Dancecult DC 25 Conference 2

25th Jan 2025 25th Jan 2025 10:00 20:15

Talks on Preserving and Archiving Electronic Music and Dance Cultures

00:00

Technische Universität Berlin

Free entry / stream

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

Panel discussion B (Room H3002)

09:00 Preservation and transmission of Berlin’s techno histories. Opportunities and challenges by Alfred Raddatz, Mike Riemel, Daniel Schneider, Anja Schwanhäußer and Anita Jóri (moderation)

10:15 Coffee break

Session 4A (Room H3002): Globalized Musical Traditions. Chair: Maria Perevedentseva

10:30 Devpriya Chakravarty: Tracing Lost Beats: Uncovering Overlooked Histories and Global-Local Dynamics in India’s Electronic Dance Music Cultures
10:50 Pavel Niakhayeu: Fighting the cultural amnesia. Challenges of preserving the history of Belarusian electronic music scene
11:10 Emre Öztürk: Tracing the globalization of EDM cultures through Chicago Footwork
11:30 Carla Vecchiola: Archiving the Underground: Detroit’s Exhibit 3000

Session 4B (Room H3001): New Lights on Research Methods. Chair: Beate Peter

10:30 Matt Anniss: Two Sides To Every Story: Journalists’ views on researching, documenting and archiving dance music histories
10:50 Zoe Armour: ‘Subjective distance’ a self-reflexive review of being a female ‘super-club experient’ and ethnographer
11:10 Michele Dentico: Ethnosemiotics gaze on techno music
11:30 Linn Marie Tonstad: When Someone Tells Our Stories, What (And Who) Do They Tell?

11:50 Lunch break

Panel discussion C (Room H3002)

13:00 Embalming the Ephemeral: Online Electronic Music Cultures and Platformization by Lucy March, Henry Morgan, Ivan Mouraviev, Edward Katrak Spencer and Maria Perevedentseva (moderation)

14:00 Break

Session 5A (Room H3002): Black Feminist Archival Practices. Chair: Carla Vecchiola

14:25 Natalie Hyacinth: We Are Technical Too: Black feminist archival strategies for sonic liberation
14:45 Leah King: It’s My House: Exploring and Addressing the Systemic Erasure of Black Femmes in House Music Culture
15:05 Anjali Prashar-Savoie: Club Commons: A DIY Digital Archive
15:25– Gaëlle Scali: Those Speakers Preserve QUEER BLACK Stories

Session 5B (Room H3001): Local Communities and Scenes. Chair: Emre Öztürk

14:25 Richard Anderson: Vodka Lemo Scouse Gangster Nights
14:45 Massimiliano Casu: Madrid Through Dance - The dance and the social production of urban space
15:05 Su Odabaş: Archival Efforts: Theorizing Creativity in Istanbul's Local Electronic Music Scenes
15:25 Ana Coelho, Júlia Reis and Emília Simão: The Drum and Bass Music Scene in Porto

15:45 Break

Session 6A (Room H3002): Archival Projects. Chair: Mark van Bergen

16:00 Dorottya Herbály: Red Dot Community creative documentation methods
16:20 Stephanie SK Marbach: Inspecting Archival Projects for EDM Subcultures in Switzerland
16:40 Thomas Scheele & Maarten van Brederode: Archiving Dutch Club Culture

Session 6B (Room H3001): Methodological and Ethical Challenges of Archiving. Chair: Erin MacLeod

16:00 Charlet Brethome: Archiving the fleeting underground: DIY practices, affects, and ethical dilemmas in documenting Montreal’s rave scene
16:20 César Lugo-Elías: “Todos los Cuerpos, Todos los Ritmos”: The Role of Sonidero Lab Popular in Club Culture Continuity Through Outreach
16:40 Lorenzo Montefinese: Heritagizating electronic dance music and culture. Towards a taxonomy of archiving practices
17:00 Carlo Nardi: Tracing studio production in early EDM: Giorgio Moroder at Musicland Studios
17:20 Beate Peter: Archiving dancing bodies: Methodological challenges in the creation of an open access online rave archive

17:55 Break

Lecture Performances (Room H3002)

18:00 The Conservation Drive. About the im/possibilities and contradictions of representing, archiving and exposing raving as an experience and as a sociality of the marginalized and Closing. The Archive by [ ] s-p-a-c-e (xan egger, Mascha Naumann and Ego|n Auflösung/Judith Konitzer)

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