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Norient
The website Norient highlights one of the most exciting prospects relating to contemporary culture around sonic practices: the reclaiming and bridging of cultural dialogue around sound and music and its accessibility on a global scale. Outside the gentrification of music within the popular industry and culture, Norient’s form, presentation, and system of information organization allows…
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Potential Quotes
From: Ecology, Estrangement and Enchantment in Black Metal’s Dark Haven “Paganism, mysticism, occultism and other forms of marginal religiosity are combined with idealised depictions of natural or fantastic landscapes. Yet this music bewitched with ancient nature and tradition relies on electrical instruments, amplification and distortion, as well as electronic recording and playback devices, and it…
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Potential Research
My potential research questions are: How does electronic music relate to spiritual, ritualistic, or pagan practices? I plan to do a sensory ethnography of VMO, a band that blends black metal, visual art, and EDM and contextualizes it culturally in pagan ritual practices. I can potentially look into studies around electronic music’s relationship to ritual…