Drone Musicwhen the Drone ceases to become a sound and becomes corporeal
when one ventures beyond the physical to metempsychosis
when dream into Drone and Drone into dream
when I am there and nothing else matters
when will I stay forever?
Each EP by Drone Records appears as if it's a tiny part from an endless
chain of a phonetic code. On a psycho-physical basis, we linger in that
sound, but as we're all dreamers who live and think in four dimensions,
we're not able to decipher nor translate the sound well enough, and
that is because there are five or even more dimensions involved
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What constitutes a drone? To begin, sustained intonation that establishes a harmonic center for its accompanying elements; the drone might utilize a single note repeated indefinitely or, at the opposite extreme, all of the scale's notes spread across numerous octaves. Other key aspects include extended duration, modular repetition, and a focus on overtones. Influenced by the music of India, Indonesia, and Africa, the drone form's oft-used alternate tuning (Just Intonation) and vertical concentration challenges the tacit supremacy of a Western tradition that prioritizes horizontal development.
http://www.textura.org/newreviewspages/dronesarticle.htmcontinuously sounded throughout much or all of a piece, sustained or repeated, and most often establishing a tonality upon which the rest of the piece is built.
Drone music, also known as drone-based music, drone ambient or ambient drone, dronescape or dronology, and sometimes simply as drone, is a musical style that emphasizes the use of sustained sounds, notes, or tones-clusters – called drones. It is typically characterized by lengthy audio programs with relatively slight harmonic variations throughout each piece compared to other musics.
Pioneering explorers of drone music in the past 30 years have included La Monte Young and John Cale's Theater of Eternal Music (aka The Dream Syndicate), Charlemagne Palestine, Eliane Radigue, Kraftwerk, Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream, Robert Fripp & Brian Eno, Autopsia, Coil, Earth, Aphex Twin, Autechre's side-project Gescom, and Biosphere.
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The modern genre of drone music (differentiated by some as "dronology") is most often applied to artists who have allied themselves closely with underground music and the post-rock or experimental music genres. Drone music also fit into the genres of new age, found sound, minimal music, dark ambient, drone doom/drone metal, and noise music. Most often utilizing electronic instruments or electronic processing of acoustic instruments, they typically create dense and unmoving harmonies and a stilled or "hovering" sense of time. While the hallmarks of drone music are easy to recognize, the backgrounds and goals of the artists vary greatly.
Drone muziek dus... bands/artiesten als Panasonic (Vakio & Kulma), Gescom en Biosphere. SUNN O))), Earth en Rhys Chatham (Die Donnergotter) zijn metal/rock en ambient/minimal varianten die me echt weten te raken... vooral het duistere en hypnotiserende karakter van de vaak heerlijke lage basfrequentie is verschikkelijk verslafend. Nog meer liefhebbers en wat zijn jullie favouriete platen?