Rethinking live electronic music: a DJ perspective
Journal article
Authors | Vandemast-Bell, Paul |
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Abstract | The author critiques the conventional understanding of live electronic music through empirical research on his own DJ practice and investigates others working in the field. In reviewing the opinions of theorists and practitioners in both the live electronic music genre and DJ-ing he argues against the body/machine dialectic that has determined much of the thinking in the former. The author forms a notion of the DJ as a real-time composer working beyond traditional binary distinctions who brings the human body and machine into a mutual relationship. Through practice-led research he charts an investigation beginning in physical human gesture and culminating in digital machine repetition. He concludes that mechanical and digital repetition do not obscure human agency in the production of live works and that this concern is imaginary. |
Keywords | Live; Electronic; DJ; Gesture; Digital; Repetition |
Year | 2013 |
Journal | Contemporary Music Review |
Publisher | Routledge |
ISSN | 0749-4467 |
1477-2256 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/07494467.2013.775817 |
Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/348623 |
hdl:10545/348623 | |
Publication dates | Jun 2013 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 08 Apr 2015, 08:21 |
Rights | Archived with thanks to Contemporary Music Review |
Contributors | University of Derby |
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https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/94y1q/rethinking-live-electronic-music-a-dj-perspective
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