ABSTRACT
The ‘art works’ may be understood in the present context as the musical product, other closely associated creative output such as poster or album artwork, photographs shared via social media and even blog posts. The Facebook activity of artists also contributed to the spreading of information and popularization of their music, yet Tumblr is an online space particularly closely tied to, and identified with, the lo-fi scene. The first lo-fi festival held in Budapest in 2012, Raketa, signified the scene’s stepping out from the virtual ‘bedroom’ into the offline world. According to the organizers, ‘the aim of the first Hungarian “do-it-yourself festival” was to enable an audience so far predominantly recruited online to finally meet the artists at a live performance event’. The cooperative and aesthetic network focus enabled by music world concept helps to reveal synchronous and historical continuities between lo-fi and other music and art worlds, as well as regimes of aesthetics and attitudes such as ‘hipster’ taste.
