zaterdag 3 december 2011

dancing to the machine

Listening to House music, when that came into being, I wondered: how come people like to dance to such mechanical sounds, as if they dance in the inner of a big machine that’s running in some large production hall. Dancing to the machine.
The rhythm is the foundation of the song. The drums and the bass produce the repetitive tones in the lower region, like the various repeating sounds of the machine. The other instruments join in a higher pitch. Sometimes a sound like the starting up of the machine are in the song.
We use the music that’s playing to impulse a vibrational energy that we generate inside us. This energy bouncing inside us, makes us want to express ourselves accordingly. So we see the body expressing in mechanical movements, and the breath is suppressed, indicating that we indeed are expressing energy. Not self expression.

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