ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF MINIMALISM

MINIMALISM AND EXPERIMENTAL MUSICBy Juan Pablo Scarano 1EDEFINITIONExperimental music is a genre in contemporary classic music which tries to expand the limits that classical music have always put.

One of these limits put was avoiding any kind of exotic influence.

Another one is that classical music is constantly using the same instruments used many years ago without trying to innovate them or create new ones

These pieces are written in a different manner as they were written many years ago

Classical composers have always wanted to have a stable rithmic and armonic estructure which rarely is changed or even destroyed.

There are six main currents in this genre nowadaysMusique concrteAtonalismFluxusMicrotonalismNoiseMinimalism

MINIMALISM