37-495: Dorian Electra Fridkin Gomberg (born June 25, 1992) is an American singer and songwriter. Electra is known for their non-conforming fashion, queer aesthetics, and experimental pop sound. Their debut studio album, Flamboyant , was released in 2019, followed by their second studio album, My Agenda , in 2020. They released their third studio album, Fanfare, in 2023. Electra is genderfluid and uses they/them pronouns. Electra
74-717: A Great Books school in Chicago , Illinois , from 2010 to 2014. Electra first drew national attention in 2010 with the music video "I'm in Love with Friedrich Hayek", which lauded the philosophy of the Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek and garnered commentary from the modern Austrian theory professor Steven Horwitz . In 2011, they released two more videos, "Roll with the Flow" and "We Got it 4 Cheap". Both were covered by mainstream political media . "We Got it 4 Cheap" came in second in
111-425: A "gulf" would still exist between experimental composers and "out-there" pop musicians, partly due to the role of the recording studio. Regarding this, composer Robert Ashley is quoted in 1966; We can't be popular musicians, where the fairly exciting things happen. [...] The one thing I like about popular music is that they record it. They record it, record it, record it, record it! The astute producer cuts out
148-715: A different extreme and embracing the practice of making studio recordings of works along the fringes of popular music". Grubbs further explains that some of the most prominent avant-garde musicians who formed rock bands in the mid 1960s were the Welsh John Cale (later of the Velvet Underground ) and the American Joseph Byrd (later of the United States of America ), who both went on to create albums of experimental pop music. However,
185-554: A science out of decision points (see ' Oblique Strategies ') rather than being willfully weird or different at the usual unexamined decision points" Eno's album Before and After Science (1977), according to Joshua Pickard of publication Nooga , was "experimental pop lucidity [...] the culmination of sound that Eno had been working on since the release of Here Come the Warm Jets in 1973." Members of Roxy Music, Free , Fairport Convention , Can and Cluster feature on
222-444: A song and video "about femininity as a performance—when being a 'woman' feels like putting on a costume and the costume doesn't seem to come off with the clothes". Electra was also creating a web series , at the time, under their drag king persona 'Don Bogman', a used car salesman . Electra continued their music video series, via Refinery29, about intersectional feminism and queer histories with "The History of Vibrators" (2016),
259-584: The Ikon Gallery , mac (Birmingham) and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery . The Flatpack Film Festival is run by Flatpack Projects, who have offices in Digbeth , a former industrial area of the city that is now Birmingham's art district. The festival is supported by Arts Council England . The current director is Ian Francis. This article about a European film festival is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to
296-602: The Lloyd V. Hackley Endowment's "Supply and Demand Video Contest". In 2012, they interned at production company Emergent Order. Emergent Order had previously published " Fear the Boom and Bust ", a similar Hayek-oriented rap video. Electra then produced a new, similarly economics-oriented pop video, "FA$ T CA$ H", with the support of an award from the Moving Picture Institute . In September 2012, Electra released
333-646: The UFO Club in London, an underground venue whose objective was to provide an outlet for experimental pop groups. According to The New York Times , Barrett and his subsequent solo albums "became a touchstone for experimental pop musicians". By the late 1960s, highly experimental pop music, or sounds that expanded the idea of the typical popular song, was positively received by young audiences, which cultural essayist Gerald Lyn Early credits to bands like Cream , Traffic , Blood, Sweat & Tears , and "of course",
370-802: The "Dark History of High Heels" (2016), "2000 Years of Drag" (2016), and "Control" (2017). These videos focused on the histories of intersectional feminist and queer issues, collaborating with many artists, including Imp Queen, London Jade, The Vixen , Lucy Stoole, Eva Young, Zuri Marley, K Rizz, and Chynna . "2000 Years of Drag" was accepted and screened at The East Village Queer Film Festival , NewFest , Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest , TWIST: Seattle Queer Film Festival , Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival (aGLIFF), Art All Night - Trenton: 6th Annual Film Festival, Desperado LGBT Film Festival , QUEER-Streifen Regensburg, Filmfest homochrom, Flatpack Film Festival , and CINEMQ . In 2017, Electra released
407-660: The Beatles . Drummer John Densmore believed that the Doors were on the cutting edge of experimental pop music until he listened to the Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), which he described as "[seeming] to have done it all". Martin wrote that, along with the Rolling Stones ' Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967), the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper "opened a space" for experimental pop which would be later filled by Jimi Hendrix , Jethro Tull , and
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#1732776068816444-551: The Flamboyant: Chapter I Tour, which lasted until November 2019. They began the second leg, Flamboyant: Chapter II, in early 2020. However, in March of the same year, the rest of the tour dates were postponed due to COVID-19 restrictions. In 2020, Electra released the single "Thirsty (For Love)", a collaboration with fans. They also released a deluxe version of Flamboyant later that year. Following this, they released
481-540: The Smiths , the Associates , and Pet Shop Boys , this tradition "balanced sexuality and literacy, ostentatious performance and austere rectitude, raging ambition and class resentment , translating it into records balancing experimentation with populist cohesion." The 1970s work of ex-Roxy Music member musician Brian Eno is cited by Leigh Landy as an archetypal example of a pop musician who "applied developments from
518-614: The Who 's Tommy (1968). Prior to Sgt. Pepper , Gary Usher and Curt Boettcher were Los Angeles–based songwriters and producers who were interested in classical music and the avant-garde. Later cited as fixtures of sunshine pop , they worked together to create their debut studio album, Present Tense (1968). It was credited to Sagittarius , a studio group referred to as an "experimental pop band" by The A.V. Club ' s Noel Murray. Author Pascal Bussy wrote that German krautrock groups such as Can and Kraftwerk successfully bridged
555-480: The album "embrace[d] the listener with a drugged out sincerity; a feat never accomplished by the more pretentious and heavy-handed psychedelia of that era. It is for this reason Smiley Smile flows so well with the more experimental pop of today". In the view of artist Duggie Fields , the Syd Barret -led incarnation of Pink Floyd exemplified experimental pop. The group found their initial success playing at
592-627: The best known examples are Phil Spector 's Wall of Sound and Joe Meek 's use of homemade electronic sound effects for acts like the Tornados . According to author Mark Brend, Meek's I Hear a New World (1960) predates better-known experimental pop by several years, whereas musicologist Leigh Landy names the American composer Frank Zappa as one of the first experimental pop musicians. Musician David Grubbs writes that many younger musicians "moved out of [John] Cage 's shadow by taking to
629-441: The compositional process involves the use of electronic production effects to manipulate sounds and arrangements, and the composer may draw the listener's attention specifically with both timbre and tonality , though not always simultaneously. Experimental pop music developed concurrently with experimental jazz as a new kind of avant-garde , with many younger musicians embracing the practice of making studio recordings along
666-426: The experimental sector while creating their own experimental pop sector." Following his departure from Roxy Music in 1973, Eno began releasing a series of solo albums where he simultaneously developed his ambient , pop, and electronic styles. In the belief of pop musician Scott Miller , they were the era's "most successful" experimental pop artists, explaining that the key to Eno's success "appears to have been making
703-604: The festival a varied collection of different films and media forms are shown, including animation, documentaries, short films, music videos and experimental cinema. The annual event was spawned from the year-round antics of 7 Inch Cinema, originally a mixed-media filmnight at the Rainbow pub in Digbeth. The festival takes place across numerous venues in Birmingham city centre. Major venues to screen films include The Electric ,
740-412: The fringes of popular music . In the early 1960s, it was common for producers, songwriters, and engineers to freely experiment with musical form , orchestration , unnatural reverb , and other sound effects, and by the late 1960s, highly experimental pop music, or sounds that expanded the idea of the typical popular song, was positively received by young audiences. Author Bill Martin states that while
777-479: The gap between experimental and pop music in the 1970s, while according to The New York Times , Kraftwerk refined an "experimental pop sensibility" on albums such as Radio-Activity (1976) and Trans-Europe Express (1977). Writer Owen Hatherley located a "literary-experimental pop tradition" running throughout the United Kingdom during the 1970s and 1980s. Embodied by artists such as Roxy Music ,
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#1732776068816814-533: The genre known as shoegazing . Martin suggested that hip hop music, particularly released by artists such as Public Enemy and KRS-One , emerged as a new form of experimental pop, seeing a renewed merger of artistic and political innovation. Icelandic singer Björk , who began her solo career in the 1990s, has been called "the queen of experimental pop" by The Guardian ' s Michael Cragg. The record label Hippos in Tanks , founded by Barron Machat in 2010,
851-463: The group that ranged from massive hits to obscure experimental pop compositions. Their 1966 single " Good Vibrations ", also produced and co-written by Wilson, topped record charts internationally, subsequently proliferating a wave of pop experimentation with its rush of riff changes, echo chamber effects, and intricate harmonies. It was followed by Smiley Smile (1967), an album of stripped-down recordings. In 2003, Stylus Magazine wrote that
888-515: The magic from the different tapes ( laughter ) and puts them in a certain order and gets a whole piece. It's very beautiful, because it's really aural magic. [...] We have to invent social situations to allow that magic to happen. Music historian Lorenzo Candalaria described American rock band the Beach Boys as "one of the most experimental and innovative groups of the 1960s." Co-founder and leader Brian Wilson wrote and produced songs for
925-486: The music video "Party Milk", which they describe as an attempt to merge common party scene symbolism with something one would never associate with a party, but that everyone is familiar with in another context. In 2014, Electra (as Dorian Electra & the Electrodes) released a music video called "What Mary Didn't Know", based on Frank Jackson 's philosophical thought experiment of the same name (from 1986). 2015 saw
962-502: The psychology of the modern corporate state using electronically processed verse." Writing for The Guardian , Jason Cowley described British singer-songwriter Kate Bush as "an artist superbly articulate in the language of experimental pop music". Paste Magazine credited My Bloody Valentine 's 1988 album Isn't Anything with showcasing an experimental pop aesthetic, which drew on "harsh, swirling guitar tones and beautifully dissonant distortion," that would eventually develop into
999-495: The record as session musicians in addition to Phil Collins , who performs drums on one track. Collins' own debut solo single " In the Air Tonight " (1981) was described by Gary Mills of The Quietus as being "at the vanguard of experimental pop" when it was released. He further called it "a rock oddity classic" which was influenced by "the unconventional studio predilections of Brian Eno and Peter Gabriel ". Landy noted
1036-555: The release of Electra's video "Forever Young: A Love Song to Ray Kurzweil", a tribute to the futurist Ray Kurzweil . In 2016, Electra released "Ode to the Clitoris" on Refinery29 , detailing the scientific history of the clitoris , from Ancient Greece through to modern, 3D models. In an interview, Electra stated it was to "desensitize people to the word CLITORIS and help bring it more into popular consciousness." In June 2016 Electra released "Mind Body Problem" through Bullett Media,
1073-483: The single "Freak Mode". It was followed by "Sodom & Gomorrah" on June 2. On July 19, they released the single "Anon" and announced their third studio album Fanfare for October 6. Two more singles, "Puppet" and "Idolize", were released on August 31 and on October 3, respectively. All five singles were accompanied by a music video. Fanfare explores themes of celebrity and fandom in the social media age. On October 13, Electra announced Fanfare: The World Tour, which
1110-639: The single "Jackpot" through Grindr 's digital publication Into More , a song that "addresses gender fluidity , but in a more subtle, less explicitly educational way." Later that year, Electra was featured on the Charli XCX track "Femmebot", with Mykki Blanco , on the mixtape Pop 2 . In 2018, Electra released three new tracks, "Career Boy", "VIP", and "Man to Man". Electra's frequent creative collaborator, Weston Allen, co-directed and edited this music video series. In 2019, Electra released their debut album, Flamboyant . In August 2019, Electra embarked on
1147-639: The singles " Sorry Bro (I Love You) ", "Give Great Thanks", "Gentleman", and "M'Lady". On September 21, 2020, Electra announced their second studio album My Agenda , featuring appearances from Rebecca Black , Sega Bodega , Lil Mariko , Mood Killer , Faris Badwan , Pussy Riot , Village People , and Dylan Brady , among others. It was released on October 16, 2020, and is described as exploring " crisis in masculinity ". The satirical project had visuals parodying online conservative subcultures, featuring alt-right conspiracy theories , alpha males , and trilby -donning incels . On April 7, 2023, Electra released
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1184-491: The tendency of experimental pop artists such as Eno and David Byrne to build tracks around existing recordings , effectively fusing different styles, a technique used on the duo's 1981 album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts . The New York Times ' Will Hermes names Laurie Anderson an experimental pop pioneer whose signature song " O Superman " (1981) was a "left-field new wave hit" that "conflated maternal succor with
1221-605: The term "experimental pop" may sound "seemingly oxymoronic ", it is possible to identify three criteria for characterizing its music: Some tendencies among artists include the incorporation of experimental techniques such as musique concrète , aleatoric music , or eclecticism into pop contexts. Often, the compositional process involves the use of electronic production effects to manipulate sounds and arrangements. According to musicologist Leigh Landy , experimental pop settings combine sound-based work and note-based work, though not always simultaneously. Composer Nico Muhly described
1258-509: The world of experimental pop as "celebrations of sonic juxtapositions". Martin writes that experimental pop developed at roughly the same time as experimental jazz , and that it emerged as "a new kind of avant-garde" made possible by the historical and material circumstances of its time. In the pop and rock music of the early 1960s, it was common for producers, songwriters, and engineers to freely experiment with musical form , orchestration , unnatural reverb , and other sound effects. Some of
1295-472: Was associated with Internet age experimental pop that drew on disparate sources such as new wave , avant-garde noise , R&B , and techno . The label released projects by artists such as James Ferraro , Autre Ne Veut , Laurel Halo , Hype Williams , and Arca . Flatpack Film Festival Flatpack Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Birmingham , England. During
1332-693: Was born in Houston , Texas , to a Jewish family. Their father is Paul Gomberg (known as "the Rockstar Realtor" in Houston), originally from Beverly Hills . Their mother is artist and jewelry designer Paula Fridkin. Electra graduated from School of the Woods , a Montessori high school in Houston. Electra was the founder of their high school's philosophy club. They then attended Shimer College ,
1369-709: Was scheduled to visit the Americas and Europe and lasted from October 2023 to March 2024. Electra is queer and genderfluid , and uses they/them pronouns . They have been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder . [REDACTED] Media related to Dorian Electra at Wikimedia Commons Experimental pop Experimental pop is pop music that cannot be categorized within traditional musical boundaries or which attempts to push elements of existing popular forms into new areas. It may incorporate experimental techniques such as musique concrète , aleatoric music , or eclecticism into pop contexts. Often,
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