quoted 3 lines really? seems like a fair amount of electronic music tracks have>> really? seems like a fair amount of electronic music tracks have
>> looped basslines, ostinati and/or drones which give the tracks the
>> sense of having a "main note" even if it's not a true tonal center.
check sense's "day off" on merck records' squadron v/a for some cool
polychord-ism like this. an great example of ostinato
quoted 11 lines let's see, what's sitting on my turntable? It's Maurizio's M5. at>> let's see, what's sitting on my turntable? It's Maurizio's M5. at
>> first glance, not tonal, but really it has a prominent tuned drum
>> part hitting F and Ab. sounds like it's in F minor. after awhile the
>> "we love dub" guitar sample comes in. It's a Db major chord. the rest
>> of the piece continues similarly, sounding like an inverted Db major
>> chord. so if you were mixing you could treat the beginning as Fm and
>> the end as a Db.
>>
>> Okay, so I was lucky it wasn't an Autechre record or something. but i
>> think it's typical enough.
> Well, pretty much every Autechre track is in A minor, so... ;)
well, with new abstract compositions as popularized by 'IDM' MANY
compositions do not find their complexity in chord progressions or keys or
modulation of keys.. I'd say a vast majority of 'IDM' as we know it
(especially autechre-veined stuff) is usually in a single key, leaving the
complexity to other things like complex and sometimes poly- rhythms... this
is analagous to IDM/("newer electronica"?)'s broadening of a melody - never
before has a genre been able to make the focus of a piece as atonal as
autechre has with their beats... the "melody" you often hear in say
"chiastic slide" is usually to keep the pace, like the beat is considered in
hiphop, and the actual "music" ("melody") is found in the beat...
I think IDM's a great example of how music theory is still applicable no
matter how complex or un-rule-oriented music seems to get
*pours 40 for mozart and bach*
delphi
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