Dubber
Author, broadcaster, academic and consultant in the digital creative sector: Director of MTF Labs, Professor of Music Industries Innovation, and Senior Researcher at the Industry Commons Foundation. He lives in Umeå, in the north of Sweden.
A portfolio, repository and archive of projects. For what he thinks, there are the essays.
The work
A travelling innovation lab and a global community of nine thousand innovators across music, technology, science and the arts.
A Swedish non-profit research foundation working on data governance, interoperability, and equitable access to emerging technologies.
A 96-episode New Zealand radio drama serial from 1998, an award-winning supernatural thriller that later became one of the first radio dramas distributed as a podcast.
A book about what radio is, and what it becomes, once broadcasting stops being the only way to do it. Polity Press, 2013.
A monthly podcast of conversations with the people building the European Open Science Cloud.
A free e-book of digital strategy for independent musicians that was downloaded half a million times and helped shape a generation of music-web thinking.
A short documentary about the culture of Aveiro, Portugal, under threat from the rising ocean, free to watch, and twice awarded.
An album made in Delhi with street children and the charity Music Basti, released with all proceeds to the children's programmes.
A lasting mechanism for carrying European Open Science Cloud research into applied innovation, in development within LUMEN.
euroFMX2026–2030 · ongoingA €45 million Horizon Europe programme building trustworthy generative AI and autonomisation frontier models for European manufacturing.
An open Swedish innovation programme on the future of sustainable food, run by MTF Labs with Polarbröd.
A Horizon Europe project building the first comprehensive knowledge graph for the social sciences and humanities, with AI services and next-generation research instruments.
Innovation Prototyping Labs2025–present · ongoingWeek-long collaborative labs that carry research infrastructure work into prototypes, run by ICF within European research projects.
Join The Dots2011 · dormantA radio format that travels from one record to another through the connections between them, one hop at a time.
A Vinnova-funded initiative that created annotation standards so datasets used for AI carry ethical documentation, judicious, unbiased, safe and transparent.
A Horizon Europe project extending federated research discovery across disciplines within the European Open Science Cloud, and the home of the Inside EOSC podcast.
MedChain2024–2027 · ongoingA Vinnova-funded project building a Medical Product Passport platform for circular medical product ecosystems.
Music in the Digital Age2012–2014 · dormantA book about making sense of the commerce and culture of popular music, published serially and translated into four languages.
Musical Chairs2000s · completedHalf-hour radio portraits of New Zealand musicians, made for RNZ's Musical Chairs strand, from Dr Rock to the quiet giants of Auckland jazz.
MusicBricks2015–2016 · completedA Horizon 2020 project that carried music technology research out of the lab and into the hands of makers, through Music Tech Fest.
New Music Strategies2005–present · ongoingA blog and consultancy on digital music strategy that advised the independent sector through its most disorienting decade, relaunched in 2026 for the AI one.
Occupy Music2010s · dormantA documentary project about Brazil's Fora do Eixo collectives, who built their own music economy, currency and university.
OntoCommons2020–2023 · completedA completed Horizon 2020 project that built an ontology ecosystem for standardised, FAIR data documentation in materials and manufacturing.
RE4DY2022–2025 · completedA completed Horizon Europe project on "data as a product" value networks for resilient European manufacturing.
Soul Food Sunday2011 · dormantAn hour of soul at a time; three volumes of the mix series survive in public.
Tap Recordsc. 1996–2000 · completedAn independent jazz label in 1990s Auckland, run from a Lorne Street apartment, that released the first records of Mark de Clive-Lowe.
TEF North2021–present · ongoingA test and experimentation facility for industrial AI under establishment in northern Sweden, led by the Industry Commons Foundation.
The 360 Deal2013 · completedOne hundred music industry figures, exactly 360 words of advice each, sold for $3.60, all proceeds to a Delhi children's music charity.
The New Zealand radio yearsc. 1988–2004 · completedTwenty years in New Zealand radio, from student station 95bFM to Radio Pacific, a 26-hour history of jazz, a hundred episodes of a children's serial, and a jazz show on a dance station.
TRE4HealthAI2024–2027 · ongoingA Vinnova project building a Trusted Research Environment for developing and testing health AI on sensitive data, safely.
Un-Convention2008–present · ongoingA grassroots music industry event series, co-founded in 2008, that has run more than a hundred events on five continents.
Understanding the Music Industries2012 · completedA textbook on how the music industries actually work, economically, socially and technologically. SAGE, 2012, with Chris Anderton and Martin James.
Urban Disturbance in Broadcasting House2010 · completedA two-part radio documentary on Zane Lowe, tracing his path from Auckland hip hop to BBC Radio 1's premier new music show.