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Is sinewave a genre yet?
I was thinking about genres and how technology has often influenced them, the most famous contemporary cases being the introduction of electric instruments: guitars, synths, samplers. But then there are those genres that appear to be a result of sheer "screw it, this is what it is" mentality. Like drum and bass, or anything minimal. Is it laziness that can sometimes lead to great art? "Who needs melodies when I can perform lfo inception on all these sounds". Or in my case, i find myself occasionally captivated by the sound of some nice sinewVes drenched in reverb and delay. I guess the question here would be, how do genres come about aside from technological influences? Who wants some sinewave?
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My parents listened to pretty square music. Some of my grandparents' music didn't have a pulse. Other people just wrote music based on what they saw.
I keep oscillating back and forth as to how I feel about it.
10/10
mancontrol - Dave Shouse from 90's lo-fi band the Grifters, "Single sine wave forms are controlled through handheld light devices to manipulate sound."
Lol....give this man a rim shot!
'No Genre, Nadda Genre, No Label' made popular by the more underground producers/artists ect... It is exactly what you referred to it as. It's a composition of fuck it, we don't give a fuck what you think, mixed with a bit of professionalism if we feel necessary.
Sorry, @funjunkie27, I obviously don't have a filter.
There's an artist out right now called Loom who uses only square waves when possible.
oh, no sine for you.
dosent it resonate with you?
I hope you're not implying d'n'b is lazy? It's actually a very complex editing genre. You realize people would do time stretch by hand by slicing audio (manually) and repeating slices, back in the days? But it was time stretching that made it what it is, no doubt.
Going backwards, the advent of samplers was what got rap going, so sure, once a new technology comes out, musicians are going to abuse it (as they should) and a new sound will be born. This goes way back. I imagine bach going all "hey dude, check this new craze called counterpoint".
But I'm sure not everything has been invented already, and although I can't predict what the new trend will be, there will surely be one. Maybe spectral stuff will be the new breakthrough? Just throwing wild guesses. I can't wait for it though.
I recall some old school mods (xm, s3m, mod etc) that used only sine-waves but can't remember the names of those mods. The tracker commands were used to modify the sound (pitch for kicks, zaps, and arp command for chords, vibrato, tremolo and an inverted sine for psuedo-stereo effects).
With the current wave-shaping tools available it should be possible to create almost anything from a single sine wave(multiple tracks for additive sounds etc).
Needless to say I like the 2OP FM available in SunVox a lot!!!
no I'm not calling anything lazy. Often people want to be lazy, and go to such great lengths figuring out shortcuts, that it ends up being hard and or complex work anyway.
I found it after scanning thru my mod/xm archive...
Strangle Hold by Jeroen Tel
http://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=46508
Hello. Surely, technology influences music and people, and all possible combinations of these factors, influenced by cultural circumstances, give birth to all music genres we know. However I doubt musicians consciously embrace a new style and then name it. I would guess this is mostly something done by the audience or media.
As far as how new genres come about, the interaction with technology seems to be fundamental, and as already stated above, the 'misuse/abuse' can lead to innovation. For example, Roland had no idea the TB-303 and TR-909 would ignite what happened a few years later. The same can be said about the electrification of guitar, which initially came about to make the sound of the guitar compete with louder instruments in the big-band era. Then the popular hawaian slide guitar, LesPaul melodic and gentle sounds... and a few years later someone liked the sound of their electric guitar through a faulty channel (fuzzzzzzz).
None of us do. Sine of the times, I guess.
Clever.