music

A radio format that travels from one record to another through the connections between them, one hop at a time.

A book about making sense of the commerce and culture of popular music, published serially and translated into four languages.

Half-hour radio portraits of New Zealand musicians, made for RNZ's Musical Chairs strand, from Dr Rock to the quiet giants of Auckland jazz.

A Horizon 2020 project that carried music technology research out of the lab and into the hands of makers, through Music Tech Fest.

A blog and consultancy on digital music strategy that advised the independent sector through its most disorienting decade, relaunched in 2026 for the AI one.

A documentary project about Brazil's Fora do Eixo collectives, who built their own music economy, currency and university.

An hour of soul at a time; three volumes of the mix series survive in public.

An independent jazz label in 1990s Auckland, run from a Lorne Street apartment, that released the first records of Mark de Clive-Lowe.

One hundred music industry figures, exactly 360 words of advice each, sold for $3.60, all proceeds to a Delhi children's music charity.

Twenty 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.

A grassroots music industry event series, co-founded in 2008, that has run more than a hundred events on five continents.

A textbook on how the music industries actually work, economically, socially and technologically. SAGE, 2012, with Chris Anderton and Martin James.

A two-part radio documentary on Zane Lowe, tracing his path from Auckland hip hop to BBC Radio 1's premier new music show.