Dancecult DC 25 Conference 1

24th Jan 2025 24th Jan 2025 08:45 18:15

Talks on Preserving and Archiving Electronic Music and Dance Cultures

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Technische Universität Berlin

Free entry / stream

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The peer-reviewed, open-access journal for the study of electronic music and dance culture, Dancecult's DC25 Conference aims to explore various dimensions of electronic music and dance cultures and the challenges associated with their documentation, preservation and archiving.

Entry is free—please see this PDF for details on how to find the conference venue and rooms. Note that the conference is limited capacity, first-come-first-served. All presentations will furthermore be live streamed on zoom—see buttons above. Please check the Dancecult website for more updates and resources.

Programme

8:45 Room H3001: Registration

Opening (Room H3002)

  • 09:15 Conference welcome and introduction
  • 09:30 Keynote: »from the studio to the kitchen, from the bedroom to the train« – On Documenting (Endangered) Spaces of Electronic Music Production in Berlin and Cairo by Matthias Pasdzierny

10:30–10:45 Coffee break    

Session 1A (Room H3002): Archiving Technologies. Chair: Steffen Lepa   

  • 10:45 Guglielmo Bottin: Programming basslines on paper. A practice-based notation and archival system developed within the Italian proto-EDM scene      
  • 11:05 Nicolas Bougaïeff: Techno Production: Sounds, Tracks, and Kicks    
  • 11:25 Lilium Redwine: Applied Archaeological Theory for Dance Music Archival Practices    
  • 11:45 Rosa Louise Stilgren: Legacy in the loop - how Ableton’s Live produce and preserve techno    

Session 1B (Room H3001): Venue Stories. Chair: Anita Jóri

  • 10:45 Liam Cagney: Love’s Secret Domain: New Perspectives on Berghain’s Historical Background
  • 11:05 Robbie Griffin: Perishable Space: The Precarious Nature of Liverpool's Electronic Grassroots Music Venues and their Geographical Fluidity (1988-present)
  • 11:25 Daniel Lee: Archiving Queer South African Nightlife: The Rise and Decline of Queer venues in post-apartheid South Africa
  • 11:45 Paul McDermott: Rave on a train: a practice-based research project that took an unexpected track into rave history

12:05–13:30    Lunch break

Session 2A (Room H3002): Belongings and Experiences. Chair: Daniel Lee

  • 13:30 Athanasia Kontouli: Unveiling the Musical Features of EDM Subgenres: A Music Information Retrieval Approach    
  • 13:50 Jack McNeill: The Sound Was Terrible: performing and documenting audiophilia in contemporary club cultures     
  • 14:10 Anna Parker: Speaking for her self-states: putting the work of Arca in conversation with LatinXfuturism    
  • 14:30 Arsène Werlen: Ambivalent Belongings – Trans Experiences of Contemporary Mancunian Club Scenes    

Session 2B (Room H3001): Festival and Radio Stories. Chair: Tara Hill

  • 13:30 Ondřej Daniel: Ethical Considerations and Data Collection in Researching Psychedelic Music Festivals: Balancing Participant Experience and Scholarly Inquiry
  • 13:50 Seán Finnan: ‘Remember Me’: An Enquiry into Collaborative Archiving Practices Amongst DIY Online Radio Stations
  • 14:10 Tianyu Jiang: Streaming, Mixing, Archiving: Independent Radio Stations and Electronic Dance Music Scenes in Shanghai
  • 14:30 Bianca Ludewig: Transmedia Festivals - Challenges of Documentation and Platform Technologies

14:50–15:15 Coffee break  

Session 3A (Room H3002): Untold Stories. Chair: Zoe Armour   

  • 15:15 Alex de Lacey: Be Kind Rewind: The Importance of Sidewinder Tape Packs for UK Grime Histories     
  • 15:35 Kai Fikentscher: Let the DJ tell the story: Thoughts on archiving and genre formation in the age of electronic dance music    
  • 15:55 Erin MacLeod: Bounce les two solitudes: Language Politics and the Dancefloor in Quebec
  • 16:15 Liam Maloney: Dancing to Discs: Exploring DJ Praxis in Early Dance Music Cultures    

Session 3B (Room H3001): Beyond the Performance. Chair: Rosa Louise Stilgren

  • 15:15 Pierre Griscelli: Hardware-Centric Techno and Real-Time Performance. Creative Challenges and Solutions: Insights from the THRiPPS System Case Study
  • 15:35 Manoli Moriaty, Nina Kehagia and James Young: A taxonomy of contemporary DJ practices
  • 15:55 Josef Schaubruch: Liveness in Electronic Dance Music Cultures – Performing Artists and their Concepts and Practices of Playing Live
  • 16:15 Jonathan Weatherill-Hunt: An uneasy reconciliation of tradition and technology: establishing what motivates contemporary electronic dance music practitioners to uphold the analogue promise

Panel discussion A (Room H3002)

  • 16:45 New approaches to the documentation of cultural history by Bianca Ludewig, Lukas Fuchsgruber, Mc Mate, Noja Noja and Rrrrr (moderation)

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Hosted by Dancecult, in collaboration with the Audio Communication Group of the Technische Universität Berlin and CTM Festival.