Dave Kusek is Vice President at Berklee College of Music responsible for managing the online music school, Berkleemusic.com. Kusek was a co-developer of the revolutionary Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI), co-inventor of the first electronic drums at Synare, and founder of Passport Designs, the first music software company. In 2005 he co-authored the book "The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution.
Kusek also runs a consulting business Digital Cowboys providing advice and services to Nokia, Pepsi, AOL, BMG, EMI, A&M Records, Boston Acoustics, Roland, Yamaha, Intel, IBM, Island Music, Nettwerk, Ovation Guitars and others.
Kusek has written for or been featured in Forbes, Billboard, New York Times, Wired, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Associated Press, MTV, CNBC and Financial Times. He is a frequent speaker at MacWorld, Comdex, NAMM, AES, IEBA and has appeared on NBC-TV, the Nightly Business Report, NPR, and the BBC.
Ian Rogers and his team at Topspin are on in. Listen to what he has to say in this brief interview from Wired and think how it can apply to your situation.
The more you know, the better decisions you can make and the further you can go. Simple as that. Topspin is generating data, as are Nimbit, Reverbnation and others.
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Thank you so much for sharing this! I am definitely going to be making use of Topspin Media. Great blog, by the way, I’m hopelessly addicted to it!
Thanks for sharing. I’m a student with Berklee online.. interested in taking this class and also the Future of Music and The Music Business class..
Your site is great, inspiring, great for an artist trying to find his place in the music business today.
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