Analysis of Dark Side of the Moon
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How Pink Floyd fused traditional rock instruments along with Synthesizers, effects, overdubbed voices and sounds from everyday mundane appliances to achieve the sound of The Dark side of the moon?
The Dark side of the moon! Before Dark side the majority of rock n roll bands would spend little time in the studio in order to get back on the road as that was where the money was. However as the results show, the time, which Pink Floyd spent on Dark Side, was well spent. Floyd fused there traditional instrumental and personal set up with David Gilmour (vocals and guitar) Roger Waters (bass and vocals) Nick Mason (drums and percussion) and Rick Wright (keyboards) along with the using non-traditional instruments such as Synthesizers, mundane everyday house hold appliances, sequencers, loop machines and countless other sounds and voices to achieve what eventually became Darkside of the Moon. This album was not only a sonic and musical masterpiece, it showed other bands that exploring new technology and effects was a way forward for music. In “The Book of secrets” it lays down what the album in my eyes is really about “the aim was to make and album-but without using musical instruments. The Floyd’s Roger Waters remembered; “There was a lot of going into the studio and chopping wood…And you’d spend weeks and weeks recording a rubber band…Weeks and weeks Wasting time”(Bradley, Eaton and Hooley , Page 146).And what my goal in this essay is, is to show how they approached the recording of this unique album, and how Floyd fused traditional rock instruments with Synthesizers, effects, overdubbed voices and sounds from everyday mundane appliances to create the music which is on Dark side of the moon.
The album begins with the track “Speak to me”. And for twenty two seconds the listener has to bear a strange uncomfortable silence. The first sounds on the album and this song are that of an egg timer, an old grandfather clock and cash machine. This is very interesting because...
The Dark side of the moon! Before Dark side the majority of rock n roll bands would spend little time in the studio in order to get back on the road as that was where the money was. However as the results show, the time, which Pink Floyd spent on Dark Side, was well spent. Floyd fused there traditional instrumental and personal set up with David Gilmour (vocals and guitar) Roger Waters (bass and vocals) Nick Mason (drums and percussion) and Rick Wright (keyboards) along with the using non-traditional instruments such as Synthesizers, mundane everyday house hold appliances, sequencers, loop machines and countless other sounds and voices to achieve what eventually became Darkside of the Moon. This album was not only a sonic and musical masterpiece, it showed other bands that exploring new technology and effects was a way forward for music. In “The Book of secrets” it lays down what the album in my eyes is really about “the aim was to make and album-but without using musical instruments. The Floyd’s Roger Waters remembered; “There was a lot of going into the studio and chopping wood…And you’d spend weeks and weeks recording a rubber band…Weeks and weeks Wasting time”(Bradley, Eaton and Hooley , Page 146).And what my goal in this essay is, is to show how they approached the recording of this unique album, and how Floyd fused traditional rock instruments with Synthesizers, effects, overdubbed voices and sounds from everyday mundane appliances to create the music which is on Dark side of the moon.
The album begins with the track “Speak to me”. And for twenty two seconds the listener has to bear a strange uncomfortable silence. The first sounds on the album and this song are that of an egg timer, an old grandfather clock and cash machine. This is very interesting because...