Music Cities, Gentrification, and Who Should Pay for Culture
I wrote an article quite a while ago titled ‘Reasons why the Government should pay for Creative Arts’. I still stand by every word of it. However, I haven’t yet tackled the even more difficult question that follows: How should the government actually pay for them?
How can we Create a More Sustainable Music Ecosystem?
In October 2025, I was invited to speak at the RIUH x ASEAN frequenSEA music conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on how Southeast Asia’s live music industries can collaborate and thrive without relying on Western capital or intervention. My schedule was already overflowing, but this is a topic related to sustainability and music, which I…
Is it Imposter Syndrome or do I actually suck at appreciating my successes?
When I was a teenager, my mom used to tell me that I “undersell” myself. She insisted I was much more capable than I led people to believe. But I never felt comfortable with that praise—mostly because I still remember her complaining that while I was good at many things, I was never “the best”…
Life of Py (2) Roots of a Weird Tree
“I was made in Indonesia but assembled in Thailand” — that’s the joke I often make about my origin story.
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