Playing with Something That Runs: Technology, Improvisation, and Composition in DJ and Laptop Performance

The Djs And Laptop Performers Of Electronic Dance Music Use Preexistent Elements Such As Records And Digital Samples To Create Fluid, Dynamic Performances. These Performances Are Also Largely Improvised, Evolving In Response To The Demands Of A Particular Situation Through Interaction With A Dancing Audience. Within Performance, Musicians Make Numerous Spontaneous Decisions About Variables Such As Which Sounds They Will Play, When They Will Play Them, And How They Will Be Combined With Other Sounds--page [4] Og Cover. Remixing One's Self : Ontologies Of The Provisional Work -- Performing Performance : Interface Design, Liveness, And Listener Orientation -- Making It Up And Breaking It Down : Improvisation In Performance -- Looking For The Perfect Loop : Musical Technologies Of Mediated Improvisation. Mark J. Butler. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.