Tim Bern: Revolutionizing Music Management with Disco

In this episode, we sit down with Tim Bern from Disco, a cutting-edge music organization platform transforming the industry. Disco provides artists with a comprehensive toolset for managing and sharing their music effortlessly. Tim delves into the platform's functionality, emphasizing the importance of metadata, presentation, and accessibility. 

He shares insights on leveraging Disco to optimize exposure, streamline collaboration, and enhance professionalism in the music industry. With new features like AI auto-tagging and multi-Disco search, Disco continues to revolutionize music discovery and distribution, offering artists unprecedented opportunities for visibility and success. 

Tim emphasizes the platform's origins in addressing the needs of music professionals, particularly in the sync industry. They delve into the importance of metadata in music organization, stressing its role in facilitating smooth transactions and fostering positive relationships with music supervisors. 

Join us for an illuminating conversation on navigating the digital landscape of music with Disco.

Guest Bio:

Tim is Head of Education at DISCO (http://disco.ac/), a music and media industry platform for catalog management, discovery, and promotion.

Tim was the first boots on the ground to launch DISCO in Los Angeles in 2016, and has onboarded and trained thousands of businesses from indie to major labels, publishers, film studios, tv networks, sync agents, artist managers, radio promoters and more.

Tim’s experience has provided him with a wealth of practical knowledge from the frontlines of the industry, which he spends his time regurgitating for anyone who will listen. He built DISCO’s new education hub The School of DISCO (https://school.disco.ac) which features a wide range of articles, video courses, and live online classes.

Tim has a few side projects - he is a founding partner at Koze Music Publishing - a sync agency and pub admin service based in LA and Nashville. He also runs Familiar Strangers, and creative industry relationship building collective.

In a previous life, Tim was a professional jazz musician, artist manager (The Checks), Brooklyn restaurant owner (Mominette), and music supervisor at Level Two Music.

About the Hosts:

We’re Sonnet Simmons and John Clinebell, 2 indie artists who have found success and creative fulfillment through licensing our music for ads, TV shows and films. 

We were once so disheartened and discouraged that our music wasn’t being noticed or valued through traditional methods. So we both started on a journey to find another way. For us, that “third door” was sync! And what we discovered is a lot better than we could have ever even imagined…[Find out more here]

Resources From This Episode:

• 2Indie - Visit our website for more resources and information on how to get YOUR music signed
• Sync Society - Want to join our exclusive online sync community, with weekly LIVE networking and coaching calls?
• @2indieofficial - Follow us on Instagram
• Sync It! Music Licensing Community - Follow us on Facebook
• Tim Bern - Learn more about our guest and their work