What is the name of this genre (DSP ambient / Glitch haunt / SpookyDM / 34th century Pop / Robostep / Spaceshipcore ?)

  On 6/20/2014 at 3:31 PM, Phoenix said:

glitchcore / breakcklytz / boom boom shaka boom boom

 

ibiza ambient

Blogwave

Here is something good for you guys. I think of music and sound as the same thing, agree with John Cage. I find genres are useless in categorizing music because so much music sound similar across genres and so different in the same genre. I identify a piece of music by its features: synchronous/asynchronous/rhythm, tonality/white noise, instruments and how they sound, etc. Thus I find this kind of threads retarded as fuck. I do enjoy the music people share. That's nice.

I'd say this genre is Ambient Noise Machine.

this is just prog

  On 6/23/2014 at 3:52 AM, pafr said:

I find genres are useless in categorizing music because so much music sound similar across genres and so different in the same genre. I identify a piece of music by its features: synchronous/asynchronous/rhythm, tonality/white noise, instruments and how they sound, etc. Thus I find this kind of threads retarded as fuck.

Absolutely, I agree that in the main genre names are a little silly - I'm mainly trying to identify this particular sub genre so I can find more artists that do stuff like this. The description that BIOXLAT gave from shapeshifters site ("sonic architecture") does kinda seem spot on: It really does seem to be sonically describing some sort of physical object(s) moving in space. It's such a visually inducing soundscape.

superstep

I call it Krrr

  On 6/23/2014 at 3:52 AM, pafr said:

Here is something good for you guys. I think of music and sound as the same thing, agree with John Cage. I find genres are useless in categorizing music because so much music sound similar across genres and so different in the same genre. I identify a piece of music by its features: synchronous/asynchronous/rhythm, tonality/white noise, instruments and how they sound, etc. Thus I find this kind of threads retarded as fuck. I do enjoy the music people share. That's nice.

 

the thing is genres aren't descriptions of music but social structures

i'm surprised people seem to forget this so often

  On 6/24/2014 at 5:07 PM, poblequadrat said:

the thing is genres aren't descriptions of music but social structures

piss off

my point is genres don't describe musical features but relationships between people such as trends, scenes or groups of producers. trying to study the musicology of "rock" or "idm" as genres (as opposed to a particular album or a particular era in "rock" or "idm") is unlikely to give anything other than basic and obvious results, whereas studying the sociology of "idm" as a scene might give you a clearer and more useful description of the aesthetics of idm.

Edited June 27, 2014 by poblequadrat

like "these people don't go out & dance which explains why these beats are the way they are"