Drone music
Drone – is “a minimal music genre that emphasizes the use of sustained or repeated sounds, notes, or tone-clusters” [1].
As well as Soundscape this term can be used both in respect of genre or tool.
Drone music traces its roots back to ancient traditional instrumental and vocal music. Tuvan throat singing, Australian didgeridoo, Tibetan horn or Scottish pibroch piping – they all produce drone sounds. In modern times Drone music was developed by La Monte Young and the Theatre of Eternal Music, minimalist composers like Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cale, Krautrock groups and many others.
Drone as a tool can be described as “a harmonic or monophonic effect or accompaniment where a note or chord is continuously sounded throughout most or all of a piece” [2].
Drone music traces its roots back to ancient traditional instrumental and vocal music. Tuvan throat singing, Australian didgeridoo, Tibetan horn or Scottish pibroch piping – they all produce drone sounds. In modern times Drone music was developed by La Monte Young and the Theatre of Eternal Music, minimalist composers like Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cale, Krautrock groups and many others.
Drone as a tool can be described as “a harmonic or monophonic effect or accompaniment where a note or chord is continuously sounded throughout most or all of a piece” [2].
It is interesting to point out that starting from the 1970s Ambient tended to become more electronic music while Drone approach was intensively developed in Guitar technique in genres like Space-rock, Shoegaze, Drone Metal, Noise Rock…