In conversation with Jozef White, founder of Tabula Rasa Records, a writer and philosopher. Jozef was born and raised in San Francisco and has landed, for now, in New Zealand.
Jozef’s creative output thrives in spaces where people move together – whether that's collating collective works that capture a specific time signature, or curating events in person in Tokyo, Amsterdam, and San Diego.
The episode kicks off with an attempt to bridge the cultural chasm that splits California and New Zealand. Then we explore ideas from Tabula Rasa's Substack, Inscripta – specifically, three of Jozef’s essays; I can only think when I run, Release schematics (essays #1 and #2), and You are not owed a creative career.
N.B At about 15.40mins in, Jozef mentions a 5, 4, 2, and 12-beat framework and a Taylor Swift song that mirrors a similar time signature. We don’t mention the name of the Swift song, but it’s likely closure from the album, evermore.
Recommends/mentions: Inscripta Substack, Tabula Rasa Catalogue – and the everynoise.com playlist, which currently tracks one song from every genre.
Related reading:
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka
Music discovery is broken. Can it be fixed? [DrownedinSound.org]
The rise of fan-driven discovery [Emwhitenoise.Substack.com]
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