Cultura DJ: artefactos, figuras y modalidades de creación. Propuesta creativa y notacional: Estudio # 1 para tornamesa y humedad

Abstract

DJ Culture emerges as a category to encompass the conglomerate of musical systems where recorded music and the Disc Jockey are the primary creative force. Currently, these modes of creation hold a permanent place within collective culture; their practices are gradually being incorporated in most art forms, especially music. This document provides a historical and theoretical overview of some highlights in the consolidation of DJ Culture, its artifacts, practices, prominent figures, and creative ways. It identifies, through a series of conceptual tools, how the phonographic apparatus and its genealogy revolutionized both academic and popular music fields through figures like John Cage, Pierre Schaeffer, Francis Grasso, and Grandmaster Flash. Subsequently, it focuses on a series of musical systems centered on the DJ, from northern soul and dub to hip hop, tracing how these musical genres gave rise to the trip hop phenomenon. Thereafter, it delves into contemporary turntable practices, their different notations, and methodologies, concluding with a creative, analytical, and notational proposal for the musical composition Estudio #1 para Tornamesa and the arrangement Humedad, exploring how both works push forward the boundaries of the phonographic apparatus as an instrument.