What's your genre?

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This applies to any art! Musician, Writer, Visual Artist, I don't care what! What's genre do you like doing the most? And why?

For me as a musician, I love doing Ambient, Post-Rock, Folk, Minimalist and Jazz.

There's just something magical about them. Ambient is fun to create because at the end you get to hear how everything blends together. Post-Rock, in my opinion, is the freest form of expression in music. You can just let the emotion flow with it. Folk is just amazing, because you can tell a story with your music, not just with the lyrics but with the music. Minimalism is just beautiful. Whether it's a drone to various dotted whole notes, it gives you room to think. Jazz is just fun to do.

Your guys'/gals' turns!

It's been a while since I've played, but I was primarily a blues guitarist. I had the typical influences: SRV, BB King, Albert King, T-Bone Walker, Son Seals (OK...that last one probably wasn't too typical). My favorite thing to play was a good, slow jazz-blues; there's a lot of space to use (or not use). I was much better at improvising solos than playing rhythm guitar.

I don't do genres. There's something beautiful in all categories.

I cannot limit myself to one genre really........But I listen to a lot of Metal, Psychedelic Rock, Harsh EBM(i think this genre goes by other names as well), Hard Rock, Industrial Rock/Metal, various hybrid genres and there are bands from just about every genre I enjoy.

As a musician I play mostly folk, blues and (very basic) jazz music...the roots of American popular music today. I listen to almost every genre of music before the year 1990 or so. I also enjoy play music from musicals and such.

Folk is by far my favorite to play. What I like about folk music is you never have to play it the same way twice, you can't really make mistakes, you are allowed to change the rhythm a bit, or maybe expand upon the melody, add/remove/change lyrics, etc. I don't think there really is even the concept of doing a 'cover' of a song in folk... you can't because no one has ever heard the original.

its constantly changing but currently its progressive trance/house, blues, dub, island reggae, and whatever this genera is

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rock, rap and some pop

Writing doesn't have a genre though I like reading a lot of drama and biographies.

Rock, New Wave/Synthpop/electronic music, disco, pop.... that's mostly.

You are my complete opposite, I think. The only thing missing is extreme and black metal.

In writing, I favor mysteries and "slice-of-life" stories in a Science-Fiction setting.

In music, I favor bluegrass and Celtic traditional.

For visual entertainment, I favor comedies.

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I like to write fantasy and historical, but often I mix the two together (i.e. I write stories that use historical civilizations, but the characters, wars, and everything else are fictional).

I'm currently working on a solo industrial and electronic rock project, if actuality counts. I'm also writing a post-cyberpunk novel, as well. And working on a science-fantasy web series and another far-future sci-fi TV series.

I fancy myself a horror writer, though years ago a friend and I had collaborated on an action/adventure/espionage sort of novel, though that had proven to be abortive due to a falling out over a woman . Later, I was working on a crime novel, but I eventually lost interest, and went back to my favorite genre, horror fiction.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

My favorite kind of music has the unfortunate label, "math rock."

Notable artists include Hella, Zach Hill, Don Caballero, and Tera Melos.


What I love most about it is the rhythmic complexity and the experimental song structures. There is also usually a perfect balance of aggression and elegance. Most math rock is instrumental, which I like because it makes room for even more complexity in the music but vocals in math rock are usually great.

Here is a wonderful example of math rock:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ89-zHx3Qo[/youtube]

I think you and I are quite a like. And no I absolutely despise any kind of metal or stuff like that

I like you also like jazz, but didn't list it since it was quite a long time since I played jazz. I started like you actually, I was trained clasically but never liked it. Absolutely got bored of classical music and since I was trained to work with sheet music I found out that I like quite more the ragtime and Jazz pieces of later times. But later I got bored with that because playing from a sheet sucks.

Today I play songs by ear, all what I listed above. Don't worry tho friend, everyone is different tho the most important thing that makes us alike is our passion for music.