Wondering about music, technology and life in between.


That Thing We Do

October 17, 2023

Behind the curtains of the Internship Orchestra Tour

Back in the fall of ’22 we launched the Internship Orchestra Tour – a programme giving 10 bright minds a seat to perform for the Music Operating System and better the industry altoget [...]

September 28, 2023

BMAT’s got a brand new CEO

You may have heard that BMAT runs on 3 CEOs now, following the infallible business principle ‘the more the merrier’. Well, it’s true but also part of the plan. Starting Ja [...]

August 18, 2023

Work vs life: this is how we get the balance right

We usually practice scales alone in our bedrooms. Instead, we’re practicing the balancing scales of work vs life to refine those too. It’s already old news that our team works from anywhere [...]

November 16, 2021

Give up on genius, find your Scenius

Scenius is to a scene as genius is to a gene. Scenius refers to the collective intelligence of a group of people. There are reported wild sightings of it in electronic music in the 70s, K-P [...]

April 16, 2021

The Music Operating System

Since 2006, we’ve been turning our love for music into a rocketing business by putting our tech to good use – helping create a healthy music industry which is able to last forever. Our [...]

October 10, 2019

The world is our office – Remote working at BMAT

We’ve spent more than a decade purposefully recruiting the most innovative, talented and quirky people on this planet. Telling them to stay at one desk and do what they’re told would theref [...]

August 2, 2019

A day in the life of a music monitoring obsessive

Just in case you thought we weren’t obsessed enough with monitoring music, here’s a rare insight into how we BMATers see the world. Music is everywhere – so much so that it’s ea [...]

March 1, 2019

The women of BMAT

BMAT women make the BMAT world go round. According to a selection of major tech companies’ 2018 diversity reports, women made up between 26% and 43% of employees, with a much lower percenta [...]

December 20, 2018

Behind the scenes at SUMMUS

When I first heard about SUMMUS, I thought it was a misspelling of ‘zumos’ (juices, in Spanish), but as we started to get ready for the 3rd biennial event, it dawned on me that SUMMUS goes  [...]

January 18, 2018

How we built our brand – Part 2: Our colours are a soundtrack

BMAT Music Innovators revolves around music. She’s the reason for our existence. Now, she’s also the reason behind our brand colours. Our web, our catalogues, our blog and our n [...]

November 21, 2017

A Tribe Called BMAT

Are You Experienced? Stassy is experienced at BMAT. She’s been working with us for longer than what Rudolf Steiner calls a cycle of life, which means she masters all our folklore. Here she  [...]

November 17, 2017

How we built our brand – Part 1: Our logo is a gig

Everyone, everything and every brand, has its own personality. Personality builds on values and beliefs and maps out through everything you do, everything you say and everything you show. B [...]

November 15, 2017

Hello Blog

The first ever BMAT Music Innovators blog post. We have finally decided to start our own blog. We are turning 12 years old at the end of 2017 and we consider this the right moment to get re [...]