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Interview with Sonic Branding Strategist & CEO of Pirate Group Inc., Tom Eymundson – Part 2

May 12, 2021 by Jodi Krangle

This is the second part of my interview with Tom Eymundson. This part dives in deeper to the bigger necessity of having an audio brand. This audio brand is the connective tissue to your customers. Tom really lays out for us how important an audio brand is as we move into this next decade.

We discuss:

  • The brands Tom has worked with that really stuck out to him
  • His big brand collaborations- Koodo, Porter Airlines
  • The way that Porter Airlines has used a champagne flute ping in their audio branding
  • The piece of jazz Porter Airlines acquired and where Porter plays their sonic branding (on commercials and when you get on their airplanes)
  • Cobranding with different pieces of audio
  • The difference between sonic branding and a piece of music
  • The danger of leveraging someone else’s music to tap into an emotional connection with your audience
  • Branding being an even more important piece of business as more startups are being created
  • How businesses are being judged on their audio branding now more than ever
  • The NEED for connecting with your customers as a business
  • Brands creating their own mix tapes to connect with their customers
  • Sound as a key component to expressing the quality of your brand
  • The upcoming need of becoming more and more sound proficient as a brand
  • How one company is using dynamic music in a phone app
  • Mastercard’s new audio soundscape and adding in a sound for your transactions online
  • Moving toward having companies create transactional sounds and partnerships between companies
  • The time it takes for something in audio to become memorable
  • Tom’s current project – doing phase 3 of testing with a lottery company
  • All the backend that has to happen for audio branding to be done well
  • The cost of creating a really great audio brand
  • Using a piece of music versus a human voice
  • Marketing and explaining to companies how important an audio brand can be
  • The longevity of an audio brand
  • McDonald’s success with their audio brand
  • How audio branding is your handshake on the way out the door

If you want to find more information about Pirate Group Inc, you can find them:

On their website: www.piratetoronto.com

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/piratetoronto

On Instagram: www.instagram.com/pirate_toronto

On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pirate-radio-&-television/

On Twitter: https://twitter.com/piratetoronto

This episode was very skillfully made to sound beautiful by the talented Humberto Franco (http://www.humbertofranco.com/).

Would you consider giving this podcast an honest review? You can do that here: https://lovethepodcast.com/audiobranding.  And if you like what you hear (and read!) – please do share it with anyone you think might be interested. Thanks so much!

And if you’re interested in crafting an audio brand for your business, why not check out my FREE download – 5 Tips For Implementing An Intentional Audio Strategy at https://voiceoversandvocals.com/audio-branding-strategy/

Filed Under: Audio Branding Tagged With: audio, audio branding, cobranding, dynamic music, emotional connection, Koodo, mastercard, McDonald's, mix tape, Pirate Group Inc., Porter Airlines, quality of brand, sound proficient, soundscape, startups, transactional sound

Changing the Shape of Music

November 11, 2020 by Jodi Krangle

Music can have a powerful effect on our feelings, our behavior, even how we see the world around us. But what if music itself can react to our feelings?  Weav Run, an award-winning workout app that instantaneously adjusts a song’s tempo to match the listener’s own pace, offers just one example of the fascinating potential of dynamic music.

When it comes to audio branding, music’s usually thought of as the product  – and the audience is just a passive consumer. You can listen to a song and let its melody carry you through the highs and lows, but no matter how many times you listen, those highs and lows aren’t ever going to change. The song is the song, and changing the mood a soundtrack sets usually just means switching to a different song. Dynamic music, however, seeks to reinvent that relationship by enabling a single audio track to evolve and reflect each individual listener, whether it’s by matching your walking pace, or detecting and following the rhythm of your heartbeat or breathing rate, or even measuring changes in your brain activity. Slow and thoughtful, lively and upbeat or quick and energetic, dynamic music allows a song to remain instantly recognizable while engaging us on a surprisingly personal level.

Just check out this video demonstration of Weav Music’s exercise app Weav Run, which won the 2019 International Sound Award for Service and Sound start-ups:

https://www.international-sound-awards.com/media/ISA2019/2019-1014-Weav-Music_presentation_Rasmussen_KB.mp4

As you can see, it’s not just about speeding up or slowing down the music: there’s a very tricky balancing act to consider between the pitch, tempo and even the composition of the song so that it remains appealing – and recognizable – in a variety of forms. Managing those sorts of second-by-second changes, and doing it so quickly that the listener doesn’t even notice it’s happening, is a pretty new development that’s gotten a really big push from smartphones, mobile devices and our always connected, on-the-go world.

Still, the idea of it has been around for quite a while: just think of an opera, where a whole orchestra’s focused on just keeping pace with the action on the stage. But the idea of doing this automatically and in real time, for each and every person, really got its start with early computer games, where programmers had to come up with some very inventive audio techniques to allow the music to seamlessly shift from one situation to the next. Here’s an example of one such technique called vertical re-orchestration that uses hidden bridges to move back and forth between slightly different versions of a single melody:

If you think about it, video games are really all about influencing a person’s behavior and creating an immersive, dynamic environment that draws them into the experience, which is just the sort of engagement that audio branding seeks to create as well. As the intersection between technology, art and lifestyle continues to expand, that sort of approach is becoming more and more relevant, not just in virtual environments but in our everyday lives as well. For instance, Sync Project, a Boston audio startup acquired by Bose in 2018, has been developing technology that adapts music to a listener’s real-time biometric data to help them relax, to fall asleep, even manage chronic pain and other medical conditions:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2127759-start-up-uses-biometrics-to-tailor-music-for-good-nights-sleep/

If you’d like to see how it works, give it a try here:

https://unwind.syncproject.co/#/

Music can have a very real, even medical impact on our brains and bodies. Just listening to a favorite song can trigger the release of endorphins in much the same way exercise does, and releases neurochemicals such as dopamine and oxytocin, promoting a sense of well-being and reward and actually blocking pain receptors to reduce stress. This effect is so potent that music therapy is currently being researched as an alternative to opioid prescriptions. The potential for dynamic music to utilize and finely tune this effect for each listener could have enormous implications for everything from audio marketing to the entertainment industry to healthcare.

Audio technology’s evolving at an unprecedented rate, and in ways we hardly could have considered a decade or two ago. Today we can go jogging with the Weav Run app and, instead of simply keeping up with the music, the music itself keeps up with us, changing and flowing to reflect our own experience in the moment. We’re entering an era in which listeners no longer simply listen to and consume music, but engage with that music on a physical, personal level, weaving it more and more deeply into the fabric of our lives.

Would you consider reviewing the Audio Branding Podcast?  If so, here’s the Apple Podcast link: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/audio-branding/id1489042453  And if you like what you hear (and read!) – please do share it with anyone you think might be interested. Thanks so much!

And if you’re interested in crafting an audio brand for your business, why not check out my FREE download – 5 Tips For Implementing An Intentional Audio Strategy at https://voiceoversandvocals.com/audio-branding-strategy/

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: audio branding, biometrics, dynamic music, dynamic sound, healing music, music composing, music composition, sound healing

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