Observed Benefits to On-site Medical Services during an Annual 5-day Electronic Dance Music Event with Harm Reduction Services

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 228-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Brendan Munn ◽  
Adam Lund ◽  
Riley Golby ◽  
Sheila A. Turris
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Harm Reduction ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Electronic Music ◽  
Rural Setting ◽  
Medical Services ◽  
Dance Music ◽  
Electronic Dance Music ◽  
Music Festival ◽  
Medical Response

AbstractBackgroundWith increasing attendance and media attention, large-scale electronic dance music events (EDMEs) are a subset of mass gatherings that have a unique risk profile for attendees and promoters. Shambhala Music Festival (Canada) is a multi-day event in a rural setting with a recognized history of providing harm reduction (HR) services alongside medical care.Study/ObjectiveThis manuscript describes the medical response at a multi-day electronic music festival where on-site HR interventions and dedicated medical care are delivered as parallel public health measures.MethodsThis study was a descriptive case report. Medical encounters and event-related data were documented prospectively using an established event registry database.ResultsIn 2014, Shambhala Music Festival had 67,120 cumulative attendees over a 7-day period, with a peak daily attendance of 15,380 people. There were 1,393 patient encounters and the patient presentation rate (PPR) was 20.8 per one thousand. The majority of these (90.9%) were for non-urgent complaints. The ambulance transfer rate (ATR) was 0.194 per one thousand and 0.93% of patient encounters were transferred by ambulance. No patients required intubation and there were no fatalities.Harm reduction services included mobile outreach teams, distribution of educational materials, pill checking facilities, a dedicated women’s space, and a “Sanctuary” area that provided non-medical peer support for overwhelmed guests. More than 10,000 encounters were recorded by mobile and booth-based preventive and educational services, and 2,786 pills were checked on-site with a seven percent discard rate.ConclusionDedicated medical and HR services represent two complementary public health strategies to minimize risk at a multi-day electronic music festival. The specific extent to which HR strategies reduce the need for medical care is not well understood. Incorporation of HR practices when planning on-site medical care has the potential to inform patient management, reduce presentation rates and acuity, and decrease utilization and cost for local, community-based health services.MunnMB, LundA, GolbyR, TurrisSA. Observed benefits to on-site medical services during an annual 5-day electronic dance music event with harm reduction services. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2016;31(2):228–234.

scholarly journals Drug checking at an electronic dance music festival during the public health overdose emergency in British Columbia

2018 ◽  
Vol 109 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 740-744 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvina C. Mema ◽  
Chloe Sage ◽  
Yuhui Xu ◽  
Kenneth W. Tupper ◽  
Daniel Ziemianowicz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
Dance Music ◽  
Electronic Dance Music ◽  
Music Festival ◽  
The Public ◽  
Drug Checking

scholarly journals Does Medical Presence Decrease the Perceived Risk of Substance-Related Harm at Music Festivals?

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (s1) ◽  
pp. s123-s123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Brendan Munn ◽  
Melissa Sydney White ◽  
Alison Hutton ◽  
Sheila Turris ◽  
Haddon Tabb ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Medical Services ◽  
Dance Music ◽  
Electronic Dance Music ◽  
Music Festivals ◽  
Music Festival ◽  
Perceptions Of Risk ◽  
Intent To Use ◽  
Initial Hypothesis

Introduction:The use of recreational substances is a contributor to the risk of morbidity and mortality at music festivals. One of the aims of onsite medical services is to mitigate substance-related harms. It is known that attendees’ perceptions of risk can shape their planned substance use; however, it is unclear how attendees perceive the presence of onsite medical services in evaluating the risk associated with substance use at music festivals.Methods:A questionnaire was administered to a random sample of attendees entering a multi-day electronic dance music festival.Results:There were 630 attendees approached and 587 attendees completed the 19 item questionnaire. Many confirmed their intent to use alcohol (48%, n=280), cannabis (78%, n=453), and recreational substances other than alcohol and cannabis (93%, n=541) while attending the festival. The majority (60%, n=343) stated they would still have attended the event if there were no onsite medical services available. Some attendees agreed that the absence of medical services would have reduced their intended use of alcohol (30%, n=174) and recreational substances other than alcohol and cannabis (46%, n=266).Discussion:In the context of a music festival, plans for recreational substance use appear to be substantially altered by attendees’ knowledge about the presence or absence of onsite medical services. This contradicts our initial hypothesis that medical services are independent of planned substance use and serve solely to reduce any associated harms. Additional exploration and characterization of this phenomenon at various events would further clarify the understanding of perceived risks surrounding substance use and the presence of onsite medical services.

scholarly journals KREATIVITAS ARI WULU SEBAGAI DJ DALAM EDM (Electronic Dance Music)

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanolda Gema Akbar
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Music ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Dance Music ◽  
Electronic Dance Music ◽  
Normal Place

ABSTRACT EDM is an electronic music that is rising in popularity in the present era. This phenomenon that led to the birth of a young DJ, and also gave birth to a big festival with the theme of EDM. EDM has a relationship with the concept of DJ which is the operator who controls the music to be presented at every show. DJ has had a rapid development, which formerly departed from broadcaster radio. Now DJs can be found everywhere since EDM has expanded out of its normal place in discotheques. Ari Wulu is a DJ who has different characters. The purpose of this research is to know the creativity of Ari Wulu which is explained based on the opinion of Rhodes using 4P consisting of Person, Press, Procces, and Product. The result of the research is the creativity of Ari Wulu as a DJ in EDM, much influenced from his experience as an electronic music composer. The music form chosen by Ari Wulu is purely electronic music that has a repetitive rhythm and uses pentatonic melodies. Kata Kunci : EDM, Ari Wulu, kreativitas, dan bentuk musik

scholarly journals Imaginary Soundscapes: Electronic Music Culture and the Aesthetics of the Virtual

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Wei-Ming Chan
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Electronic Music ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Production Performance ◽  
Dance Music ◽  
Music Culture ◽  
Electronic Dance Music ◽  
Composition Methods ◽  
Unique Manner ◽  
And Performance

This study is an exploration into how dance music cultures (better known as "rave" or "club" cultures) find ways to straddle the divide between human and machine through their incorporation of both of these oft-competing elements. Electronic dance music and its digital composition methods represent what Mike Berk calls "a new sonic paradigm." The different modes of production, performance and consumption within this paradigm require alternative ways of thinking about originality, creativity, and authenticity. While I do look briefly at issues of consumption and performance within dance music cultures, I focus specifically on how electronic music producers are bound by a unique vision of musical authenticity and creativity, borne out of their own "technological imagination" and the sonic possibilities enabled by digital technology. To use the concepts employed within my paper, I contend that dance music cultures make evident what Michael Punt calls the "postdigital analogue"--a cultural condition in which the decidedly more "human" or "analogue" elements of felt experience and authenticity coexist and converse with the predominance of the digital technologies of simulation and artifice. Dance music cultures are an emergent social formation, to use Williams' term, revising and questioning the typical relationships understood between digital and analogue. This postdigital analogue manifests in a number of ways in the cultural, aesthetic, and technological principles promoted by dance music cultures. In terms of production in particular, signs of digital and analogue coexist in a form of virtual authenticity, as the sound of the technological process engaged to make electronic dance music bears the mark of musical creativity and originality. This study reveals the unique manner in which dance music cultures incorporate both analogue and digital principles, bridging a sense of humanity with the acceptance of the technological.

ARTWORK: CEVDET EREK

Tempo ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 70 (278) ◽  
pp. 84-85
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Electronic Music ◽  
Visual Representation ◽  
Dance Music ◽  
Electronic Dance Music ◽  
Acoustic Characteristics ◽  
Simple Idea ◽  
The Voice

The solo exhibition ‘Week’ was conceived for the sky-lit gallery on the upper floor of the Kunsthalle Basel in 2012. At the very centre of the gallery space a mono-block of loudspeakers was playing 7, a visual representation of which was notated for the brochure of the exhibition. 7 is constructed from two versions of an acoustic bass drum sample, which acts as a minimal ‘audio-diagram’ representing the ever-repeating cycle of the seven days of the week. The piece was constructed using a scale of 1:86400 (24 hours × 60 minutes × 60 seconds); in other words, a second refers to a day in ‘real time’. The bass drum sample sounds on each second, creating a steady beat with a tempo of 60 bpm which, for some visitors, is a direct reminder of certain types of electronic dance music. On top of the beat, a computer-generated voice recites the days of the week in English, one day per second. Occasionally, the voice switches to counting the days without specific names: ‘day, day, day … ’. The audio piece used the vocabulary and acoustic characteristics of minimal electronic music in order to represent a temporal unit, by using the means of time itself, whilst the visual representation (notation) was used as an aid to describe the simple idea behind the sonic counterpart.

A Prospective Analysis of Patients Presenting for Medical Attention at a Large Electronic Dance Music Festival

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matt S. Friedman ◽  
Alex Plocki ◽  
Antonios Likourezos ◽  
Illya Pushkar ◽  
Andrew N. Bazos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Vital Signs ◽  
Medical Attention ◽  
Prospective Analysis ◽  
Mass Gathering ◽  
Dance Music ◽  
Electronic Dance Music ◽  
Music Festival ◽  
Mass Gathering Medicine ◽  
Patient Presentation

AbstractMass-Gathering Medicine studies have identified variables that predict greater patient presentation rates (PPRs) and transport to hospital rates (TTHRs). This is a descriptive report of patients who presented for medical attention at an annual electronic dance music festival (EDMF). At this large, single EDMF in New York City (NYC; New York, USA), the frequency of patient presentation, the range of presentations, and interventions performed were identified.This descriptive report examined consecutive patients who presented to the medical tent of a summertime EDMF held at an outdoor venue with an active, mobile, bounded crowd. Alcohol was available for sale. Entry was restricted to persons 18 years and older. The festival occurred on three consecutive days with a total cumulative attendance of 58,000. Medical staffing included two Emergency Medicine physicians, four registered nurses, and 86 Emergency Medical Services (EMS) providers. Data collected included demographics, past medical history, vital signs, physical exam, drug and alcohol use, interventions performed, and transport decisions.Eighty-four patients were enrolled over 2.5 days. Six were transported and zero died. The ages of the subjects ranged from 17 to 61 years. Forty-three (51%) were male. Thirty-eight (45%) initially presented with abnormal vital signs; four (5%) were hyperthermic. Of these latter patients, 34 (90%) reported ingestions with 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) or other drugs. Eleven (65%) patients were diaphoretic or mydriatic. The most common prehospital interventions were intravenous normal saline (8/84; 10%), ondansetron (6/84; 7%), and midazolam (3/84; 4%).Electronic dance music festivals are a growing trend and a new challenge for Mass-Gathering Medicine as new strategies must be employed to decrease TTHR and mortality. Addressing common and expected medical emergencies at mass-gathering events through awareness, preparation, and early, focused medical interventions may decrease PPR, TTHR, and overall mortality.FriedmanMS, PlockiA, LikourezosA, PushkarI, BazosAN, FrommC, FriedmanBW. A prospective analysis of patients presenting for medical attention at a large electronic dance music festival. Prehosp Disaster Med.2017; 32(1):78–82.

scholarly journals Rhythmic Concatenative Synthesis for Electronic Music: Techniques, Implementation, and Evaluation

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cárthach Ó Nuanáin ◽  
Perfecto Herrera ◽  
Sergi Jordá
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Music ◽  
Dance Music ◽  
Electronic Dance Music ◽  
Extensive Evaluation ◽  
Concatenative Synthesis ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Initial Target

In this article, we summarize recent research examining concatenative synthesis and its application and relevance in the composition and production of styles of electronic dance music. We introduce the conceptual underpinnings of concatenative synthesis and describe key works and systematic approaches in the literature. Our system, RhythmCAT, is proposed as a user-friendly system for generating rhythmic loops that model the timbre and rhythm of an initial target loop. The architecture of the system is explained, and an extensive evaluation of the system's performance and user response is discussed based on our results.

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