커뮤니케이션대학원 졸업논문
Electronica Music
이 논문은 연대기를 통해 일렉트로니카 음악의 역사와 문화를 보여준다\r\n전개와 진보를 상징하는 수평적 의미로서의 서양 사상과, 순환을 상징하는 수직적이고 원적인 의미로서의 동양적 사상의 ovrtlap을 통하여 연대기의 전체적 눈의 흐름(수평) 그리고 그것의 틀을 형성하는 그리드(수직과 원)를 보여준다. 연대기에서의 과학, 예술, 문화, 장르의 분류는 수평적 흐름에 의해 지배된다. 이는 '모든 것은 철학에서 시작하여 과락의 진보를 통해 문화적 현상을 일으킨다'는 전제에 의한 것이다. 이러한 방법과 흐름은 엔트로피entropy 이론을 바탕으로 진행된다. 엔트로피 이론은 하나의 점에서 시작하여 무질서와의 과정이 진행되는 것을 보여 줌으로서 그 맥락을 하나의 이미지로서 인식할 수 있게 해 준다. 맥락을 하나의 이미지로서 인식하도록 하는 방법은 바로 회화나 조각에서 볼 수 있는 유기체organic적 덩어리를 보여주는 것이다. 이 덩어리는 리서치를 통해 얻은 데이터로 구성되어 있으며, 그리드가 제공하는 틀 안에서 형성되는 밀도density를 통해서 완성된다. 따라서 이 연대기의 작업은 리서치와 마찬가지로 방대한 양의 정보들을 군집화하여 하나의 이미지로 인식되게 하는 방식으로 이루어진다. 즉, 복잡함complexity에서 단순함simplicity으로 가는 것이 된다. 이러한 작업을 통해서 영상을 비롯한 일렉트로니까 컨덴트의 다양한 표현방식을 위한 초석ground work을 닦고 또 다른 형태의 문화지도 작업의 방향성도 잡을 수 있게 된다.
We are now living in the world of speed and synthesis. The development of technology has provided us so many tools for many different expressions. It is simply amazing that a whole life pattern could be changed in one night. We experience new technological means every day by day. These are meant to be the great addition and life blood for a pastmodern (or simply just a 'modern') man. As such technology began to be mass-produced, it becomes a style, trend, and then a norm. Then, everything that existed before (even just now) becomes a past, a history. In other words, it is even more amazing to see how we simply abandon or discard the yesterday for 'what-it-seems-to-be-the-better-tomorrow'\r\n\r\nIn my view point, such aspect happens everywhere; in society, politics, academia, etc. In the field of design, for example, we experience new software, concepts, and seminars and so on. The hot issue almost always centers on what is HOT on the surface and what kind of tool offers a top-notch technological impression. If we are to be looking at it sideways, it is not more than putting people in a similar measurement and a pursuit of mere progression and style. It seems like we have totally forgotten the importance of that's precious little thing' we abandoned yesterday for a 'new change.' It seems to be not more than speeding up de-humanizing ourselves by losing each individual's identity. And this is where I intend to apply my theme, electronic dance music aka Electronica.\r\n\r\nAt the dawn of the 19th century, the artists saw the technology as the gateway for free music. Throughout the century the artists opened up our views that the machine could make us more human, not de-humanizing. It is done through not only their creativity, but through the rigorous pursuit of intrinsic nature of music that it is the rhythm of the universe. At the same time, this is not only done by the artists themselves, but with the fusion of cultural phenomenon, which embraced the possibilities of infinity.\r\n\r\nThrough sampladelia, the paradigm of music moved from narrative to the landscape (composition to organization). The use of vintages showed us how past could be organized and transformed into a whole new 'something.' Maybe it is nonsense to even talk about the difference between music and sound nowadays.\r\n\r\nThrough psychedelia, music and human became one in one space questioning what it is to be human and what it is to be living in a better world. It provided us, once again, the most importance aspect of human beings; peace, love, unity and respect.\r\n\r\nIt is almost a breathtaking experience that actually there is an alternative answer to what is known to be the man machine world that we could be well synthesized with machines not losing our humanity. At this point, therefore, the importance of looking back the past increases because the past has been always the mirror and the answer to the future; we have always living in the past in the dream of future.