How Technology Can Aid Creativity

How Technology Can Aid Creativity

Critics say that technology is compromising our ability to be creative, but, if used correctly, it could have the opposite outcome. In this session, our panellists examine how technology can be an intrinsic part of making music, focusing on the types of technology available to them and how it can be used to enhance their creative process. Joined by moderator BBC Radio Scotland DJ, Vic Galloway; Multidisciplinary composer, performer, and producer Bishi; Creator of the audiovisual software system, Isadora, Mark Coniglio, Co-founder and Head of Sound Innovations of Black Goblin, Ana Betancourt and Streamline CEO, John Maxwell Hobbs. Originally presented in association with the ISM Trust.

Is This Still A Man's World?

Female artists make up less than 20% of all signed acts, while only 14% of UK songwriters are womxn. For our fourth Streamline podcast, the voice of Saturday morning on Rinse FM, Jyoty Singh, is joined by former BASCA (The Ivors Academy) CEO Vick Bain, Nadia Khan founder of Women in CTRL and Harriet Jordan Wrench founder of Secret Sessions to discuss: Why music’s gender gap has remained unchecked for so long and what can be done to fix it? Vick Bain's Counting the Music Industry: The Gender Gap Report can be downloaded here https://countingmusic.co.uk

Tony Churnside

Tony Churnside is a radio and audio expert, digital innovator and deliverer of successful, high impact digital firsts. He creates new audience experiences by leveraging technology in novel ways. Tony is internationally recognised as an expert in object based television and radio programme creation, and specialises in producing unique and inventive audience experiences. He is an expert in production workflows that deliver both traditional linear media and flexible, responsive, interactive new media experiences that work across different connected devices and in different environments. Tony was awarded his PhD in personalised and interactive radio in 2015. Tony has been a member of various technical EBU groups, a committee member of the UK Radio Academy Radio Festival and The International Broadcasting Convention. He is an author of over 10 international publications and has presented at over 30 international conferences. Tony is a spokesperson for audio and radio advancements, having written articles for publications such as Broadcast, Television and iTech and has appeared in various media, including BBC News, Sky News, ITN, NPR, BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service talking about the present and future of media.

Timothy Boggs

Timothy Boggs is an award winning filmmaker, Artist and songwriter who lives and works in Los Angeles. His 30 year career as a sound supervisor and sound editor include notable television shows - “The Sopranos,” “Breaking Bad,” “The Good Wife,” “Queen Sugar,” “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys,” “Xena: Warrior Princess,” “Legion,” and “Fargo.”  Tim’s Film credits include David Lynch’s “Lost Highway,” Wim Wenders’ “The End of Violence,” Nicolas Roeg’s “Full Body Massage,” Gurindha Chadha’s “Bend it Like Beckham,” and Rob Reiner’s comedy “The Bucket List.”  Tim’s directorial debut, the 1986 low budget Shot-on-Video cult-classic horror movie “Blood Lake,” recently had a World Premier celebrating the movie’s long awaited DVD release at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas.  Tim is also an accomplished Artist and Photographer. His works are owned by several Oscar winners and three art pieces purchased by the comedian/actor Jim Carrey. Tim’s Digital Paintings and photography can be found on his website ZenArtistLA.com [http://zenartistla.com/] His band Karmic Jesters, for which Tim is the lyricist, co-songwriter and lead singer, creates whimsical, comic blues songs and melodic, deeply reflective musical pieces - a balance of both the Karmic and the Jester. Their music can be found on the band’s website - KarmicJesters.com.   Tim’s latest endeavor has fulfilled his life-long aspiration to teach meditation. Tim learned to meditate when he was 16 years old and has practiced the peaceful art of introspection for nearly 50 years. Tim began formally teaching what he calls “Cleansing Yoga Meditation” over Zoom for the past year and a half. CY Meditation is a simple technique that shows the student how to become aware of the inner flow of energy that is inside each of us, how to take control of that Life-Force energy - or Chi - and then use it to cleanse their inner energetic system and help them become more peaceful and better able to sit in quiet meditation. Tim’s philosphical musings and reflections can be found at CYmeditation.com.

Eric Liljestrand

Eric Liljestrand is a guitarist, producer and engineer based in Los Angeles. He began his career in the downtown New York art music scene in the early 1980s, engineering , playing guitar and programming for Peter Gordon, David Van Tieghem, Arthur Russell, Laurie Anderson and Diamanda Galas.  Unlike many of his peers, Eric branched out into live sound, theater sound design, film scoring, sound effects and composition.     A long and fruitful collaboration with Hal Willner yielded films by Robert Altman and Martin Scorcese, as well as a season of Saturday Night Live.  His credits include a Grammy win for Bill Frisell's "Unspeakable", producing Lucinda Williams' top ten "Little Honey", engineering Keith Urban’s “#1 album “Fuse” and a wealth of albums and film scores.     https://ericliljestrand.bandcamp.com/ https://www.allmusic.com/artist/eric-liljestrand-mn0000801190#credits https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0510310/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1