The talk/presentation will focus on musical hybridity and critical
methods developed for the hybridization of electroacoustic and metal
music (a part of the presenter's Ph.D. research). These methods are
formed to build a blueprint for hybrid composers (ultimately not only
specific to metal and electroacoustic but for other genres as well that
combines spectromorphological focused music with harmony and
rhythm-based music since this type of hybridity requires a unique set
of challenges and complexities). Hybridity in music is a well-
established and vibrant contemporary scholarly topic. Even though
the current literature provides many useful terms and strategies
regarding different types of hybrids, the methods for building hybrids
are rare. The talk will specifically focus on the piece 'Zen of
Aggression' and discuss the fruitful and problematic methods when
approaching to compose a transformational hybrid (a hybrid where
both genres affect each other at the deepest level in which the
resulting hybrid would not sound like each of the genre-hence
transformed) between electroacoustic music and metal. Different
excerpts from the piece will be played when discussing the techniques and methodologies. The talk shall also briefly discuss
different types of hybridity (transformational hybrid, eclecticism,
polystylism, and so on), genre and its notions (their problems, their
significance, and their contemporary uses), and the notion of fluidity
when approaching the hybridity in music to set the context. As
technology increases at a rapid rate and postmodern conditions only
grow stronger as lines get blurry, hybridity has been more than a
prominent musical power to embrace this current condition and
reflect through what is considered music and art in the 21st century
(and challenge the notions of high art and low art).
Link to the piece:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DViaPZPRGflbCNwQpVZ_lp1ywA
BXDR3A/view?usp=sharing
