for regional cheeses and wines. “The farm certification process for organic food for instance: there are people who check, and it’s regulated.”
Peters suggests a certification process could include interviews with composers and producers about the origin of their music. “It’s pretty hard to answer the question of ‘how did you make this sound?’, if you didn’t make it.”Sofar Sounds is best known for setting up Parlour Music, a platform that facilitates musicians to perform at house parties and in back yards. “I think these spaces in real life, that let us listen to a human being performing … will become more important,” he says.
Sofar Sounds explicitly curate the old fashioned way: by listening to the music. “It lives outside the algorithm,” Walters says. “I love intimate shows in these really interesting spaces.” Peters agrees. “Live music is risky and people like the risk – they like going to see something unique. Not just unique artists, but unique as in: I was there, I saw that particular night.”