Estilo de música minimalista definido por el uso de sonidos, notas o motivos repetidos cíclicamente. Las notas sostenidas o pedal se mantienen durante toda la pieza sin variaciones armónicas proporcionando una sensación envolvente y de trance.
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Has escuchado

Cathédrale de Strasbourg (2016) / Charlemagne Palestine. Charlemagne Palestine, órgano. Erratum (2016)

For Organ and Brass (2016) / Ellen Arkbro. Johan Graden, órgano; Elena Kakaliagou, trompa; Hilary Jeffery, trombón; Robin Hayward, tuba. Subtext (2017)

Monoliths & Dimensions. Big Church (2009) / Sunn O))). Southern Lord (2009)

The Deontic Miracle: Selections from 100 Models of Hegikan Roku (1976) / Catherine Christer Hennix. Catherine Christer Hennix, oboe, electrónica, generadores de sonidos; Peter Hennix, oboe, sarangi; Hans Isgren, sarangi. Blank Forms Editions (2019)

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Selección bibliográfica

BOON, Marcus, The Politics of Vibration: Music as a Cosmopolitical Practice. Duke University Press, 2022*

CHRISTER, Catherine Hennix, Poësy Matters and Other Matters. Blank Forms, 2019*

DEMERS, Joanna Teresa, Listening through the Noise: The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music. Oxford University Press, 2010*

DONGUY, Jacques, Charlemagne Palestine. Editions Adam Musicae, 2022

GILMORE, Bob et al., Phill Niblock: Working Title. Les Presses du Réel, 2012

GLOVER, Richard, Music of Sustained Tones. Tesis doctoral, Universidad de Huddersfield, 2010

LUCIER, Alvin, Eight Lectures on Experimental Music. Wesleyan University Press, 2018

ROBIN, Purves, “Subject of the Drone”. Metal Music Studies, vol. 6, n.º 2 (2020), pp. 145-159

STRAEBEl, Volker, “Technological Implications of Phill Niblock’s Drone Music, Derived from Analytical Observations of Selected Works for Cello and String Quartet on Tape”. Organised Sound, vol. 13, n.º 3 (2008), pp. 225-235*

TORVINEN, Juha y Susanna Välimaäki, “Nordic Drone: Pedal Points and Static Textures as Musical Imagery of the Northerly Environment”. En: The Nature Music of Nordic Music. Editado por Tim Howell. Routledge, 2019

WANKE, Riccardo D., Sound in the Ecstatic-Materialist Perspective on Experimental Music. Routledge, 2022*

WANNAMAKER, Robert A., “The Spectral Music of James Tenney”. Contemporary Music Review, n.º 27 (2008), pp. 130-191

*Documento disponible para su consulta en la Sala de Nuevas Músicas de la Biblioteca y Centro de Apoyo a la Investigación de la Fundación Juan March