CAMILA CARVAJAL 17/JULIO/2020

What is the electronic music?

Electronic music was born in the late 1960s after the introduction of electronic amplifiers and synthesizers in the music industry. Its birth created a cultural impact thanks to its immersive sounds and allowed not only the creation of new musical genres but also the momentum of the Rave and EDM scene in all corners of the world.

Electronic culture

From its beginnings, electronic music became a musical movement that captivated masses. It originated the mixture and fusion of musical genres that later generated millions of income to the Industry.

After the success in the 1980s of the House, Techno, Acid Jazz and Acid House, the Rave culture emerged in Europe, which at the time was based on the organization of festivals that publicized this type of “concept” music. free".

Starting in 1994, these festivals were banned in a large part of the European continent and finally they moved to the United States where, together with EDM, they emerged as the most listened to music trends in North America, South America, Africa and Asia.

What is EDM?

As its initials indicate Electronic Dance Music, it is a danceable variation of electronic music that draws on various styles and sound sources to create valid products for all kinds of audiences.

In the 80s, Michael Jackson and Madonna took the first steps with this musical style in the United States and from that moment new variations or musical sub-genres such as contemporary R&B, House, electro, Trance, Techno, electropop, were born. funk and jazz.

Pioneering bands

In the late 1960s, artists like Karlheinz Stockhausen, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd and The Beatles dared to enter this electronic genre. Later in 1980, specifically in 1983, a new way of making electronic music in the Industry was born after the creation of MIDI (Digital Interface for Musical Instruments), which gave rise to a unique time for the synthpop that lived with a great moment with groups like Depeche Mode, New Order or Pet Shop Boys.

At the same time, Derrick May composed "Strings Of Life" and Afrika Bambaataa promoted electro with "Planet Rock", laying the first foundations for rap in the United States.

AVANT-GARDE OF SURREALISM

 1924/1939.

 It begins with a manifesto written this time by the poet André Breton. The term is coined by writer G. Apollinaire. It develops, as can be deduced by the dates, in a period unstable interwar in which intellectuals try to understand the man's psychic depth, dreams, the unconscious. The writings and theories of Sigmun Freud's psychoanalysis provided a scientific and ideological basis, and the works of Füsli and Blake artistic influence. We can speak of two types of pictorial Surrealism and two large groups of painters surreal.

 On the one hand, those belonging to figurative Surrealism, among which they found Max Ernst, René Magritte, Dalí and Chagall, who explored surrealism from an optics of formal realism, because, despite its deformities and transformations, it never they abandoned the actual reference of objects. On the other hand, abstract Surrealism counted with Yves Tanguy, Miró, Klee and Hans Arp. 

A fundamental part of this trend was sculpture. Giacometti, Henry Moore, Alex Calder, M. Ernst and Man Ray.