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Christof Zürn is on a mission to inspire you with analogies from the music world. His The Power of Music Thinking podcast features conversations with remarkable people that are also musicians, such as

the CEO of a digital platform that is also the conductor of a Big Band or a Global Design Director of a well-known design firm playing guitar and teaching at a top-notch music and art school. A Customer Success Manager of a big tech company that was the guitarist of a well know pop band, a University Professor for Organisational and Community Psychology finding success patterns and playing the bass, and the Director of a famous Design and Art school that was a worldwide performing musician and conductor of classical music.

Every episode will inspire you through personal stories in business, society and music.

With his decades of experience in branding and online agencies, management consulting and online music platforms, Christof’s questions come from a place of curiosity and passion for meaningful co-creation, creative strategy and sustainable innovation in the context of the planet, people, and profit.

If you love society and culture, music and technology, documentaries, and business podcasts, take a second to follow The Power of Music Thinking.

Listeners of The Power of Music Thinking podcast will learn from some of the most exciting people in the world with practical tips and inspiring stories that will inspire your personal and business life.

Listen to The Power of Music Thinking here: https://musicthinking.com/podcast

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Christof Zürn is on a mission to inspire you with analogies from the music world. His The Power of Music Thinking podcast features conversations with remarkable people that are also musicians, such as

the CEO of a digital platform that is also the conductor of a Big Band or a Global Design Director of a well-known design firm playing guitar and teaching at a top-notch music and art school. A Customer Success Manager of a big tech company that was the guitarist of a well know pop band, a University Professor for Organisational and Community Psychology finding success patterns and playing the bass, and the Director of a famous Design and Art school that was a worldwide performing musician and conductor of classical music.

Every episode will inspire you through personal stories in business, society and music.

With his decades of experience in branding and online agencies, management consulting and online music platforms, Christof’s questions come from a place of curiosity and passion for meaningful co-creation, creative strategy and sustainable innovation in the context of the planet, people, and profit.

If you love society and culture, music and technology, documentaries, and business podcasts, take a second to follow The Power of Music Thinking.

Listeners of The Power of Music Thinking podcast will learn from some of the most exciting people in the world with practical tips and inspiring stories that will inspire your personal and business life.

Listen to The Power of Music Thinking here: https://musicthinking.com/podcast

Like this show? Please leave us a review -- even one sentence helps! Consider including your Twitter handle so we can thank you personally!

Thank you for your support; it helps the show!

    Music and Astrophysics with Dr Mariana Wagner

    Music and Astrophysics with Dr Mariana Wagner

    Dr. Mariana Wagner, an astrophysicist, songwriter, podcaster, and composer of immersive live shows about sound and space. 
    We learn about her journey that led her from studying oceanography, working as a songwriter for German Schlager stars and becoming a doctor of astrophysics.  
    Mariana also brought some sound examples to the show. We hear a conversation between Saturn and one of its moons, an excerpt from the sound files on the famous golden record that has accompanied the Voyager since 1977, and the grooving sound of moving plasma from the sun. 
    Show Notes
    Connect with Mariana on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-mariana-wagner-2a241a75/ 
    Podcast (mostly German speaking): https://marianawagner.de/podcast/
    Introduction to the sound and space live shows: https://marianawagner.de/show/#_info  
    Golden record and the untold story how Chakrulo ended up in space:  https://georgianjournal.ge/discover-georgia/28321-the-untold-story-of-how-chakrulo-ended-up-in-space.html 
     
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    The Power of Music Thinking is brought to you by CREATIVE COMPANION specialised in facilitating leaders, teams and organisations in customer experience, change and innovation.
     

    • 38 min
    Better English with Jam Cards and Anita Prestidge

    Better English with Jam Cards and Anita Prestidge

    How cool is this? You develop a multisensory product to let people experience your ideas about music thinking and then someone comes along and uses your product for something completely different.

    So today, we speak with Anita Prestidge, an English trainer with experience in theatre, directing, and education. When Anita picked up the cards, she had another idea of what to do with these cards and developed her own unique method. So, if you want to speak better English while using the Jam Cards, connect with Anita online.

    Show Notes

    Connect with Anita on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anita-prestidge/ 

    A Video Introduction by Anita Prestidge for potential students: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHly19lnmCo 

    Get the Jam Cards: https://musicthinking.com/jam-cards/ 

    Behind the Cards stories: https://musicthinking.com/?s=behind+the+cards

     

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    Subscribe to the podcast. Leave us a review — even one sentence helps! I appreciate your support; it helps the show!

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    Buy the book The Power of Music Thinking and the Jam Cards at a 20% discount using musicthinking20 at the check-out of the BIS Publishers website only.

    The Power of Music Thinking is brought to you by CREATIVE COMPANION specialised in facilitating leaders, teams and organisations in customer experience, change and innovation.

     

    • 38 min
    Science and Music dialogue with Carolin Seiferth

    Science and Music dialogue with Carolin Seiferth

    Today, we are in Sweden, and we speak with Carolin Seiferth - a PhD student at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, where she does research on the island of Öland.
    Carolin combines scientific research with music to raise awareness about sustainability issues around the Baltic Sea. In this way, she inspires the audience to take action to address challenges related to a changing climate.  Carolin shares some insights with us about her research and the creative production that led to the musical piece “Dialogues” as part of the Baltic Sea Festival Science Lab.
    We talked about her creative and dialogue-based approach with local actors in different workshops and how she transformed the results of her investigation into a poem that was a central part of the musical composition. 
    We reflect on the different sound qualities of rainfall and her curiosity to explore other ways of combining art-based approaches with scientific research in the future to create opportunities for engaging with sustainability questions on a much deeper level.

    Show Notes

    Connect with Carolin on LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/carolin-seiferth-a64333170  

    Watch Carolin’s performance (Performance 1: Sense of place, Carolin’s part starts at minute 36):https://www.berwaldhallen.se/en/play/experience-research-on-sustainability-set-to-music/ 

    Read more about Carolin’s research:https://www.stockholmresilience.org/meet-our-team/staff/2022-07-22-seiferth.html 

    Curious about the Baltic Sea Festival Science Lab?https://www.berwaldhallen.se/en/the-baltic-sea-festival-science-lab/ 

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    Subscribe to the podcast. Leave us a review — even one sentence helps! I appreciate your support; it helps the show!

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    Buy the book The Power of Music Thinking and the Jam Cards at a 20% discount using musicthinking20 at the check-out of the BIS Publishers website only.

    The Power of Music Thinking is brought to you by CREATIVE COMPANION specialised in facilitating leaders, teams and organisations in customer experience, change and innovation.

    • 37 min
    Rewind 2023 - The Power of Music Thinking - Podcast

    Rewind 2023 - The Power of Music Thinking - Podcast

    Welcome to the Rewind 2023 of The Power of Music Thinking podcast, where I have conversations with extraordinary people from all over the world who are also musicians or use music in the broadest sense of the word to learn, teach, inspire and collaborate meaningfully. 
    This year, we had 15 episodes, and virtually, we travelled from Nijmegen in the Netherlands, where all podcasts are recorded, to Berlin, Braunschweig, Zürich, London, Oslo, New York, West Virginia, Nashville, Los Angeles, Hawaii, Singapore, Tokyo, Mumbai and New Zealand.
    What were the themes?The overarching themes were leadership, co-creation, creativity, and how music can be used as an analogy to explain the world and work more meaningfully together.
    We had some unique themes and zoomed into subjects like health, sound healing, city policy, political journalism, sonification of data, sonic branding, storytelling, AI, and photography.  
    more on musicthinking.com
     
     

    • 43 min
    How Music Can Make Your City Better with Shain Shapiro

    How Music Can Make Your City Better with Shain Shapiro

    Today, we are in Nashville, and we speak with Shain Shapiro - a globally recognised thought leader at the convergence of music, culture and urban policy. 

    Shain is the CEO of Sound Diplomacy - a global research and strategy consultancy, and he also leads the non-profit Center for Music Ecosystems, which commissions research to help solve local, national and international challenges using music as a tool.

    Shain has authored reports on the role of music in cities, tourism, the nighttime economy, real estate and recovery, including the most extensive guide to music and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in partnership with the United Nations. 

    We are talking about his brand-new book, This Must Be The Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better, which was published in September 2023. 

    Note: Unfortunately, there was a very poor Wifi, so please excuse the quality.
    Show Notes

    Connect with Shain on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shainhouse/

    Sound Diplomacy: www.sounddiplomacy.com 

    Music Cities Events: www.musiccitiesevents.com

    His book: This Must Be The Place: https://www.shainshapiro.com/book

    Show support

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    Subscribe to the podcast. Leave us a review — even one sentence helps! I appreciate your support; it helps the show!

    Tell your friends about the podcast and musicthinking.com

    Buy the book The Power of Music Thinking and/or the Jam Cards.

    The Power of Music Thinking is brought to you by CREATIVE COMPANION specialised in facilitating leaders, teams and organisations in customer experience, change and innovation.
     

    • 26 min
    The Sound of a Toy Dolphin - Special Episode - The Power of Music Thinking

    The Sound of a Toy Dolphin - Special Episode - The Power of Music Thinking

    Listen to an incredible sonic project by a Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE)  graduate: Louis Moeckel. Hear the story about the supply chain of the production of a Toy Dolphin and the creation of research into an artistic Vinyl record. If you like Techno and the Berghain Club in Berlin you will like this. See the show notes to pre-order this unique Vinyl record.

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    Subscribe to the podcast. Leave us a review — even one sentence helps! I appreciate your support; it helps the show!

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    The Power of Music Thinking is brought to you by CREATIVE COMPANION specialised in facilitating leaders, teams and organisations in customer experience, change and innovation. 

    • 24 min

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