Garth Sheridan

Garth Sheridan is a writer, musician, and audio engineer raised in central Victoria, who has worked on sound design for events that range from circus to theatre. He has performed electronic music all over the world, a few notable locations being Africa and Australia. He has been making electronic music since 2001, and has been inspired by Jamaican sound systems as well as jungle, hardcore, and modern urban sounds. He is founder of a new record label called tokay tunes which produces dancehall, kuduro and moombahton records. He also has a band called Building 94 that works between Melbourne and Tasmania, and is currently recording its premiere album.

His most notable scholarly articles include: "Fruity Batidas: The Technologies and Aesthetics of Kuduro" and "Luanda and Lisbon: Kuduro and Musicking in the diaspora", and he also has been known to write reviews and present at conferences surrounding his areas of interest. Much of Sheridan's work explores the specifics of the Kuduro musical/dance style. His article "Fruity Batidas: The Technologies and Aesthetics of Kuduro" goes into more detail on the subject. He describes electronic musical culture as being one that combines technology, innovation, and their interactions with the body. Kuduro, a genre that combines techno, soca, and house, is one that has developed alongside the evolution of performance and recording practices. He begins by describing Fruity Loops, and the way in which Kuduro became more widely circulated. Then, by splitting kuduro into generations of creation, Sheridan tracks the development of kuduro by way of technological advances. Sheridan also expands upon the idea that the Angolan historical past is closely tied to Kuduro, and even more closely tied to the bending and breaking movements that accompany it. By examining the social upheaval that seemed to shape the movement, Sheridan discovers that the social landscape following the Angolan civil war was equally transformed by kuduro and its aesthetics.

References

http://colourboxstudio.com/interview-with-musician-and-audio-engineer-garth-sheridan/

https://dj.dancecult.net/index.php/dancecult/article/view/450

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