When Sound Meets Movement: Performance in Electronic Dance Music

Pedro Ferreira · Leonardo Music Journal · 2008

ABSTRACT This article discusses the problem of performance in electronic dance music (EDM), considering its specificity in the use of technically reproduced sound to promote a non-stop dancing experience. Instead of a schizophonic rupture between performer and audience, EDM is seen to perform a transducive mediation between machine sound and human movement.

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