Is Dubstep Avant Garde Musical Genius? | Idea Channel | PBS

Dubstep. Is. Awesome. While some people may hear noise, we hear amazing musical genius. The aural creativity of Dubstep, and its embrace of inharmonic sounds, makes it the most recent member of the long-established Avant Garde community. There is a long history of avant garde musicians and thinkers promoting the concept of noise and non-instrumental sounds as MUSIC, much to the horror of their audience. But over the past century, changes in technology and music genres have primed listeners, allowing mainstream audiences to enjoy the beautiful noise of Skrillex, Bassnectar & the whole Dubstep movement.

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Video Links:

Elders React to Dubstep: http://youtu.be/WgII2gDY-Rw
Thomas Middleditch's Disgusting Dub Step Drop: http://youtu.be/z_SQO3vv3p8
Ballet Mechanique: http://youtu.be/9SgsqmQJAq0

videos of Skrillex used:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7sQTF...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgU7XM...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOofWz...

Bassnectar video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqKnMS...

Music Links:

First Of The Year (Equinox) - Skrillex [OFFICIAL]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cXDgF...

Dubstep Dishwasher
http://soundcloud.com/thelivingtombst...

Muzak ( The Theme from Taxi Driver)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnk4fg...


Discussions on previous episode:
http://boingboing.net/2012/07/26/will...
http://kotaku.com/5929166/so-minecraf...
http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post...


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[Bryn Walsh]

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[Hexter Jexter]

Why is there The Living Tombstone? <3

[Sunny Nagam]

Omfg. Dubstep dishwasher at 1:53!!!

[Nick Kaluski]

EDM TRAP!!!

[iPhoneNoob21]

Drop the bass

[DaKilla1245]

imagine if like 50 to 100 years from now if eveyone listened to classical again

[hystericaldominolego]

Skrillex walks into a bar. "How did you get here?" asks the bartender. "I took it step by dub-step."

[Matthew Jones]

No. Some futurists where/are communists who like darkness, violences, power, speed, industrialism ECT. (We like a lot of stuff .And yes I am speaking for all communist neo futurists!) Also we like feminism because the ladies have boobs. And yes I know I'm a pig.

[SLaher797]

i really hope someone dubsteps this episode.

[Andy Roid]

YEAH! Daft punk twice XD

[Melissa Nilles]

Also love Dubstep Dishwasher, thanks for posting that!

[Melissa Nilles]

Really enjoying seeing the discussion your videos bring up!

Also, I am overwhelmed by how fast you talk! But it's all interesting stuff :) Awesome.