I would think unawareness but i wonder if people genuinely dont appreciate how overstimulating specifically uncurated or just music in general can be
Do yall consider minimal and ambient synonamous btw?
Because the purpose of music, to me, is to make me feel things. The more the better. It helps me with overstimulation by drowning out distractions.
I love ambient music. Hit me with some accessible minimalist music so I can have a better idea what the genre even is. I played Music for Piece of Wood in college and have zero desire to hear it again, surely there’s more pleasant minimalist stuff.
One of my favourite ambient pieces. Very haunting.
To what extent do you consider ambient and minimal(ist) the same? I know I use either for a shorthand semantically speaking
I don’t know enough to know if they are the same. My understanding is that minimalism focuses on less (be that instrumentation, composition, or other factors, just use less of them) whereas ambient music just focuses on the atmosphere and vibe, regardless of how much it takes to achieve the result.
I would think there’s a lot of ambient music thats not considered minimalist and vice versa. Some ambient music is extremely layered (but sounds like one evolving drone) where as Music for pieces of wood is minimalist but definitely not ambient. No one relaxing to five clave players going nuts.
It’s a weird Venn diagram with a lot of overlap and seemingly random distinctions.
What’s your definition of “minimalist music”? Sounds like what people call “minimal techno” isn’t quite what you’re thinking about.
Also, the popularity of radio (with older people anyway) suggests to me that most people don’t have a desire for any kind of calm or minimalist experience, they’re just fine with listening to two generic pop songs followed by an obnoxious station ID and an even more obnoxious advertising segment.
Not techno definitely not
More popular than what? What metric are you using?
It doesnt seem to be commonly known genre, like I feel it should basically be up there with Rock or Pop
Isn’t lofi minimalist?
Can we get an example? Because after reading the thread I am still as unknowing as I was about what you are trying to start a conversation on.
It is widely accepted that music, as an artistic expression, as been used to convey emotion, both to arise it and to lessen it, since its inception. To argue that “uncurated or just music in general” can be “overstimulating” makes quite the claim.
Music and songs are easily associated to states of mind and entire genres exist around one specific emotion. From classical, to blues, heavy metal, fado, jazz, ethnic, every song or music ever written by a human being conveys meaning.
If, and this is a elephant sized if, what you are trying to debate on is what most will call “elevator music”, that non descript, hollow, shallow, shell of ordered sounds thinly veiled to resemble music, then, personally, I’m glad it not a much more divulged genre.
If not, then, please, give us an example.
I’ll leave an example of what I listen to when I need a sound wall to fill the background while I work with my hands.
Dead Combo - Movimentos PerpétuosOr, for something a bit more traditional:
