PechaKucha Sessions - The Vinyl Frontier: Presentations and discussions on record collecting
Channel: PechaKucha 20x20
Date: 11/12/2020

Join us online from Tokyo, for a "PechaKucha Session" and musical discussion on the record collecting habits (read: obsessions) of four friendly vinyl junkies.

What: PechaKucha Session Presents: The Vinyl Frontier
When: December 11th, 2020, 9:00pm (JST)
Where: Online Via Zoom Webinar: Register HERE!
Who: Hosted by Brian Scott Peterson, with Special Guests, Penny Lane, Courtney E. Smith, and Tatsuo Fukutomi
Why: Creative Inspiration during Quarantine! OF COURSE!

Hosted by PechaKucha's man-of-many-hats, and camera-slinging "Global Dude", Brian Scott Peterson, we'll hear from 3 cherry-picked vinyl junkies who, in the face of an ever-expanding digital landscape, commit themselves to music that exists beyond 1's and 0's.

Penny Lane
Penny Lane is the creator and host of Punks in Parkas, a mod based radio show and podcast broadcasting every week on the University of Manitoba’s campus and community radio station, UMFM. Penny Lane has been an avid music lover almost all her life and started collecting records at the age of 16. She has contributed to many books on the Mod scene, and was featured on the Ameoba music blog in a post outlining her top ten mod albums. Penny can often be found flipping through dusty record bins with her partner and Punks in Parkas co-host, Captain Dan, trying to score that next great album to add to their ever-expanding collections.

Tatsuo Fukutomi
Tatsuo Fukutomi works for a foundation in Tokyo that supports contemporary theater and dance artists. He is also a DJ by the name bemsha and has played music for various events including PechaKucha Night Tokyo and co-founded the DJ unit and party Les Vibrations at the bar/restaurant VIVE LA VIVE in Shibuya. His other interests include photography and his images have been printed in several publications and featured in the Paris-based magazine Clam.

Courtney E. Cox
Author of Record Collecting for Girls: Unleashing Your Inner Music Nerd, One Album at a Time Courtney is a feature writer and cultural critic. She spent eight years at MTV as a music programmer and manager of label relations where she was instrumental in deciding which videos went into rotation on all twenty of MTV's music platforms and created launch programs for emerging artists.

Brian Scott Peterson
Brian Scott Peterson is a man of many hats, including writer, photographer, director, producer, and yes, vinyl junkie. Having once amassed a substantial horde of LPs stateside decades ago, where he was known to squander every diner-earned penny on them, disappear for days into the foothills with crates full of them, alleged to be illegally pirate-radio DJing from a cabin therewithin, he has slowly been expatriating his collection to Japan, where he has been on the lam since 2004.

When the music of today can be downloaded and uploaded, zipped up, air-dropped, and live-streamed through the interwebs via Bluetooth and wifi, what is the attraction of collecting music pressed on prehistoric wax petroleum? These out-dated and seemingly obsolete artifacts have loyal found a special place in the hearts of our esteemed presenters who will all profess their love and commitment to vinyl in the PechaKucha 20x20 format. Join us!