Timbre and the "Zone of Entanglement" in Electronic Dance Music

Re-Thinking Musico-Social Ontologies with the Mycelial Turn

Bibliographic Data

ID3878891
AuthorsMaria Perevedentseva (Goldsmiths University of London, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume15
Issue1
Publication date2023-11-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDancecult (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1947-5403 • E-ISSN: 1947-5403
PublisherMaynooth University (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.12801/1947-5403.2023.15.01.03
OpenAlexW4388969423
LanguageEN
References cited16

This article weaves together relational tendencies in recent scholarship spanning philosophy, mycology, psychopharmacology and timbre studies in order to argue that timbre's unbounded ontology and cyclical re-use across electronic dance music (EDM) history affords listeners experiential access into radically distributed modes of being. Taking its cue from the biological structure of fungal mycelium, from whose flowers the psychoactive compounds of many psychedelic drugs are derived, this study builds on established models of EDM's affectivity to propose that timbre in EDM manifests a psychedelic and specifically social form of consciousness. Highlighting the potential for entrainment that EDM's synthesised timbres make possible, a conception of timbre as a mycelial "zone of entanglement" is put forward, in which the material and cultural, individual and social and spiritual and fleshly dimensions of the listening experience are folded into a reverberant unity, in turn encouraging a negotiation of the ethics that this entanglement entails

Active listening · Aesthetics · Art · Cognitive science · Dance · Electronic dance music · Epistemology · Musical · Negotiation · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Timbre · Visual arts · Communication · Law · Music History and Culture · Music Technology and Sound Studies · Neuroscience and Music Perception · Philosophy · Psychology

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