How theme building helps to create impactful electronic dance music
Campbell, Ethan (2020)
2020
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202005067387
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202005067387
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The thesis was created in order to explore the idea of creating stories to coin-cide with music. The aim was to give the reader an understanding of the artistry of electronic dance music. The author thoroughly documented existing works of art in the form of an EP (Extended Play) and album from two separate artists. Interviews of Virtual Riot and Xilent were researched in order to present their ideas of theme building and storytelling within their respective works. The in-terviews provided the ability to view the work they created subjectively while referencing the artists objective viewpoint and intentions.
The project portion of the thesis is where the author demonstrated the useful-ness of the findings by writing and producing their own EP. A collection of random songs written by the author was then put up against the newly made EP. The goal of this is to contrast how impactful the themed EP is in compari-son to the randomly assembled EP.
The conclusive idea is that music is typically more impactful if it can convey any level of story. Deep down people want more than just hype. The job of the artists is complete If the listener can become immersed in the music’s fabricat-ed world. With EPs it is imperative to maintain a mood for the listener and story-telling is just the way to do it.
The project portion of the thesis is where the author demonstrated the useful-ness of the findings by writing and producing their own EP. A collection of random songs written by the author was then put up against the newly made EP. The goal of this is to contrast how impactful the themed EP is in compari-son to the randomly assembled EP.
The conclusive idea is that music is typically more impactful if it can convey any level of story. Deep down people want more than just hype. The job of the artists is complete If the listener can become immersed in the music’s fabricat-ed world. With EPs it is imperative to maintain a mood for the listener and story-telling is just the way to do it.