Retro Tendencies, Decay, and Haunted Media in Hybrid Electronic Music

Authors

  • Adrien Ordonneau Rennes 2 University, Rennes, France Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51191/issn.2637-1898.2019.2.3.24

Keywords:

decay, organic, haunted, uncanny, regression, popular, Alienation, body, paradox

Abstract

The consequences of new media and their manifestations in post-digital arts has deeply modified electronic music. Old and new sounds blend into each other to create a new aesthetic, defined in this article as hybrid electronic music. An analysis of this aesthetic helps us understand the impact of retro tendencies on the creative process. In order to have a sufficient amount of data, this article proposes a theoretical framework for the aesthetic which encompasses an analysis of the production’s material, how it is being used, live performances, and an emphasis on retro tendencies. The findings demonstrate the ambiguous and uncanny relationship electronic music can have with the past. One of the hypotheses of this article is the potential link between electronic music, future, and decay.

Author Biography

  • Adrien Ordonneau, Rennes 2 University, Rennes, France

    As a transdisciplinary researcher in music, I originally graduated from cinema and plastic-arts. My doctoral thesis is focused on the feeling of the uncanny in arts, supported by an ethnological approach of technology. The particular study object is hybrid electronic music, an aesthetic that we are currently defining under the direction of Bruno Bossis. This research embraces subjects like alienation, mythology and rituals, as well as political concerns through creativity. Some of these topics were exposed in a study day called Destroy – Deconstruct at Rennes 2 University.

    As an artist and researcher, I am also giving courses to students in plastics-arts. I have created an annual study day called Artistic practices around sensible uses of technological tools. My work as an artist has been seen in French festivals like Astropolis, Maintenant or Laval Virtual.

Cover of the INSAM Journal No. 3. Design by Milan Šuput

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Published

15.12.2019

Issue

No. 3 (2019): Retro Tendencies in Music, Art and Theory

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Retro Tendencies, Decay, and Haunted Media in Hybrid Electronic Music. (2019). INSAM Journal of Contemporary Music, Art and Technology, 3, 24-42. https://doi.org/10.51191/issn.2637-1898.2019.2.3.24
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