Whether making microtonal pop or playing Renaissance instruments with sheep bones, a crop of strong artists are making genuinely odd music go mainstream– but are they at the grace of the algorithm?Chloë Sobek is a Melbourne musician who plays the violone, a Renaissance forerunner to the dual bass. However as opposed to playing it in the typical fashion, she places tottering littles cardboard in between its strings or makes use of a lamb’s bone as a bow, and these strange interventions have come to be catnip for Instagram’s formula, getting her tens of thousands– sometimes hundreds of thousands– of sights for each of her self-made performance videos.” Despite just how it could show up, I’m a fairly reluctant individual, “she says.When Laurie Anderson’s robo-minimalist masterwork O Superman
struck No 2 in the UK graphes in 1981, thanks to constant airplay on John Peel’s radio show, it was a signal of a media electrical outlet’s power to thrust speculative songs into the mainstream. That’s currently occurring again as prepared-instrument players such as Sobek, plus speculative pianists, microtonal singers and various other boundary-pushing solo performers, are regularly bursting out of underground circles thanks to video clips– typically self-recorded in the house– going viral on TikTok and Instagram. Continue reading … Source: The Guardian