Home recording
Home recording didn’t liberate music—it relocated its flaws.
Acoustics
Why the room is an instrument.
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All briefs
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal did not exist as a genre in 1970 — it existed as a set of techniques waiting for someone to unify them.
La Scala
La Scala was never about art for art’s sake—it was opera as municipal utility.
Sound system (Jamaican)
Sound systems didn’t just play music—they built an economy where bass was currency and exclusivity was policy.
Phreaking
Phreaking wasn’t rebellion—it was listening closely enough to hear the system speak back.
Bolshoi Theatre
A theatre built by imperial licence, rebuilt by imperial architect, renovated to erase Soviet sound—this is state culture as infrastructure, not expression.