The Trickster (NCE)
You’re excited by folk music that bends the rules.
You’re drawn to playful, system-driven, genre-breaking work that uses electronics, loops, or processes to crack folk open from the inside.
For you, folk is curious, surprising, and always asking what it could be next.
Elements of 'The Trickster'
Novelty: You're crave new sounds, new structures and new musical experiences. You seek the artists who bend form, instrumentation, harmony and melody to create something that pushes on what came before.
Constructed: You like to hear well-honed craftsmanship expressed through a range of instrumental techniques, intriguing structures and musicians experimenting with their complete palette. You love thinking about the how the music is put together.
Electronic: Before electronics, every sound you heard on a record was produced by an instrument of strings, wind, wood, brass or from the human body itself. But with the advent of digital music and computers, suddenly sound could be manipulated and abstracted into new forms and soundworlds.
When you close your eyes while listening to music, you love being carried into these new soundworlds where your imagination has free reign and the artist has a full gamut of expression unthered to what is physically possible on an instrument.
(Read more about how we built the Typology here)
Your listening wings are
- TCE — The Alchemist - for those who like exploring what electronics can do to traditional songs and tunes
- NCA — The Maker - for those who enjoy acoustic textures as well as the electronics
'The Trickster' Listening List
'The Trickster' Listening Challenges
- Listen to an album from start to finish without doing anything else
- Host a House Concert/Dance Party
- Listen to music in a dark room
- Listen to a tradition of music that is new to you