Moses Iten
Biographic Data
| ID | 1395186 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Moses Iten |
| GIVEN NAMES | Moses |
| FAMILY NAME | Iten |
| SIGNATURE | ITEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | RMIT Europe |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-4094-5922 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
It’s not just a party, ya know?”
This article addresses the application of affective theories in relation to electronic dance music parties, specifically from a Global South perspective. The aim is to comprehend the circumstances of collective and individual formations facilitated through music as an element that intensifies affect, as well as the labor demanded by the creation of these affects. Drawing inspiration from ethnographic methodology and employing observational techni…
This Track Contains Politics
The cover design is reminiscent of a notebook: handwritten "Practices / Raving / McKenzie Wark" on a monochrome pink background.The small book is published in the Practices series alongside the titles Fly-Fishing, Juggling, and Running (Tomorrowing has only been announced so far, which somehow seems appropriate).The series' website states that the volumes shall "reveal the pleasures of losing oneself in doing anything that holds sway over us, no …
Digital Cumbia
Revista Musical Chilena in 2016, this article is focused on the most recent transformation of the popular Latin American cumbia genre: so-called "digital cumbia". 2 It developed primarily in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Lima, Peru, where an interesting scene of artistic experimentation with cumbia and electronic dance music emerged during the 2000s. As a result this new electronic music genre attracted considerable attention from local and interna…
Roots of Digital Cumbia in Sound System Culture
Digital cumbia was celebrated globally in the late 2000s as a new form of Latin American electronic dance music mixed with the Colombian folk music of cumbia. Celebrated by the media as a new phenomenon due to new computer software and internet access, this article instead establishes how cumbia had already become digital in the sonidera (“sound system”) culture of Mexican barrios (“ghettos”). The author is a DJ/producer with more than fifteen ye…
Mexican Sonidero Sound System Culture in Times of Covid-19
Going for the Centre of the World
“He wants to go to the centre!” exclaims the man I’ve just asked for directions, winking to his friends. They are laying a cement foundation for a house, amongst wooden huts with dirt floors. An upgrade. They giggle and wave for me to continue along the only road. At each house - spaced fifty metres from each other - I keep asking for the same directions. “El Centro?” a lady asks me at one of the many wooden kiosks, that all seem to sell the same…
Full on Riot
“hey moses full on riot in lawson st the station’s on fire! been going since 4. molotov and more. full on,” reads an SMS message received on the backseat of a Tasmanian bus. What follows is a journey through the landscape of a Gunavidji, whose brothers have all gone to the land of the dead; metallic scraping in the glass cases of the Hobart Museum; a Palestinian woman giving up on her people; land-snails exposing cultural inaccuracies; photograph…
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Going for the Centre of the World
“He wants to go to the centre!” exclaims the man I’ve just asked for directions, winking to his friends. They are laying a cement foundation for a house, amongst wooden huts with dirt floors. An upgrade. They giggle and wave for me to continue along the only road. At each house - spaced fifty metres from each other - I keep asking for the same directions. “El Centro?” a lady asks me at one of the many wooden kiosks, that all seem to sell the same…
Full on Riot
“hey moses full on riot in lawson st the station’s on fire! been going since 4. molotov and more. full on,” reads an SMS message received on the backseat of a Tasmanian bus. What follows is a journey through the landscape of a Gunavidji, whose brothers have all gone to the land of the dead; metallic scraping in the glass cases of the Hobart Museum; a Palestinian woman giving up on her people; land-snails exposing cultural inaccuracies; photograph…
Roots of Digital Cumbia in Sound System Culture
Digital cumbia was celebrated globally in the late 2000s as a new form of Latin American electronic dance music mixed with the Colombian folk music of cumbia. Celebrated by the media as a new phenomenon due to new computer software and internet access, this article instead establishes how cumbia had already become digital in the sonidera (“sound system”) culture of Mexican barrios (“ghettos”). The author is a DJ/producer with more than fifteen ye…
Mexican Sonidero Sound System Culture in Times of Covid-19
Digital Cumbia
Revista Musical Chilena in 2016, this article is focused on the most recent transformation of the popular Latin American cumbia genre: so-called "digital cumbia". 2 It developed primarily in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Lima, Peru, where an interesting scene of artistic experimentation with cumbia and electronic dance music emerged during the 2000s. As a result this new electronic music genre attracted considerable attention from local and interna…
This Track Contains Politics
The cover design is reminiscent of a notebook: handwritten "Practices / Raving / McKenzie Wark" on a monochrome pink background.The small book is published in the Practices series alongside the titles Fly-Fishing, Juggling, and Running (Tomorrowing has only been announced so far, which somehow seems appropriate).The series' website states that the volumes shall "reveal the pleasures of losing oneself in doing anything that holds sway over us, no …
It’s not just a party, ya know?”
This article addresses the application of affective theories in relation to electronic dance music parties, specifically from a Global South perspective. The aim is to comprehend the circumstances of collective and individual formations facilitated through music as an element that intensifies affect, as well as the labor demanded by the creation of these affects. Drawing inspiration from ethnographic methodology and employing observational techni…
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