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While not being considered as music per se by some, it has been explored at some point by pioneers as notable as La Monte Young and John Cale 's Theater Of Eternal Music (aka The Dream Syndicate), Charlemagne Palestine , Eliane Radigue , Kraftwerk , Klaus Schulze , Tangerine Dream , Robert Fripp & Brian Eno , Coil , Aphex Twin , Autechre 's side-project Gescom , or Biosphere . OVERVIEW Music which contain drones and are rhymically still or very slow can be found in many parts of the world, including the Japanese Gagaku classical tradition, Scottish Pibroch piping, Didgeridoo music in Australia, Hindustani classical music (which is accompanied almost invariably by the Tambura , a four-string instrument which is only capable of playing a drone) and pre-polyphonic Orgamum vocal music of late medieval Europe. Stillness and long tones also occur in Classical compositions during Adagio movements or slow airs, including, for instance, the third movement of Anton Webern's Five Small Pieces for Orchestra. The modern genre term "dronology" is most often applied to artists who have allied themselves closely with Underground Music and the Post-rock , Experimental Music , or Post-classical genres. Many of these musicians utilize instruments such as electric guitars, keyboards, and pianos, coupled with electronics to produce lengthy audio compositions with dense and unmoving harmonies and a stilled or "hovering" sense of time. Music from dronology artists can also fit into the genres of New Age , Found Sound , Minimal Music , Dark Ambient , and Drone Doom /drone metal, Noise Music . Thus, while the hallmarks of the dronology genre are easy to recognize, the backgrounds and goals of the artists are actually quite varied. EXAMPLES Some tracks or records from notable artists include, chronologically:
Modern bands representative of this genre include Maeror Tri , Stars Of The Lid , Children Of The Drone , Windy & Carl , Troum , House Of Low Culture , Cisfinitum , Klood , Melek-Tha , Alp , Controlled Bleeding , and Laminar . Some important hearths for bands in the genre include Soleilmoon or Drone Records {Link without Title} . SEE ALSO
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