About Us

Media Marginalia is an independent platform for music and sound art that emerges at the edges of culture. We focus on creators who follow their own path, independent of genres, trends, and commercial expectations. Not the market, but inner necessity is at the core. Here, personal obsessions, unusual imaginative worlds, and idiosyncratic creative processes are given the space to develop freely.

The name Marginalia refers to the drawings and notes that medieval scribes left in the margins of their manuscripts: spontaneous expressions that existed outside the official order and, precisely because of that, possessed a unique power. In the same spirit, Media Marginalia brings together contemporary musical voices that exist between experimentation, intuition, imagination, and autonomy.

We believe that meaningful art does not necessarily arise at the center, but often at the margins. In the twilight zone between sound and silence, between tradition and deviation, between dream and reality, works emerge that resist easy classification. Media Marginalia documents, supports, and disseminates this hidden cartography of sound.

The margin is not a periphery, but a fertile space where new realities come into being.


Artist Selection

Media Marginalia does not follow traditional selection procedures. We are not looking for perfection, but necessity. Not finished products, but urgent expressions.

Artists are selected based on their individuality, their willingness to take risks, and their ability to think beyond conventional structures.

We give preference to sounds that exist at the margins: difficult to categorize, personal, and sometimes confrontational or unsettling. Authenticity and intention take precedence over technical refinement.

Media Marginalia operates primarily through an organic network of like-minded artists. Connections emerge through exchange, correspondence, and mutual interest rather than through open calls or commercial strategies.


Media Marginalia

c/o David Joly
Kouterstraat 38
3090 Overijse
Belgium

david.joly@telenet.be
+32 483 52 45 48