Better Concerts Magazine

betterconcerts magazine is a print publication dedicated to contemporary concert culture and its ongoing transformation. It provides space for critical reflection, documentation, and inspiration, examining how concerts are conceived, experienced, and reimagined in response to changing social, cultural, and artistic conditions.

Project Info

Published as a curated print magazine, betterconcerts brings together contributions from artists, curators, producers, researchers, and writers working across disciplines. Through essays, interviews, visual documentation, and case studies, the magazine captures innovative practices and emerging discourses around concert formats, audience engagement, and the future of live performance.

Challenge

How can contemporary concert culture be meaningfully documented and critically examined without reducing its diversity to trends, templates, or prescriptive models?

Proposition

By using print as a deliberate, reflective medium, betterconcerts magazine proposes considered discourse over immediacy—offering depth, context, and plurality as tools to understand and advance the evolving landscape of concerts and live music experiences.