What Happens When An Artist Management Company Puts A Psychologist In The Room?

Copenhagen’s ColliderScopeCollective is building therapy-informed communication into its day-to-day, with its Los Angeles producers next in line.

Most artist-management companies talk about looking after their people. Far fewer give that a seat at the table. Copenhagen’s ColliderScopeCollective, whose roster has worked on records for Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift and Omar Apollo, has brought in clinical psychologist Simon Gents of Stem Sindet to help its writers, artists and producers work better together.

Three workshops have now been completed, the latest on 19th August in Copenhagen, and the collective plans to spend the next year applying what came out of them, starting in Denmark before the approach reaches its LA-based producers. Founder Simon Dilling takes part as an equal rather than leading from the front.

The sessions look less at personal wellbeing than at the mechanics of collaboration: how to communicate clearly, how to look after relationships as well as your own career, and how to keep egos in check. For a company whose creative work constantly crosses the Atlantic, Dilling argues the glue is candour, not paperwork. “It’s whether people can say the true thing to each other about a song, a mix or a plan,” he says.

Songwriter Miriam Majcherek says the effect is the opposite of cushioning: “It makes it more honest and constructive.” Artist and producer Al Jacobi adds that the group has been building shared vocabulary for studios, releases and who does what, with the aim of heading off avoidable misunderstandings.

On the West Coast, the collective’s producers include Micro.wav, the Silver Lake duo of Jacob Spitzer and Mark Kraus, and North Hollywood’s Breyer White.

Gents’s involvement continues through 2027, and he and Dilling are exploring taking the conversation to industry stages.

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