The Europe In Synch Podcast
The Europe In Synch Podcast
EP11: Act In Synch 2024, Athens Special - The Music Talk with Daryl Bamonte & Kid Moxie
Join us in Athens, Greece, where the Act in Synch Summit is fostering cross-industry collaborations and sparking discussions about climate change, sustainability, cultural impacts, and urban transformation. The summit's vibrant setting at the Impact Hub provides an ideal backdrop for exploring how music intersects and acts with advertising, urban development, tech, and global challenges. We highlight insights from influential speakers & delegates who emphasize the importance of community and collaboration in overcoming industry obstacles and forging a positive future in a post-pandemic, AI-driven world.
Technology has reshaped how musicians create and share music, offering greater freedom while presenting new challenges for artists navigating the digital landscape.
Kid Moxie (Elena Charbila) describes her music as "neon noir" and explains why she prefers working solo over being in bands. Daryl Bamonte (Archangelo Music) shares insights from his 25-year career working with Depeche Mode and The Cure, and looks at the music industry's evolution over the years since he started.
Both guests discuss how they discover new music in the streaming era, with Daryl missing human curation and Kid Moxie finding inspiration in film soundtracks.
We hear how creating music with minimal equipment can increase productivity by reducing "noodling" and decision fatigue and how technology has enabled significant international collaboration, helping bands like Hence create music despite members living in different countries from each other.
Kid Moxie shares the sweet story of her unexpected collaboration with Depeche Mode after they discovered her cover of Radiohead's "Creep" and invited her to be part of their recording process.
Daryl also talks about how music licensing for sync opportunities has become more acceptable as advertising has evolved and traditional revenue streams have diminished.
The panel summarises that technology has helped marginalized voices bypass traditional industry gatekeepers and that focus on building genuine connections and putting yourself in circumstances where opportunities can find you, rather than trying to follow a specific formula for success, should be the goal for everyone.
The discussion is expertly moderated by musician and journalist, Alex Maiolo.
Europe In Synch is created, managed, promoted, and driven by several European organizations and companies and is a truly cross-border collaboration.
The goals are to bring together professionals from the music sector with decision-makers from film & advertising to provide a real-life, hands-on, learning experience, and to promote European music in the complex field of synchronization, through communication, knowledge-building and networking via focused mentoring and peer training sessions.
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Intro/Outro music is an instrumental edit of "Gimme" by Daffodils.
They're on Soundcloud.
Europe In Synch is co-funded by the European Union.
This is a SuperSwell production for Europe In Synch...
