Whether you’re a musician, artist, entrepreneur, designer, or event promoter, find out how to get the word out from Tristra Newyear Yeagar, Ariana Beedie, and Dave Lindquist.
This interview is a part of Herron School of Art + Design’s “Music Tech Mondays,” a semester-long interview series open to the public featuring discussions with music tech innovators, Grammy winners, and industry leaders across the globe hosted by award-winning music app developer Matthew Fecher.
Hosted in the Informatics and Technology Communications Complex room 071, the panel discussion with Tristra Newyear Yeagar, Ariana Beedie, and Dave Lindquist on September 30 at 7 p.m. will focus on publicity secrets and the art of getting press.
Speaker information:
Tristra Newyear Yeagar / Rock Paper Scissors, Chief Strategy Officer
Tristra is a writer and PR strategy generator with nearly two decades of experience working across a broad range of industries. She’s passionate about cross-cultural stories, sounds from all over, and insights into tech, science, and society. That passion has translated into thousands of media placements for clients, including in major publications around the world. She loves writing stuff so much, she also does it in her spare time.
As a publicist and writer, She has secured major national coverage from mainstream outlets (NPR, NYT, WSJ, Time, USA Today, FT, The Atlantic, CNN) to specialized business, tech, and culture media (Billboard, MBW, Fast Company, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Mashable).
Ariana Beedie / Mirror Indy community journalism director
Ariana Beedie is a writer, curator, and community connector. She’s a Naptown native. Her passion for community storytelling and an asset-based community development approach led her to co-create projects like Face A Face (FAF Collective), Hoy Polloy Art Gallery, WooGrl Fest, and much more. Ariana’s work is featured in AFROPUNK, Sixty Inches from Center, Indianapolis Contemporary, Indy Arts Council, and WFYI. Ariana is also an alumnus of the Public Allies Indianapolis program.
Ariana is currently the Community Journalism Director for Mirror Indy. Find her online at @ari.beedie on Instagram and @aribeedie on X.
Dave Lindquist / Indianapolis Business Journal, Arts & Entertainment Journalist / WTTS 92.3 FM, Radio Host
Dave Lindquist is the retail, restaurant and arts reporter for the Indianapolis Business Journal. He also hosts a weekly new music show “The Beat with Dave Lindquist” on radio station 92.3 WTTS. The Eastern Illinois University alum wrote about pop culture for The Indianapolis Star from 1998 to 2020.
More about the presenter:
Matthew Fecher is an award-winning music app developer, recognized for creating more #1 charting music apps in Apple’s App Store than anyone in history. His trailblazing work includes the creation of AudioKit Synth One, one of the most popular Synthesizers for iPad. Serving as an iOS AudioKit core-team member, his code powers the audio and music in over 200+ million app installs.
Matthew’s innovations are enjoyed by emerging artists to legends like Herbie Hancock to hit-makers for Sting, Alicia Keys, Kendrick Lamar, M83, Dua Lipa, Bruno Mars, Jay-Z, Tycho, and more. You’ve likely even swayed to his code in Dua Lipa’s “Levitating,” a Billboard Song of the Year!
