Regular insights about the future of music, media & tech. A strategic writer collective led by Maarten Walraven
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✘ The musical self-expression spectrum
Lord knows no anxiety like being handed the aux cord in an Uber full of your most musically opinionated friends. Fifteen seconds to prove you understand where the night is going without trying too hard to prove it. Silent judgment radiating...
Notes on Financialization: March-April 2026
Readers of MUSICx are likely familiar with Penny Fractions, David Turner’s indispensable newsletter, which took a critical approach to analyzing goings on across the music industry. If you’re not familiar, you should fix that immediately by...
✘ How many people does it take to change a band?
What is a band, really? The Cambridge Dictionary defines it as “a group of musicians who play modern music together”. Technically, it’s not wrong; in industry terms, any number of people who play together around a shared purpose qualify for...
✘ Strategic Community Building Bootcamp
With just over a week to go, I want you to understand that the MUSIC x AFEM Academy on Strategic Community Building is for you. Over the course of 6 online sessions from 11 May to 28 May, you’ll learn about what it means to build and grow a...
✘ Limitation, lineage, and building worlds: Lyra Pramuk's voice
Imagine an artist in Ableton slicing her own voice into granular particles. Continuously resampling and sequencing as she builds entire soundscapes from this one source. Throughout, what emerges is infinity through limitation. This artist i...
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