4 Fields of Music

Participatory

In participatory music making, there is no distinction between the artist and the audience. In this situation, the experience is focused on "doing" not "listening". The quality of the activity is based on how people felt during it, not how technically right it was or how good it sounded. There are great potentials with participatory music making including that everyone will be able to be involved, there is a greater level of interest, and it becomes a more social event than the other forms of music making. There are some limitations as well though, mainly that artists with a great deal of virtuosity are not able to let their skills shine because they have to stay at a level where everyone can participate. The following is an example of participatory music making.

Presentational

Presentational music making differs from participatory in that there is a difference between the artist and the audience. A limitation of this type of music making is that the artist is tasked with generating and sustaining the interest of the audience. Potentials for this form include the ability for the artist to have greater freedom with their craft because they are not responsible for the audience's participation.





Hi fidelity

This type of music is meant to be a representation of presentational music. This type of music is focused no the ability to sell and make a profit. Hi fidelity music making has the potential of giving studio engineers more control of the music they are creating. There are some down sides to this form of music as well. These include that the music creators have a much harder task than those who create participatory and presentational music. Hi fidelity music must be able to generate and sustain the audiences interest while they are not involved (as in participatory) and don't have a visual to go along with it (as in presentational).






Studio Audio Art

This type of music has no expectation of being performed live. This form is usually considered abstract so the artist has a great deal of influence and ability to make sounds, beats, and rhythms that would not be able otherwise. Examples of this type of music can be seen by artists such as Skrillex and the song "Turn down for what?"