And anticipating it and finally receiving it — or not — will create a sense of pleasure and reward. So what might these findings mean for a producer wishing to create the next uplifting trance anthem? Which is pretty amazing if you think about it. However, not everyone is convinced. I remain sceptical until proved otherwise.
The other question of course is, if scientists are now working out exactly which chord progressions work best for uplifting trance, can these findings be applied to other music too? I do believe that there would be variations in the amount and speed of repetition such that they are more tuned to a particular genre.
And to return to the original question So why does trance work? Well, the science has shown that musical expectancy and specific levels of musical complexity have a great deal to do with it, but this is of course only one aspect of why we engage with a particular type of music.
The most successful and memorable pieces combine all three of these factors. The continued growth of AI in music is a subject that raises concerns around the potential loss of musical authenticity and about the continued erosion of job roles within the industry. However, there are plenty of keen early adopters too and as ever, the real picture is more nuanced than a simple the-robots-are-taking-over narrative.
This kind of research is opening up and examining the exact mechanisms by which music triggers our emotions — which in turn could potentially open up entirely new ways to compose and experience music. Want more? Check out Simon Doherty's feature on how the word 'rave' has lost all meaning.
Harold Heath is a freelance journalist. Follow him on Twitter here. Trance isn't something you simply kind of like. It's an awakening, it's a life-changing moment when you hear the 'song', that can quite literally change your life.
Trance can change your life, it allows you to see a higher state of consciousness, a freedom, a feeling of euphoria that no other music will provide. One of the worst rumors surrounding trance music at the minute, is that 'it's making a comeback', But how can it make a comeback if it never goes away? The trance genre is arguably the biggest across the industry, A State of Trance Radio Show, from inauspicious beginnings is now heard by 20 million people worldwide per week, and the show itself has just reached its th episode.
The fact that 'it's making a comeback' just means that part-time fans from other genres are riding the coattails of a current popularity boost. We trance fans aren't worried though, because when the popularity ends, and the genre hoppers flock to whatever else is deemed popular, we'll still be standing there with our hand aloft, worshipping the music. More in love with it than we've ever been before. It's impossible to explain to a non-trance fan what the appeal is, even The Prophet, as industry omnipotent as he is, struggles.
To put it bluntly, it's the slow build-up rush, and the spine-tingling explosion of ecstasy, without the need to actually consume the drug. Discovering a new trance song for the first time is similar to learning to speak or opening your eyes for the first time. Ask any trance fan, and they'll say the same thing. Trance music is as important to them as almost anything else in their life. It's that definitive.
The difference between trance music and other electronic music is palpable. Trance fans can feel the music pulsing from their fingertips to the end of their toes, it's like lightning in musical form — and unlike ecstasy itself— the feeling of euphoria never subsides. But ultimately I returned to the good old trance recipe of back in the day, because that's what works best for this sound!
And crucially, that mainstream trance sound was infectious. Hip-hop, always magpie in nature, grabbed its big riffs — listen to some of Timbaland 's mids beats, most notably on Justin Timberlake 's Your Love and it is unmistakably there in the mix. An apocryphal story goes that Lil Jon , DJing in Atlanta strip clubs, found the dancers loved Euro dance tracks and began appropriating the drum and synthesiser sounds for his crunk beats. Dubstep and grime, too, embraced it, with Skream and Joker being notable lovers of a trance synth, while drum 'n' bass, coming out of its turn-of-the-millennium inward-looking phase, burst out with new chart-friendly sounds featuring layers of fizzing trance synth.
By , the phrase 'deconstructed trance' was in circulation and even trance's biggest, cheesiest anthems were fair game for remaking. All of which brings us to a point where the different eras and styles of trance are all part of the musical language of Thus you can have the likes of Canadian producer Christian Douglas , aka Antwood , who smashes commercial trance into virtuosically complex and intense electronica beats and admits to a sense of irony in his work, albeit for sincere purposes.
On the other hand, London DJ Yewande Adeniran , aka Ifeoluwa — who also plays abstracted electronic beats but blends them with global hip hop and soundsystem stylings — insists that the trance tonality that heard woven through her sets is played straight.
The various diasporas and black, brown and queer people have always used popular club sounds, whether that's disco or house, for just that purpose and now there is a new generation utilising the sounds around them including trance, for a similar purpose.
It's not so very far from Corsten's own thoughts on trance. I hear from people on active service in the army who say they wouldn't be here if it wasn't for this music, people who say that this music got them sane again.
It does a lot more to people than what the hipsters think they hear. Ferry Corsten performs at O2 Brixton Academy. What is house music? A brief history of the eternally relevant club genre House music has a rich and fascinating history — …. McGuinness, too, talks about trance — underground and experimental or arena-sized — having real-world functions, not some unknowable mythical, mystical, transcendent purpose.
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