What prompted me to invite Damon to the show today is his role as a vocal critic of Spotify, which he’s been interrogating since he wrote an op-ed for Pitchfork criticizing the platform all the way back in 2012.
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He made the Radiotopia podcast, Ways of Hearing, a fantastic and poetic series on how digital sound is intertwined with our contemporary lives. He’s a poet and a writer writing books like the New Analog and a Substack newsletter called Dada Drummer. He’s best known for his drumming in Galaxy 500 and his current duo Damon and Naomi. Damon is a bit of a Renaissance man as a long time touring and recording musician. I’m excited to kick off this series, talking about music on the internet with some of the people who understand it best.
And I’ve explored the ways such scenes use the internet to organize both through my own in Groove Cafe project and through research I’ve conducted on how Twitch was adopted by improvised music communities during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. I have a longstanding interest in the community infrastructure that makes music and other creative scenes possible. Over the coming months, I’ll be recording a few interviews and special episodes focused on what digital public infrastructure means for music and creative communities online. But today, I’ll be doing my best Ethan Zuckerman impression and taking over hosting duties. I’m usually the producer on Reimagining the Internet.
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