Style Mixer

Minimal Louis XIV? Medieval Hip-Hop? In Ocean of Sound, David Toop writes that contemporary music, both popular and intellectual, is the result of continuous hybrids of musical genres and sub-genres between themselves. The creation process doesn’t happen in the void. The surrounding environment, a mix of past and present, influences architects, composers and artists. ‘Baroque’n Roll’ was the title of an article about the French band Air in Time Magazine. Sony has commissioned research on the possibility of organising the musical genres and sub-genres that appear on its catalogue: ‘a taxonomy of musical genres’.