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Live Electronic Music By Bertolani, Valentina; Sallis, Friedemann
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Defining live electronic music is a problematic and increasingly difficult critical task (Emmerson, 2007, 89–90; see also Collins, 2007, 38–54; Radford, 2008, 158–166). Attempts at pinning down the term are marked by the “plurality and hazy definitions” generally encountered in the analysis of electronic music (Peters, 2012, 3). The term and the musical concepts that it entails are moving targets: new developments in technology and organology continue to redefine the genre. For the purposes of this article, live electronic music is performance in which the electronic element influences or is influenced by the performers in some interactive way. This definition is informed by the notion that live electronic music can best be understood as a performance strategy rather than a compositional technique.