Feb 18, 2026

Celebrating the fifth anniversary of Flavortone, Alec and Nick take a step back from more intensive topical discussions to look back over the development of the podcast, and beyond, into the preceding years of musical and theoretical projects which have informed it. Tracking the podcast’s beginnings as a lit...

Dec 9, 2025

Alec and Nick take a step back from their recent concentration on digital media technologies to stage a literary review of “the audience” as an evolving element in the material, cultural and epistemological formations of music. The episode tracks a historical arc of pre-modern power dynamics, industrial modernity...

Nov 19, 2025

Alec and Nick discuss the algorithm as a mysterious force within the production and consumption of music. Despite being used daily in our various contendings with digital platforms and culture, the term is often misunderstood. The conversation loosely defines the term as "some kind of procedure," embarking on a survey...

Nov 3, 2025

Alec and Nick finally discuss the processes of music consumption and distribution through smart phones, and the means of production of “sounds” on TikTok, Instagram Reels, and other video sharing social media platforms. Picking up a quandary from past episodes about digital music, the duo ask if TikTok sounds are,...

Oct 20, 2025

Alec and Nick examine the emergence and proliferation of digital music technology in the 1980’s as it maps onto a “solo-doloistic” turn in our increasingly individualistic music listening and production habits. First discussing this transition through the lense of conceptual innovations by Robert Ashley and other...