Hello! Welcome to my website. I am a writer, technologist, and label founder based out of Los Angeles. I grew up in a small suburb in upstate New York and moved to the city for college. After graduating I worked as a data scientist at Spotify before leaving to found Big Tent Music, a project-based record label and music blog. I now work at Kobalt Music Group as the first analytics hire in their sync department. I am also an avid reader and a long distance runner.
Words
Below are writings of mine hosted here and elsewhere.
| Aug. 20, 2026 | Learning by Doing: Making Music as Melaina Kol |
| Aug. 3, 2026 | sachi's mirror - Talking in a Different Way |
| Jul. 1, 2026 | $quib - Erring |
| Jun. 18, 2026 | The Ascendance of Bay Area Dance Music |
| Jun. 3, 2026 | What was nina for? |
| Apr. 17, 2026 | Clout Rock |
| Feb. 22, 2026 | Let's Be Adults |
| Jan. 27, 2026 | Victoryland - My Heart Is a Room With No Cameras in It |
| Oct. 23, 2025 | Hiking in the Dacks |
| Sep. 23, 2025 | The ear method |
| Jul. 23, 2025 | Interview w/Charlie Sosnick for Earshot |
| May 18, 2025 | TV Girl |
| Apr. 12, 2025 | Memory |
| Mar. 16, 2025 | I AM MUSIC, literally |
| Feb. 20, 2025 | On Trust, Confidence, & Progressive Decentralization |
| Oct. 21, 2024 | Space Is Only Noise |