Creative professional with 20 years of experience producing, managing, and promoting original content across platforms, languages, and industries in B2B, B2C, and agency environments with a focus on music and culture.
Since 2022, also a Digital Humanist working on digital cultural heritage and archives. Again with a focus on music and culture.
Currently based in Bologna following time in Los Angeles, New York City, London, Tokyo, Milan, and Brussels.
Habitual proofreader. Incessant fact-checker. Alleged author.
Things I’m doing
Working as a researcher at the University of Bologna, within the Digital Humanities Advanced Research Center (DH.ARC/). Between 2022 and 2025 I worked on a pilot project for the Italian Ministry of Culture, tasked with investigating ways of showcasing and integrating the digital cultural heritage of Italian universities within the national infrastructure. As part of this I developed a catalogue, a repository, and multiple semantic artefacts. I’ve presented the project and its results at various Italian and international conferences and published two papers.
Content, marketing, and operations consultancy for HEDD Audio, a German manufacturer of audio products for professionals. This includes content creation, digital marketing, and management of their Shopify website alongside support in integrating AI agents and data management.
Part-time label manager for Dub-Stuy Records, a Brooklyn-based soundsystem music collective.
Hosting All Tomorrow’s Archives, a radio show on Bologna’s Neu Radio.
Figuring out how to manage living in this world.
Things I’ve done
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Worked on a public document about music-related archives of interest / use to journalists alongside my old friend Todd Burns, as part of Music Journalism Insider newsletter. This document was eventually turned into a catalogue when the newsletter ended which I maintain, and again lives at the intersection of my interests in archiving and music culture.
Went back to school and got a Master’s in Digital Humanities at the University of Bologna. During that time I created various DH projects some related to my previous work in music, others to my interest in archiving. Most of my projects are hosted on my GitHub.
Volunteer with theLAnd magazine, looking after editorial, newsletter, and social bits.
Wrote a book (Bedroom Beats & B-Sides: Instrumental Hip-Hop and Electronic Music at the Turn of the Century) about beat culture at the turn of the century. In the years since I produced a couple seasons of a podcast called A Beat Happening alongside Kutmah, which explored further stories related to the book via extended interviews with musicians and members of the worldwide beat community.
Worked as Head of Moving Images for Yadastar* North America, a creative agency best known for the Red Bull Music Academy, during which time I oversaw and produced some cool multimedia projects.
Managed the Red Bull Music Academy lecture archive between 2016 and 2019, making over 400 interviews with modern music luminaries fully available online in both video and text format for the first time.
Wrote about music and culture for The FADER, FACT Magazine, VICE, Red Bull Music Academy, Medium, The Japan Times, and other international publications.
Co-founded Original Cultures, a non-profit arts organizations based in Bologna and dedicated to connecting cultures through art via events and music releases.
Produced and recorded an album in Morocco.
Produced Nihon Kizuna, the first music compilation from within Japan to raise money for victims of the 2011 Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami. We raised over $30,000.
Produced videos including short-form documentaries, performances, studio sessions, lectures and social videos for FACT and Red Bull.
Tour managed hip-hop/electronic artists Kidsuke (UK/JP), Jealousguy (JP) and Shigeto (US) in Europe.
Hosted and produced Turntable Radio and Rhythm Incursions, specialist music radio shows on Resonance FM in London and on the web (back when Real Time audio was the thing and podcasts were just starting).