OCEAN OF SOUND – DAVID TOOP – week ten AETHER TALK AMBIENT SOUND AND IMAGINARY WORLDS altered states i: landscape This chapter within the book ‘Ocean of Sound’ by David Toop includes the use of the technique of recording sounds within any environment. An example mentioned is when Brian Eno went to Ghana and took […]
ESSAY DRAFT: KESHI GABRIEL ALBUM Keshi, born as Casey Luong, is a singer/songwriter, instrumentalist and producer who includes lo-fi hip-hop beats and ‘ultra-chill R&B vocalising’ with the addition of his ‘feather-light falsetto, breezy acoustic guitar work and delicate and textural instruments’ in his music. This is his first album in which he has produced ballads […]
BURIAL: UNTRUE – week nine William Emmanuel Bevan, known as Burial, born in 1979, is a British electronic musician, who explores genres of future garage, dubstep, ambient, 2-step, ambient and pop. He works anonymously and in isolation, doesn’t do DJ gigs, live performances or radio shows, rarely does interviews and only a few photos exist […]
CEDRIK FERMONT – week eight Cedrik Fermont is a composer, musician, mastering engineer, author, independent researcher, concert organiser and curator who makes music within the field of electroacoustic, noise, electronic, experimental and improvised music since 1989, born in Zaire (DR Congo), he mostly grew up in Belgium and currently lives in Germany. Through his label, […]
TECHNO CLUB CULTURE IN GERMANY – week seven Techno is considered to be a type of dance music that evolved in the late 1980s and 1990s out of German electro-pop and American house music, electro and synth-pop. While other forms of dance music relied on live instruments, such as disco and early R&B, techno […]
TREVOR HORN: MALCOLM MCLAREN – BUFFALO GALS (1982/1983) – week six Trevor Charles Horn is an English music producer, recording studio and label owner, musician and composer. In the early ’80s, Horn was one of the most in-demand producers in the UK. He could essentially work on any record he wanted to. But rather than […]
ESSAY PROPOSAL: KESHI – week five GABRIEL ALBUM I aim to base my essay on the artist Keshi’s album named ‘GABRIEL’. Keshi, born as Casey Luong, is a singer/songwriter, instrumentalist and producer who includes lo-fi hip-hop beats and ‘ultra-chill R&B vocalising’ [allmusic.com] with the addition of his ‘feather-light falsetto, breezy acoustic guitar work and delicate […]
PINK FLOYD CASE STUDY: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON (1973) – week four A concept album, it is rather an extension of a single piece than a collection of tracks. It addresses and explores the grim realities of time, greed, conflict, death and mental illness. In fact, it is driven by the underlying emotion of […]
MUSIQUE CONCRÈTE – week three Musique concrète is defined to be ‘a recorded montage of natural sounds often electronically modified and presented as a musical composition’. It is often described through how it was created by Pierre Schaeffer in 1948, being “a musician experimenting with recorded sounds in a radio studio, with a radiophonic background, […]
ESCAPE ROOM MUSIC – week two Escape Room music is a genre created by Spotify’s data alchemist, Glenn McDonald in 2016. This genre of music appeared in some Spotify listeners’ top genres list, and with the unfamiliar genre, many were intrigued by what it was. According to an article on papermag.com, “rather than just running […]