EDM Flashcards
Turino’s Four Fields of Artistic Practice
Presentational Performance, Participatory Performance, High Fidelity, Studio Audio Art
Presentational Performance
One group of people (artists) prepare and provide music for another group (the audience) who do not participate in making the music or dancing
Participatory Performance
No artisit-audience distinctions, only participants and potential participants performing different roles
High Fidelity
The making of recordings that are intended to index or be iconic of live sounds or performance
Studio Audio Art
Involves the creation and manipulation of sounds in a studio or on a computer to create a recorded art object
Electronic Dance Music
Sound mediates movement and vice versa Global and local Sensualism Escapism Inclusiveness Exclusiveness Regional Identities
Pierre Henry
French composer, Musique concrete
Recorded animal cries
Leon Theremin
Russian Electrical Engineer
“Aetherphone” in 1928
John Cage
Said “What can music be? What can be music? and created “4’33”” where he just sat down on a piano and didn’t play anything
Delia Berbyshire
English musican & mathematician, Composer of electronic music, BCC Radiophonic Workshop
Moog Synthesizer
Robert Moog, 1934, Inspired by Theremin, Invented Moog in 1960s
Robert Moog used transistors to alter pitch
Biggest challenge were getting them to accept them.
Improved by composers and engineers.
Psycheedelic and Prog-rock- Stevie wonder, Pink Flyod, Rush
Kraftwerk
Florian Schneider & Ralf Hutter, ‘Power Station”
German experimental community 1960s
Pioneers of electronic music
Gender Binaries
Women: Nature, Fertility, Spirituality, Emotion
Men: Reason, Technology, Intelligence, Control
DJ Rekha
London-Born, Brooklyn based DJ
Indian Cultural identity
“Basement Bhangra” and “Bollywood Disco”
Daft Punk
Pioneered modern EDM by creating Anonymous icons
