On The Spectrum

Where Is EDM Placed Within Electronic Dance Music Culture?

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12801/1947-5403.2025.17.01.09

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Author Biographies

Dr Dylan Davis, Swinburne University

Dr Dylan Davis has extensive experience in design process, community engagement, digital storytelling, interaction design, and audio production and composition. Dylan is also a composer and a musician whose practice covers performance, and production. His works includes music productions for festivals such as Melbourne Music Week, recordings for a range of international record labels and community-based music projects. He explores the compositional and performance methods and practices for electronic and electroacoustic music of the techno and acid house genre.

Dr Mike Callander, School of Media and Communication RMIT University, Australia

Dr Mike Callander is a Lecturer at RMIT University and a DJ/producer. His practice-led research examines the intersections between DJ techniques, music formats, performance technologies, and dance music culture. Callander’s creative outputs have reached European music festivals, art galleries in Singapore and Melbourne, Australian morning TV and international record stores. He has collaborated with chart-topping commercial artists such as The Avalanches while also maintaining a coveted weekly DJ residency at Revolver Upstairs, arguably Australia’s best-known nightclub. Callander is Ableton Certified, one of fewer than 400 people worldwide to be endorsed as an educator by the makers of Live and Push.

Dr David Haberfeld

Dr David Haberfeld is an accomplished and awarded electronic dance music artist, academic, researcher and music technologist with diverse experiences as producer, composer, and performer since the early 1990s. David has successfully led and responded to the rapid changes in the way we produce, perform, market, manage, and teach electronic music for three decades; including how digitalisation has impacted audience engagement. His experiences are unique, combining academic, industrial, and creative practices with over 200 published music works. Under the artist moniker Honeysmack, he is globally recognised as someone who’s significantly contributed to Australia’s electronic dance music community for many years.

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Published

22-Dec-2025

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 1 (2025): EDM and its Discontents

Section

From the Floor

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