aiden landman

Aiden Landman is an international touring music professional, hobbyist cat farmer, amateur historian, and enthusiastic civic futurist. He’s flown around the world the long way. Twice. A proud product of western Illinois rural flatlands, Landman currently lives in the Quad Cities with his wife, Chelsea, and house cat, Ladybird. When not on the road; among family; or engaged in hobbies, he can be found researching yet another piece of Midwestern historical esoterica.

TEDxDavenport Talk:
Flying Light: A Music Professional’s Guide to the Cities of the Future
Every day massive entertainment tours arrive in cities across theworld and create unique settings, exciting memories, and miles ofinfrastructure out of thin air. International production professional AidenLandman has spent his career backstage solving the high-stakes logisticalpuzzles of world tours. Now he is opening his technical rider for America’scities of the future.  Drawing from a high-stakes flight from Chicago to Paris, Landmanexplores how cutting the weight of stagnation and checklist expectation andembracing the lean, imaginative approachof a world-class production can enable cities to stop being fly-overs and startheadlining in their own right.