Cultural plurality provides a striking social rationale for an increasingly
interdisciplinary approach to theory and practice in that it draws
attention to the cultural and historical specificity of separations between
βdisciplinesβ and of the idea of βartsβ as a phenomenon separable
from social/utilitarian or social/ritual function.
An awareness that there are many cultures which shape us and which
we sustain and transform through our participation in them has two
fundamental effects on a composer. One is empowerment, because it
acknowledges the possibility that an individual can help to shape a
culture. The other is to provide a continuously critical context in which
the (often dominant) culture to which the artist or composer belongs is
always juxtaposed with cultures which construct or describe the world
differently.
Cultural pluralism has surfaced musically in many ways and has
resulted both in an immensely broadened field of different (and distinct)
musical possibilities and in an incredible hybridisation of concern and
language. Pluralism (which implies difference and therefore some degree of separateness) and hybridity, although ideologically distinct, often coexist in musical practice.
Sampling, in addition to functioning as a tool of time manipulation
and repetition, encourages this type of recontextualisation, allowing the
easy manipulation, transformation and juxtaposition of genre or culture.
As βmorphingβ techniques become more widespread, collisions of culture and genre increasingly result in complex hybridisation.
- Simon Emmerson and the contributors, 2000
Music, Electronic Media and Culture.
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released June 11, 2021
Janggu
performed, recorded by π·π’ππΆπ’ππππ π±π’πππ λ³νκ²½
Electronic and modular synth
performed, recorded by ΙΙΙ₯Ι―α΄ Ι―nΙΉsΚα΄p
Produced, mixed, mastered by ΙΙΙ₯Ι―α΄ Ι―nΙΉsΚα΄p
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