Refer to some of the material shared in class or found in the research resources on Moodle. Reflect on how these practices relate to notions of global/contemporary culture or to sonic practices that you know through your own experience.

Global culture has been highly influential on the development of contemporary music, sound art and electronic music, this influence goes further than the pure sonic body of these practices, but also alters the way we think, wear and political ideologies related with music and art.

Tribal cultures for example, have always put a great effort on relating their lives around music, strong rooted rituals and traditions that have never been away of music and sound compositions for their creation. If we think on tribal cultures as some form of basic evolution of the human being, we’ll find a strong connection with the western world and the more socially and technologically advanced cultures, and therefore this has been influential in the music that we can consume these days, in fact, are many the scholars and musicologist who think that electronic music and for instance other genres like blues or jazz could have had their roots in tribal music and its connection with the western culture through colonialism.

Asia is another influential culture in terms of music and sound, the eastern societies have always had a nearly scientific vision of the sonic environment and they also have very rooted on the historical development of art the implementation of instruments, sounds and melodies in their traditions. The constant evolution of technology of asian countries has also consistently contributed to the history of modern art with sound for film, video games and electronic music devices.