Synthesizer

reception was anything but positive with the album receiving a 7.6, an all time low, from industry leading reviewer Pitchfork. The album was like nothing ever seen before, featuring prominent use of the Roland TR-808 drum machine with stacked synthesizer samples to accent its heavy Auto-Tune nature. Traditionally used as a pitch correction software for instruments and vocals, 808s and Heartbreak utilizes Auto-Tune as a method of conveying feelings too raw to be spoken explicitly. In this album…

Drive, an indie film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn illustrates the importance of sounds effects and music to convey the mood in scenes, making the viewer subconsciously believe that the action is realistic. Yet the bass-driven electronic music throughout the scenes with The Driver, paired with little dialogue and prominent engine sounds represent his alienation from the rest of the world. Meanwhile, when he is with Irene, the music becomes warmer and has vocals, contrasting his loneliness…

The soundtrack is fused with pop, disco, funk style music, and the song tells the story of each character, as they learn something new about themselves. The electrically charged sounds of keyboards synthesizers, and electric guitars, add depth and emotion to Footloose. From ballads like “Almost Paradise” highlighting the importance of young love, pop tunes like “Let’s Hear it for the Boy”, and Rock Anthems like “Holding out for a Hero”, every person can…

Over the years, African Americans have significantly impacted music through their daily struggles and failures. When slaves were emancipated their music and culture came along with them. African Americans have created different genres of music such as blues, Jazz, Rock N Roll, Hip-Hop, and Rap. They used music to express themselves and communicate with each other, as well as a mode of physical survival. They have marked history for the legacy of music by relaying a powerful message in the form…

In this modern age of information gathering and retrieval, the thought of how and to the extent we can store information has always been an issue of paramount concern. For while libraries, hard drives, and floppy disks served their purpose in bygone times, the amount of information we have today, along with the prodigious rate it is still growing, have made them , while not necessarily obsolete, insufficient for the task. This is why the most promising method of storage in the current time is…

To listen to a piece of music does not necessarily mean that you have understood the ideas and/or emotions musicians and composers are trying to convey. Through this class, you have not only taught me how to describe music, and Its effects but how our own individual experiences influence how we interpret, and react to music. When first I began taking music classes in high school, I was not taught how to listen to music correctly and how to describe how it affected me. I would often find myself…

Bamboo Industry was founded in Berlin, Germany in 1983, by Ingo Ito and George DIN (see Gabriel Le Mar and George DIN). They originally conceived Bamboo Industry as a pop-duo project, mixing industrial sounds with influences of traditional Asian music. After they had recorded their first demo-tapes this way, they were joined by additional musicians and the musical concept shifted to an alternative pop band of the eighties with a touch of Bamboo. The first band line-up in 1985 was: * Ingo Ito:…

1. The song that I chose is "Cry Me A River" by Justin Timberlake. I chose this song in particular because it has been stuck in my head all week, and I know it like the back of my hand. "Cry Me A River" has two main mixing engineers: Jimmy Douglass and Timbaland. Both of these engineers are nationally renowned in the hip-hop, r&b, and pop scenes , and have been mixing and producing music since the early 80's. the song was mixed at Manhattan Center Studios in New York City. High…

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fact, a significant leader in the struggle for racial equality in America.” (Tirro 13). Another famous artist was Duke Ellington. “Duke Ellington expanded the boundaries of jazz as a composer and orchestrator. He was the master of form, a great synthesizer of jazz elements. His band developed a unique collaboration among leader, soloist, and group.” (Berg 12). As well as making an influence on the music he played, he influenced the people he met.…