For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads — DJs, music journos, indie label captains, record shop owners, listening bar kingpins, et al — about their stories + the music that makes them.

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Jing Yi Teo is a curator, writer and strategist. Her work focuses on seeking new formats, understandings and alliances for creative practices, resulting in more systematically propositional bodies of work. From 2019–2022 she led ArtBizTech, an innovation and strategy consultancy and incubator, whilst serving as Curator of bang. Prix, its non-profit arm that supports practices that intersect art, technology and science. Her approach bridging the theoretical and the applied spans various fields, from contemporary art and music to emerging tech and start-ups. She is currently building Outlyr-e, a distributed strategy practice aiming to create the conditions for creative thought applied to organizations in the arts.

Armen Nalbandian is an avant-garde and experimental composer and pianist whose practice seeks to expand the possibilities of sound and performance through spontaneous group composition, prepared piano and Fender Rhodes, and electronically layered improvisations. With 23 albums over 17 years, Armen has performed and recorded with Chris Corsano, Jeff Parker, Alex Cline, Steve Lehman, Han Bennink, Uchihashi Kazuhisa, Makigami Koichi and other notable musicians, whilst pursuing multidisciplinary collaborations with writers, visual and performance artists. In 2023, Armen co-founded the distributed strategy practice Outlyr-e, with the objective of exploring ‘other ways’ of championing the arts.

MUSIC MENTIONS

• Giuseppe Verdi
• Giacomo Puccini
• Frank Sinatra
• Tony Bennett
• Thelonius Monk
• Ornette Coleman
• John Coltrane
• Jeff Parker
• Chris Speed
• Alex Klein
• Eric Revis
• Dave King
• The Bad Plus
• Chris Corsano

Spontaneous Composition & the Avant Garde ethos (28:55):

• Johann Sebastian Bach
• Johannes Brahms
• Ludwig van Beethoven
• Cecil Taylor
• John Cage
• Karlheinz Stockhausen
• Roman Kyn

Q&A

• Glenn Gould

Discovering music today (49:19):

• Thom Yorke
• NTS Radio
• Jim O’Rourke

First album ever purchased (53:20):

• Armen: “License to Ill” by Beastie Boys
• Jing: “For Emma, Forever Ago” by Bon Iver

Most recent album purchased (57:18):

• “Spectral Evolution” by Rafael Toral

Artists discovered in the last year (57:18):

• Catherine Lamb
• Laurel Halo
• Kali Malone

Desert Island Discs (58:38):

• “Shutting Down Here” by Jim O’Rourke
• “Spectral Evolution” by Rafael Toral
• “Ashioto / Ashiato“ by Tatsuhisa Yamamoto