Reinventing how we explore recorded music.

Four decades at the meeting point of sound, data and perception

Jacques Krischer trained as a sound engineer at INSAS in Brussels, then as a psychoacoustician – the study of how hearing actually works. Four decades on, that question still shapes his work. From mastering and archiving to metadata, rights and interface design, his career has followed a single thread: making recorded music, and everything that surrounds it, easier to reach and better understood.

Today, alongside his role as Chief Music Officer at Holographic Amusements in New York, he designs – through Serendipitune – websites and mobile applications that reinvent how people discover recorded music: not merely to listen, but to explore everything around it.

A career building for music and its listeners

• Mastering & sound restoration at scale – founded DIGIPRO, Europe's largest CD-mastering group, with twenty-six studios.
• Preserving recorded heritage – led major audio-archiving programmes for the Bibliothèque nationale de France, EMI and others.
• Music metadata & databases – reference systems built for BMG, EMI, Sony, Universal, Warner and Philips, among others, across Europe and the United States.
• Rights & royalties – years spent tracing works broadcast across thousands of radio stations worldwide, identifying rights holders so that royalties reached the people who earned them.
• Building music ventures – co-created the Arnault Group's music venture, and later acquired and modernised its music assets.
• Immersive music experiences – Chief Music Officer at Holographic Amusements, New York.
• Technology for good – websites and mobile applications built for charities, volunteer groups and non-profit associations.

Awards

• 2015CES Innovation Award (USA)  ·  team recognition
• 2015CEO of the Year (Belgium)
• 2017Business Innovator Award (United Kingdom)

What I work with

Training

The company

Serendipitune Ltd is a London-based company reinventing how people explore recorded music. It builds reference-rich interfaces, respectful of the works they surround, and designed first for the people who love them. Selected projects are available on request.