Landscape and music

[shakahislop]

Why does some music work so well in hot weather? Is it the tempo? The sonics?

I'm listening to nts and they're playing


And wondering to what extent it sounds perfect for 36 degrees cos you can tell its African (and therefore, in my mental shorthand, hot) and to what extent it's the sound of the music itself.

i think that if a music comes from a particular place, that place informs how the music sounds just because the people making it are affected by the place.

i don't think you can separate music from biology. its a simplistic binary but people in hot places do make tunes that sound different to people in cold places.

in england we need a certain kind of sound to get us through the bleak dark winters for example (cf landfill indie)

 

[Corpsey]

What interests me (at least in theory) is what it is precisely about some music that makes it sound "summery", let's say.

I wonder if the influence of landscape/biology means that someone from Iceland let's say couldn't really make convincing Dub Reggae. (picking an instrumental genre cos obviously they'd struggle to convince as a Rastafarian)

 

[Corpsey]

Sorry mate i'm high on coffee again.

I become a hectoring bully when I've had enough caffeine.

God I miss 2019

Peak corpsey

 

[yyaldrin]

the reverb and delay in dub and reggae always makes me think of heat haze

 

[luka]

corspse jank law we're hiding in a bush to slash your face