Music representing modernisation?
 

I find myself listening up and down to Adams' dancing chairman. Does anyone know more musical pieces like that? Music that invokes a feeling of mechanical automatisation, technological progress, rapid advancements/changes?

It must not obviously portray modernisation/progress as something bad/scary.

It doesn't necessarily need to be modernist music, though that would be really cool since it will aid the feeling of "modern" a lot for obvious reasons. :thumb:

This is clearly not what you're looking for, but I just thought it'd be an interesting thing to put up, cause it's the closest you'll get in metal, and is pretty much exactly what you're talking about in its own way. Okay, peace, I'm out!

No problem. ;)


I honestly don't get the vibe at all. But I get it from a handful of Kreator songs.

This song from clinic always sounded to me a bit sterile and mechanic for some reason.
something in the organ and the video also add to that feeling.






I can practically hear the steam coming out the musical arrangement in this song. also World record is the sh*t. :cool:

That World Record song is indeed nice, but I've been aiming for "classical" music actually, sorry. ;)

This?

Do people generally troll random threads on this forum or is it just my threads?

Oh, my bad, i misunderstood.

And yes ppl here troll everybody its not just you. :p:

The depiction of technological "progress" is a little dated---more like a high-industrial conception of it---but the general idea of mechanization still applies, as the title implies.

Wooo, that one sounds pretty scary.

I relaise it is a difficult subject though. Maybe I should stick to John Adams for now and then get to know similar artists, they'll have something up their sleeve.

Mario Davidovsky - Synchronism No.6


Béla Bartók - The Miraculous Mandarin


^ Perhaps a bit dated now. This was written between 1918 and 1924. The hustle and bustle at the beginning represents cars zipping around on the street. Fantastic music, though. You'll hear where John Williams got a lot of his ideas in there.

Mauro Lanza - Vesperbild


Doesn't represent modernisation per se, but the ideas are clearly of 21st century postmodernism.

Almost forgot. Johannes Kreidler's work deals with current issues. For example...

Outsourcing:

Fremdarbeit


Copyright law in the digital age:

Product Placements


And there are a few more that I can't find at the moment, including a performance piece that consists of two computers running PureData, reading off a list of buzzwords to each other via Skype to piss off anti-terrorist agencies. Speaking of PureData, Kreidler's tutorials are the best.

I think Johnny Greenwood's stuff might do something like this, try this song:



You might recognize it from There Will Be Blood, although it had violins and a burning oil derrick playing as well.

Also this Harmonics Contrast | urbnet