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In Reply to: RE: the conclusion of music posted by bullethead on November 30, 2014 at 19:11:15
"Berlin School", a genre relatively obscure outside of Europe, utilizes improvisation upon electronic sequences..... The performers have mixers, computers, or other electronics, a lot of it either modified or home-made..... Sometimes augmented with conventional (electronic and/or acoustic) instruments.The clip you posted has imparts a strong "industrial" or "heavy metal" flavor. And atonal.... Most Berlin School happens to be tonal.
Berlin School compositions run the gamut, in regard to the tonal flavors produced. And often, the performances are never repeated. (Or never repeatable.)
I like of lot of this, but I have to be in the mood..... Since single compositions often last longer than 19 minutes... [-; And often require listening in entirety to really appreciate them. So a good amount of spare time is required. (This is good to listen to during three hour plane flights, on noise-canceling headphones.)
Tangerine Dream is maybe the most well-known artist of this genre.
"What type of music has been your motivation for getting into this hobby?"
No music specifically.... Being able to hear and appreciate all the deep interplays (jazz, rock, classical) is what got me into the hobby.
Edits: 12/01/14Follow Ups:
The clip bullet posted sounds more like the bastard child of Berlin School electronica and the 'Geniale Dilletanten' kind of stuff which also was centered in Berlin but 10 years later.
Some exponents of the Geniale Dilletanten movement are Einstürzende Neubauten, Die Tödliche Doris and early Test Dept. (a british band but there was a lot of cross-fertilization between Berlin and Britain at the time).
....when this exists?
It might be interesting, but music it ain't.
Oz
Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you.
- Winston Churchill
Hearts of Space, nice label. I think I might have some Steve Roach from that label, also tends to be a little atmospheric and ambient.
Here are a couple of photos from a
college music text from back in the day:
"An Introduction to Twentieth Century
Music", by Peter Hansen, 3rd edition.
Sorry for the image quality! I just
shot the pics and uploaded them.
No processing. They're quite readable,
though, if you enlarge them.
:)
I studied musique concrete, free improvisation and "alternative" music notation under Swiss composer Rainer Boesch, who had been a student of the genre in Paris in the 1960s, and who became a well-known leader in the field in Europe. I still have a copy of his excellent composition "Mechanix", which he gave to me with the understanding that I wouldn't give it to other folks, and I listen to it regularly.
Different from "noise music" or the German style, musique concrete takes natural/real (concrete) sounds, modifies them (or not) and combines them into a composition. To a composer of musique concrete, natural acoustic sounds are the raw material to be shaped into whatever form the composer wishes to use in the music.
Folks here on the AA may also be interested in the CEMI center at the University of North Texas in Denton. http://cemi.music.unt.edu/
:)
Interesting...
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