Critical Electronic Music Production

This studio–seminar investigates how experimental electronic music became a site for thinking through digital culture and contemporary mass politics after 2008. Centering deconstructed club and conceptronica, the course examines production practices that move between world-building and unworlding—artistic approaches that question whether shared social, political, or perceptual worlds can still be assumed under platform capitalism. Through media theory, critical listening, and studio experimentation, students explore fragmentation, mediation, and conceptual production as both musical techniques and forms of cultural analysis. Combining history, theory, and recorded creative practice, the course is designed for students interested in sound, media literacy, and the political conditions of digital life.