Musician, eMusic/ MP3.com content creator/manager experience, coder — building Artisanal Indie.
Jianda Monique: Founder of this website. In her own words, "I'm the founder of Artisanal Indie, and most of what I write here comes directly out of my own catalog, my own migrations, and lessons learned the hard way over two decades of making and managing music online."
Credited vocalist on Tycho's Dive (Ghostly International, 2011), which charted on Billboard's Top Dance/Electronic Albums (#22) and Heatseekers Albums (#39). Featured vocalist on three tracks from Tycho's debut album, Sunrise Projector (2004) — "Sunrise Projector," "Send And Receive," and "A Circular Reeducation." Also featured on "Wish" (with Patchen), track 6 on Om Lounge 10 (Om Records, 2006) — an inaugural Om Discovery artist, part of the label's first cohort of that program. Close to 700 songs, audio poems, collaborations, and podcasts published to date, all written and produced before AI tools existed — with roughly 550–570 distributed online at any given time, the number varying depending on platform and availability, which is part of what motivated building this site and supporting apps, initially.
Content Manager/Editor at MP3.com (along with eMusic and NBC/Vivendi-Universal), roughly October 2000 to April/May 2003 — managing multi-genre content for a community of over 350,000 artists and 2.5 million songs: content and project management, artist community and public relations, licensing, media, and advertisement sourcing. MP3.com's own empowering experience that transitioned into eventual shutdown is part of the direct, lived experience behind why catalog portability is vital.
Produced, hosted, and recorded interview segments with artists including John Francis Peters, Sophie B. Hawkins, Blues Traveler, Cyndi Lauper, King Britt, and Jane Siberry, among others.
Freelance writer and contributor across eMusic, MP3.com/Rolling Stone online, Women of MP3, Internet Underground, ChickClick, Sonicnet, Scarlet Letters, and others. Published fiction and nonfiction in UC Irvine's Faultline, Santa Rosa's Women's Voices, and Internet Underground (Ziff Davis Publishing), plus fiction anthologies for Alyson Publications and Cleis Press. Author of My Beautiful Device, Volume I: Stasis — originally conceived in 2020 as an audiobook time capsule, released in print and digital in early 2026.
2021 Kaggle/Google BIPOC Data Fellow. Jr. Data Scientist on a UCSF Epidemiology team during COVID-19 (2020–2021), contributing to research related to underserved populations and public health. Media Studies, Pomona College; Film Studies, University of California, Irvine.