Jameson founded the Nordic Sound (then Nordic Sound Channel) while working toward his Master’s in Musicology at Peabody Conservatory, initially as a podcast for teaching the classical music history of the Nordic countries. In 2022, the potential for a greater vision became realized after Jameson’s first trip to Norway for the Midgardsblót festival for his dissertation research on the growing Viking music scene sweeping global media. Since then, the Nordic Sound changed course as a platform to feature Nordic musicians themselves to tell their own stories, which have over time created a vibrant tapestry of the musicians and artists contributing to Nordic music today.

As time has gone on, a true vision for a living archive of Nordic Music has grown out of the total sum of parts which define the Nordic Sound: Interviews across genres, composer biographies, new album spotlights, and ethnomusicological essays engaging in broader topics surrounding the Nordic music scene, including his work-in-progress “The Mythic North: Collective Imagining and Fantasies of Nordic History”.

The work is never truly done, by virtue of being a living archive. The Nordic Sound is an ongoing pursuit of knowledge in understanding the music and musicians which have defined, and continue to define, the cultural expression of this corner of the world which has enchanted people around the world for centuries.