Online Communities :: Music Shoegaze Internet Essays

Online Communities When searching for online communities I decided to research a subject I already had a little cognition about. My friend had told me about an online forum he was subscribed to named Blisscent. Blisscent is a group of over 1500 people who are interested in the musical style of shoegaze rock. For those who do not know what shoegaze sounds like it can be described as a spacey textured form of hard rock shoegaze began in Britain during the beforehand(predicate) 1980s. Shoegaze is a semi-sleepy music. The guitar riffs are often overlaid many times during the recording process, which makes adept feel like he is surrounded with a wall of thick sound. The chords are not hard and cut up, they are slow deep chords. The synthesizers often add a background noise and the drumbeats unite with the synthesizers that in turn meld with the guitars. The vocals are usually slowly exhaled and pulsate with the direction of the music. Every aspec t of the music combines together to create a hybrid sound that seems to be originating from one source. It could be described as the seconds before getting taken under by a title wave, only in slow motion however with the regular sounds of the waves crashing into you. I know a little bit about shoegaze, its not my favorite genre of music, but I thought I would be able to understand the basic ideas of the community. I found that I was wrong I had never heard of most of the bands being discussed. I could pull in a few and had heard some before but the members of this forum new everything about these bands. The community seemed to know each other very salutary members were inviting other members to concerts their band was playing at. Some members sent postings making fun of other bands that they knew. Members congratulated each other with a posting after seeing the others band.