Category: Music
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Pass-The-Aux
The dominant story of music culture today is one of unprecedented access: anyone can produce, anyone can distribute, anyone can reach an audience. What that story obscures is the simultaneous erosion of the conditions under which musical communities have historically formed—new relationships between people and places, and shared forms of memory that take time to…
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LYSSNA
Certain aesthetic traditions are offered a lot of grace. Others are not. LYSSNA starts from a structural observation: Swedish media does not give rappers, beatmakers and music producers enough room to speak at length about their work. The LYSSNA format gives artists and producers working within an aesthetic orientation based on appropriation – sprung from…
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Gallery.wav
Music production is one of the fastest growing cultural practices in Europe. However, the way we congregate around music is not diversifying accordingly. Dominant policy responses have been based around the advocacy for nightlife and live venues: spaces that play a significant role in the development of contemporary music culture, but which increasingly fixate development…