Wanted: Music Researchers and Data Analysts
We’re on the hunt for Music Researchers and Data Analysts! Interested? We’re looking for smart, interesting, and hard-working people to join our researcher team. Ideally, we would like to find a number of students or recent graduates with an interest in digital music. Whether you’re into Pop, Rock’n’Roll, House, Classical, Jazz, Dubstep, or rubbish 80s [...]
We’re Hiring a Back-End Developer (bonus if you can do Front-End!)
Company: Decibel Music Systems Sector: Data, Music, Tech Hours: Full Time, Flexible Contract Type: 6-month contract (possible extension up to 12-months) Salary: Negotiable. About Decibel Music Systems We want to ensure that digital music is complete with uniform and complete metadata. We believe music metadata will power the future of discovery and recommendation, and will [...]
Board Level Changes at Decibel
Gregory Kris resigns as CEO as Decibel welcomes new investors. Gregory Kris, CEO of Decibel Music Systems, has resigned from the Board of Directors and as an employee of the company. His resignation as a director is effective immediately and he will leave as an employee on 31 January 2013. In conjunction with this change, [...]
Decibel, featured in the French publication “ici Londres”
The November 2012 issue of French magazine ici Londres features an article about Decibel, and our very own co-founder Gregory Kris. Entitled “Decibel, provider of data for the music industry”, the piece begins with the mention of some key points in Gregory Kris’ career as a successful entrepreneur, including the encounter with Evan Stein, which [...]
Decibel’s data drives discovery on the Blue Note app
Decibel is delighted to have played a part in the creation of the wonderful Blue Note App, launched in October by the long-established Blue Note Records jazz label, in partnership with developer Groovebug.
A Tale of Two Apps: Spotify and Deezer
Music streaming platforms currently dominate the global conversation on the future of music, with debates touching upon streaming ethics, application survival, and monetisation methods. The usual suspects included in the discourse include Spotify, Deezer, Rdio, and Pandora. But in terms of on-demand streaming, Spotify leads the English-language media discussion. While Spotify holds 4 million paid [...]
Celebrating Global Entrepreneurship Week: Decibel’s 10 Favourite Musicians/Entrepreneurs
Successful musicians are thought to have the mindset of entrepreneurs. Some of them have taken this skill to a whole new level, becoming not only entrepreneurial musicians, but also entrepreneurs in their own right. Joining the celebrations for this year’s Global Entrepreneurship Week, Decibel introduces some of our favourite entrepreneurial pursuits by musicians. Bono Besides [...]
Welcome to Decibel, Karolina (new researcher #2)
The second part of our early Christmas present comes in the form of Karolina, another music research intern. Check out her answers to the newbie Q&A below: Name? Karolina Job Title? Music Researcher Why did you join Decibel? I decided to join the music industry, but didn’t have any musical background. When I found out [...]
Welcome to Decibel, Peter (new researcher #1)
It’s Christmas come early here at the Decibel office as yesterday we were joined by not one, but two new research interns! Peter is first up in our sort-of (but not really) famous, brutally intensive, ‘new staff’ Q&A: Name: Peter Job Title: Music Researcher Why did you join Decibel? To get an insight into the [...]
Staff profile: Tom
As we slowly-but-steadily work our way through the interns, today’s staff profile will be Tom (sometimes known as ‘Tim’), who is also one of our researchers. Tom joined Decibel at the start of October. Name? Tom Job Title? Music Researcher Why did you join Decibel? Liked the idea of working within a tech/music-centric working environment, cool [...]
Six Things To Remember If You’re Starting A Tech Company
Decibel’s Evan Stein is an understandably busy man but recently took the time to write this guide for Music 4.5 (on the appropriately-named ‘Blog 4.5′), aimed at startup tech companies. The article can be found here: http://4pt5.com/6-things-to-remember-if-youre-starting-a-tech-company-by-decibel-founder-evan-stein/
Welcome to Lor, our new music researcher.
A former staple of the Decibel blogs, these welcome posts have fallen by the wayside slightly so we’re going back and giving our latest recruits their due! First up is Lor who only joined us last week. Name? Lor Job Title? Researcher Why did you join Decibel? To win trivia nights. Do you have musical [...]
Creative Industries Event 23/10/2012
Decibel are happy to confirm that Evan Stein, CIO, will be speaking at Creative Industries’ ‘Partnering for Innovation’ event today at Wallacespace in London. Further details can be found on Creative Industries’ website: https://connect.innovateuk.org/web/9390327
We’re Back!
Yes, the Decibel blog is up and running again and under new management. From here on out you can expect a celebration of all things musical, from the latest album releases to the most up-to-date news from the world of digital media. Follow us on Twitter @decibelnet for more!
2012 Winter Call for Interns – Open Now
Update: We’re now looking for intern researchers to start in October 2012! Interested? Email: jobs@decibel.net This year we are offering Technology Internships and Music Researcher Internships Technology Developers – Internships We’re looking for a number of computer science, software development or database architecture students with an interest in digital music. We know that a good developer [...]
Welcome to Mike the Kiwi Developer
Mike is a Kiwi legend and he is responsible for making some cool stuff from our own APIs…. watch this space! Name [...]
Welcome to Decibel, Robbie (not Williams)
Welcome to Robbie McC – our new software development intern. Robbie will be with us for a few months, maybe more if we can keep hold of a man with his considerable talents. Name: Robbie McCorkell Job Title: Software Development Intern Why did you join Decibel: To learn more about software development and get my [...]
Welcome to our UX Guru: Karen Kremer
Karen is based in Little Rock, Arkansas, and works remotely with the team in the UK. Here’s her profile: Name Karen Kremer Job Title UX Specialist Why did you join Decibel? I joined Decibel straight after receiving my MSIS in order to gain real-life experience in user experience and wireframing for something I’m passionate about. [...]
Welcome – Fran Nunn
We’d like to welcome a new member to the team: Fran Nunn – our new researcher Frann is running our spotify playlist this week: You can subscribe to our playlist on Spotify.
Good luck & Welcome
A couple of staff changes this month at Chateau Decibel: Good luck to Kit Tilleard, our Client Services Manager, who has left us to join Universal Music Publishing – our loss is their gain – and you are lucky people! And to Jackson Trieu, Head of Software Dev, who is leaving us, hopefully to come [...]
Recruiting API Hacker / Web (or Mobile)
Decibel is looking for a talented front-end designer/developer web app developer to create some awesome web and/or mobile apps http://www.techstartupjobs.com/jobs/api-hacker/ Specifically, the right person will be responsible for creating web apps using Decibel’s own APIs (Earth, Wind and Fire) and mashing our data with images, sound prints, digital music files, and services such as Amazon, [...]
Decibel’s Greg Kris to Chair Music 4.5 Panel
Our very own Greg Kris will be charing the debate at the upcoming Music 4.5 event ‘Data is Sexy 2: Data as arms’. Music 4.5 is a series of events that bring together music tech start-ups, serial entrepreneurs, investors, artists, band managers and key industry players to share knowledge, discuss strategies for business success, debate [...]