Friday, October 26, 2007

Led Zeppelin Creates A New Pop Culture With Trance

Several production techniques allowed Led Zeppelin to change an era of music through sound. Led Zeppelin created an element of surprise and a new range of loudness within music at this time. The language of light made their music dynamic as quiet, gentile, music erupted into strong forms of collaborative sound during most songs. The eruption of sound within songs was filled with a great deal of ferocity. This sudden shift of sound within individual songs created surprise amongst listers and a feeling of excitment. Erik Davis calls this form of music, "casaic" considered to be violent gestures that shift expectations while allowing something new to happen in the mind of listeners. Their unique quality of range created style.
Band members of Led Zeppelin played off eachothers energies to produce music in a more altered state which formed a new ambient sound than ever heard before. Songs such as "No Quarter" and "Kashmir" are perfect examples of their ambient sound and feelings of trance. The fuzzy, golatial, grit sound with the analog pulse of Jimmy's guitar provided much clarity and great novelty to sound. The riffs expressed by Jimmy are more repetitive and powerful than ever heard before. His use of the electric guitar provided an element of Rock and Roll which allowed for the primal quality of sound. When including the blues, sound was transformed into rich quality. This music of tamber such that of rock and roll helped Led Zeppelin develop a recognizable sound for the future.
Led Zeppelin created space for interesting things to occur within sound during their production process. They put their own money into all needed equipment and gear which allowed them to make all musical decisions. Through out the recording and production process, Led Zeppelin allowed you in as they turned music into a virtual reality. They essentially turned music into sonic fictions and stages for imagination. This new trance/esoteric form of pop music was expressed throughout pop culture from there on out. Led Zeppelin used technology for influencial purposes to create profetic sounds and allowed for increased intensity and ferocity within sound. Led Zeppelins explicit signals effected its audience and provided a realm for escape within many adolescents.

JIMMY PAIGE INTERVIEW ON NPR:







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