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introducing ctx, an effort to re-wild music on the internet. i've spent the last two years working on a place for music to exist beyond platforms. if you're a deep listener, DJ, mix-maker, or person who organizes your life around music, ctx is for you. please get in touch (DM, or [email protected]) and i will send you an invitation.
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The curse on this planet is due to the music that musicians are playing, that they’re forced to play, by some who just think of money and don’t realize that music is a spiritual language, and it represents the people of Earth.
(Sun Ra)
hi, posting proof of life bc i will soon become active on here again & start posting about a project that has been in development for a couple of years.
if i have followed you recently, i am interested in your thoughts or what you are working on.
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simultaneously adore & worry about how the best folk/informal archives are hosted on youtube channels, instagram pages, facebook groups. ease of sharing and communal collecting & curation is wonderful, many times to the form's expense of its longevity, context, provenance
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News: I'm writing a book. It’s about how streaming platforms are changing music for both listeners and artists. It's about the consequences of playlistification and personalization. Also: labor, politics, surveillance, and the musician-led fight for something better.
ALT Publishers Marketplace Deal Report Music journalist and The Baffler contributing editor Liz Pelly's MOOD MACHINE: THE RISE OF SPOTIFY AND THE COSTS OF THE PERFECT PLAYLIST, an investigation into how music streaming platforms are drastically changing music for both listeners and artists, flattening the experience of music itself and creating untenable conditions for artists; a recent history of music and the fight to free it from corporate overlords, to Danny Vazquez at Astra House, in a pre-empt, by Ian Bonaparte at Janklow & Nesbit (NA). Rights also to Huw Armstrong at Hodder & Stoughton (UK), at auction, by Julia Eagleton at Janklow & Nesbit UK. Rights: [email protected]
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Jimmy Douglass:
"We knew how to let it be. People don't know how to let shit be now. Because we can go back, we'll just do it again and take away the magic of it."
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I think there is a mental health crisis amongst both journalists and artists, and I think that ad driven platform capitalism is largely responsible
just released my 3 favorite Gestures on @nina_market_. find them here: nina.market/FmAXD3yXXd6YWPZU…
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I covered the new @LanaDelRey cut in this week’s @SFC_Datebook column, but there’s also a flyyy Bay Area section w/ new jams from @BrijeanBand, @astronautsetc & @rocksinurhead signees Fake Fruit. Also, @rhye & the new R.A.P. Ferreira album from @yomilo✌️
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hi - i put out a floaty piano album today called Gestures
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spent a couple hours yesterday compiling a loose (and incomplete) chronology of classical piano, for myself and anyone interested in hearing how western harmony developed over the course of ~300 years.
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