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I may be one of the least qualified people in this guild to answer your question, but this is how I go about describing what kinds of electronic music that I listen to. I start with a broad generalization of what kind of music it is, Rock, Pop, Jazz, Dance, etc. From there I start to specifiy the genre or style of music that I'm explaining. Take rock music for example, most of electronic rock music is either progressive or ambient. In jazz it is usually new age or fusion. Its when you get into pop and dance music that the genres really start to blend together. So what I usally do at this point is explain my reasons for listening to a specific style of music. Dance music is usually pretty self-explanatory while other styles of electronic music can usually be catagorized by what a person is doing while they are listening to it. Chill and Down Tempo is usually music that people listen to when they are relaxing or winding down. I realize that this is probably a very simplistic way of describing electronic music to people, but I have found that most people can't tell the difference between techno and house, let alone any other specific genre of electronica, so I usually don't try to explain a specific genre to someone unless I'm sure that they will be able to understand what it is that they are listening to. heart ninja pirate

The only condition (that I know of) of Electronic music is it has to be made electronically.

Oh, I meant during play. I mean, you can design a guitar, but you can't change the thickness of the box of a guitar without making a new guitar, so you can't get, say, LFO effects.



Sure, contemporary synths suck at emulating acoustic instruments, but it can be done; I've decomposed a piano into sine waves, and it isn't too hard to build those sine waves back into a piano; it just takes a shitload of memory.



i don't know what kind of non-electronic music you listen to, but some of the metal i listen to has no structure. i've heard songs (yes, with lyrics) in all sorts of classical forms, from symphony, menuet, rondo, and god-knows what else. you've made a harsh, and (sorry) stupid generalisation here. you can't say that electronic music is any less limited than acoustic music. they're just as limited or unlimited as each other. to think otherwise only proves that your train of thought is limited.

I know, I know, I'm sorry. I was thinking mainly of non-experimental formula music, 'cause that's the stuff I know; I've heard experimental metal but I have no idea how widespread it is (actually, if it's unstructured, then that's not what I mean at all). I don't listen to much acoustic.
Of course it's possible to make every electronic structure accoustically, and vice versa; I'm just not aware of much acoustic music that bases itself on its structure rather than melody or theme.

PEDALS my dear, PEDALS. and amp settings



if you can construct a synthesizer that can emulate the sound of a piano to the tiniest detail, then i'll bow down to you. it's all about timbre



okay, listen to Ghost Love Score, by Nightwish
Blackwater Park, by Opeth
Hell's Kitchen, by Dream Theater
Our Diabolikal Rapture, by H.I.M.

i cannot think of anymore right now. still, those are a few songs that demonstrate strange form

Steinberg's "The Grand 2" does a nice job.

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