music
Music has no purpose, it merely brings together people’s dreams, fragilities, licentiousness and weirdness. It can bring masses of people together through that. As much as those in the underground find each other, so do the Swifties and The ARMY. Scale, here, doesn’t stop the human capacity of bonding through music and the exchange of identity.
Maarten Walraven • ✘ The Illusion of an idea - a scaled-down music industry
music discovery
The Dibs
A complex character but this piece of writing from 1993 changed how I saw the world and shaped my philosophy around extractive systems based on exploitation, power dynamics and the siren song of desire