Music Entrepreneurship

Dorothy Le

Founder, Asian Memory Project

"Ownership is freedom, competition is irrelevant." For the pilot episode of the podcast, I spoke with my good friend Dorothy Le about music entrepreneurship. In addition to founding the Asian Memory Project, a mixed media nonprofit organization striving to amplify Asian American representation in Austin, Dorothy is also an accomplished flutist graduated from the Butler School of Music at UT Austin. We met in the university orchestra and eventually worked together on her debut event series, "A Studio Ghibli Tribute" and the song "be with you" off my album. Dorothy drops a lot of gems about her experience as a musician and a founder, and I hope you enjoy this debut episode!

Highlights:

• Switching career tracks from performer to founder
• Transferrable skills from being an instrumentalist
• Cultural appropriation vs appreciation in music and architecture
• Creating a modernized concert experience
• Importance of universal design in a performance space
• Experiences of a studio musician, playing like an architect
• "Ownership" comes in many forms

Asian Memory Project Website

Asian Memory Project Instagram

"A Studio Ghibli Tribute" Set Design (By Pranav Subramanian and Maya Hazarika for the Asian Memory Project)

just d.rama - "be with you"