trickle-down of electronic dance music aesthetics

November 11, 2015

On The Trickle-Down Of Electronic Dance Music Aesthetics VI: Coldplay’s “Adventure Of A Lifetime”

“As new musical publics took shape and old ones were transformed, and as they entered into rivalry and dialogue, what we seem to discover is a musical language becoming denser and richer.” – Michael Chanan, From Handel To Hendrix (Verso, 1999, p. 135) From the first few seconds of the new Coldplay song “Adventure of Continue reading

trickle-down of electronic dance music aesthetics

Thomas Brett is a musician and writer who holds a PhD in ethnomusicology from New York University. He is the author of Principles of Electronic Music Production and The Creative Electronic Music Producer, a book described by Sound On Sound magazine as “a deep philosophical analysis of the various creative inspirations, ideas and processes involved in producing electronic music.” His essays have appeared in the journals Popular Music and Popular Music and Society, as well as edited collections by Routledge, Oxford, and Cambridge University presses. Thomas has played percussion on Broadway since 1997 and writes about music at brettworks.com.

trickle-down of electronic dance music aesthetics

On The Trickle-Down Of Electronic Dance Music Aesthetics VI: Coldplay’s “Adventure Of A Lifetime”