Update · · 2 min read
Leaving FILARMONIKA, Building Resonance
After twelve years at FILARMONIKA Music Publishing, I've left to build Resonance Music Press — publishing infrastructure where composers keep ownership of their work.
Felix
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Field Note · · 2 min read
Why Typography Matters for Arts Organizations
Most arts nonprofits underinvest in typography. Here's why that's a strategic mistake, not just an aesthetic one.
Essay · · 3 min read
Building Tools You Wish Existed
On the strange productivity of building software for your own problems — and why musicians might be better positioned for it than they think.
Essay · · 2 min read
Orchestral Programming as Cultural Reclamation
Why the works we choose to perform matter as much as how we perform them — and what it means to put Latin American composers on the same stage as the European canon.
Field Note · · 1 min read
Progress Through Preservation
A 2025 reflection from my time at Filarmonika: the most meaningful work isn't always invention — it's building infrastructure that helps culture endure.
Field Note · · 1 min read
Where Art, Design, and Structure Overlap
Conducting taught me that creativity thrives in structure — a principle that shows up in web design, publishing, and the tools I build.
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I conduct the Mesquite Symphony Orchestra — the 2025 winner of The American Prize in Orchestral Performance – Community Division. I also spent twelve years inside FILARMONIKA Music Publishing, the last six as Managing Director.
In 2026 I left to build my own things — several at once, at different stages: Resonance Music Press (publishing infrastructure where composers keep ownership), OrchestraOS (operations software for performing-arts organizations), and a set of apps and tools under Elaren Studio. Most of them started as problems inside the organizations I run, built largely with AI assistance.
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