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Brandon Stosuy is the co-founder and editor in chief of The Creative Independent. He previously worked as director of Editorial Operations at the online music publication, Pitchfork. Brandon curates the annual Basilica SoundScape festival in Hudson, New York, and has been a music curator at MoMA PS1 in New York City and the Broad museum in Los Angeles. For over a decade, he and the visual artist Matthew Barney have collaborated on a series of live art and music events in Long Island City. Up Is Up, But So Is Down, his anthology of downtown New York literature, was a 2006 Village Voice book of the year. Brandon is also the author of three books on creativity, Make Time for Creativity, Stay Inspired, How to Fail Successfully (all published by Abrams) and two childrenâs books, Music Is... and We Are Music (both published by Simon & Schuster). In November of 2024 he published the anthology, Sad Happens: A Celebration Of Tears, also on Simon & Schuster. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two sons.
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Suzan Peeters (°1999) is a Belgian accordionist, composer, and experimentalist. She is constantly looking for new timbres and sound textures within the accordion, pushing its acoustic spectrum to its limits by manipulating the interplay between her body and the body of her instrument. Suzan studied classical accordion at KASK & Conservatorium in Ghent and at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. She is currently studying Live Electronics at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels.
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Natalie CrĂŒe is a cultural producer, consultant, and activist leveraging arts, culture and emergent technologies for social change. She co-founded #CultureFix, a global network fostering civic engagement through creative initiatives. Natalie's work spans blockchain technology, including co-developing the Metaverse Music Festival (MVMF) and stewarding numerous grants and communities across the blockchain landscape. As founder of Web3Uncut, she leads a consultancy exploring and interrogating decentralized technologies, and recently founded a creative crowdfunding platform.
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SĂ©bastien Devaud aka Agoria, born in Lyon on January 16, 1976 is a French electronic music producer, DJ and digital artist. Agoria started his music career in the mid-1990s and gained popularity in the early 2000s with his debut album "Blossom" released in 2003. He is known for his unique blend of techno, house, and ambient music, which has earned him a reputation as one of the most innovative and influential electronic music producers of his generation. Agoria has released several albums, EPs, and singles throughout his career, including "The Green Armchair" (2006), "Impermanence" (2011), and "Drift" (2019). He has released 5 albums with both major Universal Music, Virgin and indie labels Pias.
Agoria has been an early contributor to the French electronic music scene with the creation of his own label Sapiens, and Lyon electronic music festival Les Nuits Sonores. He has also collaborated with various artists, including Tricky, Ela Minus, Carl Craig, Neneh Cherry, Noemie, Rami KhalifĂ© and BlasĂ©. Agoria has performed at major music festivals and clubs around the world, including Coachella, Sonar, Melt, We Love Green, 3points east,âŠ
He has also been very active and creative in the art scene, he collaborated with Philippe Parreno and Nicolas Becker on art exhibitions and performances at the Armory Park in NYC (2018), at the turbine hall of Tate Modern in London (2018), and started his own solo show in Miami Art Basel (2019).
Combining art, music and science in his work, he collaborates with biologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers. He is considered the trailblazer of Biological Generative Art.
Agoriaâs work has been exhibited all around the world lately at major NFT events: in NYC on Times Square during NFT.NYC, in Barcelona at Sonar (co-curated by Antonia Folguera and Diane Drubay), at Refraction festival in NYC, at Proof of People show in London (curated by VerticalCrypto), and during Berlin Art Week (curated by Anika Meier) in September.
Last but not least, he has been invited last March to exhibit Phytocene and share his vision about web3 in front of United Nations.
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Bio
Rising UK-based electronic artist and producer Jamie Reddington (aka Sound of Fractures) announces his groundbreaking project, "Scenes.â The interactive album invites fans to contribute their favourite memories and photographs in response to each of the recordâs songs, encouraging a lean-in, emotional connection thatâs been lost in our passive streaming environment.
âMusic isn't just about sound; it's about the memories and emotions they evoke. âScenesâ is an effort to give a tangible form to this abstract connection and capture it in something we can recognise,â shares Reddington. âEach song and its accompanying âScenesâ will populate a digital gallery â an archive that's a living testament to how music interacts with life moments in today's social media-dominated era."
Hundreds of listeners have contributed Scenes, embarking upon what fans are calling a âjourney through the rich tapestry of our inner worlds.â The BBC Radio-featured artist and web3 pioneer chooses one Scene to be each trackâs primary artwork, encapsulating it as a digital collectable that forever links artist and listener.
âScenesâ is Reddingtonâs most salient experiment to date. It builds upon a reputation based as much on championing music communities as his unique sonic signature, which blends elements of Jamie XX and Burial with found sounds like his daughterâs heartbeat.
Welcome to the world of Sound of Fractures, where every sound holds a story and every listener is a co-creator.
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Farida Amadou is a self taught bass player based in Brussels, Belgium. The electric bass has been her main instrument since 2011. In 2013, she started to play a lot of different genres, including blues, jazz and hip-hop. Then Farida discovered improvisation music, a style and community she quickly embraced. In 2017, after spending a year playing bass for Belgian punk band Cocaine Piss, Farida decided to focus on her solo improvisation practice and collaborations. Since then, sheâs played with folks like Steve Noble, Thurston Moore, Peter Brötzmann, and Moor Mother.
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Yancey Strickler is a writer and entrepreneur. Heâs the Cofounder and Director of Metalabel, Cofounder and former CEO of Kickstarter, and Cofounder of the artist resource The Creative Independent. Heâs the author of This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World, editor of The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet, creator of the philosophy of Bentoism, and the record label eMusic Selects. Yanceyâs career started as a music critic writing for Pitchfork, Spin, and The Village Voice. He grew up on a farm in Clover Hollow, Virginia. He lives in New York City.
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Lubomyr Melnyk is a composer and pianist of Ukrainian origin. He plays what he calls continuous music, a style whose rigorous technique shares commonality with martial arts. He's regarded as the worldâs fastest piano player, capable of playing 19 and a half notes per second. Itâs a skill thatâs enabled him to create singular musical landscapes, where sound appears to come in swathes rather than individual notes -- a practice heâs been at it for more than sixty years.
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Karlyn is an expert in the field of music academia, podcasting, and global presentations, having built up a rich portfolio as a published author, lecturer, and researcher with engagements spanning the UK and the USA. As a sought-after panelist and presenter at conferences worldwide, Karlyn is particularly known for her contributions to discussions surrounding the significance of vinyl in contemporary music culture.
Karlyn's lockdown project, "The Songs Are Spells Podcast," is a platform where she produces and hosts insightful discussions with prominent figures from the music industry. This podcast has garnered acclaim, earning praise from Sony Music as the "magical rendition of Song Exploder."
As an academic, she is on the verge of completing her doctoral studies at the University of Birmingham, delving into the enduring allure of vinyl within the context of popular culture and fan engagement. Notably, her research has already yielded a published chapter in Routledge Music's Handbook of Women's Work in Music.
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Dicky Trisco is a DJ and music producer who lives and breathes what he does. His passion for music and desire for good times is well known. He has spent years chasing that sound and that feeling around the globe as an international DJ. For him DJing is all about people. He is addicted to the way music connects people and makes for better days.
Dicky really broke through as a DJ and producer in the Nu Disco/Disco Revival years from around 2004. In particular, his run of DJ edit, original and remix releases alongside Balearic House hero Pete Herbert on Disco Deviance and Maxi Discs led to him becoming an increasingly in demand DJ with a busy international touring schedule. He is also rumoured to be the force behind the rather legendary Secret Squirrel vinyl only imprint. But who knows??? Itâs a secret.
Since those early days, Dicky has toured constantly around Asia, Australia, Central/South America, USA, Europe and the UK sharing the music and the sound he loves. He has also become a regular at a long list of high profile festivals including the legendary Glastonbury, Electric Elephant, Mareh, Love International, Festival No 6 and many more.
Dicky is also a mainstay of the local scene in his hometown of Dundee, Scotland where he was a resident of the infamous âSmall Town Clubâ aka Reading Rooms for over a decade. At nights like Autodisco, Disco Deviance, A Night With and Non Stop, he learned his trade playing alongside many of his heroes and legendary DJs from around the world such as Andrew Weatherall, Optimo, Rahaan, Jazzie B, Horse Meat Disco, Farley Jackmaster and many more.
Dicky also ran and curated the well-respected House music label Home Taping Is Killing Music for many years putting out a run of amazing releases. Home Taping broke a number of great House artists who have gone on to become household names in the scene including The Blessed Madonna, The Revenge, Nicholas, Borrowed Identity, Eddie C & Medlar amongst others.
Dicky continues to discover, produce and remix music for a number of quality imprints including Razor-N-Tape, File Under Disco, Home Taping, Barefoot Beats, Nervous Records and many more. He has also remixed major artists such as Bryan Ferry, Belle & Sebastian, LâImpĂ©ratrice, Edwyn Collins (Orange Juice), Danielle Baldelli, Faze Action, The Orielles, Golden Dawn Arkestra and Tensnake down in his basement studio.
Most recently Dicky has been creating original music alongside NYC music machine JKriv under the name Sentimental Animals for the Razor-N-Tape imprint. Their Love Vibration EP was very well received by disc jockeys around the world and has been played by the likes of Craig Charles who made it one of his Tracks of 2021 on his BBC Radio 6 Funk & Soul show.
Dicky became a resident DJ at Pikes in Ibiza in the summer of 2023 playing in every area - poolside, terrace, Freddies, bathtub - in this legendary club.
He also kick started a monthly radio show out of Ibiza called International Sounds on OpenLab Radio where he showcases the music he discovers, makes and plays while travelling around the globe.
As a disc jockey, DT packs a little bit of everything into his sets of International Sounds and is committed to the idea that music and club nights should be all about escapism, joy and togetherness.
As Dicky says love and dancing is what we need.
Amen to that.
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