techno music (Score 1)

Techno music is the most cutting edge fusion of art and technology there is. It takes the new onslaught of audio our ears are assaulted with every day in this industrialized society (beeps, machine whirs, airplane roars, mechanical cycles, etc.) and breathes humanity (a heartbeat) into their otherwise sterile random character. Techno and the rave culture (which, quite honestly, had the integration of art and technology down much before this academic attempt) was and is a struggle, especially for the more youthful of our nation, to integrate their daily technological experiences with the celebratory and sacred aspects of their life. This struggle was usually borne out, at night and in relative secrecy, in the very heart of the industrialized society - warehouses. There was a certain mystique to these places where I spent a many a night partying away, feeling almost as if
the sweat from our gyrating bodies was rusting away and breaking down the steel structures as fast as any websites and new economy supply chains were.
Techno allows the machines to keep the beat, while the soul roams free...