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	Spring Garden Music -- Jack's Essays
		Psychologically, this music is cool and feminine, in contrast to the hot and masculine free jazz and “energy music”; in fact, it has arisen partly as the antipode to its predecessor.
		Yet with lowercase music, technical virtuosity is severely limited in favor of musical judgment, which is quite subjective; one easily produced, ordinary sound might suffice, repeated several times in the piece.
		Lowercase music might go against the grain of many improvisers, yet there is a certain attraction for what seems to go against us, for that very conflict.
	www.springgardenmusic.com /essays.html (8046 words)

	lowercase
		Minimalist artist Steve Roden coined the term "lowercase" to describe a particular style of music he was making a few years ago.
		Well, a lot of listeners have discovered this music, and many more critics have taken to the concept of "lowercase" music as a way to describe the kinds of ethereal, abstract recordings that make up the bulk of the releases on such esteemed labels as Line, 3 Particles, and Trente Oiseaux.
		I'm not really sure whether Roden is pleased that his attitude is now a genre, but at least he can take solace in the fact that most of the actual musicians who create so-called "lowercase" music do it not to copy Roden but to further their own aesthetic designs.
	www.hauntedink.com /25/lowercasesound.html (410 words)

	Lowercase (music) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Originally coined by minimal artist Steve Roden, "lowercase" is an extreme form of ambient minimalism in which very quiet sounds bookend long stretches of silence.
		Many artists have contributed to the lowercase movement, including electronic music pioneer and educator Kim Cascone, Tetsu Inoue and Bernhard Gunter.
		Some of the labels that publish lowercase music include Trente Oiseaux, 12k and raster-noton which features famed composer Ryuichi Sakamoto in collaboration with Carsten Nicolai, a.k.a.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lowercase_(music) (157 words)

	Ampersand Etcetera Home
		A project spawned by the lowercase e-group (www.egroups.com, look for lowercase-sound, amongst other groups), this two-disk set brings together some of the main 'names' of this genre, together with some less well-known artists (I won't display my ignorance by identifying who is which).
		I have avoided using the term 'music', rather most of the pieces are soundscapes or soundsculptures which are not interested in the norms of music: there is very little melody, regular rhythm, development.
		While a compilation such as the lowercase one is an opportunity to hear a diverse range of artists working within an area, it doesn't give any participant a chance to demonstrate their range or to explore sounds and methods in more depth.
	ampersandetc.virtualave.net /ampv2_7.html (3333 words)

	cut:press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		the music this duo produces is a stark and delicate fog of bass rumbles, high-pitched feedback whistles, and sizzling electric crackles with lots of space in-between sounds.
		when the music is of a more or less experimental bent, this fact can make it all the less accessible, and all the more open to suspicions of triviality or even charlatanry.
		what's more, kahn himself is an able percussionist and so this music, which is perfectly capable of appealing to fans of, say, aphex twin or the orb, has a "live" feel which will please those who prefer a human presence in their music, too.
	www.cut.fm /flash/press/selectdialect_text.html (2777 words)

	Francisco López - live in san francisco - Stylus Magazine
		If it’s instructive to acknowledge the ego-light, content-evasive intent of the music in order to find a way to approach it, it’s also important to note that there is a well-defined community of auteurs working with the authority, virtuosity, and strength of style of any modern composer—there are conventions.
		For many, lowercase became as liberating a statement as punk, particularly for those with no particular interest in or training in the harmonic techniques, referential games, anti-hero antics, or genius-fetish of western music.
		So lowercase landed unexpectedly on my life like a subatomic bomb during a period of time where I was such a miserable fucking emotional and physical mess that the circumstances of my life had temporarily robbed me of my ability to hear the music I loved.
	www.stylusmagazine.com /review.php?ID=2698 (1436 words)

	List of electronic music genres - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Contemporary electronic music includes many different styles or musical genres, such as:
		Ishkur's Guide to Electronic music v2.5 is a largely tongue-in-cheek guide with 180 genres and 1189 samples.
		Electropolis Independent italian site about electronic music with sections of historical perspective about many electronic music related genres and groups from Kraftwerk to present days emerging groups (in Italian).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_electronic_music_genres (175 words)

	The History of Rock Music. Lowercase: biography, discography, reviews, links
		Lowercase is a guitar-drums duo (Imaad Wasif and Brian Girgus) from San Francisco (via Palm Desert) that plays a weird hybrid of lo-fi pop, post-rock and slo-core, a veritable summa of 1990s alternative rock dialects.
		Lowercase (the founding duo with yet another bassist) borrows stylistic elements from early Sonic Youth and early Swans to concoct dark, menacing, desperate pieces (The Going Away Present, Floodlit, Glisten to the Pink).
		Lowercase e’ un duo chitarra-batteria di San Francisco (via Palm Desert) che suona uno strano ibrido di pop lo-fi, post-rock e slo-core, un’autentico riassunto dei linguaggi del rock alternativo degli anni 90.
	www.scaruffi.com /vol5/lowercas.html (869 words)

	Lowercase r - It's a Pirate Joke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Lowercase r (Stu & Grant) have traveled a long road that has finally come to a hault.
		The music will live on as it will be released on video and cd very soon so everyone can relive two of the greatest musicians ever to grace this town.
		Grant has joined the military and is moving on with his life and Stu has moved to Auburn to attent school.
	flatline.sphosting.com /lowercaser/home.html (120 words)

	JANUARY 2005
		One of the consequences of listening to lowercase's use of silence is that the ear tunes in to what is normally filtered out as "background"; after a quarter of a century of so-called ambient music, it's now time for ambient noise.
		It’s thrilling, sensuous music – not least because of the fevered odd-meter grooves that set the head nodding even when you haven’t the faintest where “one” is – but it’s also unsettling and a little bruising.
		This is without doubt difficult and demanding music that demands repeated close listening in favorable circumstances and may well prove wholly inaccessible to many, but it is well worth expending some time and attention on, for it holds out to the sympathetic listener a rewarding intricacy of improvised passages with which to engage.
	www.paristransatlantic.com /magazine/monthly2005/01jan_text.html (10740 words)

	Browse by Label: BREMSSTRAHLUNG
		'Lowercase' is a term coined by Steve Roden in 1998 to describe his personal artistic aesthetic.
		''Lowercase music' bears a certain sense of quiet and humility; it doesn't demand attention, it must be discovered.
		[Morton] Feldman is the perfect lowercase music; it seems serene, but there is much going on beneath the quiet exterior.' The two discs focus on different approaches to lowercase-sound.
	www.forcedexposure.com /labels/bremsstrahlung.html (371 words)

	zhu shui. Sound installation at the Phonomanie-Festival, December 2000.
		Music generated on a computer is usually associated with the thumping beats of techno.
		Lowercase recordings are often based on scientific subjects: an amplified anthill, a mobile phone running out of power and the soft pops of bacteria being flash-frozen in dry ice and methanol.
		I think that's been the case for a lot of people." Lowercase sound hasn't made the racks of Tower or Virgin yet, but there are hundreds of websites devoted to the movement or individual artists, and lots of small, Web-based independent record labels.
	www.bernhardgal.com /zhushui.html (1948 words)

	Untitled Document
		The manner of citing titles of musical compositions, as explained in the Chicago Manual, is favored.
		(Note the lowercase “op.” and “no.”) Shorter works such as songs are quoted, such as “I Left Thee Where I Found the Tree,” except that a logical method is to lowercase titles that are also first lines of text in English, such as “I left thee where I found the tree,” versus e.g.
		(If the author is not able to provide typeset music examples, contact the publisher.) Typeset musical examples may be furnished on floppy or zip drive, PC or Mac, as TIFF files or MS Word documents, 6½ inches wide, text in Times Roman; also provide a complete set of laser (or good quality) printouts.
	www.harmonieparkpress.com /guidesheet.asp (1086 words)

	purevolume™ \| Lowercase(STL)
		Lowercase is sculpted out of four hard working musicians who have a strong desire to play music.
		Lowercase have been known by their energetic live show, catchy harmonies, and technicality of their music.
		Lowercase also won a spot on The Vans Warped Tour in St. Louis to play the Ernie Ball Stage.
	www.purevolume.com /lowercasestl/bio (223 words)

	January 2003
		Like Feldman, whose music he openly acknowledges as an influence, Zimmermann is fascinated by the relationship between painting and music, and, also like Feldman, he proves that material of an apparently simple nature played by apparently "normal" instruments is capable of almost infinite subtlety.
		Bremsstrahlung's Russell has divided the tracks into "music weighted towards the recording of physical materials" (this disc bears a large dot instead of a number) and "more purely electronic compositions" (the 'dash' disc), though it's sometimes unclear how he decides which is which.
		It is a completely new way of defining what music is, and the definition is given to us in a purely realized form." So writes Robert Ashley in his liner notes; a little glowing in his praise, maybe, but in Alvin Lucier's case the hype is justified.
	www.paristransatlantic.com /magazine/monthly2003/01jan_text.html (2078 words)

	CMJ.com: new music first
		Lowercase's debut single is about as cryptic as they come.
		Lowercase showcases its ability to combine passionate shout-singing with noisy guitar-squealing.
		With a cacophonous style most closely akin to Unwound, its elusive first single is worth every lo-fi minute.
	www.cmj.com /articles/display_article.php?id=6410 (76 words)

	Music weekend
		FRIDAY Moe I've got a problem from the get-go with artists who expect the rest of us to adhere to their typographical quirks: When K.D. Lang insists we lowercase her name in print, she's not only unwittingly arguing for inefficient reading but also for pretentiousness.
		So it is with the New York jam band Moe, which demands the lowercase and a period.
		Rooted in rap with nods to jazz and rock, it's a warm, uplifting musical brew with smarts.
	www.freep.com /entertainment/music/brian21_20010921.htm (554 words)

	List of electronic music genres - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Blues - Country - Electronic music - Folk - Heavy metal - Hip hop - Reggae
		Ishkur's Guide to Electronic music v2.5 (http://ishkur.com/features/music/index.htm#) is a largely tongue-in-cheek guide with 180 genres and 1189 samples.
		Electropolis (http://spazioinwind.libero.it/electropolis/index.html) Independent italian site about electronic music with sections of historical perspective about many elctronic music related genres and groups from Kraftwerk to present days emerging groups (in Italian).
	www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/List_of_electronic_music_genres (223 words)

	lang, k.d. -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		lang (she prefers to use lowercase letters for her name) is as well known for her androgynous “cowpunk” style as for her pure, plaintive mezzo-soprano voice and award-winning country-pop music.
		Katherine Dawn Lang was born on Nov. 2, 1961, in Consort, Alta. She began her professional music career as a member of the Reclines, a...
		Originally known as hillbilly or mountain music, country music grew from the folk music that was brought to North America by Anglo-Celtic settlers in the 1700s and 1800s.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article?tocId=9314325 (806 words)

	THE SEALED KNOT: Unwanted Object
		The press release sums it up quite nicely when it jokingly describes the music as "Feldman encounters a gamelan ensemble at a house party hosted by The Necks", though that makes things sound more lightweight than they actually are.
		There's no danger of Beins ever letting the music swing, but at times the pulse element is sufficiently upfront to have you tap your foot along, albeit briefly.
		The album title refers to the fact that the recording was originally intended for release as part of the American label Locust Music's Object series, but was turned down by the label for unspecified reasons.
	www.burkhardbeins.de /releases/unwanted_object_reviews.html (693 words)

	Wired News: Whisper the Songs of Silence
		02:00 AM May. 29, 2002 PT Music generated on a computer is usually associated with the thumping beats of techno.
		Called "Forms of Paper," the recording was originally commissioned by -– no kidding -– a public library in Hollywood and it has turned into one of the most prominent recordings of the genre.
		Russell, a 31-year-old biochemist from San Diego, runs a leading lowercase record label, Bremsstrahlung Recordings, and has just released a second compilation of lowercase compositions called Lowercase Sound 2002.
	www.wired.com /news/mac/0,2125,52397,00.html (722 words)

	Bagatellen: Opinion: What Is EAI?
		As much of the music reviewed here recently seems to fall into what I understand the category to be, I think it might be appropriate to examine the term in some detail, with a view to clarifying the issues and stimulating subsequent discussion.
		But musically, in terms of the kind of sounds created and their nature and disposition in the structure of the music itself, these supposedly "eai" and "non-eai" outings are extremely close.
		The term isn't very useful in music either, since it misreads the spareness of the sounds as a "lack" rather than as a "presence." In other words, the term "reductionism" in music always implies there was something to be "reduced" to begin with.
	www.bagatellen.com /archives/features/000407.html (8426 words)

	::for book:: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		For me, the term "music" implies intentional structure, so the sound environment is noise (something yet unformed, or to be created from).
		I agree with Francisco Lopez that Cage's idea of the musicality of everyday sounds and the non-existance of silence is the destruction of music, that silence must exist as a compositional choice and be understood to be exactly that when it occours in a piece of music.
		I think that word came about to describe the music made by people who were turned on by Bernhard Gunter's first couple of albums and old Morton Feldman records.
	homepage.mac.com /oto_s/iii/HowardStelzer.html (1164 words)

	Ink 19 :: Lowercase Sound
		You can't quantify or qualify just what it is to be "lowercase," but you'll know it when you hear it.
		One thing that is certain of "lowercase sound": subtly is a much-valued characteristic.
		Of course, the known artists have submitted tracks that are up to the high standard of music making that they normally are at.
	www.ink19.com /issues_F/00_05/wet_ink/music_gl/lowercase_sound.shtml (467 words)

	Lowercase - Epitonic.com: Hi Quality Free and Legal MP3 Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This site may be viewed in any browser or Internet device, but looks best in one that complies with web standards.
		Lowercase's two primary members, drummer Brian and guitarist Imaad, formed the band in California's Palm Desert, but like so many, soon made the migration to that West Coast musicians' Mecca known as San Francisco.
		The duo, which has employed several different bassists during its existence, wanders a wavery road between quirky, melodic indie rock a la Built To Spill, darker and more dangerous sounding minor chord fare, and twisted, noisy freakout sessions.
	www.epitonic.com /artists/lowercase.html (207 words)

	lowercase-sound (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		• DJ byHand mp3 remixes [music] - These are tracks made in the past two years, usually remixed by superimposing, juxtapositioning contrasting elements.
		• Saint Karen [music] - Gallery of raw truth, mad obsessions and scathing detachment: saintkaren.com.
		• oldan - 129 19 [ambient music] - a 2xcd size release.
	kunst.no /alias/HJEMMESIDE/bjornmag/1996-2002/215.html (104 words)

	The Choral Journal \| Stylebook
		Lowercase unless referring to political rather than geographical divisions.
		Capitalize eras in music history, whether in noun or adjectival form.
		Use this spelling for The Juilliard School of Music.
	www.acdaonline.org /cj/stylebook.shtml (2386 words)

	The Stranger - Music - The Score - Classical & Jazz
		After gestating in cassette culture and other obscure musical inlets, four genres finally flowered: noise, plunderphonics, field recordings, and lowercase sound.
		Coined by sound artist Steve Roden, lowercase sound refers to works that employ discreet (often negligible but carefully calibrated) volume and minimal sonic materials such as sine tones, clicks, rustling, or lo-fi sonic detritus.
		Unlike beat-driven pop music that cuts through the noise of daily life, this music sometimes incorporates, augments, and integrates the surrounding sonic environment into a kind of co-composition with what you're hearing in the world right now.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=18163 (342 words)

	Music 345 - World Music in Contemporary Life Syllabus - Part 4
		Both course examinations may be taken as many times as possible during the one hour examination period.
		Be sure to print the page called "Registration Complete" so you will have the information for your reference in the future in case you forget your password or what email address you signed in with.
		Sounds, images, graphics, music notation, and/or movies may be added to these graphic screens to illustrate the central concepts and make them "more" apparent to the students taking the examination.
	trumpet.sdsu.edu /m345/logan_M345_SYL4.html (1010 words)

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