Crossover in music - Electronics meets acoustics and classical

It is time to devote us to an article in music again. Finally, the focus of our publications was primarily in the visual and performing arts. So let's turn the world of sounds .

Crossover - a conceptual definition

The term crossover comes from English and means something like "overlap", "intersection", or "crossing". In general, this means today the mixing of two or more types of music and types, which were previously separated and thus creates a new sound composition .

Origin and development

1940 – 1979

Originally, strictly speaking, the simultaneous placement of a piece of music that can be assigned to a certain music genre was specified in at least two hit parades separated according to music genres. The term was shaped in the 1940s when the hit -like separation of music styles was the rule.

The crossover story begins with the significant delimitation of the music styles in the USA, but in particular with the isolation of an initially uniform hit parade in black rhythm and blues, white country and pop charts in 1942 by the billboard magazine . First, the respective genres also remained in the associated charts.

In the following years and decades, this separation was increasingly overcome. The first crossover interpreters included the Mills Brothers, Ink Spots or Louis Jordan .

This trend then won primarily through Pat Boone and others when they covered “black” original versions and thus made it accessible to the pop charts. In August 1956, Elvis Presley with "Hound Dog" and over 3 million plates sold.

1980 – 2000

When mergers were later between rock and other genres and one was not sure where the pieces could be placed, the term received slightly changed meaning. This resulted in new genres and subgenres over time.

In this development, the 1980s stand out, especially when there was another trend towards the fusion of different genres. In the North American hardcore-punk scene, new forms of expression were sought, although metal elements were used many times due to the close relationship.

In principle, however, the majority of the limited punk schemas were sought towards almost all areas of popular music and has long been a synonym for artistic freedom. Detents post-punk or New Wave were the difficult .

While maintaining the basic energy of the punk of the 1970s, it was also increasingly experimented with styles such as Country, Jazz or Funk , which were previously considered inappropriate. In this way, a broad movement was created at first subcultural rock music , which continued to develop continuously from the original punk.

This newly created awareness finally found an even wider audience in the early 1990s. Together with the so -called grunge , a new scene was created that settled off the punk.

Today

Today, however, only a few bands are explicitly assigned to the crossover. On the one hand, this is because crossover never specifically and explicitly referred to a certain style, but meant the mixing of different music styles and style elements.

On the other hand, it is almost a matter of course that bands can be inspired by various musical influences. Only in a few styles of music are the takeover of "watering" elements of other styles.

Electronics meets acoustics and classical

While in the 20th century the rock and punk music of crossovers was characterized, nowadays, a lot of stylistic mixtures in the field of electronic music on the one hand and classical music on the other.

From modern covers with unusual instruments, experimental new interpretations to large and mixed ensembles, the music landscape became extremely colorful and multifaceted in this regard. The DJ as a musical artist is also often included in these “hybrids” pieces of music and interpretations.

Two modern crossover artists combine different sound worlds

Screeching teenagers who are enthusiastic about viola and violin - a phenomenon that is rarely experienced in classic concert operation. Wil Baptiste and Kev Marcus alias "Black Violin" do it.

Behind the band name are two American hip hop artists from Florida, both of whom were taught and trained in classical music and string instruments such as the violin and viola.

The current album of the crossover duo is called “stereotypes” By mixing classical music and hip hop and relying on strong emotions, breaking through "Black Violin" patterns and inspire young people above all to make their thing and take new ways.

They were just on tour in Europe.

Henrik Schwarz made it into the ranks of the most famous DJs of our time. His instrument is the laptop. A cooperation with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra at the "Jazz Open Stuttgart" inspired the producer and composer for his current project "Instruments" .

Instead of simply inferior with beats, like other artists before him, he completely waived beats and synthetically produced effects. The minimalist sound produced the Tokyo Secret Orchestra on normal instruments. Cooperation with classic musicians was completely new for the DJ. Here two cultures crashed into each other.

The imposing results that were achieved by this merger seem all the more surprising.

DJ + saxophone + singer + percussion

An extremely exciting project, which takes into account the fusion of different types and styles of electronic and acoustic music, is currently taking place in Nuremberg.

DJ & Friends is the name of the Nuremberg formation responsible for this and presents an impressive connection between DJ and live musicians . DJ in Nuremberg plus singer, saxophone and percussion - according to the motto of the event. The modular concept combines the advantages of a DJ or a DJane with the unique broadcast of singers, saxophonists and other high-class live musicians .

The beats from the turntables take care of the musical foundation and give the beat. Singers, saxophonists and percussion artists then set up the virtuoso accents and musical highlights in several show blocks. The different sounds then form together into a rousing performance of the extra class.