Mark J. Butler

Playing with Something That Runs

Technology, Improvisation, and Composition in DJ and Laptop Performance

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Produktbeschreibung

The most familiar format of electronic dance music is the DJ set. Performed live with turntables, headphones, twelve-inch vinyl records, and a mixing board, these performances are largely improvised, evolving in response to the demands of a particular situation through interaction with a dancing audience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP US
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9780195393620
• ISBN-10: 0195393627
• Artikelnr.: 47867178

Autorenporträt

Mark J. Butler is Associate Professor of Music Theory and Cognition at Northwestern University and is the author of Unlocking the Groove: Rhythm, Meter, and Musical Design in Electronic Dance Music (Indiana University, 2006).

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1. Remixing One's Self: Ontologies of the Provisional Work
* 2. Performing Performance: Interface, Design, Liveness and Listener
Orientation
* 3. Making it Up and Breaking it Down: Improvisation in EDM
Performance
* 4. Looking for the Perfect Loop: Musical Technologies of Mediated
Improvisation
* Appendix
* Works Cited