Music, knowledge, technology.
Useful Magic is building a music-intelligence layer that understands recordings beyond conventional metadata and turns that understanding into discovery, recommendation, and professional catalog tools.
Our first product and the technology behind it.
For listeners
iPhone app in development
Turn the music that catches your ear into a collection you can return to.
We’re bringing capture, song identification and musical analysis together with saved discoveries, export and listener corrections.
Related-music discovery is in development, helping you explore connections through sound and context.
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The intelligence underneath
In development
Engine powers the musical interpretation. Record Crush is where we put it to use.
Its development brings together audio analysis, structured musical knowledge and human review, with applications across other music products and professional tools.
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Selected collaborations
Alongside our own products, we develop listening experiences and take on selected consulting, curation and development work with artists, labels, catalogs, venues and music software teams.
Work through a product idea, a music workflow or a technical decision. Define the problem and a practical next step.
Music selection, catalog organization and metadata. Bring musical judgment to how a collection is understood and explored.
Artist selections, guided discovery, themed listening sessions and music programming. Shaped by the taste, knowledge and perspective of DJs, artists and curators.
Bring us a specific challenge in music, data or technology. We’ll explore the approach, scope and development around the project.
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A product, a catalog, a collaboration or an idea you want to explore. We’d like to hear about it.