The music industry should learn from #MusicHackday
This is a new type of event for the music industry. Sessions are focussed on talks about APIs and technology and the mood is refreshingly upbeat. You won’t find any long-winded panels about ‘Music 2.0’ or the death of the traditional music industry here: the participants are too busy swapping ideas, sharing code and building the future using blocks laid down by companies like SoundCloud, Songkick, 7digital, Last.fm and The Echonest. The hackers are also joined by music software companies such as Ableton and Native Instruments: hardware meets software meeting the web, all connected via music.
