Lo-fi music

Low fidelity or lo-fi denotes music that was recorded with simplem technical equipment or so sounds as if the recording was made with such. The antonym this is High Fidelity or Hi-Fi.

The musical quality of the actual songs is not affected by the capture, which is why Lo-Fi is not available for inferior music. The studio equipment and used electronic musical instruments do not correspond to the state of the current technical development for the sake of a deliberately " retro -sounding" ( based on historical models ) sound aesthetics.

In most cases, it is intended that the sound of the recordings does not meet current standards, to stand out from the mass of mainstream publications. An example of this would be releases of the band Guided by Voices, the set also rushing four track sounds on their albums next studio recording.

Well-known bands that can be assigned to the Lo-Fi are, for example, The Raveonettes and Sonic Youth. As a well-known artist of the lo-fi genre, the singer Daniel Johnston, or Jandek who take their high artistic output only with very limited resources apply. An example of this would be Hi, How Are You by Daniel Johnston (1983).

We speak figuratively of lo-fi sound, " when the entire sound production deliberately dirty and antiquated acts or historicist. "

LofiDogma

The Zurich Cultural Foundation Sound Development has a manifesto called The Recording manifesto published on 27 March 2007 under the heading LofiDogma, in the nine points are listed, which were observed in music production for " reconquest of risk and chance in the production of music ". The manifesto includes the following:

45 bands have ever recorded accordingly in Switzerland for a song. 2012, recorded in Hamburg Clouds Hill Studio songs five bands in London, in 2013 five. The songs were released by Sound Development.

The publication of the manifesto is reminiscent of Dogma 95, a 1995 book published by Danish filmmakers manifest.