Being a Luddite and mourning for losing authenticity in music as a person who has always played acoustic instruments is incredibly easy and safe. However, being sympathetic with Benjamin (1969), electronic music can explode acoustic instruments' aura. The pre-made sounds in such a genre can remind us of, for example, Duchamp's pre-made works of art and the way these works revolutionized the concept of art Of course, it is a simple and imperfect analogy that I made, but I just wanted to create a texture for my argument. To be more precise, its similarity to being pre-made relates to its possibility of separating each sound into more than six or seven separate sounds and the possibility of reworking it to make it into something that is no longer the same as the first sound. On the other hand, being opposed to Benjamin, creativity and genius are the exact two things that can change the position of sensible (Ranciere, 2010) and what is not touched, seen, or heard yet, but in a playful way as something that can be "circuit breakers so that we can elude control" (Deleuze, 2011) and can create a new constellation.
Atoosa Afshari, Teaching Fellow, PhD, Philosophy, University of North Texas
Hamed Jalali, PhD candidate, Computer Science, University of North Texas
