The Studio as Contemporary Autonomous Zone

Crisis and Creativity in Electronic Music

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3878956
AutoresPaul Chambers (0000-0001-8593-9209, The University of Adelaide, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen12
Número1
Páginas48-65
Fecha de publicación2020-11-16
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDancecult (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1947-5403 • E-ISSN: 1947-5403
EditorialMaynooth University (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.12801/1947-5403.2020.12.01.10
OpenAlexW3113373698
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas15

This article explores electronic music making in a context of precarity and climate crisis. I use ethnographic research conducted in the Australian city of Adelaide and the provocative ideas of nineteenth century German philosopher, Max Stirner, to situate the electronic music studio as a contemporary autonomous zone, an interface between creative expression and capitalist existence. I argue that the studio functions as a physical and psychological space to develop what Stirner termed "ownness", taking possession and realizing one's own capacity and power. I propose ownness as a theoretical tool for understanding the studio as a site of self-realisation and micropolitical action, investigating how electronic music practice shapes subjectivity, autonomy and resistance. The contemporary studio emerges as a refuge from the anxieties and uncertainties of late-capitalism, a therapeutic outlet and means of becoming, an opportunity to find voice and vocation in the violence of the present

Aesthetics · Art · Business · Creativity · Electronic music · Sociology · Studio · Visual arts · Artistic and Creative Research · Cinema and Media Studies · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Psychology · Social Psychology