Techno, repetición y trabajo

Abstract

In contemporary techno music there is a search for new temporal listening categories. The anti-formalism / non-formalism of the endless and extremely heavy flow of notes clashes with the apparent simplicity of the mechanical loop-like repetitions. However, beneath this apparent antagonism is a common striving for a discourse that transcends the narrative modes, the linearity and the teleology of the traditional musical discourse, that relinquishes the reference to the whole in favour of the present moment by means of a systematic work with short repetitions that focus the discourse on the repeated fragment, thus setting it apart from the whole it belongs to.