At Beatseeker, we love music and we love games, so combining them in interesting ways is bound to get our attention. Our guest today blurs the lines between music creation and video games and he has even developed an arcade-style ‘Beat Machine’ which puts musical creativity at the centre of any private or public space.

The pandemic caused many of us to work from home. For most people this wasn’t a big deal but if you’re a world renowned composer who needs to collaborate with a big symphony, a zoom meeting just isn’t going to cut it. Today you’ll hear about a very unique work from home story that inspired a novel workaround. Like many pandemic innovations, it turns out this workaround had lasting benefits long after things have returned to normal.

Music is an important tool for sports teams to get fans - and players - amped up for a game. The tunes need to rock the arena to keep the energy level high and a DJ needs to pick the right song to match each game situation. We wondered what it must be like to be a pro sports DJ: what’s involved in preparing and what it’s like to spin tunes for a big game. Taking us behind the scenes is music producer and DJ Cale Granton.

Classical music is making a big comeback. More and more people - including the younger generation - are enjoying music that was written hundreds of years ago. Do recent tech developments, like streaming and social media, have something to do with reawakening these age-old art works?

Can the music industry come together to lower our carbon footprint and save the planet? A unique organization is working to transform the music industry to address our climate emergency because in their words, there is #NoMusicOnaDeadPlanet”.

The linkage between music and math is not well understood. People tend to think music is creative and math is perhaps the antithesis of the creative arts. But when you think about it, music is full of mathematical concepts: time signatures, sets, loops, patterns and recursion to name a few. There are even studies that show that children who play musical instruments are better at solving complex math problems. Helping us understand the music-math relationship is Marcus Miller.

Mike and Matt go digging in the archives with Tim Zawada and Ken Shipley from The Numero Group, an archival record label that researches and preserves musical gems by artists and entrepreneurs who found little commercial success upon their material's initial release.

This episode features a special guest, Barclay Crenshaw also known as Claude VonStroke. Claude is the founder of one of the hottest EDM labels - Dirtybird Records. Dirty Bird is not your typical label and Claude isn’t your typical DJ. He curates unique experiences with fans to get the crowd in the zone and help them get weird.

Mike and Matt’s avatars hang out with Ian Simon of Spirit Bomb to talk about the coming explosion of virtual artists.

Matt and Mike sit down with Over the Bridge’s Ace Piva to talk about using technology for good with the Lost Tapes of the 27 Club project.

Matt and Mike talk with award winning Jazz singer KELLY LEE EVANS about how technology has changed the music business for her.

Matt and Mike tag team with NEW DEAL bandmates Jamie Shields and Dan Kurtz on the good, bad and ugly of tech transformations in music making.

Matt and Mike talk with songwriter Jeff Breithaupt from the MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC about the death of the Album.

Matt and Mike sit down with musician, writer, poet, podcaster and digital transformation critic DAMON KRUKOWSKI about Spotify v Bandcamp, creator rights, and more.