{"id":2068,"date":"2019-04-18T04:53:09","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T04:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gcornish.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/mhs123_spring2019\/?p=2068"},"modified":"2019-04-18T04:53:09","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T04:53:09","slug":"knower-and-the-new-age-of-shock-in-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gcornish.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/mhs123_spring2019\/assignments\/music-video-review\/knower-and-the-new-age-of-shock-in-art\/","title":{"rendered":"KNOWER and The New Age of Shock in Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

More and more our modern society seems to be catering itself towards the attributes of shock value. Los Angeles based electro-funk duo \u201cKNOWER\u201d is no exception to this. The band consists of vocalist Genevieve Artadi along with drummer and keyboardist Louis Cole, who create a sound which borrows elements of uptempo funk music and pairs it with complex jazz harmony and bold EDM production techniques. Sam Ribakoff sums up the effects of their music<\/a>, \u201cIf you\u2019ve heard any of Knower\u2019s music, you can imagine how losing one’s mind can be a possible side effect.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shocking ones audience is nothing new in music or any sort of art. In a New York Times poll, readers were asked what they thought was the most shocking piece of art from the past century.<\/a> While Stravinsky\u2019s \u201cRite of Spring\u201d placed 3rd in the poll, it is noted that the recent performance of the work by the New York Philharmonic did not cause any stir. This is testimony of the fact that our culture has desensitized itself to things that were once surprising. Naturally, catching the attention of an audience with music and visual is immensely more difficult for Artadi and Cole today than it was for Stravinsky approximately a century before.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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