LET SEX FLOW: The influence of psychoanalysis, politics, and dialectics in understanding 20th Century Music.

*Warning - course language throughout*. 

This talk captured a brief introduction to theoretical frameworks that have influenced our understanding of western musical genres in the 20th century, including a discussion on alienation, fetishism, negative synthesis, the libidinal economy and ‘The Real’.

These themes are considered orthodoxy in western thought and have been utilised by musicologists to discuss key philosophical principals that underpin the emergence of 20th century musical genres and cultural movements, with an emphasis on drone music and minimalism.

The discussion will be framed by a comparative study between 'American Minimal Music' by Wim Mertens and 'Repeating Ourselves: American minimal music as a cultural practice' by Robert Fink.

LET SEX FLOW

This recording was a live performance at Alchemix studio(Brisbane, Qld) as part of the Oscillo Scape series (#21). 

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Sound design & Mixing | Michael
Mastering | Lawrence English 
Photography | Philip England

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Orthotyp-a explores marginalised sound design practices - combing field recordings and electronic processing to create dense ambience and dark noise music.

Orthotyp-A also produces the digital radio show Sound Bath (Zed Digital)

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