Welcome to another episode of The Power of Music Thinking podcast. Our guest today is both an accomplished musician and a fascinating researcher. Dr. Sandra Garrido is a pianist and violinist who holds a PhD combining the worlds of music and psychology. Her work focuses on a question that touches all of us: how can […]
Our guest today is challenging the all-knowing AI oracle. Dr. Maya Ackerman, a world-renowned AI expert who has been at the forefront of generative AI since 2015. She holds a PhD in Computer Science, is a professor at Santa Clara University, and has authored over 60 research publications. As the co-founder and CEO of WaveAI, […]
This is a personal story about my first online interview at the end of the 1990s. It is a trip back in time with original sound snippets from the interview with famous conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim in the Opéra Royale at Versailles. Find out how we did this technically and what questions the maestro […]
What can people and organisations learn from science and music? Why should we care? Are universal mechanisms valid all over the world to all human species? Or is everything an individual experience? How does regulating emotions work? Today, we talk with Hauke Egermann, Professor of Systematical Musicology at the University of Cologne. We speak about universal […]
A few episodes ago, I asked the question What is Orchestration? This was because I saw a lot of different orchestrators, nota bene, non-musical orchestrators with job titles like Design Orchestrator, Value Network Orchestrator, Data Orchestrator and Innovation Orchestrator, just to name a few. It is a long list that combines one field, like Design […]
Let’s talk about books today. What was the last book that inspired you? Was it a novel, a non-fiction book, a design book, a music book or a cookbook? In this episode, I share three books that inspired my sound way of thinking, experiencing the world with an open ear and what has led to […]
Welcome to a new year of The Power of Music Thinking. This is our first episode of the year, and today, we are diving deep into how sound can make a difference for brands. We speak with Willemijn van Hussen – a trained concert pianist, strategy consultant – co-founder and owner of Sonic Branding agency […]
The circle is round, not only because this is the last episode of the year, but also because we started this year with a young researcher’s science and music dialogue and her approach to translating research into a poem and live music – or in other words combining rationality with emotions. We end this year […]
Christof Zürn talks about music thinking, the music thinking framework, and JAMMIN’ before SCORE and what this means in the context of co-creation in business. But, how does this sound? It sounds marvellous; we hear a lot of musical excerpts from the new (digital) album of MRZ – an ambient improvisation trio. “To reward attention, […]
In the last years and month I saw it on LinkedIn and other social media, I hear it in conversations, I see it in job descriptions and many different places: Orchestration. But, what is it? And, what is an orchestrator? What do they do?Is everybody now a musician or music thinker?Is it important? And Why […]