One song that has been of importance to me since coming to Maryland would be “Summertime Sadness” by Lana Del Ray. The entire album from which the song comes from is one of my personal all time favorites. I remember seeing her for the first time on Saturday Night Live where she was the musical guest. She was performing her popular single “Video Games” off of her album Born to Die. Her performance was not theatrical at all; in fact it was very minimalistic. The performance was supposed to be just
Have you ever wondered how other genres of music started? Although every style has its own unique sound, they’re somehow related in a small way. As a musician you may try to incorporate their style of playing and tweak it to make it personal and your own. However, there are hundreds of genres to choose from I’ve decided to choose a select few that I’ve found appealing to me. Math rock is a rhythmically complex, guitar-based style of experimental rock music that became known in the late 1980’s. It
Dark wave is a unique and exceptional music genre that began to appear in the late 1970s in the German music circle. This genre of music rose on the popularity of post-punk and new wave. Dark wave is usually dark and has introspective lyrics with an undertone of sorrow. Dark wave bands and their fans have grown in number and known as wavers and the scene took off in the 1980s. This type of music started to gain impedance in Europe and slowly started to get bigger over that decade. This brooding genre
Considered one of the chief influences on the sound as they, along with others, had a penchant for staring at the stage during their performances, which was what cited the British press to refer to the music as “shoegazing”. Ride was one of the most accessible shoegaze bands as they weren’t as concerned with distortion, as they were making direct melodies, and the Oxford quartet regularly proved themselves to be some of the best pop song writers of their time. Their
When considering the versatility of a synthesiser as a keys player it can widen one’s oeuvre immensely. With its ability to imitate existing sounds and instruments to create beautiful polyphonies and to contrastingly emit haunting, dissonant soundscape’s from previously non-exiting timbres makes it not only a useful tool but and essential piece in a composer’s instrumental repertoire. An instrument that has developed over many decades, quite an early advocate of it was Vangelis Papathanassiou.