New Directions in Music for the 21st Century
Submitted by lukeprog on Sun, 01/07/2007 - 11:24
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- Jazz Composed/Improvised/Live/Sampled/Blended: Spring Heel Jack - Masses, DJ Spooky - Optometry
- New Narrative Forms: The Fiery Furnaces - Rehearsing My Choir
- Abstract Hip-Hop: cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD, Dalek - From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots, Hood - Cold House
- Avantgarde Hip-Hop Collage: Amon Tobin - Bricolage, Solex - Low Kick And Hard Bop
- Colossal Chamber Music/Post-Rock: Vibracathedral Orchestra - Dabbling With Gravity, Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
- Emo Prog-Rock: The Mars Volta - De-loused In The Comatorium
- Futuristic Dadaist Avant-Psych-Prog: Vas Deferens Organization - Transcontinental Conspiracy, Acid Mothers Temple - Pataphysical Freak Out Mu
Author Comments:
These appear to be some of the new directions in music that began near the turn of the millennium, listed with some representative albums. Please nominate others!
I think as sound creation programs become cheaper and more user friendly, we may see an entirely new genre of music based on an infinite number of sounds/samples/noises made by computers.
Yes. I think that movement properly began not until the mid-late 90s, which qualifies it for this list. But it's difficult for me to nail down for at least three reasons. First, it's hard for me to draw a line between previous excursions into all possible sounds based on electroacoustic, vinyl damaging, field recordings, primitive software, and collage techniques, and works that truly innovate new excursions into all possible sounds based on modern software (the laptop generation). Second, the artists doing most of the real work in this area are incredibly obscure, and their work is hard to track down on no budget. Third, it's hard for me to articulate this as a "movement." Probably, it's best understood as several movements, only a few of which are producing meaningful works. If you can give a name to those movements, and name representative works, I'll be incredible impressed and grateful. :)
Thanks for your comment.
Well what I was saying is that it's a movement that is gathering steam and may soon become a major force. As of now, your right in that it is incredibly obscure, which leads me to think that when these programs become more widespread and cheaper these works will become easier to find.
Oh yea and by the way, I just listened to Transcontinental Conspiracy yesterday. Woweird.
Here are a few anchors, for quick reference. On the pop side, a premier digital soundsculptor is Keith Fullerton Whitman, aka Hrvatski.
From the classical side, the movement obviously stems from electroacoustic composition, soundscape generation, process music ala David Behrman, and more, but where these movements truly crossed into the digital age of truly infinite sound, I can't say.