I thought it might be useful to post some YouTube videos that provide good examples of electronic music. Hopefully, this might inspire you to create your own electronic music for emuFest. Feel free to post YouTube videos here of your own favourite examples of electronic music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6FBfAQ-NDEDepeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough (1981)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igHOaMOzzUoIsao Tomita - Arabesque No. 1from "Snowflakes Are Dancing" (1974)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7xLz15NvnkLarry Fast Synergy - Trellisfrom "Cords" (1978)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIIjPJn7iE4Tangerine Dream - Phaedrafrom the album "Phaedra" (1974)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbEOgfq3CNcSoft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbyefrom the album "Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret" (1981)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dweTz_5K7KYSoft Cell - Tainted Lovefrom the album "Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret" (1981)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCkpueqltSEThe Human League - The Black Hit of Spacefrom the album "Travelogue" (1980)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQi78vlKKBsKraftwerk - Computer Worldfrom the album "Computer World" (1981)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJPC7smGaIQThe Human League - Crow and a Babyfrom the album "Travelogue" (1980)
Video from the 1978 horror film "Damien: Omen II"
Quote from: dasilvasings on January 07, 2011, 12:36:54 PMFor the bravest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpbAe2HyzqA
Holy shit!!! pure cheese!!!! but amazing!!!! Never has bad music been performed so well!!!
Cool song, Sandy. But it's not what I'd consider electronic music. Bass guitar, Rhodes piano, and grand piano all produce sound mechanically. The idea of emuFest is for everything except vocals and drums to be produced completely electronically via oscillators or the digital simulation of oscillators. So synthesisers and computers can be used. But instruments that create their initial sound mechanically then merely convert that sound to an electronic signal should not be used for emuFest.
Shyte! That puts mellotrons out of the fest! Now we have to make an M&E fest (sounds terrible!).
Quote from: 64Guitars on January 12, 2011, 02:23:51 PMCool song, Sandy. But it's not what I'd consider electronic music. Bass guitar, Rhodes piano, and grand piano all produce sound mechanically. The idea of emuFest is for everything except vocals and drums to be produced completely electronically via oscillators or the digital simulation of oscillators. So synthesisers and computers can be used. But instruments that create their initial sound mechanically then merely convert that sound to an electronic signal should not be used for emuFest.
That sucks. I thought it was just no guitars.
So this is not electronic?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3-vsKwQ0Cg
Hey that is very cool, Sandy!
I hadn't heard of Norman McLaren before - looks like in addition to animation, he was also an experimental music pioneer.
Canadian animation pioneer thanks in part to our National Film Board - NFB.
Here's how WikiPedia defines Electronic Music:
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound producing devices include the telharmonium, Hammond organ, and the electric guitar. Purely electronic sound production can be achieved using devices such as the Theremin, sound synthesizer, and computer.
There'd be no point having an electronic music festival if songs could include any instrument except guitar. That would be an anything-except-guitar festival. A song consisting of accordian, tuba, and vocals would be just fine in an anything-except-guitar festival, but it would make no sense in an electronic music festival.
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dalek i love you are full o guitars but stuill cassed as ewlectronica, brian eno's most recent album is all guitar i know im gibbering
reminds me of a song of mine with no guitars called i wanna play my guitar i am really gibbering noo
ORH., I think we've confused electronic with Electronica music. Not as much fun but I get it.
'Number One Song In Heaven', by Sparks.
Only a partial clip, but this has that Giorgio Moroder production (and those sequencers) that I love so much:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc_x2-rCFWI
Quote from: cuthbert on February 06, 2011, 05:20:00 PM'Number One Song In Heaven', by Sparks.
I've got that album on vinyl. I loved it when I bought it in 1979. It's a bit too disco for my tastes now but I still like it.
Here are a couple more from the same album.
I like the rhythm track and vocoder on this first one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGpIrTXLT58Love the synth bass on this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjKTxrtitgc