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SUMMARY
Beginning my career in the Nashville and New York music industries as a teenager contracted as a staff writer/composer with a major music publisher, I operated in both the recording and touring industries as a professional at a young age. Leveraging skills and relationships garnered in those formative years, I transitioned to Los Angeles in my mid-20's where I simultaneously grew a career in music production for TV and Film alongside creating a Musicianship and Songwriting Program for young women throughout the greater LA area. During this same period, I helped lead the Afghan Women's Writing Project as co-president of the board and developer of cross-cultural programming and curriculum. This work within an intrepid State Department-funded poetry NGO lead me to expand into musically scoring contemporary poetry releases. One such project, "6 Feat" by the collective, Carmen 56, was pivotal in the campaign to petition the Recording Academy to bifurcate the Best Spoken Word and Best Audio Book Grammy categories in 2022.
After launching Elite Shout, an artist development company, in 2017 with my business partner, Khalid Jones, we set about exploring the pain points of releasing songs to DSPs in an increasingly crowded market. This lead to the ideation and development of the Ultimate Playlist App. Ultimate Playlist implements incremental incentives to encourage long form engagement and listening behavior, thus creating an opportunity for artists and potential fans to connect more deeply. In 2021, Ultimate Playlist entered a partnership deal with the Arizona Lottery to launch the app nationally as a first-of-its-kind gamified music streaming app. In 2023, my co-founder and I were awarded a utility patent for the underlying mechanism of the tokenization of streaming audio. (US 11,810,425 B1)
As I move forward, I continue to be moved and enlivened by the nexus of music and tech and how we can build systems which leverage the best nature of these two. I continue to compose and produce boutique projects with respected collaborators, as well as devote energy to growing a non-profit experiential art curation organization located inside the historic Nashville Pantheon chapel dome (appropriately dubbed the "avant garde Ryman"). I feel the future is exciting and am always exploring ways to plug into dynamic networks, build upon established chassis, and employ my accrued skill set to aid in the success of those around me.
EXPERIENCE
Co-Founder
Ultimate Playlist App
Dec 2019 - Present (4 years 3 months)
Co-created the first-of-its-kind incentivized listening music streaming app.
Ideated in late 2019, myself and my co-founder Khalid Jones built a gamified, non-interactive streaming radio application for iOS and Android. In June 2021, we entered a partnership with the Arizona Lottery to launch the game nationally as an engine to drive new music discovery and attract a younger user base for the Lottery. As the daily operator, I project managed a team of 4-6 developers as well as liaised with Lottery product and marketing staffs to build a novel, cross-platform, gamified offering for listeners and affordable access to usable stratified listening data for artists and their marketing teams. In November 2023, my co-founder and I were granted a utility patent for the tokenization of streaming audio (US 11,810,425 B1). The Ultimate Playlist app has served as a successful test case for the use of this technology to increase sustained engagement for streaming content both in the music space and, more broadly, in the larger streaming economy.
Music Producer/ Recording Engineer/ Composer and Arranger
Elite Shout Media
Jul 2009 - Present (14 years 8 months)
Owner/ Creator
Forte Poesy Music
Jun 2009 - Jun 2018 (9 years 1 month)
Songwriter/ Composer
Froehlig-Palmer Music Group/ Famous Music Publishing
Aug 2001 - Jan 2007 (5 years 6 months)
SKILLS
REFERENCES
Kyle Steele
Founder/ President // Global Wave Integration
310-890-0071
Garret "Jacknife" Lee
Record Producer // Los Angeles
310-494-1098
Chip Matthews
Record Producer // Nashville
615-202-0567
Troy Vollhoffer
Founder/CEO // Premier Global Productions
615-335-1492
(specialized references in given discipline can be provided upon request)
INTERVIEWS AND ARTICLES ABOUT ULTIMATE PLAYLIST AND PRODUCTION PROJECTS HERE
Beginning my career in the Nashville and New York music industries as a teenager contracted as a staff writer/composer with a major music publisher, I operated in both the recording and touring industries as a professional at a young age. Leveraging skills and relationships garnered in those formative years, I transitioned to Los Angeles in my mid-20's where I simultaneously grew a career in music production for TV and Film alongside creating a Musicianship and Songwriting Program for young women throughout the greater LA area. During this same period, I helped lead the Afghan Women's Writing Project as co-president of the board and developer of cross-cultural programming and curriculum. This work within an intrepid State Department-funded poetry NGO lead me to expand into musically scoring contemporary poetry releases. One such project, "6 Feat" by the collective, Carmen 56, was pivotal in the campaign to petition the Recording Academy to bifurcate the Best Spoken Word and Best Audio Book Grammy categories in 2022.
After launching Elite Shout, an artist development company, in 2017 with my business partner, Khalid Jones, we set about exploring the pain points of releasing songs to DSPs in an increasingly crowded market. This lead to the ideation and development of the Ultimate Playlist App. Ultimate Playlist implements incremental incentives to encourage long form engagement and listening behavior, thus creating an opportunity for artists and potential fans to connect more deeply. In 2021, Ultimate Playlist entered a partnership deal with the Arizona Lottery to launch the app nationally as a first-of-its-kind gamified music streaming app. In 2023, my co-founder and I were awarded a utility patent for the underlying mechanism of the tokenization of streaming audio. (US 11,810,425 B1)
As I move forward, I continue to be moved and enlivened by the nexus of music and tech and how we can build systems which leverage the best nature of these two. I continue to compose and produce boutique projects with respected collaborators, as well as devote energy to growing a non-profit experiential art curation organization located inside the historic Nashville Pantheon chapel dome (appropriately dubbed the "avant garde Ryman"). I feel the future is exciting and am always exploring ways to plug into dynamic networks, build upon established chassis, and employ my accrued skill set to aid in the success of those around me.
EXPERIENCE
Co-Founder
Ultimate Playlist App
Dec 2019 - Present (4 years 3 months)
Co-created the first-of-its-kind incentivized listening music streaming app.
Ideated in late 2019, myself and my co-founder Khalid Jones built a gamified, non-interactive streaming radio application for iOS and Android. In June 2021, we entered a partnership with the Arizona Lottery to launch the game nationally as an engine to drive new music discovery and attract a younger user base for the Lottery. As the daily operator, I project managed a team of 4-6 developers as well as liaised with Lottery product and marketing staffs to build a novel, cross-platform, gamified offering for listeners and affordable access to usable stratified listening data for artists and their marketing teams. In November 2023, my co-founder and I were granted a utility patent for the tokenization of streaming audio (US 11,810,425 B1). The Ultimate Playlist app has served as a successful test case for the use of this technology to increase sustained engagement for streaming content both in the music space and, more broadly, in the larger streaming economy.
Music Producer/ Recording Engineer/ Composer and Arranger
Elite Shout Media
Jul 2009 - Present (14 years 8 months)
- 2014 Winner of ProMax Gold Award for "Carly" campaign with ABC/ Soapnet/ STUN Creative (produced/engineered/composed)
- 2014 Emmy nomination for "Carly" campaign with ABC/ Soapnet/ STUN Creative (produced/engineered/composed)
- Compositions and features: Bravo, Soapnet, Roxy by Quiksilver, The Huffington Post, ESPN, BBC Radio One, BBC Radio 1Extra
Owner/ Creator
Forte Poesy Music
Jun 2009 - Jun 2018 (9 years 1 month)
- Author of Forte Poesy Songwriting and Composition curriculum used in both private and public educational settings
- Employed novel techniques interfacing the creative process with the established tenets of 21st Century Skills and STEAM
- Managed a clientele of 120 weekly clients (students) while overseeing two part-time assistant teachers
Songwriter/ Composer
Froehlig-Palmer Music Group/ Famous Music Publishing
Aug 2001 - Jan 2007 (5 years 6 months)
- 2007 Campus Activities Female Artist of the Year (touring and recording)
- song composition and arrangement
- production of demos and recordings
- organization and execution of recording sessions
SKILLS
- Start-up Ventures
- Start-up Leadership
- Fundraising
- Project Management
- Product Management (Agile, Scrum, multi-platform dev)
- Data Analysis
- Record Production
- Record Engineering
- Songwriting/ Composing/ Engineering
- Music Admin/ PRO Licensing Management
REFERENCES
Kyle Steele
Founder/ President // Global Wave Integration
310-890-0071
Garret "Jacknife" Lee
Record Producer // Los Angeles
310-494-1098
Chip Matthews
Record Producer // Nashville
615-202-0567
Troy Vollhoffer
Founder/CEO // Premier Global Productions
615-335-1492
(specialized references in given discipline can be provided upon request)
INTERVIEWS AND ARTICLES ABOUT ULTIMATE PLAYLIST AND PRODUCTION PROJECTS HERE