Regular insights about the future of music, media & tech. A strategic writer collective led by Maarten Walraven
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✘ 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...
✘ Teach the song its name
Imagine a song walking into a room and shaking hands and introducing herself to everyone who wants to license it. Its rights information, ownership history, and sonic characteristics all communicated clearly. What’s more, all the rightshold...
✘ Objects we keep, listening we choose
For years now, we keep hearing that physical is back. Vinyl sales are up, CD sales are up, major artists capitalize on this by creating versions and thus further push up physical sales. But, as Eamonn Forde argued in 2024, all this is true...
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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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