Synthesizer

Ovilous while on the joint investigation. An Ovilus is an instrument created by former electronics engineer Bill Chappell. The device in essence, measures changes in environmental energy fields and modulates those changes into audible speech using a synthesizer chip, an English word vocabulary, and a technical function that sounds out…

James Lovelock, fundamentally formulated the theory that our Earth is unique and complex because the Earth is a self-regulating system that replenishes itself for the species, in order to maintain homeostasis, within the system. Lovelock interestingly familiarizes our Earth to the nature of human beings, such as the Earth’s skin are forests that sweat to preserve the cooling of the Earth, while the oceans are rivers of blood that flow through the veins of Earth transporting nutrients and washing…

Having to grow up in the American society during a period of changes and turmoil. Miles Davis was one of the African Americans who had the courage and willingness to stand up for what was right by fighting for equality. Being a man of music, Miles used his music to show people their desire for equality through his songs. Miles Davis’s music style reflects the civil rights movement through the changes, evolution, and presentation of his music. Jazz music had a specific standard to it, Davis…

Martha Bayles argues that modernity has removed the humanity so essential to early to mid-twentieth century African American music from contemporary music. She furthers the contention that vernacular musicians, specifically those from the African American idioms of blues and jazz, were not primitives. Rather, they were seasoned professionals with an ability to interject soul and passion into their music. However, to make this argument, Bayles takes aim at the post soul music era as a counter…

songs have a purpose; that purpose is to help people think and to inspire happiness of what they believe in. As for their music style and genre, well, it’s such an assortment. There’s piano, keytar, drums, ukulele, singing and even sometimes a synthesizer. The Skeleton Clique and even Josh and Ty have difficulty labeling their genre. It’s a mix of alternative, rap, poetry, indie, hip hop, and electropop. Though they aren’t considered a Christian band, many of their songs have messages about…

Popular Culture Postmodernism possess both a positive attraction and a usefulness to the analyst of popular culture as it offers a wider and more dynamic understanding of contemporary representation. It has entered into a more diverse number of vocabularies and has spread outwards from the realms of art history into political theory and on to the pages of youth culture magazines, record sleeves and fashion spreads. In the book “Postmodernism and Popular Culture” by Angela McRobbie, she talks…

number of melodies that are repeated throughout the song. It is sung by a a female quartet with a secondary accompaniment. The accompaniment consists of clapping, a drum set (membranophone), a bass (membranophone), something that sounds like a synthesizer (electronophone). The singers are singing in parallel harmony throughout the song, making this a polyphonic texture. The song is played in duple meter. The song consists only of verses, but repeats the last line of each verse to create a faux…

Pink Floyd is one of those bands just like The Beatles everyone has heard of them in some way or form. A song that everyone has heard by Pink Floyd even though may not know it is the song “Money” from one of their biggest selling albums of all time “The Dark Side of the Moon”. Pink Floyd started of in London in 1964 from the ashes of a band called Sigma 6 after toying the the sound for a while eventually Pink floyd was formed and ready to go. Pink Floyd, The Media, Technology, cultural…

Influence of Fusion Jazz Fusion Jazz is a genre of jazz which mainly includes a collaboration of Jazz music with one or more musical genres. Other musical genres which are combined with Jazz include funk, rock, rhythm and blues, and Latin Jazz. Fusion Jazz started to develop in the late 1960’s and this was an era when a huge number of jazz musicians experimented with creating new sounds with electric instruments. The origins of fusion jazz are known to be jazz, rock, bebop, blues, funk, and…

Because of our technological advances we are able to create new rhythms and textures that can be used in our music. Artists record sounds and use them creatively to make music. Bands like Twenty One Pilots and Skrillex use synthesizers and a digital audio workstation, also known as a DAW, which allows them to produce their music. The DAW is basically a variety of instruments and sounds on one software. It has features that let them record, play, and experiment with textures and…