strategy: Culture, Identity & Rollout | Sami El-Quqa
“You know, the Dr. Pepper jingle, a year ago, there was that jingle. So I’m not going to make any claims that the jingle itself isn’t great. It’s a great jingle. And I do think if you analyze it, there are a lot of ways you can dissect it to actually properly represent Dr. Pepper. […]
Songwriting Mentorship with Greig Watts: Persistence and Rejection
“My grandfather used to say, aim for the moon and you might catch a star on the way down. And at his funeral, I gave a sort of eulogy and told everyone this story and said, ‘I assume everyone’s heard this one from him because he was a storyteller.’ There were about a hundred people […]
Songwriting for Eurovision and Global Music Markets with Greig Watts
“I’ve been, so one of my writer friends who I published, a guy called Ian Curnow, he was one of the producers behind “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley and “Stay Another Day” by East 17 and Kylie. He was a big producer, and I took him to Eurovision. He was the first […]
Sound in Advertising: Emotion, AI, and Creative Risk with Laney and Matt McCormick
“I don’t think AI quite has us figured out yet because, as human beings, we’ll listen to sad songs to feel better. I don’t think it understands that. That’s true, it’s contrary… Yeah, I mean, I think that AI has its place. I’m not all against it, just as a matter of course, I just […]
AI in Music Licensing with Laney and Matt McCormick
“That’s one of the biggest things that scares me the most about composing with AI. It’s that, whatever AI model you’re on, how was it trained, and was that material copyrighted? And was there any kind of permission for that to happen? And you, as the end user, don’t know.” – Laney McCormick This […]
AI in Business and Creativity: A Conversation with David Gielan
“The reason why brands and companies should be thinking about audio is because all of their consumers are, whether they know it or not. I mean, to your point about people knowing when something doesn’t feel right but not necessarily knowing why, a lot of times it’s audio. Especially now too, with so much AI […]