Community Matters + For the Record Grey Matter

For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads — DJs, music journos, indie label captains, record shop owners, listening bar kingpins, et al — about their stories + the music that makes them.

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Tristra is Chief Strategy Officer at rock paper scissors, the music innovation PR agency, as well as co-host of the Music Tectonics podcast.

An experienced writer and PR strategy generator, she has two decades of experience working across a broad range of industries and a doctorate that dealt with the history of the performing arts in Siberia and Mongolia. She's passionate about cross-cultural stories, sounds from all over, and insights into tech, science, and society. That passion has translated into thousands of media placements for clients, including in major publications around the world. She loves writing stuff so much, she also does it in her spare time, resulting in four novels.



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https://www.greymatter.fm/community/ftr034-tristra-newyear-yeager


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For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads — DJs, music journos, indie label captains, record shop owners, listening bar kingpins, et al — about their stories + the music that makes them.

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Jing Yi Teo is a curator, writer and strategist. Her work focuses on seeking new formats, understandings and alliances for creative practices, resulting in more systematically propositional bodies of work. From 2019–2022 she led ArtBizTech, an innovation and strategy consultancy and incubator, whilst serving as Curator of bang. Prix, its non-profit arm that supports practices that intersect art, technology and science. Her approach bridging the theoretical and the applied spans various fields, from contemporary art and music to emerging tech and start-ups. She is currently building Outlyr-e, a distributed strategy practice aiming to create the conditions for creative thought applied to organizations in the arts.

Armen Nalbandian is an avant-garde and experimental composer and pianist whose practice seeks to expand the possibilities of sound and performance through spontaneous group composition, prepared piano and Fender Rhodes, and electronically layered improvisations. With 23 albums over 17 years, Armen has performed and recorded with Chris Corsano, Jeff Parker, Alex Cline, Steve Lehman, Han Bennink, Uchihashi Kazuhisa, Makigami Koichi and other notable musicians, whilst pursuing multidisciplinary collaborations with writers, visual and performance artists. In 2023, Armen co-founded the distributed strategy practice Outlyr-e, with the objective of exploring ‘other ways’ of championing the arts.

MUSIC MENTIONS


Giuseppe Verdi
Giacomo Puccini
Frank Sinatra
Tony Bennett
Thelonius Monk
Ornette Coleman
John Coltrane
Jeff Parker
Chris Speed
Alex Klein
Eric Revis
Dave King
The Bad Plus
Chris Corsano

Spontaneous Composition & the Avant Garde ethos (28:55):


Johann Sebastian Bach
Johannes Brahms
Ludwig van Beethoven
Cecil Taylor
John Cage
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Roman Kyn

Q&A


Glenn Gould

Discovering music today (49:19):


Thom Yorke
NTS Radio
Jim O’Rourke

First album ever purchased (53:20):


Armen: “License to Ill” by Beastie Boys
Jing: “For Emma, Forever Ago” by Bon Iver

Most recent album purchased (57:18):


“Spectral Evolution” by Rafael Toral

Artists discovered in the last year (57:18):


Catherine Lamb
Laurel Halo
Kali Malone

Desert Island Discs (58:38):


“Shutting Down Here” by Jim O’Rourke
“Spectral Evolution” by Rafael Toral
“Ashioto / Ashiato“ by Tatsuhisa Yamamoto


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For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads — DJs, music journos, indie label captains, record shop owners, listening bar kingpins, et al — about their stories + the music that makes them.

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Michelle Lhooq is a writer who, by some combination of tenacity and youthful stupidity, decided to make a career out of being really, really good at partying. She was born in Singapore, an anti-hedonic country that William Gibson famously called “Disneyland with the death penalty,” and growing up under its extreme restrictions on assorted freedoms made her obsessed with drugs and nightlife like a bad kink. These days, like every romantic-turned-cynic, she prefers complaining loudly about the vanities of the rave scene – although when she is in a good mood, she also sometimes throws her own psychedelic parties in Los Angeles, where she is currently based. Her work has been published in The Guardian, New York Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, and her gonzo newsletter Rave New World.

MUSIC MENTIONS


Showtek
Broken Social Scene
Metric
Ed Banger Records
Uffie
Dorian Electron
Burial
“Untrue” album by Burial
deadmau5
Crookers
Boyz Noise
Baauer
Kaskade
Armin van Buuren
Avicii
TYGAPAW
Eartheater
Physical Therapy
Michael Magnet
Discwoman
The Lot Radio
Ministry of Sound

Travels in Asia (24:58):


Strange Weather
DJ Daniel (SG)
obese.dogma777
Sai Versailles
Endless Return (collective)
vangogh666
Pawnshop (club in Taiwan)
Tsui
Adam O
Raja Kirik
East Forest
Bryan Kasenic
Paige Emory
Leaving Records
“Intercommunications” album by Paige Emory
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
otodojo

Q&A


Resident Advisor
Dancing Astronaut
The Wire

Discovering music today (53:09):


Tone Glow
SoundCloud

Desert Island Discs (57:50):


“Irisiri” by Eartheater
“Healing Is a Miracle” by Julianna Barwick
“Orbital 2” by Orbital

Guest recommendations for future episodes (1:03:29):


Paige Emory
Lil Internet


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Maarten Walraven operates at the intersection of music, technology, communities, and education. He wears many different hats, from Co-CEO at Symphony.live to co-creator of the experiment in scene building, Wild Awake and from teaching at the University of Utrecht to being co-project lead for the Water & Music academy. If you want to follow his thinking, the best place is MUSIC x, the newsletter he co-edits.

MUSIC MENTIONS


NOFX
Green Day
The Offspring
Nine Inch Nails
2 Unlimited
Ace of Bass
Mirrors Festival
Merzbow
Keiji Haino
John Cage
Morton Feldman
Brian Eno

Q&A


Andrew McClusky
Music Too
“Maximum Overdrive” by 2 Unlimited
Nyege Nyege

Discovering music today (21:06):


Mary Anne Hobbs
BBC Radio 6
Opium Hum
Hyper Real Radio

First album ever purchased (27:40):


“Get Ready!” by 2 Unlimited

Most recent album purchased (28:41):


“Piano Reverb” by Jasmine Wood

Artists discovered in the last year (31:12):


Iceboy Violet
MC Yallah
Jalen Ngonda

Desert Island Discs (34:18):


“For You Who are the Wronged” by Kathryn Joseph
“The Downward Spiral” by Nine Inch Nails
“Dekmantel Festival 2017 Mix” by Aurora Halal

Guest recommendations for future episodes (38:40):


Tristra Yeager


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Rocco Tyndale has been following an invisible thread surrounding music since he was born, but professionally for over 20 years, leading him in all kinds of interesting directions prior to settling into Design, from music festivals to record labels, and more. In 2016 he founded a small label and artist collective called Subtempo, where he's been releasing forward thinking music, left-field, electronic and genre blurring projects. Everything they do aims to offer you a carefully curated visual and sonic environment to immerse your senses in.

MUSIC MENTIONS


Radio 3
Najwa Nimri
Cesaría Evora
The Eagles
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Smashing Pumpkins
Rage Against the Machine
The Prodigy
Tricky
Massive Attack
Portishead
Goldie
Roni Size

Label inspiration; intersection of Design & Music (9:10):


Project Mooncircle
Erased Tapes
Ghostly International
Six Degrees Records

Starting a label - identity and inspiration (13:53):


Ninja Tune

Q&A


COLORS Studios

Discovering music today (24:57):


Spotify
Rhythm & Sound

First album ever purchased (27:32):


“Dark Side of the Moon” by Pink Floyd

Most recent album purchased (28:23):


“Unfixed” by Barker

Artists discovered in the last year (29:20):


Hailey Knox
Enny
James Vickery

Dream artist to work with (44:30):


Lorde

Desert Island Discs (33:17):


“Lahai” by Sampha
“Actual Life” by Fred Again..
“Blood Sugar Sex Magik” by Red Hot Chili Peppers

Guest recommendations for future episodes (36:03):


Robot Koch
James Drake
Synkro


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For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads — DJs, music journos, indie label captains, record shop owners, listening bar kingpins, et al — about their stories + the music that makes them.

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Cassidy Murphy is a New York based A&R. She was most recently an A&R at Connection Music Publishing, the publishing entity of Glassnote Records. Before joining Connection, Cassidy garnered industry experiencing by managing producers and songwriters, tour managing, and most notably, co-founding a small independent record label, Good Boy Records. She now is an A&R at Live Nation and Element1’s new label venture, where she will be focused on developing talent through the act of touring.

On her own time and with the help of She Is The Music, Kensaltown East, and her friend and collaborator Archana Gopal, Cassidy hosts a yearly songwriting camp to promote community amongst up and coming female and non binary songwriters and producers where they are provided access, tools, and connections to other creatives. The next camp will be held in March.

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