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✖️ Sharing music on Instagram 🤳 India's emerging music economy 🇮🇳 How spammers game digital music 💰

Bas Grasmayer
Jul 10, 2017
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Hi all,

If you happen to be visiting Berlin for Tech Open Air this week, drop me a line.

We’re looking for tech talent to join us at IDAGIO: streaming reinvented for classical music. See our openings.

In Berlin? Come join our IDAGIO Tech Talks this Friday, with talks about building physical music tools, and composition through neural networks. RSVP!

Have an excellent week everyone! ✨

Love,

Bas

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