"In Praise of Musical Mistakes"
On Dilla Time, deforming mastery, the question of when are errors ever actually errors? (October 2022)
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On Dilla Time, deforming mastery, the question of when are errors ever actually errors? (October 2022)
"Naturalized Herb," an essay and playlist
with special guest: Harmony Holiday
I’m a writer, editor and journalist who became a multimedia storyteller, producer and programmer, then strategist and designer of content platforms. For over 20 years work tenets have remained consistent: chronicle culture, whether for publications, broadcasters and media companies, or agencies and brands.
Piotr Orlov was born in St. Petersburg, Russia back when it was still called Leningrad, and arrived in New York in the late 1970s. Though he is first and foremost a writer and editor, over the past 25 years Piotr has worked as a music storyteller in many capacities, at various platforms and institutions. His writing has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Pitchfork, The Guardian, and Village Voice, among many others. (It still occasionally does.) Piotr has spent time as director of special projects at AFROPUNK, a senior editor of content at NPR Music, and as an editorial director at MTV, where in 2006 he helped launch one of the world’s first programmed streaming music services. In 2003, he co-curated the music program of The New Museum art exhibition, “Black President: The Art & Legacy of Fela Kuti.” While at the marketing and advertising agency Mother New York, he helped produce the globally successful branded content event programs, “Creators Project” (for Intel/Vice) and “Red Bull Music Academy”; and in 2013 he helped produce the Red Bull Music Academy in New York. In 2019, Piotr co-executive-produced the 13-part radio program “City.FM” for New York public radio (funded by the Mayor’s Office for Media and Entertainment) about the city's local music culture; and in 2021-22 he has been producing/hosting the monthly interview + music radio program, Dada Strain Radio (on the Sonos Radio Network), focused on rhythm, improvisation and community. Dada Strain is also a substack. He is an adjunct teacher at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, and at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. Feel free to call him “Peter.”
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