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✘ The goose has cooked: On Cameron Winter’s “Live at Carnegie Hall”
I remember December 2nd, 2025. Cameron Winter played a sold-out solo piano show at TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht. There were many familiar faces. The Geese frontman’s grasp on the local Dutch following is strong. I must have stopped every 6 m...
✘ Back to the archive
This week I didn’t get to writing a new piece - I’m working on some cool articles and a new podcast episode! - but I felt very under the weather and didn’t get round it. Today, I feel a bit better and decided to go back into the archive. Ba...
✘ Homesick for an app, or, who does artist services in 2026?
Nanostalgia is a term TikTok used in 2024 to refer to “feelings of nostalgia or sentimentality towards recent or even current experiences, and is often associated with rapidly changing digital or cultural trends. What once seemed fleeting i...
✘ When George Harrison sold me on a horror movie
You will rarely watch a film/television series/video essay without some sort of matching audio accompaniment. The score/soundtrack is often times an inseparable and valuable contributing element to a visual medium’s construct of narrative,...
✘ Sound is the honest place
Churches are, of course, places of worship. They’re also architectural highlights with defined and specific reverb and specific smells and other sensory reflections. Sienna Bordello, lead singer of Black Bordello and composer in her own rig...
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Music = life
Exploring the intersection of technology, culture, and well-being ☁️☀️ Now: building the collaboration layer for music releases at Vandall. Prev: COLORSxSTUDIOS, MUSIC x, Idagio.
Exploring music, creativity, and human connection in an increasingly algorithmic world. I’m Jamie Reddington aka Sound of fractures: Music artist / creative technologist / researcher
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Chuck Fishman is a music industry consultant at TONAL Agency and Sounds Like Now and Label Manager of Soul Clap Records. A leader of FSQ, he works with independent artists and labels, plus the estates of Michael Jackson, Charlie Parker, and Sheila E.
Indisciplinary artist and researcher working with sound, light, space, places and the sense. Living and working between Brussels and Montreal.
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