Video recording: Dance music, wakefulness, and embodied rhythm
Sleep and the Rhythms of Life Network
https://www.youtube.com/embed/R4m0V0QTmg0
Video recording: Dance music, wakefulness, and embodied rhythm
Part of the Sleep and the Rhythms of Life Network events
Monday 5 June 2023, 5pm
The relationship between music and sleep is well represented by the long history of lullabies. The complementary relationship between music and wakefulness is perhaps less obvious but no less significant, and in some of its manifestations is closely associated with the other focus of this network: rhythm. This seminar will consider the relationship between electronic dance music and wakefulness, including the prolonged wakefulness that is characteristic of extended dance parties. The seminar will feature three presentations representing perspectives from the psychology of music, machine aesthetics, and DJ practice, and will draw on principles of rhythmic entrainment and DJ set design, as well as the implications for rhythmic embodiment of different forms of machine aesthetics.
