Sustainability
After years of reducing my use of air transit, I stopped flying altogether in March 2019. I campaigned alongside the mobility justice network Stay Grounded for which I was a board member in 2024. In 2025, I crossed the Atlantic on a sailboat to play 13 gigs in North America. With my trip back being cancelled and my visa running out, I took a flight from Miami to Havana to be able to jump on another sailboat crossing the Atlantic Eastbound.
Below is a non-exhaustive list of reflections and sharings on environmental justice in dance music and beyond.
ARTICLES
2025.09 "“Here’s where you’ll find me this month”: Music Press and the Myth of Hypermobility as a Metric of Success" for the Oxford Handbook of Electronic Dance Music
2024.04 "Ecological Dilemma: The Need to Go Smaller" in Ecological Endeavours: Independent Sector's Pursuit of Ecological Commitment for Reset!
2022.07 "Three Years Left: On The Possibility Of Solidarity" - article for un:zine vol. 3, A New Us
INTERVIEWS
2026.06 "Going Green: Electronic Music and the Quest for Sustainability" by Jim Ottewill for Beatportal
2020.02 “Quand les DJ tentent de mixer écologie et tournées” - interview for Libération (erratum: I am not a Vinyl-only DJ)
2021.03 “How DJs can minimize their environmental impact?” - interview for L Destefanis BA in Music Business
PODCASTS
2022.04 Warm Up #1 : Le "Slow Gigging" avec Gigsta - interview in French with Laurent Bigarella (Câblé)
2022.03 Fictions #50 w/ Gigsta – In A Train (Pt I: Planes And Tales) - a 90min show investigating the aviation industry
PUBLIC SPEAKING
2026.04 Earth Night x DJs4CA
2025.09 Paris Electronic Week
2024.05.08 Workshop and panel at Nuits Sonores
2023.12.07 - Panel - Transmusicales (Rennes)
2023.12.05 - Panel - Forum de la culture durable (Charleroi)
2023.11.11 - Corso – Kunst und Pop from min 38 onwards (Deutschlandfunk)
2023.02.15 - Panel with Keychange (Brussels)
2023.02.09 - "Mobilité des artistes et du public dans le secteur des musiques actuelles" - Panel with Le Collectif des Festivals (Astropolis, Brest)
2022.10 We Make Tomorrow - one-day summit organised by Julie's Bicycle
2022.08 Dancing between Party as Usual and Post-Growth Pleasures - panel host at queer festival Whole
2022.05 Panel at Wise By Day in Berlin
2022.04 - Fictions #51 w/ Gigsta – On A Train (Part II: The Nickerchen Narratives) - a slower, softer and silent journey
2022.04 Can Climate Offsets Help Reduce Dance Music's Carbon Footprint? - article written by Caroline Whiteley for RA on Earth Day
2022.04 Rencontres nationales - Ecologies et musiques actuelles (organized by the Fedelima in Paris à la Gaîté Lyrique)
2022.02 Creative Sustainability on Refuge Worldwide - a discussion on radio w/ Eilidh McLaughlin
2021.10 A Promoter's Guide To Reducing Carbon Emissions - an article written by Tal Fineman for Pirate.com
2021.09 Les circuits courts artistiques et créatifs - a video of a panel in French held at the Paris Electronic Week
2021.07 - Work group on "mobilité des artistes et gestion des carrières artistiques" organized by French, Centre National de Musique
2020.09 NAC Library Talks on sustainable practices in arts, music, institutions and environmental awareness - Round table organized at NAC in Lithuania
2020.01 “In search of greener practices” - Panel at CTM and reported by RA
NEWSLETTERS
2022.08 "... using paper straws while the rich take 9 minute flights ..." - newsletter on flight-free threads, broken hearts and writer blocks
2022.09 "... at the core of an imperial mode of living." - newsletter on libertarian logics, "existing in harmony" and two years of the newsletter
2022.04 "... a process of atmospheric colonisation." - an edition of the newsletter sharing quotes from books on aviation, capitalism, mobility, degrowth and extractivist art
2022.03 "... not a single story on the face of this earth is unrelated to climate change..." - an edition of the newsletter providing resources for aviation justice and reflecting on the relationship between the climate crisis and other contemporary situations of oppression
2021.09 "Who is tomorrow?" - an edition of the newsletter reflecting on my experience at Dekmantel Selectors, a festival which flies the vast majority of its line-up and crowd to the Croatian coast
RESOURCES ON THE SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF FLYING
EU Perspectives on Slow Touring in a Fast Paced Industry on Courts Circuits
Calculate flight emissions on Atmosphair
"Last Night A DJ Took a Flight" Clean Scene Report
Tournées bas-carbone, transition écologique sur The Green Room