minimalism in other forms of music?

dctr89 · Post by **dctr89** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 8:16 pm

well, ist a common fact that minimalistic aproach is deeply rooted in east asian cultures and music traditions although imo there is a key difference between traditional and the contemporary western concepts of "classical" and the "pop cultural" minimalism...i think they are not very comparable...

kristofason · Post by **kristofason** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 8:57 pm

Silver Apples is a bit minimally!
way ahead of his time considering it was mid to late 60's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8DwthVf ... re=related

agodi · Post by **agodi** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 2:12 am

I recently discovered an unbelievable minimalist jazz/funk composer called Nik Bärtsch. He seems to have a couple of different projects he works on but his best seems to be his "Ronin" project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx03p4iQ ... re=related

sorgenkind · Post by **sorgenkind** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 8:54 am

tone-def wrote:a lot of dub records are minimal.

excluding maybe some uk-like overproduced electronic dub...
the roots of dub, that was all about minimalism, applied to roots reggae.
They took roots reggae and, stripped it donw worked on its core concept, so to say.

JonasEdenbrandt · Post by **JonasEdenbrandt** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 3:42 pm

this gets kinda confusing since minimalism can meen so many diffrent things. A Philip Glass composition isn't minimal in a techno sort of way. Isn't DIY rock and punk productions a sort of minimalism in a rock way?