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Originally Posted by Frownland
^Pretty much. The only qualification that you need to be electronic music is for there to be non-organic instruments implemented in the music. It's like saying guitar music.
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Or any instrument or sound. I can punch the wall and record myself punching the wall and, through sound design, make an entire track with that single sound and effects, including dynamic melodies.
You can make a piano sound like a drum. You can make a guitar playing C3 sound like it played D4.
FKA twigs made 90% of her synths out of a single hi hat in LP1
That's where the term "Musique concrete" came from. It's pretty much taking sounds, and through audio engineering, turning them into other sounds.
Or in Holly Herndon's case, "Net concrete", in which she recorded her internet browsing and turned it into music