Metrics and Muzak: The Feedback Loop of Playlist Centric Music
Music is all around us, but are any of us really listening?
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Tobi
Jul 104 min read
Struggling to be Heard: The Voiceless Artist - How can I Find my Voice, if I can not Sing?
“If an artist says something, but they don’t say it in their own voice, do they really say it at all?”
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Tobi
Apr 164 min read
From Ditty to Declaration: The Story Behind 'Liz Truss is a Patsy
It wasn’t much more than a taunt, a ditty really. The sort of thing you’d imagine school children chanting in the school yard.
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Tobi
Mar 314 min read
All Music Equal? Valuing Music in a One-Price-Fits-All World
The one-price-fits-all age of streaming has become instrumental in the shaping of our collective perception of the value of music.
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Tobi
Mar 52 min read
Moved to Create: When Staying Silent is No Longer Possible
Introduction: Echoes of Silence I spent my last four years of schooling at a Quaker school. Every Sunday morning, we were required to...
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Tobi
Feb 214 min read
Death Star Trash Compactor: Making Music in Streaming/Social Age
Introduction: Social/Streaming Compactor “How should I put it? It's like the trash compactor scene in the first Star Wars film. The...
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Tobi
Feb 115 min read
Should You Quit Spotify?
Introduction: Mixed Every Friday for the past 6 or more years, I cobble together the week’s new independent releases into my New...
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Tobi
Jan 286 min read
The Deafening Din of en Masse Upload : Making Music in the Age of Streaming
The individual voices of millions of artists are lost to the deafening din of en masse upload.
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Tobi
Jan 174 min read
Rejection Normalized: The Reality of Grassroots Music-Making
Rejection is so much a part of grassroots music-making, paying for the privilege is now entirely normalized on the independent music scene.
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Tobi
Dec 25, 20232 min read
Electronic Silent Night : A Very Merry Robot Christmas
In keeping with my "Electronic Silent Night”, the accompanying video is quirky and fun. In it we imagine a very merry Christmas for Robots.
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Tobi
Dec 14, 20234 min read
The Inertia of Depression
I'd been there for hours, I think. Inexplicably, unable to move under some great weight of indescribable terror.
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Tobi
Dec 7, 20232 min read
Creativity and Negative Criticism: Listen or Ignore?
Over the years, one way in which I have found it helpful to think about criticism, is as falling into two types.
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Tobi
Nov 29, 20234 min read
Generation Silenced: Spotify's New Royalty Threshold
Consider the tracks that fall short of Spotify’s new royalty model, the number of artists that will be financially disenfranchised is huge,
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Tobi
Nov 21, 20233 min read
Facing Up When Your Whole World is Black
Introduction: Paint it Black “I see a red door And I want it painted black No colors anymore I want them to turn black” There is, in my...
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Tobi
Nov 15, 20232 min read
Hit or Miss. It's What I Wanted
For better or for worse, for hit or miss, “90 Seconds to Midnight” is exactly what I wanted it to be.
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Tobi
Nov 7, 20233 min read
Charting My Own Course: Free Music Downloads in a Streaming-Dominated World
Introduction: My Music. My Terms. In our brave new digital world, content has been rendered all but worthless, and the evolution of...
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Tobi
Jan 9, 20231 min read
Panic Stop! One Minute Live Remix
Good Monday, Music Peeps! Feast your ears on my latest live noise! Blending two tracks together from my debut album "We Need Light in...
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Tobi
Oct 25, 20221 min read
Every Album Has a Skip Track
I have a theory that since CDs, every album has a skip track....
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Tobi
Oct 10, 20221 min read
Covering The Weeknd Blinding Lights - Drums
Hello Hello, We're back with more work on my mini-cover of The Weeknd Blinding Lights. Today we're working on the drums. We're keeping...
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Tobi
Oct 4, 20221 min read
Covering The Weeknd Blinding Lights - Basslines
Hello Hello, We're back with more work on my mini-cover of The Weeknd Blinding Lights. Today more work on the bassline - or rather -...
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