music recommendations: a panel at Campus Party Europe:

Music recommendations is one of my fave topics and I’m always on the hunt for checking out new services. So it was a very big honor to have the possibility to moderate a panel: “The Future of Music is Social” at this crazy event: Campus Party Europe which happened last week in Berlin’s former Airport Tempelhof. (I was also working for it as Ambassador Music and Stagemanager, more about this in the next post) Unfortunately the sound (acoustics) at the panel was really bad. I lost the discussion at a certain stage.  But after I watched the video I think its a start of a really cool discussion around the topic: automated vs. human recommendation. Peter Kirn already suggested to make a follow up on this topic via email, which he will publish on create digital music. (love this idea!) Read more about our discussion and watch the video after the jump –>  

left to right: Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Brandenbug, Barbara Hallama, Peter Kirn, Stephan Baumann, Ben Fields

Participants:

Dr. Prof. Karlheinz Brandenburg Professor at the Institute for Media Technology at Ilmenau University of Technology and director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT in Ilmenau, Germany.

Ben Fields leads Musicmetric’s data science team  (Musicmetric.com) http://blog.benfields.net

Stephan Baumann Head of Competence Center Computational Culture (C4) at the German Research Center for AI in Kaiserslautern and Berlin (DFKI).

Peter Kirn composer/musician, media artist, educator, and technology writer, and the creator and editor of Create Digital Music.

Here is the recording, att. the sound is sometimes really hmm.. naja.. bad: