Event Nights - Speed Tribes
Friday, October 16 2009 / 23:30 Tivoli de Helling “It is not just a matter of music but of how to live: it is by speed and slowness that one slips in among things, that one connects with something else. One never commences; one never has a tabula rasa; one slips in, enters in the middle; one takes up or lays down rhythms.” - Gilles Deleuze The arrival of low-budget music technologies in the mid 1980s drastically altered the relational bonds between humans and machines in electronic music cultures. According to Kodwo Eshun “Atlantic Futurism is always building Futurythmachines, sensory technologies, instruments which renovate perception, which synthesize new states of mind”. The possibility of altering the speed of a record functioned as a key audio-technical transformation with wide-ranging subcultural impact. The bpm (beats per minute) metric, the operating grid of electronic dance music culture, acts as a filter whose fine-grained mesh distributes these audio populations. The sound system driven music cultures of the last two decades, especially in the UK, is populated with thousands of micro-scenes that have been deploying polyrhythmic attacks on this audio metric. Steve Goodman aka Kode9 calls these vertical rhythmic collectives “Speed Tribes”, collective bodies swarming around certain speeds of sound. This night is all about these ecologies of speed, “those molecular seepages and rhythmic infections which deviate from social segmentations.”  This protégé of the cutting edge Hyperdub label drew the attention of the so called « UK funky » scene last year. It’s not surprising: ...  This is the new incarnation of bass heavy music ethnographer Vincent Koreman, who will shift this night’s focus to the raw beats and rhythms coming ...  The explosion of breakbeat culture has provoked a plethora of sound experiments and cross-overs from which a fresh sound emerges from time to time. One ...  The man behind The Bug is Kevin Martin, who has been reinterpreting industrial, dub and breakbeat since the 1990s. The Bug is a personal exploration ...  In recent years Steve Goodman aka Kode9 has established himself as one of the most infuential names in contemporary electronic music culture. A music producer, ... |
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