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Session Overview
Session
16E: Producing Digital Vibes and Archives: Orchestrating and Preserving Music Festival Soundscapes
Time:
Thursday, 24/Oct/2024:
7:00pm - 8:00pm


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Producing Digital Vibes and Archives: Orchestrating and Preserving Music Festival Soundscapes

Danielle Davis

Florida State University

Concert and live music festival documentation in the era of Tik Tok, YouTube, and Instagram reel highlights are flooded with scenes of phone screens and small cameras. Fans collect, edit and share footage of a once in a lifetime musical experience, dangers of crowd crushes in mosh pits, and parasocial connections with celebrity musicians on social media platforms. Users upload media-rich collages, DIY concert/festival vlogs, of live 21st century music culture. Social media platforms act as digital archives providing accessible alternatives for fans who might otherwise be excluded from attending expensive live music events. Scholars such as Paula Guerra (2023), Roxy Robinson (2015), and Jessa Lingel et al. (2011) have investigated how live music gatherings serve as platforms for dynamic participation, cultural expression, and community production within digital spaces that transcend geographical boundaries. Producing Digital Vibes and Archives is a listening session where record production and ethnomusicological inquiry meet. As a record producer, I orchestrate glimpses into live performances and festival ecosystems of the U.S. South, presenting tracks inspired by Pharrell Williams's Something In the Water (SITW) music festival in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Each track is filled with human, technological and sonic interactions expanding and disrupting static notions of Southern culture (i.e., Virginia) within the public imagination. Sharing musical moments using DIY concert vlog aesthetic, I guide listeners through SITW identifying historical narratives about race, place, and musical connections. At the conclusion of the session, I will showcase an innovative festival archive created in collaboration with Southern artists of color.



 
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