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Minimal music (also called minimalism) [2] [3] is a form of art music or other compositional practice that employs limited or minimal musical materials. Prominent features of minimalist music include repetitive patterns or pulses , steady drones , consonant harmony , and reiteration of musical phrases or smaller units.
Jakob van Domselaer, whose early-20th century experiments in translating the theories of Piet Mondrian's De Stijl movement into music represent an early precedent to minimalist music. Alexander Mosolov , whose orchestral composition Iron Foundry (1923) is made up of mechanical and repetitive patterns.
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In visual arts, music and other media, minimalism is an art movement that began in the post-war era in Western art. The movement is often interpreted as a reaction to abstract expressionism and modernism; it anticipated contemporary post-minimal art practices, which extend or reflect on minimalism's original objectives. [1]
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Drone music, [2] [3] drone-based music, [4] or simply drone, is a minimalist [5] genre of music that emphasizes the use of sustained sounds, [6] notes, or tone clusters called drones. It is typically characterized by lengthy compositions featuring relatively slight harmonic variations.
Minimalism was an art movement that began during the 1960s. This list of minimalist artists are primarily artists whose works were done in the 1960s, and are considered minimal, although some artists subsequently radically changed their work in the 1970s and in subsequent decades. This list is incomplete.
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