OUGD601 - Critical essay - Feedback & 1st tutorial

Following the presentation I received mixed feedback on my research to this point, and although my peers and tutor agreed that this has the potential to be an interesting research question. At this moment in time its too broad and covers vast amounts of themes, for it to be possible to be condensed into 5000 words. Therefore the first tutorial was crucial to clarify the question but also the real focus of the essay, as before the tutorial I was in two minds on what the essay was truly trying to say.

In the tutorial I finalised on a question to begin with which is 'How does graphic design interpret electronic music culture?'. This question is a lot more simpler to my original question which was 'To what extent does aesthetic style reflect the noise of electronic music culture?' And by altering the question it made me distinguish what research I need to focus on in the coming weeks for the intro to the essay, which I also outlined; the intro points are as follows:

• How electronic music is interpreted through graphic design but talk about how this is nothing new, then expand by talking about the link between music and visual culture, and cover other genres and how music visual culture has been appropriated such as punk and Kraftwerk 
• The consumption of music
• Define the link between electronic music and subcultures

OUGD601 - Critcal essay subject presentation

OUGD601 - Critical essay subject

Over the summer break my focus and interests changed in terms of the themes to explore for my context of practice 3 module. The subject of electronic music remains but the original plan of discussing politics and culture of nightlife/electronic music and how its important to the creative industries has changed.

I now want to focus on the themes of aesthetics, noise, postmodernism, anti-establishment,  subculture and youth culture. Together these will form the discussion of how electronic music is aesthetically represented through graphic design, but will also investigate electronic music portraying 'noise' in a postmodern aesthetic form and noise representing anti establishment and subcultures.