BooksPhilosophy, stoicism and lately, design.Shelf growing
Collections
Music, books and paper things I keep returning to.
personal archive · always growing
On my shelf
A few things I collect.
MusicA life collected in songs, month by month.Open collection ↓
StationeryPens, paper and tiny tools for thinking.Current obsession
The first collection
Music has always been my time machine.
I have collected music for as long as I can remember. I am always looking for sounds I have not heard before, then folding the ones I love into everything I already carry with me.
Since 2012, I have kept that instinct in dated Spotify playlists. I think you can learn a lot about a person through the music they keep. This is mine: what I discover, what I return to and how my taste keeps changing without losing its center.
Each playlist becomes a dated tape. Month by month, the shelf turns into a life you can press play on.
How the archive records a life
A memoryYears later, pressing play can bring back a place, a person or a version of me.
From the real archive
The dates are already there.
The playlist title becomes the cassette label. The date each song was added gives it an exact point in time.
Year shelf
Monthly tapes
Now passing through the reels
Flower
Moby · Play: The B Sides
25 songs1 hr 42 min
2012 year shelf1 tape
The paper inside the case · unfolded
November ’12 liner notes
Every month was a note to my future self.
5songs written down
This is the first real tape from the archive. Once Spotify is connected, the full shelf will appear here year by year.