Why isnt minimalist/-ism music more popular?
from cheese_greater@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca on 16 Jun 14:12
https://lemmy.world/post/48244743

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?

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mrdown@lemmy.world on 16 Jun 14:31 next collapse

Isn’t lofi minimalist?

ContactClosure@lemmus.org on 16 Jun 14:32 next collapse

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.

cheese_greater@lemmy.world on 16 Jun 14:48 next collapse

To what extent do you consider ambient and minimal(ist) the same? I know I use either for a shorthand semantically speaking

Anchorxiety@reddthat.com on 16 Jun 15:12 collapse

youtu.be/NCRxcQpC5MU

One of my favourite ambient pieces. Very haunting.

Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe on 16 Jun 14:45 next collapse

More popular than what? What metric are you using?

cheese_greater@lemmy.world on 16 Jun 14:46 collapse

It doesnt seem to be commonly known genre, like I feel it should basically be up there with Rock or Pop

rumschlumpel@feddit.org on 16 Jun 14:50 next collapse

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.

Nemo@slrpnk.net on 16 Jun 15:06 next collapse

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.

nerv@fedinsfw.app on 16 Jun 15:35 collapse

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 Perpétuos

Or, for something a bit more traditional:

Carlos Paredes - Verdes Anos