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Trance Against the Machine: Transpositions of Aesthetics in Indonesian Electronic Music

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Titel: Trance Against the Machine: Transpositions of Aesthetics in Indonesian Electronic Music
Autoren: Groth, Sanne Krogh, Bubandt, Nils
Weitere Verfasser: Lund University, Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, Departments, Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Division of Musicology and Intermedia Studies, Musicology, Lunds universitet, Humanistiska och teologiska fakulteterna, Institutioner, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper, Avdelningen för musikvetenskap och intermediala studier, Musikvetenskap, Originator
Quelle: Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture. 6(2):125-148
Schlagwörter: Humanities and the Arts, Arts, Musicology, Humaniora och konst, Konst, Musikvetenskap, Other Humanities, Ethnology, Annan humaniora och konst, Etnologi, Philosophy, Ethics and Religion, Aesthetics, Filosofi, etik och religion, Estetik
Beschreibung: This article explores the musical performances, aesthetics, and multi-situated reception of the Indonesian electronic dance music in Europe and Indonesia, focusing on the duo Gabber Modus Operandi (GMO). Since their first international tour entitled “Trance Against the Machine” in 2019, the duo has gained significant attention, especially in Europe, because they are seen as part of a “seismic shift” in the electronic dance continuum. The article critically analyzes this perceived shift in relation to GMO’s music. It advocates for a mode of analysis that simultaneously traces the situated and the multi-situated nature of aesthetics in electronic music. This analysis is inspired by an ethnographic theory developed in collaboration with the artists we study. We propose the term “transposition” as a translation of the Indonesian term alay, used by the members of GMO to describe their aesthetic vision, in order to pay attention to what might be called “aesthetic globalization” as both situated and multi-situated. We do so as part of an “aesthetic-anthropological” approach that seeks to bring aesthetic analysis into anthropology and anthropology into aesthetic analysis.
Dateibeschreibung: electronic
Zugangs-URL: https://lucris.lub.lu.se/ws/files/220319249/res.2025.6.2.125.pdf
Datenbank: SwePub
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Abstract:This article explores the musical performances, aesthetics, and multi-situated reception of the Indonesian electronic dance music in Europe and Indonesia, focusing on the duo Gabber Modus Operandi (GMO). Since their first international tour entitled “Trance Against the Machine” in 2019, the duo has gained significant attention, especially in Europe, because they are seen as part of a “seismic shift” in the electronic dance continuum. The article critically analyzes this perceived shift in relation to GMO’s music. It advocates for a mode of analysis that simultaneously traces the situated and the multi-situated nature of aesthetics in electronic music. This analysis is inspired by an ethnographic theory developed in collaboration with the artists we study. We propose the term “transposition” as a translation of the Indonesian term alay, used by the members of GMO to describe their aesthetic vision, in order to pay attention to what might be called “aesthetic globalization” as both situated and multi-situated. We do so as part of an “aesthetic-anthropological” approach that seeks to bring aesthetic analysis into anthropology and anthropology into aesthetic analysis.
ISSN:2688867X
DOI:10.1525/res.2025.6.2.125