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List Of Drone Artists
The following is a list of notable artists who play, compose, have played, or have composed albums or pieces of drone music or drone metal. A *Oren Ambarchi B *William Basinski *Boris (band), Boris C *Ethel Cain *Celer (group), Celer *Lawrence Chandler *Tony Conrad *Clayton Counts D *Kyle Bobby Dunn E *Earth (American band), Earth *Emeralds (band), Emeralds F *Forest Management G *Growing (band) H *Keiji Haino *Tim Hecker I Rafael Anton Irisarri J Jo Blankenburg K *Bull of Heaven (band), Neil Keener L Lankum M *Kali Malone N *Natural Snow Buildings *Phill Niblock O P R *Eliane Radigue S *Stars of the Lid *Sunn O))) T *Theatre of Eternal Music *The Dead Texan U V *Vibracathedral Orchestra *Vision Eternel W *Yoshi Wada Y *Yellow Swans *La Monte Young Z References Works cited * * * * * * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Drone artists Lists of musicians by genre, Drone Music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drone Music
Drone music, drone-based music, or simply drone, is a minimalist genre of music that emphasizes the use of sustained sounds, notes, or tone clusters called '' drones''. It is typically characterized by lengthy compositions featuring relatively slight harmonic variations. La Monte Young, one of its 1960s originators, defined it in 2000 as "the sustained tone branch of minimalism." Music containing drones can be found in many regional traditions across Asia, Australia, and Europe, but the genre label is generally reserved for music originating with the Western classical tradition. Elements of drone music have been incorporated in diverse genres such as rock, ambient, and electronic music. Overview Music that contains drones and is rhythmically still or very slow, called "drone music," For information on early and other uses of drones in music around the world, see for example (American Musicological Society, ''JAMS'' (''Journal of the American Musicological Society''), 195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Blankenburg
Jo Blankenburg is a German composer based in Los Angeles. He writes music for film and motion picture advertising. His primary musical instrument is the piano. Early life and education Blankenburg was born and raised in Munich, Germany. He has completed a Film Scoring and Orchestration course at Berklee College of Music. He was trained to play organ. Career Blankenburg once won the MTV Europe Songwriting Contest. Some of his most popular tracks have been used in the advertising campaigns of ''The Hunger Games'', ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'', '' X-Men: First Class'', and ''How To Train Your Dragon'' among many others. A solo album ''Vendetta'' was released in 2011 by Position Music. This album's songs of have been used for the advertising campaigns of many major movies and television shows. Another solo album, ''Elysium'', was recorded with Capellen Orchestra & Choir in Zlín, Czech Republic. The album was released in 2012 on Position Music. Blankenburg's "Fearmo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshi Wada
Yoshimasa "Yoshi" Wada (11 November 1943 – 18 May 2021) was a Fluxus-related Japanese sound art installation artist and new music musician who lived in New York City before moving to San Francisco, California. Life Born in Japan, after moving to New York City Wada joined the Fluxus movement in 1968 after meeting George Maciunas. Wada then studied music with La Monte Young and the North Indian vocalist Pandit Pran Nath. His works often incorporated the use of drone and were usually performed at a very high volume that allowed for the overtones within the sound to be heard clearly. Wada frequently performed his own compositions, which featured a certain freedom of improvisation, on Scottish highland bagpipe and with his voice. He also employed a number of homemade instruments, including "pipe horns" (very long horn-type instruments made from metal plumbing piping) that he performed, for example, in the ''Public Arts International/Free Speech'' series in 1979, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vision Eternel
Vision Eternel (originally spelled and stylized as Vision Éternel) was a Canadian-American ambient rock band. Formed by guitarist Alexander Julien in Edison, New Jersey, United States in January 2007, the band eventually relocated to Montreal, Quebec, Canada in July 2007. The musical group's mainly instrumental sound has been described variously by critics as a blend of ambient music, ambient, shoegaze, post-rock, ethereal wave, ethereal, drone music, drone, space rock, emo, post-black metal, post-metal, dark ambient, dark wave, experimental rock, minimal music, minimal, dream pop, progressive rock, modern classical, and new-age music, new-age. The band released its debut extended play, , in 2007, followed by another extended play, , in 2008, both via American record label Mortification Records. While still based in New Jersey, the musical group included second guitarist Philip Altobelli, who joined after the release of the band's debut but departed before the recording of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vibracathedral Orchestra
Vibracathedral Orchestra is an England-based drone ensemble that has been active since 1998. Biography The group were formed in Leeds in 1998 when Mick Flower, Neil Campbell and Julian Bradley, who had released a number of homemade cassettes together, joined with Bridget Hayden and Adam Davenport. Most of the group's earliest recordings, most made by recording live to 2-track, were self-released though many underground labels, including VHF Records, Giardia, Eclipse, U-Sound, Qbico, Textile and Freedom From, have also put out a number of Vibracathedral records. They have twice been featured in session on Resonance FM, given an hour-long slot each time. Although very much a fixed unit, the line-up has been occasionally augmented by the likes of Matthew Bower, John Godbert, Richard Youngs, John Clyde Evans (latterly known as Tirath Singh Nirmala), and Tom Greenwood (of Jackie-O Motherfucker). Julian Bradley left the group in 2004 with both Neil Campbell and Bridget Hayden fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dead Texan
The Dead Texan was an audio-visual musical duo comprising Adam Wiltzie and Christina Vantzou. Wiltzie is better known as one half of the ambient project Stars of the Lid. Vantzou has since released a series of solo albums of ambient music composed for strings and synthesizers. History Wiltzie began composing and recording the music on his own and dabbled with combining his music with Vantzou’s videos; this eventually became a mutually collaborative project with the composition of the music and the creation of the videos becoming simultaneous. There has been only one Dead Texan release, a self-titled CD/DVD package released on Kranky. The DVD is divided into seven sections which add up to a half hour’s viewing time. The music is similar to that of Stars of the Lid: long, droning, and ambient soundscapes, and reminiscent of the film music of Zbigniew Preisner and Georges Delerue. However, the songs on the album are shorter, and lyrics can be heard at times, unlike Stars of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatre Of Eternal Music
The Theatre of Eternal Music (later sometimes called The Dream Syndicate) was an avant-garde musical group formed by La Monte Young in New York City in 1962. The first group (1962–1964) of performers consisted of La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Angus MacLise, and Billy Name. From 1964 to 1966, it consisted of La Monte Young (voice, saxophone), Marian Zazeela (voice, lighting), John Cale (viola), and Tony Conrad (violin), with sometimes also Terry Riley (voice). Since 1966, Theatre of Eternal Music has seen many permutations and has included Garrett List, Jon Gibson, Jon Hassell, Rhys Chatham, Alex Dea, Terry Jennings, and many others, including some members of the various 1960s groups. The group's self-described "dream music" explored drones and pure harmonic intervals, employing sustained tones and electric amplification in lengthy, all-night performances. Archival recordings of the group's influential mid-1960s performances remain in La Monte Young's archive. None h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunn O)))
Sunn O))) (pronounced "sun") is an American drone metal band formed in 1998 in Seattle, Washington (state), Washington. The band is known for its distinctive visual style and slow, heavy sound, which blends diverse genres including doom metal, drone music, drone, black metal, dark ambient, and noise rock, as well as for their extremely loud live performances. The band's core members are Stephen O'Malley (also of Khanate (band), Khanate and Burning Witch) and Greg Anderson (musician), Greg Anderson (of Goatsnake and Engine Kid). History Sunn O))) is named after the Sunn amplifier brand, the logo of which includes a circle next to the "sunn" banner with waves heading off to the right. In interviews, Stephen O'Malley stated that the band's name was also chosen as a play on the name Earth (American band), Earth, a band widely regarded as pioneers of drone metal throughout the 1990s. Before the band members moved to Los Angeles, they briefly used the name Mars. The band's style i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stars Of The Lid
Stars of the Lid is an American ambient music project that formerly consisted of Brian McBride and Adam Wiltzie. The duo formed in Austin, Texas, in 1992. They have been acclaimed for their music incorporating droning, effects-treated guitars along with piano, strings, and horns, described as "divine, classical drone without the tedious intrusion of drums or vocals." After McBride's death in 2023, Wiltzie remains the sole member. History Brian McBride and Adam Wiltzie formed Stars of the Lid on Christmas Day 1992 (December 25б 1992) in Austin, Texas. McBride said in an interview that the band's name refers to "your own personal cinema, located between your eye and eyelid", suggesting the colors and patterns one can see with closed eyes (either phosphenes or closed-eye hallucinations).Maelstrom''Interview with Stars Of The Lid''/ref> They listed among their influences minimalist and electronic composers such as Arvo Pärt, Zbigniew Preisner, Gavin Bryars, Henryk Górecki an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eliane Radigue
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Éliane is a French feminine given name, also used as a surname. Eliane or Éliane may also refer to: * 1329 Eliane, a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on March 23, 1933 * Éliane, the name for Hill A1 in the 1954 battle of Dien Bien Phu taken by Colonel General Nguyễn Hữu An Nguyễn Hữu An (October 1, 1926 – April 9, 1995) was a Vietnamese military officer in the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) during the Vietnam War. Overview Nguyễn Hữu An was born in the Truong Yen Commune of the Hoa Lư (city), Hoa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phill Niblock
Phillip Earl Niblock (October 2, 1933 – January 8, 2024) was an American composer, filmmaker, and videographer. In 1985, he was appointed director of Experimental Intermedia,Alan Licht, ''Common Tones: Selected Interviews with Artists and Musicians 1995-2020'', Blank Forms Edition, ''Interview with Phill Niblock'', pp.453-478 a foundation for avant-garde music based in New York with a parallel branch in Ghent, Belgium. Early life and education Niblock was born in Anderson, Indiana on October 2, 1933 to Herbert and Thelma Niblock. He attended Indiana University and graduated with a BA in economics in 1956. He served a brief stint in the U.S. Army after graduating, and in 1958, he moved to New York, where he worked as a photographer and filmmaker. Much of this activity centered around photographing and filming jazz musicians and modern dancers. An epiphany occurred while riding a motorcycle in the Appalachian Mountains. Niblock was climbing a grade behind a slow-moving diesel tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natural Snow Buildings
Natural Snow Buildings is a duo from France, consisting of artists Mehdi Ameziane and Solange Gularte. They play music which can be classified as experimental psychedelic folk with drone (music), drone elements and Ambient music, ambient influences. Formed in 1998, they have released numerous albums, many of them in extremely limited quantities. Both members of Natural Snow Buildings release music also as solo artists: Mehdi Ameziane as TwinSisterMoon and Solange Gularte as Isengrind. History The beginnings of Natural Snow Buildings can be traced back to 1997, at a Paris university. They met in their school library where a film was playing. Mehdi had been invited to a party that evening but declined and headed to the library instead. After their first meeting, the two saw more of each other. Although Mehdi could play a bit of guitar and Solange was a classically trained musician, the two had not yet begun making music. It was in May 1998 that the two officially started their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
