Dissensus' first brostep thread

[wektor]

Bro-gemony & dubstep production - Cyborgology

The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

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The rhythmic and timbral control network of the software aligns itself with what Tara Rodgers describes as a long history of violent masculinist control logics in electronic music, from DJs “battling” to producers “triggering” a sample with a “controller” or “executing” a programming “command” or typing a “bang” to send a signal”

Some support for gamer oppressing agenda in that article as well.

 

[wektor]

“Modulat[ing] various parameters of a synthesizer tone” and dynamically monitoring “up to three oscillating frequencies at a time,” the “control mechanism” achieves an overall effect across individual variability. Unlike the industrial dad, who disciplines each individual into conformity, the corporate bro manages our relationships so that “he” profits from our wild individual exploits. The bro’s mastery lies in his deregulation. He distributes the profits from all this individual noisemaking to his “shareholders.”

Curious.

 

[IdleRich]

wish the kosmische intro would be something the author clinged onto more, the rest sounds like soundtrack of a promo video for some company that makes equipment for meat processing

Wayback Machine

Very specific