Electronic Chamber Music Winter 2015

The theme for Electronic Chamber Music in 2015 is "Techno." It's an imperfect term, because we aren't going to be studying a single, specific style of music, but rather electronic dance music more broadly (but not the genre known as "EDM"). The Techno music of Detroit will figure prominently, but so will electronic music from other cities and countries, and even music we don't think of as "Techno." The overall aim is to perform dance music with electronics, with the emphasis on performance. Much of this music is made in studios or with software that involves very little performativity. We are going to try to move away from prefab boxes with buttons and knobs, and instead to consider other modes and interfaces for making dance music in real-time. We might incorporate acoustic instruments, computers, synthesizers, and who-knows-what. We are putting on a concert in Detroit, at the Jam Handy, on April 4, 2015. Here we go!