Charlotte Adigéry (WWWater) (former student of PXL-music) and myself were invited to host a guest lecture during their international week. We talked about setting up a management company, kickstarting her musical career, plans, doubts, financial worries, successes, and how passion for music keeps us going.

Poppunt invited myself and Charlotte Adigéry (WWWater) to curate a Poppunt Session on November 23rd at the Ancienne Belgique in Brussels, Belgium. We decided we wanted it be to be about doing something unique (and maybe odd) but honest , creating cultural value that can leave an impact on a much bigger scale than originally intended. We selected and invited a series of speakers (Ed Horrox (A&R Manager at 4AD), Hannah Diamond (PC Music and "professional image-maker) and Colin Van Eeckhout (Amenra)) that made this evening a big success and huge source of inspiration.

More info on the event can be found here. 

Focus Knack did a report on Spotify in their SEPT 20 zine - I helped put it together and wrote an opinion piece on why Belgium needs more Spotify. Read it here.

Commissioned by Wallonie-Bruxelles Musiques to host a masterclass on streaming. The basics of streaming (various services, distributors) and how to maximize your catalogue's potential, p£a¥list$, fan insights and how streaming is changing music are some of the topics we covered in this 2 hour masterclass. You can view it in full here.

"We hired Jarri earlier in 2017 to organize and deliver a lecture / workshop about Music Streaming issues & best practices to Belgian professionals from Flanders, Wallonia & Brussels (during Listen! festival in Brussels). We were very happy with the insights and analysis on the streaming market offered by Jarri at this occasion. We also got plenty of good reviews of that presentation coming from our users. Very interesting insights, definitely recommended." - Julien Fournier, department manager at WBM

Commissioned by kollekt.fm to create in-store playlists for multi-award winning hairdressing brand Toni & Guy. I created three types of playlists  (each for a different time of day: Easy / Busy / Rush Hour) reflecting the brand and what they want to represent. All playlists are updated every month with new tunes.

Commissioned by Trendwolves (leading Youth Trend agency) to do a talk on the impact of streaming (and data in general) on the music industry.

Report by Rufus Kain in De Correspondent (Dutch).

"Jarri's talk at The Futures Of Data (organized by Trendwolves) highlighted the disruptive changes the music industry has gone through in the past decades... With important insights in what we can expect in the next years and how we can adapt to the data revolution as individuals and businesses. It was very nice to hear this story not by a hardcore business strategist, but by a guy who genuinely loves music and just happens to know a whole lot about the business and dynamics behind it." - Willem Roose, Youth Researcher at Trendwolves (host)

Working as a consultant for Pukkelpop (Belgium's biggest alternative festival) for both Social Media (strategy, creative & copy) and bookings (focusing on new talent).

Poppunt invited us to do talk on storytelling in music for their SOUND/CHECK '16 series. Over 300 people applied to attend the (free) event at the Beursschouwburg (Brussels, Belgium).

Other speakers were Michel Van Buyten (General Manager Sony Music Benelux), Musketon (Illustrator & Visual Artist) and Filip Sterck (Director).

More info here.

Poppunt regularly commissions us for various projects regarding social media for artists and bands such as:

*  hosting workshops in which we cover the in's & out's of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat and apply these with examples to the music industry.

* writing pieces for their zine/website; I’ve already covered topics such as the in’s & out’s of Spotify & general advice on Instagram and on Snapchat)

Curated various showcases at SXSW throughout the years.

SXSW 2017: Klyne, Noga Erez, Au/Ra, Flint Eastwood, CHINAH, Jamie Isaac, Tune Olaniran, Casi, Drive Like Maria, The Sore Losers (w/ Pukkelpop)

SXSW 2016: Polica, Gallant, Honne, Transviolet and Coast Modern (w/ Hype Machine

SXSW 2016: Sara Hartman, Vallis Alps, Cloves, Oscar & the Wolf, Bird Dog, Sevdaliza, Kevin Garrett, Fickle Friends, Woodie Smalls, Sleepers' Reign and Dolce. (w/ Pukkelpop)

SXSW 2015: Christine and the Queens, ILoveMakonnen, Raury, Gorgon City, George Maple, Lydia Ainsworth and Danny L Harle (w/ Hype Machine)

SXSW 2015: VUURWERK, Rainy Milo, BRNS, Mew, Kate Boy and JUCE (w/ Pukkelpop)

SXSW 2014: Hozier, The 1975, HAERTS, Wolf Alice, Holychild, GEMS, Le Youth and Gorgon City (w/ Hype Machine)

SXSW 2013: SOHN, Pacific Air, Eddi Front, DENA, Mozart’s Sister, Young Dreams, NO and GEMS

'Future Archive’ is a project by Biennale Interieur and Baroness O., which gathers a selection of the newest and most innovative furniture and accessories that every visitor should remember.

To show the possibilities of the trending objects in the archive, a group of creatives was invited to create a unique on-site installation. We were commissioned to set up a music installation in which 10 visitors could intimately plunge into innovatory songs and musicians,

Commissioned by SXSW to handpick a handful of artists playing their annual festival and write introductory pieces on them for their official New Music Preview / Music Bloggers Guide, along to other blogs such as Pigeons & Planes, Stereogum, DIY and The Line of Best Fit.

SXSW 2017: Maggie Rogers, Skott and Noga Erez. Read the guide in full here.

SXSW 2016: Sara Hartman, Lapsley and JONES
Read the guide in full here.

SXSW 2015: Christine and the Queens, Seinabo Sey, Marian Hill and JUCE. Read the guide in full here.

Coffeeklatch hosted various events at Café Frascati (STAMcafé at the Bijloke-site) to create awareness for the upcoming Floraliën event in Ghent, Belgium.

We were commissioned to curate a plant-themed playlist for the website and set the tone at the event with some more botanical-inspired beats.

More info on the event can be found here.
The playlist can be found here.

Curated the POP playlist for the Brussels branch of this now defunct streaming service / music curator from November 2012 until December 2016.

SXSW commissioned us to write a piece on Belgium's vibrant music scene for their monthly SXSWorld Magazine, distributed all through the city during SXSW 2016.

Read the piece here.

Joeri Van den Bergh (co-founder and partner at InSites Consulting) invited me to write the story of Disco Naïveté for his collaborative book with Tom Palmaerts (partner at Trendwolves) and Herman Konings (consumer psychologist and trend analyst at Pocket Marketing/nXt).

Futures is available in Belgian book stores and online (Lannoo’s webshop or iTunes).

As a longtime SONOS user and enthusiast I’m proud to have been asked an an Ambassador. I joined SONOS at the SONOS BEAM launch event in Antwerp at which I shared my experiences with SONOS products and put together a playlist soundtracking the event (highlighting SONOS’ qualities) whilst entertaining with attendants and replying any questions they had about SONOS products.