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.
Be sure to check out MUSIC x on Substack
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