More than five hundred companies submitted their web-based products to the fifth annual SXSW Accelerator. Competition was tough and we're extremely grateful for all of the great submissions we received this year. Congratulations to the SXSW Music Accelerator finalists who will be showcasing their products on Wednesday, March 13 at the Austin Convention Center in downtown Austin.

Music Technologies

AudioCommon
Chelmsford, MA
audiocomm.com
AudioCommon is a team of musicians and hackers redefining the way music is created in today's interconnected world. Through our online platform,musicians and the greater audio production community can build decentralized teams, comment directly on multi-track waveforms, and collaborate in new ways during critical stages of the creative process.

BioBeats
Berkeley, CA
biobeats.com
BioBeats is creating the future of adaptive media, a world where our apps and devices understand and adapt to the way we feel. We are creating technologies that leverage biometric data to react to our emotional and physiological states, dynamically creating and discovering music that is appropriate to that state.

CrowdSync
San Francisco, CA
crowdsyncapp.com
Founded by lifelong friends Alex Fortunato and Laird Hayward, FoxSpring Labs has a passion for creating intuitive mobile applications to share multimedia. Their first release CrowdSync puts users in the director's chair, changing how people watch, share and edit user-generated content with its proprietary technology.

Molecule Synth
Portland, OR
moleculesynth.com
Molecule Synth is a physical electronics modular synthesizer and experimenter's design set. It is an utterly unique musical instrument, combining LEGO-like interchangeability with Synthesizers & Physical Electronics. Design Your Own Instrument, configure and shape the Molecule Synth into entirely new combinations each time you play.

ROLI
London, UK
roli-labs.com
ROLI is a music technology start-up using intuitive design to createintegrated hardware and software interfaces that increase thebandwidth of interaction between humans and computers. We buildground-breaking products-based on our patent-pending SEA Interfacetechnology-that enhance the ways our customers physically engage withthe digital world.

TastemakerX
San Francisco, CA
tastemakerx.com
TastemakerX is a social game for music discovery. The platform allows users to express musical tastes and preferences by building virtual collections of the artists they love, and connect with like-minded music fans. TastemakerX is free to join and is currently available on iOS.

Vela App
Aliso Viejo, CA
velaapp.com
Vela App is a start-up company whose mission is to bring voice control to music. Vela (Voice Electronic Listening Assistant) is a music aggregator app for iPhone that allows you to voice control on demand music from Spotify, Rdio, and more soon.

WholeWorldBand
Dublin, Ireland
wholeworldband.com
WholeWorldBand is a music-making platform that earns money for people who play their own music or add to other peoples' in audio and video. It's a virtual recording studio with cameras where anyone can collaborate with well-known and emerging artists and share the results on social media

Alternates

Playground.fm
San Francisco, CA
playground.fm
Playground finds handmade playlists just for you. Instantly listen to music you'll love from your friends, world famous DJs, and people who share your taste in music. Its super fun, ridiculously easy, and 100% free.

Pulselocker
San Francisco, CA
pulselocker.com
Pulselocker is the first on-demand streaming and subscription music service that gives DJs access to millions of tracks, playable on the most popular mixing apps, online or off. With Pulselocker, DJs can: Stream full-length tracks; Download and DJ tracks out - before they buy; and Buy only the ones they want.

Stereotypes
New York, NY
stereotypes.fm
Stereotypes is a group chat app for people who enjoy music and need help keeping in touch with friends. With an interface optimized for sharing, talking about and listening to music, Stereotypes helps you keep in touch in a meaningful yet effortless way, and our users feel closer to friends whenever they listen to music.

Please see sxsw.com/interactive/startupvillage/accelerator for SXSW Interactive Accelerator Finalist.