To download the detailed programme click the link -> Programme Dancecult Conference 2025
24 January (Friday)
| 8:45–9:15 | Room H3001: Registration | |
| 9:15–9:30 | Room H3002: Conference welcome and introduction | |
| 09:30–10:30 | Keynote (Room H3002): “from the studio to the kitchen, from the bedroom to the train” – On Documenting (Endangered) Spaces of Electronic Music Production in Berlin and Cairo by Matthias Pasdzierny | |
| 10:30–10:45 | Coffee break | |
| 10:45–12:05 | Session 1A (Room H3002)
Archiving Technologies Chair: Steffen Lepa |
Session 1B (Room H3001)
Venue Stories Chair: Anita Jóri |
| 10:45–11:05 | Guglielmo Bottin: Programming basslines on paper. A practice-based notation and archival system developed within the Italian proto-EDM scene | Liam Cagney: Love’s Secret Domain: New Perspectives on Berghain’s Historical Background |
| 11:05–11:25 | Nicolas Bougaïeff: Techno Production: Sounds, Tracks, and Kicks | Robbie Griffin: Perishable Space: The Precarious Nature of Liverpool’s Electronic Grassroots Music Venues and their Geographical Fluidity (1988-present) |
| 11:25–11:45 | Lilium Redwine: Applied Archaeological Theory for Dance Music Archival Practices | Daniel Lee: Archiving Queer South African Nightlife: The Rise and Decline of Queer venues in post-apartheid South Africa |
| 11:45–12:05 | Rosa Louise Stilgren: Legacy in the loop – how Ableton’s Live produce and preserve techno | Paul McDermott: Rave on a train: a practice-based research project that took an unexpected track into rave history |
| 12:05–13:30 | Lunch break: you can choose among various TU Berlin campus restaurants. A flyer will be provided at the location. | |
| 13:30–14:50 | Session 2A (Room H3002)
Belongings and Experiences Chair: Daniel Lee |
Session 2B (Room H3001)
Festival and Radio Stories Chair: Tara Hill |
| 13:30–13:50 | Athanasia Kontouli: Unveiling the Musical Features of EDM Subgenres: A Music Information Retrieval Approach | Ondřej Daniel: Ethical Considerations and Data Collection in Researching Psychedelic Music Festivals: Balancing Participant Experience and Scholarly Inquiry |
| 13:50–14:10 | Jack McNeill: The Sound Was Terrible: performing and documenting audiophilia in contemporary club cultures | Seán Finnan: ‘Remember Me’: An Enquiry into Collaborative Archiving Practices Amongst DIY Online Radio Stations |
| 14:10–14:30 | Anna Parker: Speaking for her self-states: putting the work of Arca in conversation with LatinXfuturism | Tianyu Jiang: Streaming, Mixing, Archiving: Independent Radio Stations and Electronic Dance Music Scenes in Shanghai |
| 14:30–14:50 | Arsène Werlen: Ambivalent Belongings – Trans Experiences of Contemporary Mancunian Club Scenes | Bianca Ludewig: Transmedia Festivals – Challenges of Documentation and Platform Technologies |
| 14:50–15:15 | Coffee break | |
| 15:15–15:35 | Session 3A (Room H3002)
Untold Stories Chair: Zoe Armour |
Session 3B (Room H3001)
Beyond the Performance Chair: Rosa Louise Stilgren |
| 15:35–15:55 | Alex de Lacey: Be Kind Rewind: The Importance of Sidewinder Tape Packs for UK Grime Histories | Pierre Griscelli: Hardware-Centric Techno and Real-Time Performance. Creative Challenges and Solutions: Insights from the THRiPPS System Case Study |
| 15:55–16:15 | Kai Fikentscher: Let the DJ tell the story: Thoughts on archiving and genre formation in the age of electronic dance music | Manoli Moriaty, Nina Kehagia and James Young: A taxonomy of contemporary DJ practices |
| 16:15–16:35 | Erin MacLeod: Bounce les two solitudes: Language Politics and the Dancefloor in Quebec | Josef Schaubruch: Liveness in Electronic Dance Music Cultures – Performing Artists and their Concepts and Practices of Playing Live |
| 16:35–16:55 | Liam Maloney: Dancing to Discs: Exploring DJ Praxis in Early Dance Music Cultures | Jonathan Weatherill-Hunt: An uneasy reconciliation of tradition and technology: establishing what motivates contemporary electronic dance music practitioners to uphold the analogue promise |
| 16:55-17:00 | Technical break | |
| 17:00–18:15 | Panel discussion A (Room H3002): New approaches to the documentation of cultural history by Bianca Ludewig, Lukas Fuchsgruber, Mc Mate, Noja Noja and Rrrrr (moderation) | |
Friday evening dinner suggestion:
From 18:30 at Café Hardenberg, Hardenbergstraße 10, 10623 Berlin. (Cover your own expense.)
25 January (Saturday)
| 9:00–10:15 | Panel discussion B (Room H3002): Preservation and transmission of Berlin’s techno histories. Opportunities and challenges by Alfred Raddatz, Mike Riemel, Daniel Schneider, Anja Schwanhäußer and Anita Jóri (moderation). | |
| 10:15–10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 10:30–11:50 | Session 4A (Room H3002)
Globalized Musical Traditions Chair: Maria Perevedentseva |
Session 4B (Room H3001)
New Lights on Research Methods Chair: Beate Peter |
| 10:30–10:50 | Devpriya Chakravarty: Tracing Lost Beats: Uncovering Overlooked Histories and Global-Local Dynamics in India’s Electronic Dance Music Cultures | Matt Anniss: Two Sides To Every Story: Journalists’ views on researching, documenting and archiving dance music histories |
| 10:50–11:10 | Pavel Niakhayeu: Fighting the cultural amnesia. Challenges of preserving the history of Belarusian electronic music scene | Zoe Armour: ‘Subjective distance’ a self-reflexive review of being a female ‘super-club experient’ and ethnographer |
| 11:10–11:30 | Emre Öztürk: Tracing the globalization of EDM cultures through Chicago Footwork | Michele Dentico: Ethnosemiotics gaze on techno music |
| 11:30–11:50 | Carla Vecchiola: Archiving the Underground: Detroit’s Exhibit 3000 | Linn Marie Tonstad: When Someone Tells Our Stories, What (And Who) Do They Tell? |
| 11:50–13:00 | Lunch break: provided by the conference organizers. | |
| 13:00–14:15 | Panel discussion C (Room H3002): Embalming the Ephemeral: Online Electronic Music Cultures and Platformization by Lucy March, Henry Morgan, Ivan Mouraviev, Edward Katrak Spencer and Maria Perevedentseva (moderation) | |
| 14:15-14:25 | Technical break | |
| 14:25–15:55 | Session 5A (Room H3002)
Black Feminist Archival Practices Chair: Carla Vecchiola |
Session 5B (Room H3001)
Local Communities and Scenes Chair: Emre Öztürk |
| 14:25–14:45 | Natalie Hyacinth: We Are Technical Too: Black feminist archival strategies for sonic liberation | Richard Anderson: Vodka Lemo Scouse Gangster Nights |
| 14:45–15:05 | Leah King: It’s My House: Exploring and Addressing the Systemic Erasure of Black Femmes in House Music Culture | Massimiliano Casu: Madrid Through Dance – The dance and the social production of urban space |
| 15:05–15:25 | Anjali Prashar-Savoie: Club Commons: A DIY Digital Archive | Su Odabaş: Archival Efforts: Theorizing Creativity in Istanbul’s Local Electronic Music Scenes |
| 15:25–15:55 | Gaëlle Scali: Those Speakers Preserve QUEER BLACK Stories | Ana Coelho, Júlia Reis and Emília Simão: The Drum and Bass Music Scene in Porto |
| 15:55–16:15 | Coffee break | |
| 16:15–17:55 | Session 6A (Room H3002)
Archival Projects Chair: Mark van Bergen |
Session 6B (Room H3001)
Methodological and Ethical Challenges of Archiving Chair: Erin MacLeod |
| 16:15–16:35 | Dorottya Herbály: Red Dot Community creative documentation methods | Charlet Brethome: Archiving the fleeting underground: DIY practices, affects, and ethical dilemmas in documenting Montreal’s rave scene |
| 16:35–16:55 | Stephanie SK Marbach: Inspecting Archival Projects for EDM Subcultures in Switzerland | César Lugo-Elías: “Todos los Cuerpos, Todos los Ritmos”: The Role of Sonidero Lab Popular in Club Culture Continuity Through Outreach |
| 16:55–17:15 | Thomas Scheele & Maarten van Brederode: Archiving Dutch Club Culture | Lorenzo Montefinese: Heritagizating electronic dance music and culture. Towards a taxonomy of archiving practices
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| 17:15–17:35 | Carlo Nardi: Tracing studio production in early EDM: Giorgio Moroder at Musicland Studios | |
| 17:35–17:55 | Beate Peter: Archiving dancing bodies: Methodological challenges in the creation of an open access online rave archive | |
| 17:55-18:15 | Technical break | |
| 18:15–19:15 | Lecture Performances (Room H3002): The Conservation Drive. About the im/possibilities and contradictions of representing, archiving and exposing raving as an experience and as a sociality of the marginalized and Closing. The Archive by [ ] s-p-a-c-e (xan egger, Mascha Naumann and Ego|n Auflösung/Judith Konitzer) | |
Book stalls, the flyer exhibition and all coffee breaks are placed in the hall in front of H3002.
For the evening and weekend programme at CTM Festival, please check the festival’s programme online: https://www.ctm-festival.de. Every presenter of the conference receives a weekend pass – valid from Friday to Monday, 24–27 January.
WiFi: Registrants can use the “Free WiFi” network on campus:
https://www.tu.berlin/en/campusmanagement/offer/wifi-access-with-eduroam/free-wifi
Livestreams can be reached via Zoom:
Room H3002: https://tinyurl.com/TU3002
Room H3001: https://tinyurl.com/TU3001
Code of conduct:
DC25 is dedicated to creating a safe, respectful and collegial environment. There is no place at DC25 for harassment or intimidation based on race, religion, ethnicity, language, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, physical or cognitive ability, age, appearance or other group status. Unsolicited physical contact, unwelcome sexual attention and bullying behaviour are likewise unacceptable. In the event that a participant has been made to feel unsafe or unwelcome at DC25, please contact members of the organising committee (wearing name tags) who are available to assist:
Anita Jóri: a.jori@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de
Steffen Lepa: steffen.lepa@tu-berlin.de
Phone numbers of the above contacts will be provided in the short programme printout available for registrants at the event.
DC25 is enabled by the Dancecult Research Network and the Audio Communication Group of Technische Universität Berlin. It is partnered with CTM Festival and Dancecult: The Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture.
The DC25 organising committee includes Anita Jóri (chair), Steffen Lepa, Graham St John and Dave Payling.
General contacts
Anita Jóri (chair, programming, website): a.jori@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de
Steffen Lepa (technical questions, TU location-related questions): steffen.lepa@tu-berlin.de