by Gigi Johnson | Oct 7, 2020 | Creative Innovators Podcast
In this episode, Christopher Hope shares his journey to found The Loop Lab in Cambridge, MA. He learned through DJing, community service, religious studies, and partnering with local organizations to deliver a unique blend of higher education, apprenticeships, and...
by Gigi Johnson | Sep 28, 2020 | Creative Innovators Podcast
In this episode, Sasha Samochina shares her journey connecting art, VR, and science together — to her trio of roles at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). She illustrates why she is “thankful for [her] boldness” in interning and pushing into each new job and...
by Gigi Johnson | Sep 21, 2020 | Creative Innovators Podcast
In this episode, Ty Frankel shares how as a young music creator and entrepreneur he pushed to create relationships to build Shut Down Media. His multi-country company creates hip hop music for integration into film and television. He talks about how he overcame... by Gigi Johnson | Sep 14, 2020 | Creative Innovators Podcast
Zack Zalon has shifted and grown along with a transforming music industry. He began as (and still is) a musician, then blossomed at the Troubadour before launching into websites, marketing, Farm Club, Virgin, and through that Moment of Mojo into taking his background...
by Gigi Johnson | Sep 1, 2020 | Creative Innovators Podcast
Enjoy the tales of Carlo Fox, Ben Willis, and Josh Andriano working together as the three-partner independent music management company leadership team running Indie-Pop. After meeting when Josh and Ben married sisters (no longer in the picture), they formed Indie-Pop...
by Gigi Johnson | Aug 27, 2020 | Creative Innovators Podcast
Jack Conte blends the worlds of music creation (Pomplamoose and the funk band Scary Pockets) and solving creators’ problems with systems (crowdfunding and community with Patreon). He shares how he balances (or doesn’t balance at times) creating music with running a...
by Gigi Johnson | Aug 25, 2020 | Creative Innovators Podcast
This week on the Creative Innovators with Gigi Johnson podcast, we are joined by Ted Cohen, who shared tales of doing things for the right reasons and seeing decades ago the dimensions of our current music streaming playlists and challenges. He talks about...
by Gigi Johnson | Aug 25, 2020 | Creative Innovators Podcast
A year ago, Dmitri Vietze launched a new thought leadership conference on music technology in Los Angeles and had to move it with one day’s notice. This year, he has moved his whole thought leadership with Music Tectonics online with virtual conferences and...
by Gigi Johnson | Aug 1, 2020 | Creative Innovators Podcast
Welcome to the 2020 launch of the new podcast, Creative Innovators with Gigi Johnson. Gigi engages with innovators and creators who are changing the way that we create and reimagine in music, art, live events, virtual events, video, film, education and social...
