Work
Current Project: WAVZE Music
WAVZE is on a mission to provide the soundtrack to your sport. Already a leading provider of bespoke music for the world's biggest sports brands; 73Barrios is working with the team on Product, Sales, Operations and Strategy to connect even more emerging artists and opportunities in sports media.
Current Project: Springer Funding
Springer is designed to help all kinds of creators - music, games publishers, influencers - get their projects funded, and simplify the legal aspect. They've already proven the concept with musicians in their previous iteration as Shout4, and 73Barrios is advising on go-to-market strategy ahead of relaunch.
Interview in Forbes Central America
I spoke with Forbes after participating in a panel at BIME's 2023 conference, about the scope, potential and pitfalls of AI for music creators and consumers.
Solutions for Songwriters
Everything starts with the songwriter, yet they're often the last to get paid. MgNTa was intended to address this and 73Barrios set up pilots with DSPs and PROs to bring the service to market and drive users to the parent platform. While MgNTa is inactive, the tech lives on independently. Keep your eyes open for developments!
Producers Corner Interview Series
In partnership with Future Music Forum, 73Barrios hosts the annual Producers Corner interview. Guests have included Brian Jackson (Gil Scott Heron), Kevin Bacon (Bowie, Bjork, Ziggy Marley), Dante Ross (Busta Rhymes, De La Soul, House of Pain), Nightmares on Wax, Matt Black (Coldcut, Ninja Tune) and TommyD (Kanye, Kylie, Michael Jackson).
Australia's First HD Download Store
With a remit to manage partnerships globally for this Australian live HD audio recording and fan engagement platform, 73barrios oversaw the rollout of OpenLive's music download store.
Iconic independent label partnership for podcast platform
An early adopter of spoken word audio platforms, 73Barrios' Jeff Bacon brought the music industry to this now hyper-successful podcasting platform, during its infancy. From creating fan engagement channels for independent labels like Strange Music to campaigns with Paul McCartney's Wings for UMG
OpenLive at SXSW
In 2017 we took OpenLive to SXSW in Austin, where our hardware and software enabled attendees to live stream or listen to recordings of showcasing artists, mixed and mastered in near real-time. This culminated in the tech being deployed for Iggy Pop and Queens of the Stone Age's epic concert at the Moody Theatre.
Musicmetric
Designed and executed go to market strategy and product development in the early days of one of the first music analytics companies, later acquired by Apple.