Future Filter
Declan McGlynnA newsletter about electronic music technology, creativity and culture by Declan McGlynn
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 15 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | a year ago |
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The Gentle Homogeneity
Illustration by Sandro Rybak
A recent article in the New Yorker caught my eye. In it, journalist Kyle Chayka writes of two different experiments. In the first, a study by MIT, students were split into three groups and given an essay writin...
How To Build A Music Community with Derrick Gee
Hello! First of all, thank you so much for the feedback on the previous Future Filter, "Was Bandcamp the Answer All Along?" It seemed to touch a nerve and got a lot of people sharing, talking, and commenting. Obviously, there’s a lot of cro...
Was Bandcamp the answer all along?
I’ve been reading Liz Pelly’s excellent book Mood Machine for the past few weeks. It’s a painful read, not because of Pelly, who does an fantastic and comprehensive job getting into the weeds on Spotify’s conception, formation, expansion, i...
By Calling Artists ‘Creators’, We’re Feeding the Big Tech Beast
A stat that spawned a million long-reads, Blue Skys and LinkedIn hyperbole landed in our laps last week in the form of this gem: more music is currently being released every day than was released in the whole of 1989. This mouth-watering fa...
Oliver and the Not-so-secret Sound of Modern Pop
Through his ‘Power Tools’ packs on Splice, Vaughn Oliver’s samples and loops quietly became the defining sound of some of the biggest pop records of the past decade. Artists like Dua Lipa, Adele, Ed Sheeran, Doja Cat, SZA, Justin Timberlake...
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Declan McGlynn is a music technology journalist, consultant and dork for hire who's worked with the likes of Rolling Stone, Google, BBC, TIDAL, DJ Mag, Water & Music, DAZED, Splice, Resident Advisor, Native Instruments, Ableton and many more.
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