What is the future for music after COVID-19? VOL II

(Credits : Pictures from The Matrix directed by the Wachowskis 1999)

This is a follow up from my first essay “What is the future for music after COVID-19?” I was lucky to be able to exchange with DeForrest Brown, Jr. a New York-based theorist, journalist, and curator, with who I’m now doing a series of conversations with, about the music industry and the state of affairs that you can follow on my patreon. I will also be joined by Rich Jensen, ex Subpop and the Co-op Executive for Resonate Co-op,an international fair-trade music streaming cooperative.

I also wanted to get some insights from a DJ/Producer perspective as well so I reached out to Berlin based via London Luke Dubuis,Ex Resonate/ Circadian Rhytm co-founder, and finally DJ/Producer BAE BAE & Zab Mustefa Multimedia Journalist.

At the time I’m writing yet another wave of Islamophobia unleashed in France, alongside a debate around free movement. It’s pretty transparent that governments across continental Europe are trying to divert their citizens from their sloppy management of the sanitary and social crisis created by the pandemic — wich is creating a crisis of trust across the continent.

DeForrest Brown, Jr : Yeah. The entire West is going through this simulation of post-war…