- Drone
- Musique concrète
- Electro-acoustic
- Modern classical
- Spoken word
- Radiophonic art
- Non-music
- Sound art
- Avant-garde
- Experimentalism
- Improvised music
Comment:
The
California-based Big City Orchestra
is one of those groups whose impact needs to be re-discovered and re-evaluated
regarding (in particular) experimental music history. Highly prolific, they
embarked on at the end of the 70s with contributions to different avant-garde
music genres and styles (industrial music, experimental electronica, sound-art,
spoken word, radiophonic music). Furthermore, they had been an important figure
regarding the tape music scene throughout the 80s (which flourishes at the
moment once gain). However, regarding Nereids
it can be said they used to be highly talented at the moment either because of
moving from one genre to another with effortless easiness. More concretely, for
instance, there is represented drone music which is placed somewhere in between
contemporary exquisite drone pop (a la Lee Noble) and more experimental
approach of the noted style. It is also worthy to dive into the collective`s
weird approach pertaining of (modern) classical music mixed up with bare,
glitch-y electronics, gloomy `talkative` experiments and much more sonic
explorations which are not submitted to words anymore. Devastating from any
angle of the view.
