Thinking Vinyl: How Streaming Kills Active Listening
Is everything a little too easy? Streaming apps and the iPhone were initially built as tools to serve us, but have quietly turned users into the product: checked out and profitable. But as design elements that invite choice shrink or disappear, so does active participation. Even Reels don’t require us to scroll anymore. And with […]
How Pem Turned Nature, Sound, and Cyles Into Song
Harsh winter months provide the perfect backdrop to consider some universal truths: the transience of connection and beauty, the cyclical nature of life, and our smallness as humans in the vast cosmos. Pem, aka Emily Perry, digs into these themes through nature and the seasons on her latest EP other ways of landing. As an […]
From Glastonbury to Berghain: EBM Rebels Scaler Are Taking Over
You can confront yourself at the edge of destruction. In the club, when the music is the only thing that feels real, disorientation can either make you lose yourself or reveal who you are. Scaler captures it perfectly: “You lose yourself initially. And then, if you push through that wall, you find yourself on the […]