Drone Music
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Drone music is made from long sustained tones which are added to or subtracted from over time.
Listen to these sounds:
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{Electronic}
{Bagpipes}
{Digerydo}
{Indian Classical Music example}
Can you spot the similarities between these sounds?
What do they all share in common?
Drones in Music
Drones are found in different musics from across the world. They are sustained or repeated tones, which ring out for extended periods of time.
They can evolve slowly and create rich and complex textures.
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Drones are found in Aboriginal music, Indian Music, Japanese Gagaku, and even Western musics.
Famous examples of drone instruments are the bagpipes and the didgeridoo. (Hurdy Gurdy)
Fact
In Canada they are celebrating Drone Music with a whole day dedicated to it! Drone Day.
(There website also contains a large selection of links to examples of drone music).
Function in Music
Drones often serve as a strong foundation upon which other sounds can be built and added.
They provide a fixed point of reference against which other sounds can relate, without needing to enforce a defined tonal structure.
This gives musicians and composers flexibility and freedom to improvise and play along over the drone.
{IMAGE} - Foundation Freedom to improvise above.
Drones and Electronic Music
Electronic instruments and oscillators are drone making machines. The pitched tones that that create are perfect for making drone music.
As synthesisers and drone making electronics became more available in the 1970s, a whole wave of composers began to create drone music from electronic sounds.
These pieces used sustained electronic tones which interacted and complemented one another. These sounds would modulate one another and create complex sound wave interactions.
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Creating Drones
We know that drones can be created using certain instruments and by oscillators and electronic instruments, but drones can also be created by editing sound files.
If we use time-stretch to really extend a sound, it looses its envelope and begins to turn into a 'drone like' sound.
The more we stretch the sound, the more 'drone like' it becomes.
By stretching different short sounds we can create an array of drone textures that can be combined to make a drone piece.
Filtering, Delay and Reverberation can also be used to sculpts and modify the qualities of these sounds, blending them together.
Composition Tip
Use the following transformations to make and edit drones:
Time-Stretching
Filter
Delay
Reverb
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